Report: Evan Turner will visit The Cathedral "regularly" this year

Though I'm an avid viewer of my local ComcastSportsNet-Philadelphia television station, I rarely expect to hear anything about the Quakers while I'm getting my daily Philly sports fix. To my surprise, however, I heard this on today's 6 p.m. airing of Toyota SportsNite: the Sixers' Evan Turner, last year's Naismith Player of the Year in college basketball and the number two pick in June's NBA draft, has been working out this summer with none other than the University of Pennsylvania's Rob Belcore.

From CSNPhilly.com: "Turner is adjusting to living alone for the first time in his life. He said he has always had a roommate and will be getting two when his brother and friend soon come to live with him. He has reconnected with a former AAU teammate in Rob Belcore, who is a junior at Penn – the two planned on regularly putting up shots at the Palestra."

We at the DP will surely look into this story once the fall rolls around, but some quick research shows that Belcore and Turner attended nearby Illinois high schools Loyola Academy in Wilmette (Belcore) and St. Joseph's in Westchester (Turner), about 29 miles and 39 minutes apart. And, apparently, we'll be able to find the future of the Sixers franchise and a key cog in Penn's rotation reunited right on our campus next year.