News and Notes: Around the Ivy League, Schedules Trickle Out

Cornell's student section -- The Newman Nation.

Four Ivy League teams have officially announced their 2009-2010 schedules. Cornell's will likely be considered the league's toughest once it is fully disclosed.

• Harvard will play 28 games, including one Division III game (MIT).
• Yale will play 31 games, including one Division III game (Albert Magnus)
  
• Brown will play 31 games, including two non-Division I opponents (Keene State and Philadelphia Sciences)
  
• Princeton will play 28 games, including one non-Division I opponent (possibly Concordia)

In other scheduling news, DePaul University revealed that it will face Columbia this season in Chicago.

We previously posted that Penn will face Duke, Penn State, the City Six Schools (Villanova, St. Joe's, La Salle, Temple and Drexel), Delaware, Navy and Monmouth. With fourteen additional Ivy games, the Quakers will likely have four more games for a total 28 game slate. The Fire Glen Miller blog analyzes the Quaker schedule and notes, "Penn will have to win as many home games as it can this year against teams not named Cornell in order to even have a chance at contending...Either Miller is purposely scheduling games away from his boo birds at the Palestra (which wouldn't be an entirely bad strategy), or there are a lot of potential non-conf opponents we haven't found yet."

Finally, Jeff Goodman of FoxSports reveals that Yale will face Hofstra instead of UConn in the opening round of the NIT Season Tip Off. Without a game against UConn, Yale's schedule gets quite soft-- the toughest games coming against Providence, Colorado and Colorado State. Cornell finished with a 3-1 record in last season's NIT Season Tip Off.