How to Keep up With College Basketball Recruiting

Keeping up with your favorite team and their college basketball recruiting is simple and it is something that can be done the year round. Here are the best ways to stay up to date.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Internet

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   It's a constant process.

   Your favorite college basketball team is certainly doing some form of recruiting as you read this article and the local high school basketball players that have earned major honors are definitely being recruited heavily. Basketball recruiting is a constant process that is vitally important to how much success a team has in the long run.

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   You'll be watching them on television soon

   Want to keep up with your favorite college teams in recruiting? There are several sites on the Internet that give great information about teams and conference recruiting. Sites like Rivals.com, Scout.com, and ESPN.com are probably the best sources of information. Whether you are looking for Georgia Tech recruiting news or Ohio State recruiting news, or anything in between these sites have the information you need.

3. The best features of Rivals, Scout, and ESPN are probably the college basketball recruiting rankings, which show you how well your school is doing compared to its peers in picking up top notch recruits. Compare the different sites to get a feel for the average rank of the school.

4. Are you wanting to look at a specific high school basketball player who is being recruited? These sites generally have a search function where if you know what year they will be graduating you can search for a certain player and see a write up of their strengths and weaknesses and who is recruiting them.

5. A final option that is growing in popularity if you want to see more about players who are coming to your favorite school is to look up videos of them on youtube. Often some of the top players have several videos on youtube.com of them in action during high school basketball games.

Tips & Warnings

• Check back to these sites often, as notes and rankings are updated all throughout the year.
• Sometimes players verbal to a certain school and then change their mind before signing day, so don't be shocked if this happens to one of your favorite teams at some point.

Resources

• http://rivalshoops.rivals.com/
• http://www.scout.com/

[coachmac4]

on 2/7/2009 My husband and son are very into keeping up with recruiting. Thanks for the info. 5*

[xxdesertash]

on 1/26/2009 Well written! Ill have to pass this one to the guys! Thanks 5*

[NightowlMama]

on 1/23/2009 wow that's great info very cool

[Pamelateda]

on 1/23/2009 Great information, I didn't know how to do this!

[cherold598]

on 1/23/2009 Great well-written article. Very informative about basketball. 5*