News and Notes: Around the Ivy League

Above, Cornell's Chris Wroblewski in the 2009 NCAA Tournament. Below, just some random news and notes around the Ivy League this week...

• Yale head coach, James Jones is quoted in a New York Times article by Pete Thamel about the business-side associated with this summer's AAU tournaments. Jones' comments were later attacked in the Sporting News by Mike DeCourcy.

• Columbia has named its 2009-2010 captains.
  

• Columbia's Blaise Staab is playing summer ball in LA's Say No League. On Staab's team is Princeton's Kareem Maddox. And as is usually the case each year, most of the Penn Quakers are in Philadelphia for the summer playing in Philadelphia city summer leagues.
  

• After leaving Penn because "Glen Miller wasn't the coach" for him, Harris Gaines is quoted this week in the Press Enterprise after deciding to transfer to Cal-Riverside. In addition to Gaines, three other Penn basketball players quit the program during the course of the 2008-2009 season, including Remy Cofield, Tommy McMahon and Garvin Hunt. Both Gaines and Cofield expressed dissatisfaction with the Penn basketball program. Cofield previously told the Daily Pennsylvanian, "Being here at Penn, I ... did not believe that I could develop into the player that I wanted to be."