12-31-17 09:15 AM - Post#241658 In response to SRP
Fourteen games later, a young Tiger team does look very different. The likelihood that this year's team goes into the regular IL season as the top ranked team is amazing after watching them come off the Jadwin floor at halftime against Lehigh. In fairness, part of the reason for the ranking is due to the non-conference play of the league but Coach got them to ramp up their intensity level on defense and rebounding.
Opening game should be a good challenge at the Palestra. Can the Tigers smother the Penn shooters as they did last year in the two regular season games? There were times that Penn could not even get off shots -- or has Penn improved significantly from last year? Hard to predict based on the strength of Penn's non-conference opponents.