Drexel may host CAA basketball tourney at the Palestra

Looks like the Palestra could host a postseason basketball tourney after all, but Quakers fans won't be the ones filling the stands.

Instead, Drexel is making a bid to host the Colonial Athletic Association's conference tournament in 2013, CSNPhilly reports. Virginia Commonwealth has hosted the tournament at the Richmond Coliseum since 1990, but the Rams are leaving the CAA and joining the Atlantic 10 starting this fall. The Palestra is one of the gyms under consideration to host the tourney.

A conference tourney hasn't been held at the Palestra since 1995, when the Atlantic 10 finished a seven-year run at the gym. The Dragons would hope to take advantage of the location change, just as the Virginia teams in the CAA took advantage of the tournament's locality — a non-Virginia school hasn't won the CAA title since UNC-Wilmington won in 2006.

Two other locations under consideration are Atlantic City and Baltimore, and league officials say a final decision will be made shortly.