Men's Basketball

TRANSFER GUIDELINES

If you are currently at another NCAA Division III institution:

Whether or not you are playing on any athletic team, basketball or otherwise, you need to obtain a release.  As a student at another NCAA D-III institution, you are permitted to give Bridgewater State College permission to speak with you by using a Self-Release form.  Under NCAA legislation 13.1.1.2.1, using a form made available by the NCAA national office, a student-athlete who attends a Division III institution may issue, on his or her own behalf, permission for another Division III institution to contact the student-athlete about a potential transfer.  The student-athlete shall forward this form to the director of athletics at the institution of interest.  Contact between the student-athlete and institution may occur during the 30-day period beginning with the date the permission to contact form is signed by the student-athlete.  An additional form must be issued for contact to occur or continue beyond the initial 30-day period.  (Adopted: 1/12/04 effective 8/1/04, Revised: 1/10/05)

Here is a downloadable Self-Release form:

• for a Microsoft Word version, click HERE

• for a .PDF version, click HERE

If you are currently at an NCAA or NAIA Division I or II institution: You are permitted to contact us and inform us of your interest in a potential transfer to Bridgewater and play basketball.  After that initial contact, we will seek written permission, from your current institution, in order to continue to have contact with you.  This is usually done by an exchange of a release form, via fax, between the two athletic offices.  This must be done whether or not you are an active member of your current institution's basketball team, or any other athletic team.  While we cannot have contact with you until that written permission is granted, you are free to contact the Bridgewater State College Office of Admissions to begin the application process.

If you are currently at a 2-Year college (Junior College) or other 4-year college that is not a member of the NCAA or NAIA:  There is no requirement of written permission for contact however, we will, in most cases, contact a member of the athletic department or basketball coaching staff at your current institution early in the recruitment / transfer process, as soon as it is suitable.  This phone call or e-mail is simply a courtesy that most coaches afford to one another.

• Men's Basketball Contact Information: 

• Office: 508-531-2896 

• Fax: 508-531-1356 

• bridgew_hoops@bridgew.edu