Contact
Any face-to-face encounter between a prospect or the prospect's parents, relatives or legal guardian(s) and an institutional staff member or an athletics representative during which any dialogue occurs in excess of an exchange of a greeting. A meeting that is prearranged or takes place at the prospect's school, competition site, or practice site is considered a contact regardless of the conversation that takes place.

Evaluation
Any off-campus activity designed to assess the academic qualifications or athletics ability of a prospective student-athlete, including any visit to a prospect's school (during which no contact occurs) or observing a practice or competition at any site.

Recruiting Period - Men's Basketball
In men's basketball, a recruiting period is a period of time when it is permissible for authorized athletics department staff members to make in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts and evaluations.

Contact Period
A period of time when it is permissible for authorized athletics department staff members to make in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts and evaluations.

Evaluation Period
A period of time when it is permissible for authorized athletics department staff members to be involved in off-campus activities designed to assess the academic qualifications and playing ability of prospective student-athletes. No in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts shall be made with the prospective student-athlete during an evaluation period.

Quiet Period
A period of time when it is permissible to make in-person recruiting contacts only on the member institution's campus. No in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts or evaluations may be made during the quiet period.

Dead Period
A period of time when it is not permissible to make in-person recruiting contacts or evaluations on or off the member institution's campus or to permit official or unofficial visits by prospective student-athletes to the institution's campus. It remains permissible, however, for an institutional staff member to write or telephone prospects during a dead period.

Men's Basketball

• 130 recruiting person days during academic year
• No more than seven (7) recruiting opportunities per year
• Practice and competition site restrictions apply

Women's Basketball

• 112 recruiting person days per year (August 1- July 31)
• No more than seven (7) recruiting opportunities per year
• Practice and competition site restrictions apply

Volleyball

• 80 evaluation days (August 1 - July 31)

All Olympic Sports

• Seven (7) recruiting opportunities per PSA - no more than three (3) contacts
• Contacts only permissible during senior year
• Practice and competition site restrictions apply