News and Notes: Around the Ivy League

Below, some news and notes around the Ivy League.

- Penn updated its roster yesterday by adding Zach Gordon, a Division III transfer from Yeshiva University. Still noticeably missing from the roster are two recruited "preferred walk-ons"-- Malcolm Washington, a guard from Los Angeles and son of actor Denzel Washington and Tommy Eggleston, a 6'5" wing and younger brother of Quaker Jack Eggleston. Both, however, are confirmed members of the program.

- Penn is inviting tryouts for its J.V. program. With Penn's roster expected to expand to at least 21 players next season, a few recruits and/or "preferred walk-ons" should find themselves housed in the J.V. program next year. Here is a list of players expected to comprise Penn's 2010-2011 team. Penn could have the largest roster in Division I next season.

1. Zach Rosen Jr.
2. Dan Monckton Sr.
3. Tyler Bernardini Sr.
4. Darren Smith Sr.5th year
5. Andreas Schreiber Sr. 5th year
6. Larry Loughery Jr.
7. Mike Howlett Jr.
8. Jack Eggleston Sr.
9. Rob Belcore Jr.
10. Conor Turley Sr.
11. Brian Fitzpatrick So..
    
12. Conor Mullan So.
    
13. Carson Sullivan So.
    
14. Zach Gordon Sr.
15. Cameron Gunter Fr.
16. Kevin Panzer Fr.
17. Casey James Fr.
18. Austin Kelly Fr.
19. Steve Rennard Fr.
    
20. Malcolm Washington So.
    
21. Tommy Eggleston So.
    

- As for Ivy rosters generally-- Cornell, Brown, Columbia, Penn and Yale have released complete 2009-2010 rosters, including their incoming freshmen. The other three schools have yet to publish their final rosters. Below are links to the Ivy rosters:

• Cornell (updated roster)
• Columbia (updated roster)
  
• Princeton (no updated roster)
  
• Penn (no updated roster)
  
• Harvard (no updated roster))
• Dartmouth (no updated roster)
• Yale (updated roster)
• Brown (updated roster)

- Five of the Ivy League teams have officially announced their finalized schedules. No schedules have been announced from Columbia, Dartmouth and Penn. Below are links to the schedules released so far:

Five of the Ivy League teams have officially announced their finalized schedules.

• Cornell will play 31 games, including two Division III games (PSU Behrend and Clarkson)
  
• 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 (Goucher College)

- TrueBlueKentucky.com and a Sea of Blue Blue both picked up The Cornell Basketball Blog's timeline of Mark Coury's path to Cornell after transferring from Kentucky.

- We end with a note on the Ivies in the NCAA Tournament. Between 1990 and 2009, the Ivy League has a combined three wins in the NCAA tournament. Penn won just a single tournament game (1994) in its ten NCAA tournament appearances, while Princeton has two victories (1996 and 1998) in its eight appearances. Should Cornell win the Ivy League and capture a first round win in the 2009-2010 Tournament, the Big Red would be the first Ivy League team to win an NCAA game in the 21st century and could arguably lay claim to the title of the Ivy League's most successful program of the last ten years. The Ivy League basketball landscape sure has changed.