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Ranking the 8 Ivy League coaches is no easy task:  One of them has never been a head coach before, two others coached their 1^st Ivy games last year, and none have served a full decade as an Ivy head coach.  As we get ready for another college basketball season, here is a look at who is doing the best job of keeping up with the Joneses...literally.

 

1. Glen Miller - Penn

(223-184 record in 17 years as head coach at Connecticut College/Brown/Penn)

We're just about finished with the first month of the season in the metropolitan area, and it's become quite obvious who the best team in the area is right now. Seton Hall has gotten off to a 6-1 start, which includes a pair of gutty comebacks in Puerto Rico to finish third in that in-season tournament. Jeremy Hazell has shown himself to be one of the most explosive scorers in the Big East; what has come in his sophomore campaign (23.3 ppg; tops in the Big East) is a level of consistency that wasn't always present last season.

2008-09 Yale Basketball Preview

Bulldogs look to replace Flato, Holmes twins

 

2008-09 Columbia Basketball Preview

Lions must replace four starters

 

 

2008-09 Princeton Basketball Preview

Tigers look to escape Ivy League cellar

By Raphielle Johnson

Schedule (key games in bold)

 

November 14^th @ Fordham (given Fordham's rebuilding as well, the Lions could win this game)

16^th @ Seton Hall 

Tyler Ugolyn Columbia Classic 

21^st Bryant 

22^nd UMBC/Quinnipiac (win over Bryant could set up final against defending America East champs)

25^th Albany 

29^th Stony Brook 

December 3^rd Wagner 

Schedule (key games in bold)

 

November 14^th Stanford (first game at Stanford for Johnny Dawkins)

18^th @ Vermont

21^st @ Portland

24^th @ Oregon State (new OSU head coach Craig Robinson left Brown for Corvallis)

30^th @ Sacred Heart

December 3^rd Holy Cross

6^th @ Wagner

 

Princeton Schedule: 008-09

 (key games in bold)

 

November 14^th Central Michigan 

19^th Maine (the second of two winnable home games to start the season)

23^rd @ Army 

26^th @ Fordham 

December 2^nd South Carolina (the development of the backcourt will be tested in this one with Devan Downey coming to town)

6^th @ St. Bonaventure 

Raphielle Johnson's Metro preview & weekly Metro rankings & updates are a staple of fans in NYC's tri-state region. To get things going, here is Raphielle's 23 team NYC Metro preseason ranking and all-Metro teams. Individual team previews will up shortly!

 

Preseason Metro Ranking

CHN's 31 conference ranking, including 10 year historical averages based on average RPI finish. For more information on historical RPI averages, check out the Conference Data Page. Links lead to league preview pages.