I'm dreaming of a white Ivy tip-off

As snow continues to blanket Philadelphia, everybody on campus is getting ready for the beginning of the long-awaited Ivy season. How much improved are the Quakers after last year's fiasco? Tonight should be a good indication against a decent Yale team. But how is campus preparing (other than shoveling)?

The signs of Zack Rosen are plastered all over campus once again, including one outside of Pottruck advertising that student game tickets can now be bought at the gym. That's a whole 4 blocks west of the Palestra, where they usually are sold. Looks like Penn Athletics is taking a page out of the Horace Greeley book: "Go West, young man." But actually, props to the administrators for coming out to where the students actually are to sell tickets. They can be bought at the membership services desk.

I stopped in at the desk today to pick up my game ticket, and the woman selling them told me that they had probably doled out about 10 so far this week. Okay.

Back to the game. If you haven't read the work of Ari Seifter in today's paper, check it out. He wrote a straight preview of the weekend, as well as a nice column advocating for the League to remain without a postseason tourney.

We also put together a neat Ivy season preview with blurbs on each team and league leaders, so pick up Friday's print edition of the DP to check it out.

We'll be liveblogging all the action this weekend. Tonight is Kevin Esteves, Rumblin' Noah Rosenstein and Ricky Katz. Tomorrow night I'll be joined by Megan Soisson and there might even be a guest appearance from executive editor Lauren Plotnick.