Basketball notes

With the first official basketball practices just a few weeks away, here are some Penn basketball notes.

1) Here's the Sporting News' preview of the Ivy League. It's not that different from Athlon's or Lindy's, as Penn is selected second behind Cornell.

(HT The Cornell Basketball Blog)

2) ESPN analyst Andy Katz writes about ESPN's college hoops marathon on Nov. 18, including the Penn-Drexel game at 10 a.m (The relevant paragraph is about one quarter of the way down.)

3) Storming The Floor ran an interesting series that ranks the 36 states with at least three D-I basketball programs by combined winning percentage of the teams in that state. Pennsylvania comes in 17th with a .524 winning percentage. Each state's page also has other categories, and Penn earned the best venue (no surprise there) and recognition as STF's Favorite Program from Pennsylvania.