1. University of Wyoming
Athletics Newsletter
Inside this issue:
AP Preseason Poll 2
AP Preseason Poll 3
Word Search 4
Answers 5
Rules Education 6
Events Calendar 7
Recruiting Calendar 8
College basketball: How the AP preseason poll
predicts NCAA tournament selection
Story by: The NCAA
Question 1:
To whom can athletic equipment be donated?
Question 2:
When is it acceptable for a student-athlete to receive
compensation for teaching or coaching sport skills or
techniques in his or her sport on a fee-for-lesson basis?
COMPLIANCE QUESTIONS OF THE MONTH
November 2015

2. 2How the AP preseason poll predicts NCAA tournament selection
(Cont. from page 1)
When the Associated Press men’s basketball preseason poll is released in early November, it will be easy to
skim it over and move on. We live in an era of metrics. Power ratings, advanced statistics, algorithms, formulas,
indices - they’re out there to be consumed, studied or ignored at will.
But the AP preseason poll is the granddaddy. It’s been around since the 1960s. What if the information
contained within its 25 slots can actually give us a glimpse of the future? It can.
We analyzed data starting with the 1984-85 season (when the NCAA tournament expanded to 64 teams). The
expansion to 68 teams for the 2011 tournament had little bearing on the information we hoped to extract from the
numbers.
We wanted to know: How do teams ranked in the preseason AP poll fare come Selection Sunday? Here's what
we learned.
The AP Poll is a good indicator of March inclusion
If your team appears in the AP preseason poll, you might want to keep the middle weeks of March free. You’re
probably going dancing.
There have been 751 teams ranked in the AP preseason poll since 1984-85 and 85.6 percent of those teams
reached the NCAA tournament.
In three of those years, every team that appeared in the preseason poll also competed in the NCAA Tournament.
The preseason poll expanded from 20 to 25 teams in 1989-90 and the only perfect tournament predictor since
occurred in 1999-2000. Michigan State started No. 3 in the preseason and ended with a No. 1 seed to give
coach Tom Izzo his lone national championship.
National Champions are usually ranked - but not always
Forget just making the field, you have national championship dreams for your team. Well, the numbers reveal
that appearing in the poll is important for teams expecting to contend for a No. 1 seed (and 19 of the last 31
champions were No. 1 seeds)
Since ‘84-85, only eight teams unranked in the preseason have earned a No. 1 seed, most recently Michigan
State in 2011-12.
In this information age, outliers are even more rare. It’s occurred just twice since 1998-99. The other instance is
2009-10 Syracuse. As an aside, one could understand if Orange coach Jim Boeheim scoffs at and ignores the
preseason poll. His 2002-03 team was also one of four national champions in the last 31 years that was
unranked in the preseason. The others: 1985 Villanova, 2006 Florida and 2011 Connecticut. Although in the
voters’ defense, predicting the brilliance of Carmelo Anthony and projecting the freshman’s ability to lead the
Orange to the title had to be a challenge for even the most astute observer. That Syracuse team was the
exception rather than the rule until the last four years when Kentucky and Duke rode elite freshmen to the
national championship.
No. 1 seeds were usually highly regarded in preseason poll
There’s been 116 teams that have earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament since 1984-85. Roughly half
(49.1 percent) were ranked in the top four of the preseason poll, which is the equivalent to a No. 1 seed. The
average preseason rank for those 116 No. 1 seeds was 6.6.
Being ranked No. 1 in the preseason means more to a team than just seeing its name at the top of the page. In
21 of the 31 seasons, teams that were preseason No. 1 heard their name called first on Selection Sunday
because they were a No. 1 seed. This is the case for nine of the last 10 preseason No. 1s, including Kentucky
which entered last season’s NCAA tournament unbeaten.
In the last 10 seasons, 33 of the 40 No. 1 seeds started out in the AP preseason top 10.

3. How the AP preseason poll predicts NCAA tournament selection
(Cont. from page 2)
What’s the worst seed ever received by a preseason No. 1? That’s a No. 8, in the Midwest, by 2013-14
Kentucky. But all was not lost for John Calipari and the Big Blue Nation. The Wildcats erased a disappointing
regular season by tripping top seed Wichita State. They extended the scintillating run all the way to Monday
night’s championship game before losing to Connecticut. That Kentucky squad was the lowest seeded team
to play for the title since No. 8 Villanova won in 1984-85.
