Penn Fifth in Pennsylvania

Similar to Storming the Floor's ranking of each state by overall winning percentage, CollegeHoops.net has a state by state ranking of each D-I men's basketball program. The rankings are based mostly on the last five years' results, not on upcoming predictions.

In Pennsylvania's ranking, Penn came in a respectable fifth. The top four were Pittsburgh then Big 5 members Villanova, St. Joseph's and Temple, in that order. Besides those last three schools, the Quakers will play four other teams from Pennsylvania: No. 7 Drexel, No. 8 Penn State, No. 12 La Salle and No. 13 Lafayette.

The only top-ranked school Penn will play this year is UNC, who edged out Duke for tops in North Carolina.

After the jump, the rankings of the other Ivy League teams

The state of New Hampshire is one of seven states to only have two teams. So Dartmouth, though technically second, is really last. (New Hampshire: "Perhaps the worst basketball state in the union?")
Rhode Island has just three teams, and Brown is last.
Yale comes in a respectable fourth in Connecticut.
Harvard is the third Ivy team to come in dead last.
Princeton is sixth out of seven New Jersey teams (note NJIT, a Penn opponent this year, is not on the list since it's still a provisional D-I school).
New York is the only state in the Union to have two Ivy teams (although I can't really think of two college locations more different than Ithaca and Morningside Heights). However, the two teams are on different ends of the Empire State spectrum. Cornell comes in nine out of 22, while Columbia is ranked 20th.

Looking at these rankings, the Ivy League doesn't exactly appear to be America's strongest conference. Half the league was either dead last or second to last. And only two schools placed in the top 50% of their respective states.