Yale

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

 

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

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

 

4. Yale (2006-07 Record: 14-13, 10-4 Ivy)

Head coach: James Jones

Returning Starters: 4- G Eric Flato (senior): 6-1, 185; G/F Caleb Holmes (senior): 6-6, 205; F Ross Morin (junior): 6-7, 225; C Matt Kyle (senior): 6-11, 240.

 

Yale Bulldogs

 

Overall Rank: #119