Quick hits from future and former Quakers

 

Those of you who follow the obscure ESPN channels might have seen this week that Penn commit Greg Louis and his Dwyer (Fla.) High School teammates played in the ESPN Rise National High School Invitational. The Dwyer Panthers were knocked out of the tourney last night by Virginia-Oak Hill in a three point loss. Louis actually put up the game-tying three at the end of the game but it didn't go in.

ESPN has archived the tournament on ESPN3.com, so anyone who has access to that can get a sneak peak at Louis there. Here's a link to the Panthers' upset win over Findlay Prep, and here's what the recruit said about college and the tournament:

“Down here, we’re a football state and I always wanted to play in a basketball city like New York or Chicago or Philly. We have all of the accolades in football here and we hope to bring some in basketball.”
On a totally different topic, former Penn hoopster Steve Danley made an appearance writing for ESPN, doing a little guest blog about a recent experience he had at a Euroleague playoff game he attended in Athens. Here's his account of the scene:
The fans didn’t disappoint. By the time I took my seat, still half an hour before tipoff, all 19,000 of them were standing, singing, and as far as I could tell, smoking. The haze was made worse by some sort of torch that fans lit during big moments of the game, so much so that the smoke notably hung over and obscured the action on the court.
He also described some fundamental differences between the NBA and Euroleague game, perhaps a hint of what's coming to Penn in two European recruits next year?
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