Academic Basketball™ starts with the only grassroots program focused on working with student athletes with a minimum GPA of 3.3 and leads to exposure to the coaches of the top academic colleges in the country with the expressed intention of helping each player earn a college uniform. Based in Fairfield County Connecticut and Westchester County NY, ABC plays in tournaments throughout the northeast, encourages its players to attend selected camps at the top academic universities and then plays as a Team at the Academic Basketball Camp and the All-Academic Camp at Babson.
In 2010. Academic Basketball took the recipe for helping its players to Earn A College Uniform and “bottled the formula” for others to work with Harvey Rubin. Hundreds of families have navigated the recruiting process successfully. Now, Harvey brings his experience to everyone at the many camps he speaks at every year. His “Top Criteria For Choosing A College” has become a mantra for players and parents alike – even the college coaches, too.
Why do we do this? Because we can. And we know it’s worth our effort – sort of our investment in the future of some of the kids we believe in who can make a difference. Simply put, we care.
A Grassroots basketball program for boys in high school with a minimum GPA of 3.3 and on track to apply to the top tier academic schools including the NESCAC, UAA, Liberty League and Centennial Conference on the East Coast; the NCAC and MIAC in the Midwest; the SCIAC and NWC on the West Coast; and, many top academic schools throughout the country.
Personal Highlight Videos produced by one of the top services to aid in recruitment at the top academic schools.
Advisement Services for identifying the “right” schools for student athletes to apply and attracting the attention of the coaches to facilitate the recruitment process. This fee-based service is for all levels of academic colleges and the Boarding Schools for reclass and PG years.
Please click for information on the Academic Basketball Camp and other exposure camps where the academic D3 coaches go to look at players, including the camps at Ivy and Patriot League schools. THE ANNUAL CAMP SPREADSHEET LIVES HERE
My name is Harvey Rubin. I am a college advisor. I spend much of every summer traveling the country to give my 8-minute speech to academic basketball players hoping to Earn A College Uniform at camps with college coaches watching them play. I took my son, a rising Junior, with me last year. He played at camps, and we visited college campuses in the area – and sometimes well beyond the area. The family spring and summer vacations had visits to additional colleges in the areas we did not see at the camps.
One hundred colleges visited, and at the end of the summer, we had perhaps not quite a dozen we should see again later. The proper and honest answer to the ubiquitous question “How was your vacation?” frequently heard as school restarts and I return to work in the office:
