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ESPN is kicking off the College Basketball season with its first annual college hoops tip-off marathon starting at midnight on Tuesday, November 18. Included in this slate of 14 college basketball games is a great Philadelphia city rivalry between the Drexel Dragons and the Penn Quakers. The game is being played at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time and will be played at the Daskalakis Athletic Center on Drexel's campus.
In Division I basketball, there are no two programs closer geographically to each other than Drexel and Penn. Down in Center City Philadelphia, Drexel and Penn's campus are separated by one street and you can often see Penn students on Drexel's campus and vice-versa.
Drexel and Penn play each other every year and the game is usually held at the Palestra on Penn's campus, which is the oldest college basketball venue in the entire country. But this year, Drexel gets to play the host for the first time in a long time and the DAC will be rocking on Tuesday morning.
Normally competitive men's basketball programs, both Drexel and Penn had down years in 2007-2008. The Dragons finished with an overall record of 12-20, including 5-13 in the Colonial Athletic Association, and Penn finished with a solid Ivy League mark of 8-6, but had a sub-par overall record of 13-18.
This college hoops marathon courtesy of ESPN starts off with a match up between the Massachusetts Minutemen and last year's National runner-up, the Memphis Tigers.
