For team managers and coaches: Please read new game rules and take special note of the sportsmanship requirements!)

Just some reminders about preparing for games:

Go to the Enchantees website and print out the game rules and the game set up information http://www.enchantees.org/EBGALInformation/tabid/59/Default.aspx
Bring the game rules to each game--they're supposed to be at the clock table.

1) Assign snack/time/score duties to parents. See game set-up sheet for which duties home vs visiting teams are responsible for.

Seventh grade boys are now considered prospects, thereby placing limits on college basketball recruiting at the middle school level.

The NCAA 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.

We will host our annual Ohtani Training Night on Dec. 2 and 3, 7-9pm at Albany Middle School. It's a time to bring together our Ohtani Basketball community and learn from each other. Parents and players are all invited to attend. The main purpose to to give the families of D and E level teams a chance to experience running a basketball game. We will focus on refining our skills as scorekeepers, time keepers and referees. The players will get a chance to play a simulated game to help them prepare for the upcoming season opener.