1. The first snowfall of the season.
2. My first cold of the season, which not even a roasting Palestra last night could help.
3. Attention moving away from the Eagles and towards basketball.
Mike Kern and Kevin Tatum recap last night's Penn-North Carolina game, while Mike Jensen looks at the scene and notes that Roy Williams had to do a bit of coaching despite the blowout.
Dana Pennett O'Neil nails the point I was trying to make yesterday about big-time schools and where they play their non-conference games. You have to give UNC a lot of credit for its road schedule this year, but my point still stands. As Dana said:
The last time Syracuse left the state of New York for a pre-Big East game, state troopers arrested Jim Boeheim at the border for desertion.
From down south, here are recaps from the Raleigh News and Observer (along with a photo gallery), the Durham Herald-Sun and the Greensboro News & Record.
Going back to the local scene, I was pretty shocked that St. Joe's lost to Holy Cross last night. The Crusaders are a good team, but any time you don't score a two-point field goal in the entire first half at home that's a bad loss.
Dick Jerardi notes that the Hawks' defense wasn't so great either, as Holy Cross shot 50 percent from the field. Jeff McLane wonders whether the Hawk himself (or is it herself this year? Let me know) could have done a better job.
There's better news from the A-10, as conference TV broadcaster CSTV has agreed a deal to get local games on Comcast SportsNet and CN8.
A columnist in the Penn State Daily Collegian, their student paper, pays homage to the Palestra and takes a few shots at the Nittany Lions' home floor.
And speaking of the Palestra, props to a guy who played his college ball there and still shows up on a regular basis: new Sixers GM Ed Stefanski. Mike Jensen, Dick Jerardi and Rich Hofmann look at how Stefanski got from 33rd Street to South Broad Street by way of the New Jersey Turnpike.
