Quakers coast at home
(01/24/11 9:36am)
In its only appearance at Hutchinson Gymnasium this season, the men’s fencing squad had no trouble handling the six visitors at the Philadelphia Invitational on Saturday, going 6-0.
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Silcox | You’ve got to believe in the Big 5
(01/21/11 9:12am)
The congratulations rolled in for the women’s basketball team.
Brief | Hsu leads clean sweep in tennis opener
(01/20/11 12:53pm)
Freshman phenom Connie Hsu made her spring debut for the women’s tennis team Wednesday, picking up where she left off after a stellar fall season.
Ivy Hoops Roundup
(01/18/11 10:44am)
If you’re a fan of the Eagles (the band, not the disappointment of a football team), you know exactly the motto that traveling partners Penn and Princeton are living by this January: take it easy. So while the Quakers are playing weekly Big 5 opponents to the wire and Princeton is busy eating Cheetos (or studying for finals — who schedules exams a month after classes end, anyway?) on its collective couch during an 18-day layoff, it’s up to the other six Ivy teams to entertain.
Catching up with AD Steve Bilsky
(01/18/11 10:40am)
Midway through the winter sports season, Director of Penn Athletics Steve Bilsky sat down with the Sports Editors of The Daily Pennsylvanian to talk about a successful fall for the Quakers and what’s on tap for 2011.
Ivy Hoops Roundup
(01/13/11 12:09pm)
It is with great pleasure that we re-introduce a long-lost feature of DP Sports, the Ivy Roundup. In principle, it’s the same as the recent Ivy Notebook feature, with one small difference: Less Plotnick! There’s something in the water. Our journey through the Ancient Eight begins in Princeton, N.J., where the Tigers (11-4) extended a home winning-streak to eight games with a 68-57 victory over Marist. (That’s right, the same Marist that gave Penn a big “womp womp” back in December).
Silcox | A spectacle at Rupp
(01/12/11 7:38am)
As the pregame clock winds down in Lexington, Ky., the lights go dark and the booming P.A. announcer takes over from the hip hop blasting earlier. Welcome to Rupp Arena, “home of the greatest tradition in college basketball,” he says.
Duel in paint gets personal
(01/12/11 6:29am)
When Noblesville, Ind., native Jack Eggleston left for the big city and Big 5 basketball, one of his first opponents in Philadelphia was Jerrell Williams. The summer before both began college — Eggleston at Penn and Williams at La Salle — they worked out together under late local hoops trainer John Hartnett.
Silcox | A healthy dose of Rosen would have slowed Kentucky
(01/05/11 6:54am)
LEXINGTON Ky. — Tyler Bernardini gave Quakers fans the most exciting 16 minutes of the men’s basketball season thus far.
Dark horse Quakers take on No. 12 Kentucky
(01/03/11 5:53am)
The Quakers are 1-1 when playing Wildcats this season. With a win over Davidson and a loss to Villanova, the men's basketball team will look to improve on that trivial record as they take on the Kentucky Wildcats 7:00 p.m. Monday at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky.?
Rosen named candidate for Bob Cousy Award
(12/21/10 1:16am)
Junior point guard Zack Rosen was named one of 66 candidates for the Bob Cousy Award. The award is given annually to the best point guard in any division of men's college basketball.
Cliff Notes
(12/14/10 5:33pm)
UTB Ed's note: Sometimes, we just wanna talk about sports. But since we're not super-prepared to do that with things like "facts," we've enlisted the help of our friends over at The Buzz to help us make sense of sports things. Wondering why everyone's statuses and Twitters are about "Cliff Lee?" Wondering who that is in the first place, or why he's so important? Wonder no more.
Calder Silcox | An unorthodox Player of the Year pick
(12/07/10 8:11am)
Call me a homer, but a Quaker should have been named Ivy League Player of the Year on Monday.
Penn basketball pounds UMBC, 71-59
(12/01/10 6:36am)
Miles Cartwright waited until his final high school game before he recorded his first dunk. But just six games into his burgeoning college career, the 6-foot-3 freshman threw down a convincing jam for two of his game-high 19 points.
Ragone named finalist for Ivy Player of the Year
(11/30/10 10:22pm)
Penn quarterback Billy Ragone was named one of four finalists in the running for Ivy League football Player of the Year on Tuesday. A sophomore, Ragone is the youngest of the four finalists.
Quakers bounce back against Lafayette
(11/24/10 6:39am)
After grabbing just 19 rebounds in Saturday’s loss to Drexel — the fewest since coach Fran Dunphy left the program in 2006 — the Quakers knew they needed a better showing.
Quakers look to rebound vs. Lafayette
(11/23/10 9:52am)
For junior Zack Rosen, a good shooting game is like flipping a coin — heads, the shots fall — tails, they don’t.
Penn falls to No. 2 Maryland 4-0 in second round of NCAA tournament
(11/22/10 4:08am)
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — In 2008 Penn men’s soccer won the Ivy League and made a brief appearance in the NCAA tournament. That same year Maryland won the national title.
Breathing fire into the City Six
(11/19/10 10:31am)
On January 24, 2007, Penn basketball won its last game against a Philadelphia opponent. Fran Dunphy was on the floor coaching, but not for Penn — he had moved on to Temple and would lose that night by just two points to a team he had largely assembled.
Penn hosts first round of NCAAs
(11/19/10 1:55am)
Despite a season-ending loss to Harvard, the Quakers received an at-large bid into the NCAA tournament and will take on Bucknell at Rhodes Field tonight at 7 p.m.