If you follow St. Joe's, Penn or Drexel, you know that if your team scores 100 points in a game you get a free cheesesteak at Abner's at 38th and Chestnut. It so happens that the two teams in the city (proper) that don't have that promotion are the ones who hit the century mark last night.
The dynamite blew up in La Salle's face as the Explorers lost to Duquesne, Ray Parrillo writes in the Inquirer. In the Daily News, Bob Cooney offers the consolation that the Dukes "might be the feel-good story for all of college basketball."
Mike Jensen reports in the Inquirer that Temple hit triple digits for the first time in 616 games against St. Bonaventure. Mike Kern notes in the Daily News that the Bonnies are 0-28 against Temple in Philadelphia.
Drexel has a must-win game at Hofstra tonight, and Bruiser Flint says he's running out of out of "Knute Rockne speeches" to give his team.
Wisconsin visited Penn State last night, and Frank Fitzpatrick profiles Badgers coach Bo Ryan. The Chester native "wears expensive suits and earns more in a year than his father did in a lifetime," but flashes his blue-collar roots just as much while on the bench.
I am so jealous of David Aldridge, who paid his first ever visit to Krzyzewskiville last night.
And Villanova's new athletics center should be open this fall.
The local football teams did well on signing day. Villanova got what might be the best recruiting class in program history. It's led by Terrell Wilkes, who runs track in addition to running the football, and picked a place that has a nice reputation for doing both pretty well/
Temple got the MAC's best recruiting class including a quarterback from one of the better programs in the Washington area: DeMatha High School quarterback Chester Stewart.
Penn State missed out on Broderick Green, leaving the Nittany Lions without a real marquee recruit. Joe Paterno didn't even hold a press conference. Green went to Southern California, which got three of the top 14 running backs in the country. But Linebacker U. did get more linebackers.
And Rutgers got the top player in New Jersey for the first time in school history.
It's no surprise that Florida has the top-ranked recruiting class in the country, but that other team in the World's Largest Cocktail Party has "one ton of beef" in its class.
Nick Saban and Butch Davis also did well in their returns to the recruiting trail.
Back to hoops: Joe Lunardi throws Syracuse and Connecticut out of the field of 65.
UCLA beat USC to complete the season sweep and take command of the Pac-10 race.
Carolina beat Duke on the scoreboard, 79-73, and in the number of lottery picks on the floor, two to none. Note to opponents: Don't put a Duke sticker on Tyler Hansbrough's truck. The women have at it tonight in a showdown that's gotten as much hype as the men's game, which is good to see.
Kansas shot 55.9 percent from the field in a 97-70 rout of Kansas State. I know the Big 12 doesn't get much attention around here, but help a fellow blogger out and give the "BIG 12 FORECAST" the reader reaction it's looking for.
And finally, the Syracuse Post-Standard's hoops blog wants to know whether it's okay to boo. I know the answer to that one.
