The Ivy League released the results of its 2007-08 preseason media poll, and Cornell finished in first place, with Yale and Penn trailing the Big Red. Columbia and Brown occupied the middle tier of the poll, while Harvard, Princeton, and Dartmouth brought up the rear.

When point guard recruit Jeff Peterson reneged on his commitment to Princeton, Joe Scott’s final recruiting class at Old Nassau took on a decidedly different look. Peterson eventually signed with Iowa, leaving new coach Sydney Johnson with a group of incoming freshmen without much in the way of recruiting accolades. None of the four members of the 2007 recruiting class were ranked in HoopScoop’s Top 1000 recruits, and the only freshman to be rated by any of the national scouting services never made it onto the Tiger roster. Still, at least one of these newcomers should get a chance to make an impact this season, and another likely will get the opportunity sooner or later.

In his first year at Penn, Glen Miller visibly upped the program’s recruiting aim from where it had been under Fran Dunphy. Though he ultimately lost out to Stanford for big prize Josh Owens, Miller did bring a number of excellent recruits who project very well at the Ivy League level. Several of them could get major minutes right away as an inexperienced and young Quaker team looks to rebuild after graduating three important veterans this past spring.

Despite taking over at Harvard in April, Tommy Amaker was able to put a quick recruiting stamp on the program by bringing in a JuCo transfer in the spring. This supplemented a trio of high school players who had committed to Frank Sullivan, and all three kept their pledges after the coaching change. The three freshmen all have a shot at immediate minutes this season, though it’s the transfer who has the greatest likelihood of cracking the rotation right away.

Terry Dunn apparently targeted his 2007 recruiting efforts on frontcourt players, and the result was a class heavy on size. While the freshmen as individuals and as a group didn’t get the same attention from national recruiting services as the previous two Dartmouth classes, Dunn mentioned the three freshmen frontcourt players as potential contributors this season in an August feature on the school’s athletics website and another could get a chance to run the point.