CHAMPIONS

Darren Smith's three-pointer put Penn up 3-2 over Yale 70 seconds into the game.

The next 38:50 was a coronation.

The Quakers wrapped up a third Ivy League title in a row and pulled even with Princeton with 25 Ivy titles apiece.

Andrew Scurria will get you an online recap shortly, but here are a few notes from the sidelines.

If I asked you before the game, who would key a 19-0 run to put the game away, you probably could have gotten pretty good odds on Brennan Votel. But the sophomore came up huge, scoring 10 points in the first half, mostly on strong moves to the basket. Votel played with more confidence than I'd seen out of him yet this year.

Penn's seniors haven't played too many games in the last four years bigger than tonight's against Brown and Tuesday's at Princeton. Win these two and a 13-seed likely awaits, giving the Quakers a real shot at their goal of winning a tournament game. Lose one of them, and their fate as the second-best class never to win a tournament game becomes one step closer to reality.

In the strangest moment of the evening, Glen Miller received the Bill Parcells treatment, but not from his players. As Miller answered questions at the post-game press conference, statistician Stu Suss doused the soon-to-be NCAA Tournament newcomer with a Gatorade bath. OK, that's an exaggeration. He poured probably the first four or five ounces of the orange stuff on Miller's newly-dry-cleaned jacket. Don't think Miller was quite sure how to react, other than to send him the dry cleaning bill.