Preseason poll has had recent success
If you were one of the 70 or so AP poll voters in the latter part of the previous decade, give yourself a hand.
In 2007-08 eventual No. 1 seeds UNC, UCLA, Memphis and Kansas were ranked No. 1 through No. 4 in the
preseason. All four advanced to the Final Four, with Kansas defeating Memphis in the championship game.
The following year, UNC was preseason No. 1, followed by Connecticut and Louisville. All three earned No. 1
seeds, joined by preseason No. 5 Pittsburgh, and the loaded Tar Heels won the championship.
The 1997-98 preseason poll was also somewhat like holding a March newspaper in November when voters
pegged perennial powerhouses Arizona, Kansas, Duke and North Carolina as the nation’s four best teams.
True to form, each received a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, however, they all departed emptyhanded.
Kentucky won the title.
Perhaps your alma mater or hometown school isn’t quite in college basketball’s upper crust, but quite
talented just the same. There’s about a 9 in 10 chance you’ll aim to learn whatever you can about the three
teams in your pod in the days leading up to the first NCAA tournament games.
Complete misfires are a rarity - but they also happen
There have been 372 teams ranked in the preseason top 12 since ‘84-85. And 218 (58.6 percent) held true to
form and ended the year with a top three seed in the NCAA tournament. Furthermore, only 22 teams
plummeted from that lofty perch to the wrong side of the bubble, missing the field altogether. On just five
occasions a team ranked in the preseason top five missed the tournament. Two of those occurred back in the
1980s when ESPN was a fledgling cable channel and people still relied on newspapers and the 11 o’clock
sports desk for their information.
LSU in 2006-07 is one recent top five flameout. Fresh off a surprise run to the Final Four, the Tigers earned
the No. 5 slot in the preseason poll. Their season ended, however, with a 20-point loss to Ole Miss in the
SEC Tournament quarterfinals. Louisville, 1986-87, holds the dubious distinction of crashing from the highest
preseason ranking to NCAA tournament outsider. As defending national champions, the Cardinals were No.
2 in the preseason. They returned Final Four hero Pervis Ellison, but the loss of Billy Thompson and Milt
Wagner was simply more than Hall of Fame coach Denny Crum could bear. UNC ('09-10) and Kentucky (12-
13) were both ranked in the top six in the preseason poll coming off national championship seasons. But both
failed to return to the tournament, as they were unable to replace key personnel lost to the NBA Draft.
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4. L H H T Z U Q H B U S B Z J D G O D Z J
Z R E J J T R Z R Q S N B X R U Y T D J
W C X V H Q E U L M B D O A O Q C O V N
T A I P B T L O P J K L V I P G E I R D
L X E E Z F Q J X G W Y O Q T G P Q F M
T U R K E Y A Y O X L J N I B I W E E P
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P I N N T L N R I Y B N F X T R I A F D
Z M X C L E Q N J L G I Z R H L Z W R G
J E B B Y L O Z D H Y J V A O A V O N T
G N I V I G S K N A H T T A F L G I L R
G O R S Y B P O O Y Y A G E R U F I B A
B V U L F E I B W F R B B G B F S S W Q
S J C L U E I P T K L J P K U F M Z K J
Q E P T S K V M I F O B Q T P V I B I R
L A M N E H M I M L E W S D T F R K A P
X O T A C T E C F V A R K W G E G Y V A
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T J V V B F B W X F S B B N U S I K O R
S S T C R L Z I G W I W K I L T P B L X
ANSWERS TO COMPLIANCE QUESTIONS
Answer 1: A member institution may not provide athletics equipment to a high school. However, a member
institution is permitted to provide athletics equipment to bona fide youth organizations (e.g. the YMCA,
YWCA, Boy Scout troops, Girl Scout troops, and summer recreation league) that may consist of some
prospective student-athletes, provided the issue of equipment is in accordance with the institution’s regular
policy regarding the discarding of equipment. (Revised 4/26/01, 4/26/12) NCAA Division I Bylaw 13.15.1.6.1
Answer 2: A student-athlete may receive compensation for teaching or coaching sport skills or techniques in
his or her sport on a fee-for-lesson basis provided that (a) institutional facilities are not used, (b) playing
lessons shall not be permitted, (c) the institution obtains and keeps on file documentation of the recipient
of the lesson(s) and the fee for the lesson(s) provided during any time of the year, (d) the compensation is
pain by the lesson recipient or the recipients family and not by another individual or entity, (e) instruction
to each individual is comparable to the instruction that would be provided during a private lesson when
the instruction involves more than one individual at a time, and (f) the student athlete does not use his or
her name, picture or appearance to promote or advertise the availability of fee-for-lesson sessions.
