Will Jeremy Lin affect Harvard basketball recruiting?

Penn may have beaten Harvard on the court on Saturday, but off the court Harvard has emerged as the top recruiting team in the Ivy League. And some think that Harvard's recruiting will only improve thanks to the rise of Jeremy Lin.

Senior recruiting analyst at ESPN.com, Dave Telep, says that Harvard "can sell that Lin came to Harvard as a nobody and left as a guy who can play professional basketball." The same article reports that Harvard has signed more four star recruits since 2010 than the rest of the Ivy League combined.

Paul Wachter of Business Week also analyzed Harvard's recruiting in an article written last Thursday. Wachter claims that Harvard Coach Tommy Amaker's successful (albeit controversial) recruiting helped foster strong student support on campus and turned the Crimson into an Ivy powerhouse even before the recent outbreak of Linsanity. Even former Penn Coach Fran Dunphy chimed in to say that Amaker has done a great job. Check out the two articles after the jump.