SomeGuy
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09-30-20 01:45 PM - Post#314292
In response to OldBig5
That may be true, but 15 years ago if you asked a high academics high school basketball player which Ivy to go to to play basketball, they would have said Penn. 20 years ago, Penn or Princeton.
While I think that much of that was Harvard not caring about basketball enough to use their brand advantage, it does show that it is certainly possible for Penn to overcome the brand advantage under the right circumstances. I don’t think it is nearly as simple as mrjames makes it sound, but it can be done.
A player choosing Penn will play in front of bigger home crowds than anybody else in the Ivy, gets the Big Five and a game against Villanova every year, has a more vocal (though aging) alumni base that travels for games, and plays in the best facility in the league. In a lot of ways, playing at Penn is going to be the closest you can come to high major basketball in our league.
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