(Revised:1/9/96). NCAA Division I Bylaw 12.4.2.1
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5. Issues Relating to Campus Visits (I)
Date Published: August 17, 2013
Educational Column:
Hosting Duties: Institutions should note that pursuant to NCAA Bylaws13.6.7.5 and 13.7.2.1.8, a student
host involved in an officialor unofficialvisit must be either a current student-athlete or a student designated
in a manner consistent withthe institution's policy forproviding campus visits or tours to prospective
students in general. In this regard, individuals are considered hosts if they are involved in traditional hosting
duties, such as tasks that require specific interaction withthe prospective student-athlete (e.g., entertaining,
escorting). Individuals whoare involvedsolely in administrative functions(e.g., stuffing envelopes, collecting
unofficialvisit money, handling complimentary admissions) are not considered student hosts. Further, for
purposes of this legislation, student managers and other student employees are considered to be students, as
opposed to athletics department employees. Therefore, those individuals are restricted to engaging in
general employment functionsand are not permitted to host prospective student-athletes unless they meet
the criteria noted in the aforementioned bylaws.Finally, inasmuch as student-hosting duties are considered
incidental to athletics participation, and an individual must be either a student-athlete or a member of the
officialuniversity host group, a student-athlete may not be paid to perform this functionunless the
university typically pays its officialhost groups fortheir services.
Standard Lodging: Pursuant to Bylaw 13.6.6, a prospective student-athlete on an officialvisit shall be
provided lodging and take meals as regular students normally do. Local commercial facilities may be used
but at a scale comparable to that of normal student life and only within a 30-mile radius of the institution's
campus. Lodging may not include special accessories (e.g., jacuzzis, suites) that are not available generally to
all guests residing at the establishment. Consistent with the overarching theme that prospective student-
athletes should be housed in a similar manner as other prospective students generally, institutions should
adhere to the following guidelines: hotels selected to house prospective student-athletes should be similar to
hotels in whichprospective students are housed, hotels in whichvisiting teams are housed or lodging used
by the institution for away from home contests.
Standard Meals: Pursuant to Bylaw 13.6.6, a prospective student-athlete on an officialvisitshall be
provided lodging and take meals as regular students normally do. Pursuant to Bylaw 13.6.7.7, meals must be
comparable to those provided to student-athletes during the academic year. In this regard, meals provided
during an officialvisitwill be considered standard if they are similar in nature to campus meals, including
training table meals. Additionally, institutions should note that the training table meal standard is
considered the upper limit forall sports, regardless of whether training table is typically provided in a
particular sport. Further, pursuant to Bylaw 13.6.7.1, a member institution may not arrange or permit
excessive entertainment of a prospective student-athlete on campus or elsewhere. This restriction includes
special arrangements foradmittance to exclusive or elite restaurants where such opportunities are not
generally available to the public.
Standard Transportation: Pursuant to Bylaw 13.5.2.2.4, an institution transporting a
prospective student-athlete (and those accompanying a prospective student-athlete) around
campus during the official visit must use institutional vehicles normally used to transport
prospective students while visiting the campus. In addition, coaching staff members or student
hosts may use personal vehicles to transport a prospective student-athlete (and those
accompanying the prospective student-athlete) around campus during an official visit. As a general
principle, institutions should note that vehicles used for transportation around campus should be
consistent with the type of vehicle an institution uses (or would use) for regular prospective
students under similar circumstances, regardless of whether the institution actually provides such
transportation. Also, a coaching staff member may use his or her personal vehicle for such
purposes, provided the vehicle is used on a regular basis by the coach and has not been modified for
the purpose of transporting prospective student-athletes. Further, coaches may rent vehicles for
transportation purposes as needed, pursuant to institutional policy, provided those vehicles are
considered basic transportation and not modified in any manner for this purpose. Finally,
Rules Interpretations/Education Columns
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6. University of Wyoming November 2015
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Wrestling
Northern Colorado Open
All Day
Greeley, CO
Women’s Soccer
MountainWest
Tournament
TBA
San Diego, CA
Women’s Basketball
Adams State
7:00 p.m.
