Point guard Cully Payne of Schaumburg, Ill., visited Iowa on Wednesday, but other recruits won’t be making their way to Iowa City in upcoming days despite the number of open scholarships the Hawkeyes have available.

A dead period in the NCAA’s recruiting calendar began Thursday and runs one week, allowing coaches and their assistants to enjoy a recruiting-free weekend at the Final Four and the functions and meetings that surround this year’s event in Detroit.

A contact period resumes at the end of the dead period on April 9 and runs through April 12, prior to a dead period that runs April 13-16 as the spring signing period begins. Another contact period runs April 17-22.

The NCAA’s spring signing date is April 15, although players can still sign letters of intent through late May.

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