Quakers lose another assistant to Lehigh
New Lehigh football coach Andy Coen -- who spent the past six years as Penn's offensive coordinator -- has nabbed one of his former Quakers assistants for his new coaching staff.
Yesterday, Lehigh announced the hiring of Brett Sawyer as one of Coen's offensive assistants. Sawyer served as Penn's tight ends coach for the past two years.
"Brett has Ivy League coaching experience, which will prove useful," Coen said in a statement. "He possesses a great knowledge of the game, and knows how to recruit the type of student-athlete needed to be successful."
Penn coach Al Bagnoli has yet to announce the hiring of a new offensive coordinator or a replacement for Sawyer.
At Penn, Sawyer was in charge of recruiting players from Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Prior to working with the Quakers he served as tight ends and offensive tackles coach for Princeton. He also has assistant coaching experience at Virginia and Division III school Muhlenberg.
Sawyer -- a native of Oradell, N.J. -- graduated from Muhlenberg in 1998, where he was a three-year starter on offensive line for the Mules.
--David Burrick Zoller selected as Big 5 player of week
After a dominant performance against Lafayette, Mark Zoller has been named the Big 5 Player of the Week.
Zoller only played for 23 minutes against the Leopards but scored 19 points and hit nine of his 11 attempts. He also grabbed four rebounds.
Zoller has averaged 11.8 points per game -- second on the team -- and has averaged 16.0 over the last five games.
The junior forward won the award just in time for a stretch in which Penn will take on two Big 5 opponents in a span of four days.
--Matt Conrad
Official NCAA ranking formula to be released
The NCAA has announced that, for the first time, it will release to the public the formulas used to calculate the official Ratings Percentage Index and the specific rankings given to each team.
The NCAA Selection Committee relies heavily on the RPI when determining seeding and at-large picks for the NCAA Tournament.
Many publications have attempted to replicate the rankings formula, but until now the official NCAA list has never been released. The first official RPI will be made public on Feb. 2.
--M.C.