Laramie, WY
Women’s Soccer
MountainWest
Tournament
TBA
San Diego, CA
Volleyball
New Mexico
7:00 p.m.
Albuquerque, NM
Women’s Swim & Dive
Colorado State
5:00 p.m.
Laramie, WY
Tennis
SMU Invite
All Day
Dallas, TX
Men’s Basketball
Fort Lewis
TBA
Laramie, WY
Football
Colorado State
TBA
Laramie, WY
Wrestling
Cowboy Open
All Day
Laramie, WY
Tennis
SMU Invite
All Day
Dallas, TX
Volleyball
Air Force
2:00 p.m.
Colorado Springs, CO
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Women’s Soccer
MountainWest
Tournament
TBA
San Diego, CA
Tennis
SMU Invite
All Day
Dallas, TX
Men’s Swim & Dive
Air Force Academy
5:00 p.m.
Laramie, WY
Men’s Basketball
Bristol University
7:00 p.m.
Laramie, WY
M&W Cross Country
NCAA MountainRegional
TBA
Albuquerque, NM
Women’s Swim & Dive
Northern Arizona,Air Force
5:00 p.m.
Laramie, WY
Wrestling
Air Force
7:00 p.m.
Colorado Springs, CO
Football
San Diego State
8:30 p.m.
San Diego, CA
Volleyball
San Jose State
6:30 p.m.
Laramie, WY
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
Women’s Basketball
Chadron State
4:00 p.m.
Laramie, WY
Men’s Basketball
Indiana State
5:00 p.m.
Terre Haute, IN
Volleyball
Fresno State
8:00 p.m.
Fresno, CA
Men’s Basketball
New Mexico
Highlands
7:00 p.m.
Laramie, WY
M&W Swim & Dive
Purdue Invite
All Day
West Lafayette, IN
Women’s Basketball
Saint Mary’s
7:00 p.m.
Laramie, WY
M&W Cross Country
NCAA Championships
TBA
Louisville, KY
M&W Swim & Dive
Purdue Invite
All Day
West Lafayette, IN
Wrestling
Nebraska
TBA
Lincoln, NE
Volleyball
UNLV
1:00 p.m.
Laramie, WY
22
Men’s Basketball
Montana State
2:00 p.m.
Billings, MN
M&W Swim & Dive
Purdue Invite
All Day
West Lafayette, IN
23 24
Women’s
Basketball
Cal State
Fullerton
8:00 p.m.
Fullerton, CA
25
Men’s Basketball
CSU Bakersfield
7:00 p.m.
Laramie, WY
26 27
Women’s Basketball
UC Santa Barbara
7:00 p.m.
Laramie, WY
28
Men’s Basketball
Montana State
7:00 p.m.
Laramie, WY
Football
UNLV
12:00 p.m.
Laramie, WY
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7. RECRUITING CALENDAR
November 2015
Sport
Contact/
Evaluation
Period
Contact Period
Evaluation
Period
Quiet Period Dead Period
Men’s Basketball November 9-12
Women’s
Basketball
November 1-9
November 13-30
November 9-12
Football November 29-30 November 1-28 November 1-28
Men’s Golf
November 1-8
November 13-30
November 9-12
Women’s Golf
November 1-8
November 13-30
November 9-12
Women’s Soccer
November 1-8
November 13-30
November 9-12
Women’s Tennis
November 1-8
November 13-30
November 9-12
Swimming &
Diving
November 1-8
November 13-30
November 9-12
Track &
Field/Cross
Country
November 1-8
November 13-20
November 22-30
November 9-12
November 21
Volleyball
November 1-8
November 13-30
November 9-12
Wrestling
November 1-8
November 13-30
November 9-12
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