Update on academic year basketball evaluations

This one is important.

Yesterday's post about academic year basketball evaluations included a note about men's basketball evaluations during the new March contact period. A staff interp issued on February 22 prohibited men's basketball evaluations from occurring at sites other than a prospect's educational institution during the March contact period.

The staff interp has been changed to allow men's basketball coaches to evaluate during the March contact period at scholastic events that are not held on the campus of the PSAs' educational institutions. The obvious examples are state high school basketball championships which are often held in large, public arenas.

Here's the new language for the staff confirmation:
The membership services staff confirmed that during the March contact period, evaluations shall be limited to regularly scheduled high school, preparatory school and two-year college contests/tournaments and practices and regular scholastic activities involving student-athletes enrolled only at that institution. Evaluations at nonscholastic events during this time period are prohibited.

UPDATE: LSDBi has the new language for both the interp and the Educational Column.

Mar 15, 2007 4:01 PM
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