Adam Zagoria - a blogger for sny.tv - is reporting on three emerging candidates for the recently vacated men's basketball head coach position. I can't vouch for the legitimacy of the blog post (he cites only "Sources"), but he says that the top candidate is Andy Toole, associate head coach at Robert Morris. It's pretty early, in my opinion, for this information to be public and credible, but figured I would go ahead and report it here anyways.

Toole started for the Quakers in 2001-02 and 2002-03 (he transferred from Elon after his sophomore season) and was co-captain for the 2002-03 Quakekrs team that went 14-0 in League play and 22-6 overall in addition to finishing 3-1 in Big 5 play. Over the 2006-07 season, Toole was an assistant at Lafayette, and has served in his current position since 2007.

The other two candidates Zagoria indicates are no surprise: Lafayette head coach Fran O'Hanlon and Cornell head coach Steve Donahue, both assistants under Fran Dunphy. Both were speculated to replace Dunphy when he left after the 2005-06 season.

The full post is here, or you can just click below the jump to get the full text of the Penn portion of the post, along with my initial views on the information.

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Not too much to report out there in Ivy basketball country, but on Thursday Dick "Hoops" Weiss, writing for the New York Daily News, had a few Ivy points of interests in his "Hoops on Hoops" blog.

First, as stated in a brief in Friday's DP, John Gallagher has been hired as an assistant coach to Glen Miller. But in addition to reporting on that, Weiss says that the Quakers are interested in Larry Loughery, a former St. Joseph's Prep player who recently transferred to Academy of the New Church in Bryn Athyn.

Update:  Loughery is coming to Penn

He also notes that Columbia hosted a Sports Ethics Symposium, but put Weiss and fellow NY Daily news columnist Pat Plunkett on the wait list despite sending out publicity emails. I wonder how that event compared to the one Columbia hosted a few years back called "A Culture of Losing."

The last Ivy note is about Cornell coach Steve Donahue. There was a lot of talk about Brown's coach Craig Robinson leaving, and in the end he did go to Oregon State. But Donahue has also gotten some coaching buzz after leading the Big Red to their first Ivy title since 1988. While not reporting any rumors, Weiss himself believes Bucknell might be a good fit for Donahue because it offers scholarships and Cornell has yet to expand its financial aid like some of the other Ivy schools have.