More on recruiting: Babcock McGraw's new column suggests that all-hours text-messaging hasn't become the same sort of problem on the men's side because high school boys don't crave verbal reassurance (or, at least, high school girls crave it more).

The WBCA's Shannon Reynolds: “From what we’ve been able to gather, it seems that relationship-building is much more important on the women’s side... Kids will text message [coaches] at 2 a.m. and they feel that if they don’t respond, they’ll move on to the next coach who will."

Reynolds says the committee voted not to ban text messaging (and other instant e-communication) because smaller schools wanted to keep it: “Some of those coaches felt like that was their only way of being able to outwork other coaches for a recruit."

VT coach Beth Dunkenberger and others defend (at least some) nonschool tourneys and AAU. Recruiting-news maven Joe Smith: "Most high school coaches may have only one or two Division I prospects in a career... But a lot of AAU and travel teams have several prospects every year. The coaches are connected and they understand how to promote their players better than the typical high school coach."