Zack Rosen to take part in Final Four festivities

He may not have gotten a ticket to the Big Dance during his four-year career, but Penn's star point guard Zack Rosen will head to the NCAA Final Four this weekend in New Orleans as a finalist for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award.

The award, of which Rosen is one of 10 finalists, will be presented at 3 p.m., Friday. He'll take part in some other festivities as a part of the award, which recognizes "great achievement during competition and in their community while staying in school."

There had been some rumors in recent weeks that Rosen might get a shot to participate in the 3-point competition during the Final Four, though he said he hasn't heard anything about that. The website for the competition lists five confirmed players.

Meanwhile, Rosen is relishing the opportunity to attend college basketball's biggest weekend.

"I’m going down to the Final Four with a notebook," he said. "I want to find Coach K and ask him about motivating people or sit down with Brad Stevens and talk about ball screen defense."

The Ivy League Player of the Year has taken a brief but well deserved respite from the court since his season ended witha loss to Steven's Butler team in the CBI post-season tournament last week. He'll start training again soon for the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament, where he'll hope to impress NBA scouts as he begins to look toward a professional career after Penn.

Read more about the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award and Rosen's weekend here.