How to Get Recruited Into a College Basketball Program

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Travis Corpering and I'm going to try to teach you just how to get recruited into a basketball program. What you want to do first of all is, you want to try your best. Number one thing is to get your grades up. That's the number one thing. Get your grades up enough to where you can actually play basketball. If you make the team, what you want to do is, you want to, well, first of all, try our for your high school team. Once you try out for your high school team, if you get your skills up enough to where you can make it, and that's a lot of hard work. That's putting in practice over the summer. That's working out every day after you do your homework. That's putting a lot of work into it. But once you get to the point where you actually make the team, you make your high school team and you want to excel at the high school level. Yes. First of all, start. If you can get to where you can actually start, then by your senior year of high school, you're in a position to where you can kind of command a little more time on the floor. Then, three things you want to do. You want to excel in at least one area. Do really well in at least one area, whether it be shooting, scoring or rebounding. Maybe you're a big man and your thing is just you're a big body under the rim and when they pass it down low, you can dunk. Whatever you do, do it really well and make sure scouts see that when you know scouts are coming to the game. The larger games, when you're playing against large area rivals or games where there's going to be a large number of people or a huge crowd or at a huge venue, you want to really do your best just to show whoever is there that you're worth their time and effort. So, whatever you do, do it well. Possibly, if you possibly can, try to average double digits. Don't let anyone see that you're a selfish player. Don't be a selfish player. Make sure you get your assists up. You want to be a good rebounder and play excellent defense. You do those things and you got a good shot of getting into a college program. After that, then you can try to get yourself set up to where you can get some NBA scouts looking at you, possibly go to the pros. There you have it. Getting into a basketball program."