By Jonathan Tannenwald
Philly.com
Greetings all,
Mel is at the Rutgers-Temple game this evening, so while he's on press row I've got a few things to post from the desk.
We were both at the Big 5's Media Day this morning at the Palestra, which for the second year in a row was held on the eve of the first men's City Series game of the season.
The local women's coaches were also represented, and many gave remarks during the podium-based part of the program. In attendance were St. Joseph's coach Cindy Griffin, La Salle coach Tom Lochner, Penn coach Pat Knapp and Temple assistant coach Dan Durkin.
Durkin was standing in for Owls head coach Tonya Cardoza, who spent the morning preparing for the arrival of the No. 15 Scarlet Knights. Villanova coach Harry Peretta called in absent as his team re-adjusted to northern climes after playing in the Paradise Jam. Drexel coach Denise Dillon also was not present, because the Dragons are not a part of the formal Big 5.
I posted audio of the speeches over at my blog, Soft Pretzel Logic. You can listen to them by clicking on the first track in the media player at the bottom of the post.
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