Having been around College basketball coaches for a few years now, I have a pretty good guide of how they recruit players. First of all, all of the MAJOR programs scout 8th and 9th graders at invitation camps and AAU tournys. Most kids who go to a major school are pretty set by the time they are a junior or senior in high school. The National AAU tourny held in Denton should be a great advantage for these coaches to have the top players in the country playing in their back yard. My brother is being looked at by small DII schools and recently played in an AAU tourny in DC. All the major ACC, Big East, etc coachs (there were many of them) did not watch the 17 or 18 yr olds, but rather the 15 and 16 yr olds play. However, most of the smaller DI and lower schools do a lot of recruiting during season because that is when they have the best chance to convince these players to join the program.