From the HERE City National Desk
INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division I Cabinet on Wednesday approved a rule that will prohibit men’s basketball coaches and their team-specific staffs from attending games involving other Division I teams.
Coaches and other team-specific staff members will now be prohibited from attending preseason, regular-season and conference tournament games involving other teams. They still may attend NCAA championship and other postseason contests.
An exception applies when a contest involves a family member of the coach or staff member as a participant, or when the contest is part of an event in which their own team is also competing.
Oversight committees backed the change as a means of reducing in-person recruiting of potential transfers, hoping to deter tampering before a student-athlete has been entered into the Transfer Portal during their sport’s notification-of-transfer window.
The Cabinet also approved adjusted notification-of-transfer windows for multiple sports on Wednesday, including a 10-day window for gridiron programs beginning the first business day after Jan. 1, alongside similar calendar tweaks proposed by sport oversight committees.
