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College Basketball Tryouts – Showcase Events

College Basketball Tryouts – Showcase Events are one of the best opportunity’s to promote your skills to college coaches. A player’s best chance for success is to attend as many college basketball tryouts – showcase events as they can. These days (especially if a player is not being highly recruited) a college showcase could be a very good opportunity to get the much needed exposure.

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Note: We do our best to keep up with the NCAA links below (it appears that the NCAA is changing the links every few months). We will make a consistent attempt to ensure that the links are up to date.

How to Locate College Basketball Tryouts and Showcases: Dates / How to find them?

There are only certain months of the year that there will be College Basketball Tryouts – Showcase Events. Usually during the months of April, July, and September. And there are team related showcases during April, May, and July. It will all depend on what part of the country you live in, and how hard you work to find them.

The NCAA Website

The most effective way to locate a showcase is to go to the NCAA website and view the master list of men’s or women’s certified showcases / events. This list will have every showcase that is certified by the NCAA (men’s and women’s separately) across the USA. Checking this list will help you locate showcases, and at the same time let you know that a certain showcase is certified.

Steps to get to the NCAA Men’s and Women’s showcase (events) page:

It appears that the List of Certified Events and Leagues changes every quarter or so. The best way to find the updated information on Showcases / Events (men’s or women’s) around the USA is to go to the NCAA Page – “Bask etball Certification.” The list of Events should be to the upper right of the page. The NCAA constantly updates the list, and Summer Events may not be available until after March 1st or later (you may need to keep checking until events are posted). If you find that the link does not work go to the NCAA Website and type in Basketball Certification, then Select from the Search Results.

Go Directly to Basketball Certification Webpage

(Certified events for Men and Women are listed on this page)

Certified events (should look something like this on the NCAA page, try clicking on the links below). We have tried to constantly update the information and links, but the NCAA makes so many changes that it is extremely difficult to keep up with…

Certified Basketball Events

Here is a Sample College Events Schedule

“Courtesy of the NCAA Website”

AAU Coach’s, High School Coach’s / Word of mouth:

Most AAU and High School Coach’s will receive mailers for showcase events that they can share with their players. At the very least AAU coach’s or the Club that they are affiliated with will have information on showcase events. Some coach’s will automatically make copies and pass them out to players, and some may not. The best policy is to keep asking your coach’s if they have received any information so you won’t miss out on any showcase events they know about.

View this short list of companies that host showcase events:

Keep in mind that AVCSS Basketball does not endorse any of the showcase hosts below – it is just a sample list for you to check out. I should add that my daughters did participate in showcase events from this list (and it proved to be successful).

BLUE STAR

HOOP MOUNTAIN

ELITE SPORTS N.E. ELITE

The #1 thing that you need to concentrate on and prepare for are College Basketball Tryouts – Showcase Events!

* Players must work hard all year round to ensure they are in basketball shape and their skills are sharp! Why pay all that money to attend a showcase and show up unprepared? The most important part of the showcase is the game, and how a player performs. Players can sign up for a showcase, but if they are not prepared when they show up it can be a waste of time (everyone’s time).

How many should you attend? (Don’t be afraid to travel)

Attend as many College Basketball Tryouts – Showcase Events as you can! There are only certain months that you can attend showcases so plan to attend as many as you can. Exposure is everything. If you don’t play so well at one showcase you can make up for it at the next one. Don’t hesitate and take your time deciding on attending showcases – most fill up very fast, and you may not get the chance to attend if you wait too long to register.

How will the coach’s know I am there?

To ensure coaches will make some time to look at you, you need to inform them that you are there. How? Why? It’s fairly simple, coach’s pretty much have a list of recruits that they will be looking for at showcases. Send a college coach a letter stating that you are interested in attending college and playing for them. This way they will most likely pencil you in on their list of recruits to take a look at. College coach’s don’t have a lot of time to recruit so having a players background information / stats available can help with the process. College coach’s may not spend a lot of time on a player that isn’t interested in attending their school. So in order to make a showcase event the best opportunity it can be read the info below:

Important Items to do prior to attending Showcase events

1. You must select a list of colleges that you would like to attend (Div I, Div II, Div III)

2. Prepare a letter (which is basically your basketball resume) and include which showcases you will be attending.

3. Mail as many letters out as possible (we mailed out anywhere from 80-100 at a time).

* Letters / Mailings / etc are covered in more detail on our College Basketball Recruiting – Menu Page.

Sample College Letter – Handout This sample college letter can be found under our Handouts section (download and easily modify the file).

The Showcase Handout / Letter

Getting your handout (letter) ready for the showcases. This letter should be short and to the point (less detail than the college letter they already received from you). It’s always best to have a handout ready to give to coach’s when a player attends showcases. You really can’t hand them to the coaches, but there are other ways to get them out. There is usually a table that the coach’s see that has the handouts on it. And your parents should have some handouts in hand (just in case they get the opportunity to hand them to a college coach or two). They usually keep the coaches in certain areas, but there are ways to get the handouts to the coach’s. I’m sure your parents can think of some creative ways to get your handout to the coach’s.

Sample Showcase Handout This sample showcase handout can easily be modified with your info.

Good Luck to you – Keep in mind that the whole recruiting process is going to be a challenge, but if you are determined and are willing to work extremely hard – you will be successful. Attend as many College Basketball Showcases and Events as you can. There are thousands of players that are competing with you for athletic scholarships, it won’t be easy, but you can do it.

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More info on the College Recruiting Process Here