Saturday, May 30, 2009

College Basketball and Basketball TV - Beyond Live

In the United States, college basketball has gained quite a following. Now, with the immense popularity basketball the NBA and its superstars, many students are looking to get noticed in college basketball recruiting, to play in college teams and even perhaps in the NBA.

Such is the popularity of basketball that he NBA has its own channel, NBATV, a 24-hour television network, produced by its basketball production and programming division, NBA Entertainment. It also manages the content of each NBA's team's home page, and the league's official sites, NBA.com, WNBA.com and NBADLEAGUE.com. The NBA is also an established presence in sports marketing. It maintains fully integrated domestic and global marketing partnerships with some of the most recognizable global brands, including the leading Internet content and technology providers, in the hopes of bringing basketball to fans around the world.

During the 2005-06 championship season, the NBA had a planned 44,000 hours of programming to broadcast to 215 countries and territories in 43 languages. The league's worldwide extension is also demonstrated by 81 international athletes playing in various teams. In the United States, the NBA broadcasts around 142 games in on local networks, namely ABC, TNT, ESPN and ESPN2.

Kids aspiring to play in college sports sometimes don't realize that senior year is just too late in the game to check up on prospective schools with recruiting. Gathering information on colleges, their courses, their mission statements, history and other details is important. Setting aside a folder for each school that may come under consideration is a useful way of organizing necessary data. Deadlines for submitting requirements may and do differ from school to school, and parents need to keep track of them.

The Internet has proven to be a useful venue for both students in college basketball and coaches involved in the process of college basketball recruiting. There are many websites and online forums wherein students and scouts can come together and interact.

D1Athletes is an online community wherein high school athletes and coaches alike can share and exchange information they need during college basketball recruiting. D1Athletes offers them a place to build an online presence and gain important public exposure

To learn more, visit D1Athletes.com or just click college basketball recruiting

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