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At the first Penn basketball game I attended as a college student, I wore a “Wildcats Basketball” t-shirt. I rooted for Villanova, my bandwagon Big 5 team since eighth grade, and was rewarded with a blowout win.
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At the first Penn basketball game I attended as a college student, I wore a “Wildcats Basketball” t-shirt. I rooted for Villanova, my bandwagon Big 5 team since eighth grade, and was rewarded with a blowout win.
Well, this is awkward.
Here they were again, back at the Palestra’s press room table sitting on a 3-0 Ivy League start.
The Quakers’ do-it-all point guard shook his defender, knifed through the defense and exploded for an and-one lay-in. In just a few moments an eight-point Penn lead became an 11-point lead and, with just 2:20 remaining, all but secured the win.
To get a sense of how popular Penn guard Miles Cartwright is in Southern California, consider this:
After a shoddy five-game stretch that included four losses, the Penn basketball team got its mojo back at the Palestra Wednesday night.
If you looked closely enough, maybe you could have seen Jerome Allen gritting his teeth as he admitted that his team was weaker than its opponent.
In Penn basketball coach Jerome Allen’s restoration process, progress only comes in victory.
The buildup, the on-court drama, the devastation at the final buzzer — they were all the same. The resulting press room scene was all too familiar: Penn coach Jerome Allen and his disciple Zack Rosen, staring down at the box score before them, mining their brains for an explanation of the incomprehensible failure that had just occurred.
The sobering reminder came in the middle of Jerome Allen’s press conference following the win over UMBC:
“It’s crazy to see how you grow up with people through basketball.” – Penn sophomore guard Miles Cartwright
Babysitter nights brought out a different side of the three Nawrocki boys.
The first thing teammates and coaches noticed about the new-and-improved Fran Dougherty was his body. Over the offseason, the timid, slight freshman grew into a sturdy sophomore.
Every now and then when football coaches pore through opponent game tape, one play among the hundreds makes eyes pop.
Since taking over as head basketball coach, Jerome Allen has been hot on the recruiting trail. But even after reeling in seven intriguing prospects, the glaring need for a legitimate big man remained.
The sight sent the Palestra crowd into stitches: a bald, portly referee performing a shimmy to signal a first-quarter travel call on the NBA’s “Chosen One,” LeBron James.
They say the Palestra gets so packed, the mob of fans filters all the way to the back corners of the stands.
From the Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, The Buzz:
Four days after its upset of defending Ivy League runner-up Cornell, the women’s field hockey team couldn’t contain city foe Villanova, as Penn fell, 2-1.
The mid-September scene unfolded like the 50 before it, with Penn football players streaming onto Franklin Field as the team’s yearly introduction resonated throughout the stadium: