Guess who's coming to town

Earlier this week St. Joseph's announced its men's basketball opponents, although no times or dates were released. Two things are worth noting for Quaker fans. First off, as you might remember from this DP article, all of the Hawks 2008-09 home games will be played at the Palestra. So there's a good chance college basketball's cathedral will be home to multiple games a day come winter.

But more importantly, a familiar foe of Penn will be visiting the Palesta twice this year. Cornell, yes the very same defending-Ivy League champions, will face St. Joe's at the Palestra. I'd personally be surprised if Penn coach Glen Miller isn't in attendance scouting the Big Red, assuming of course Penn doesn't have a game of its own that day.

So as for you Penn fans, are you going to try to watch the Big Red in the Palestra before they take on the Quakers? I wonder when was the last time a non-Big 5 team visited the Palestra during the regular season to play two different teams. I'm sure it's happened before.

NB: I found this news from former DP writer Jonnathan Tannenwald's college sports blog, Soft Pretzel Logic. I strongly suggest you check it out since it's clearly the best professional blog about college sports in the Philly region.