The best basketball nugget today comes courtesy Brian Seltzer's Penn Sports Network podcast, which you can see here. Glen Miller had some very optimistic words for freshman Tyler Bernardini, the kind that go beyond normal coachspeak:

Tyler has a scorer's mentality, and we want him to shoot the ball if he has good open shots. He has to play within himself, but he's maybe the best shooter on our team, so we want to get him in areas of the floor where he can get his shot off.

Whether he starts and plays 25 minutes or comes off the bench and plays 15, that's a sign we could see a lot of Bernardini this year, which I hadn't really expected until now.

The Ivy League preseason media poll was also released yesterday, and Penn was picked to finish third. Can't really argue with Cornell at No. 1 or Yale at No. 2; I guess the only nitpicking I could do is criticize the random first-place votes for Columbia and Brown.

Throw any other thoughts on the poll in the comments section.

Elsewhere, the Inquirer has news about Villanova's lineup.

And in football, the Providence Journal reports on Yale's next obstacle to the Ivy title, and the Hartford Courant does the same. The Register profiles Yale's QB-turned-DE, Brady Hart, and the Crimson offers a good look at ex-Harvard QB Andrew Hatch, who's now at LSU.