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Got game in 7th grade? NCAA says you’re a prospect

By David Jablonski | Thursday, January 15, 2009, 04:24 PM

From the Associated Press

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Giving in to the young-and-younger movement in college basketball recruiting, the NCAA has decreed that seventh-graders are now officially classified as prospects.

The organization voted Thursday to change the definition of a prospect from ninth grade to seventh grade — for men’s basketball only — to nip a trend in which some college coaches were working at private, elite camps and clinics for seventh- and eighth-graders. The NCAA couldn’t regulate those camps because those youngsters fell below the current cutoff.

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