Canadians from Carleton coming for hoops exhibition

If the 84 games on the 2011-12 Penn men's basketball schedule weren't enough for you, we're excited to tell you about one more! Well, more like half of one more.

Penn announced today it would play Canadian team Cartleton in a Nov. 5 open exhibition at the Palestra at 4:30 p.m., following the Penn-Princeton football game.

From Penn Athletics' release:

Based in Canada, Carleton is a member of the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) conference and last year won the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) championship for the seventh time in nine years. During the months of August and September, Carleton went 5-4 in the Cross-Border Battle, including wins over Saint Louis, Niagara and UC-Santa Barbara as well as a two-point loss to La Salle.

And if you remember Penn's overtime loss to La Salle last year, the transitive property of sports tells us that this could be an exiting little scrimmage. Almost as exciting as the last one at the Palestra.

Unlike that one, which had ticket prices of 35 and 50 dollars, this one will be free.