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The Division I Men’s and Women’s Basketball Oversight Committees proposed a legislative package on Friday to deregulate preseason exhibitions, foreign tours, coaching limitations and summer access hours.<\/p>\n
All proposed legislation must be approved by the Division I Cabinet before becoming official. The Cabinet is scheduled to discuss the proposals in April.<\/p>\n
The preseason exhibition proposal would allow teams to compete in three preseason practice scrimmages and\/or exhibition games against four-year schools for the 2026-27 academic year.<\/p>\n
The rationale for the proposal includes assisting student-athlete preparation for regular-season competition.<\/p>\n
Both committees believe the proposal provides opportunities to generate exposure for college basketball.<\/p>\n
Currently, teams are permitted to play two preseason practice scrimmages and\/or exhibition games against four-year schools.<\/p>\n
Both oversight committees also recommended legislation to allow teams to take one foreign tour each year.<\/p>\n
If approved, this would eliminate the restriction that schools could only conduct a foreign tour once every four years.<\/p>\n
The committees want to give schools the flexibility to schedule foreign tours and believe it can also enhance the student-athlete experience.<\/p>\n
Both oversight committees also proposed making summer access hours more flexible by eliminating the restriction that limits skill-related instruction to four of the eight hours allowed per week.<\/p>\n
If passed, it would give coaches the discretion to decide how many of the eight hours they use for skill instruction and weightlifting each week in the summer.<\/p>\n
Both oversight committees proposed allowing any team staff member to provide technical and tactical instruction to the student-athletes.<\/p>\n
Additionally, a school could designate up to six staff members who may contact or evaluate prospective student-athletes off campus, with a limit of four staffers per day. The head coach is required to be designated as one of the six off-campus recruiters.<\/p>\n
If approved, this legislation would be effective immediately for the summer of 2026.<\/p>\n
Currently, only the six countable coaches are allowed to recruit off campus.<\/p>\n
Committee members believe it should be up to each school to determine which staff members can provide instruction to student-athletes during practice\/competition.<\/p>\n
The Division I Men’s Basketball Oversight Committee proposed allowing prospects to take unofficial visits starting with their freshman year of high school. This aligns men’s basketball with the women’s recruiting rule in this area.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Currently, prospects could not make unofficial visits until Aug. 1 of their sophomore year of high school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story Links The Division I Men’s and Women’s Basketball Oversight Committees proposed a legislative package on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-230129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}