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Mike Jensen of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Penn games might move from WXPN to a commercial radio station next year. Can't imagine why that might be. It seemed like a good idea to me to keep your games on a station which preempts you for the polka hour a few times a season.

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I just listened to Princeton A.D. and NCAA Tournament selection committee chair Gary Walters say something a little shocking on CBS' studio show. While it doesn't directly affect Penn, Walters admitted that with the Big 12 championship game starting at 3 p.m. and the Big 11 at 3:30, the committee has to make some decisions -- potentially affecting those teams -- before the games end.

And while Penn's seed won't be affected by this travesty (why can't the selection show be at 8 or 9 instead of 6?) its opponent certainly could.

Penn, Villanova and...
Drexel will make the NCAA Tournament. In an era of college basketball when teams like Syracuse and Connecticut don't take their shows on the road until conference season starts, the committee will reward the Dragons for having one of the nation's best road non-conference slates.

Drexel has road wins over three tournament teams in Villanova, Syracuse and Creighton as well as a team that would have been in if it could make its free throws in Vermont. Blemishes on the resume include losses to Rider and Penn.

But the committee will see those road wins as well as victories at Temple and St. Joe's and give the Dragons an 11 or 12.