It's An Evaluation Period....

...which began Sept. 30th and runs until Feb. 28, 2019. During an EVALUATION period, a college coach may watch student-athletes compete, visit their high schools and write or telephone student athletes and their parents.

However, a college coach may not have face-to-face contact with college-bound student-athletes or their parents off the college's campus during an evaluation period.

So, these college coaches can fly down to tournaments, watch and -- more importantly -- be seen. At this point, most (all?) of them have been in contact with the prospect and they want to show they're there for support, etc.

The only caveat is that I assume these NCAA rules hold for international play and/or for games outside of U.S. borders.

But if they do, a lot of institutions just paid a lot of coin to show the school colors. In our case, still good to support Sam, but the emphasis here is Boston and Bueckers.