The trend continues

The growing popularity of "exempt" tournaments -- ones that feature several games but only count as one toward a team's limit of 29 -- may have found another home in Philadelphia. According to the Philadelphia Daily News, an exempt tournament that would feature the Palestra prominently is being planned for a future Thanksgiving weekend.

One Philadelphia team would be in the field every year, and the opening rounds would be played at "campus sites."

Very few details are out at this point, but from having spoken with Penn coach Glen Miller while the scheduling process was occuring, I can tell you that he was hot on getting his team into the an exempt tourney very early on this year. The Quakers ended up in the Black Coaches Invitational (where they were upstaged).

But having one such tournament closer to home might well be beneficial for Penn -- even in the years when it doesn't participate.