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The Penn men's basketball team, which clinched an NCAA Tournament berth with its win over Columbia last Saturday, could be in just about any corner of the country when it takes the floor for March Madness in two weeks. And with eight possible cities in eight different states and no other team having clinched a invitation to the big dance, it is anyone's guess as to where the Quakers will end up.
While the Ivy League title has already been decided, quite a colorful race is going on for second place.
For 31 minutes of play, Friday night's game against Cornell seemed like it might be the closest thing to a normal game the Penn women's basketball team had seen in conference play. Up by 18 points with 8:55 to play, the Quakers' lead hadn't been in single digits since the first minute of the second half, and the Big Red had only scored three field goals since then.
To say that this has been a difficult season for the Columbia women's basketball team is surely an understatement.
This year's encounters between Penn and Princeton have produced a double-digit swing in the second half score and an overtime victory for the Red and Blue.
Most Ivy League basketball players are lucky enough if they play a game west of the Rocky Mountains at some point during their college careers. Brown senior Holly Robertson, however, got to travel quite a bit farther than that.
With nine minutes and 39 seconds to go in the first of two annual grudge matches between Temple and Saint Joseph's, Hawks guard Chet Stachitas delivered what appeared to be the knockout blow by nailing a three to give his team an 18-point lead.
In his first game against Princeton as Penn's head coach, Patrick Knapp got a full plate's worth of the rivalry which has existed for so long between the two schools.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Reflecting on the Penn women's basketball team's first Ivy League weekend of the season, coach Patrick Knapp easily found the difference between his team and its foes.
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--For 40 grueling minutes, the women's basketball teams of Penn and Brown stared each other down, working frantically to emerge on top of a duel between two early favorites for the Ivy League crown.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- In a building designed to look like a classic gothic cathedral, the Penn women's basketball team won a very ugly game Friday night at Yale. After leading the Elis by only 19-15 at halftime, the Quakers (8-6, 1-0 Ivy League) pulled away in the second half and prevailed, 53-40, in front of a sparse but vocal crowd at the John J. Lee Amphitheater and a television audience on the YES Network. The low score was due to abysmal shooting by both teams. Each made only five field goals in the first half and 13 in the game, with Penn (8-6, 1-0 Ivy) attempting 43 shots to Yale's 41. Penn shot 2-of-8 from three-point range on the night, while Yale (3-13, 0-3 Ivy) shot 5-of-19. Many of those misses were open shots, and caused plenty of consternation in a game which was fairly close throughout. "We set basketball back a little bit today," Penn coach Patrick Knapp said after the game. "I don't know what happened ... I thought we made silly-and I will underline silly for lack of another word-mistakes." Penn was led on offense by junior center Jennifer Fleischer, whose 15 points included 7-of-12 shooting from the free-throw line. Sophomore forward Monica Naltner was also impressive from the charity stripe, shooting a perfect 6-for-6 and hitting three clutch jumpers for 12 total points. Overall, Penn shot 25-of-37 from the free throw line, benefiting from the 26 total fouls committed by Yale - 11 in the first half and 15 in the second. Six Elis finished the game with three or more personal fouls. "We just came out, we weren't real fluid," said Penn senior guard Karen Habrukowich, who hit a clutch three-pointer with 6:11 to go in the game and shot 5-of-8 from the free throw line. "Maybe it's just first-game Ivy League jitters, but that's really no excuse." Yale was certainly complicit in its third loss of this Ivy League season, and not just because of its shooting. The Elis allowed Penn to steal the ball 12 times and committed 24 turnovers, including 10 by senior guard and team captain Morgan Richards. "We're plagued by turnovers, and not giving ourselves an opportunity to score when we have possession of the ball," Yale coach Amy Backus said. "That's been our issue the entire year." In the end, Knapp was more than happy to board the bus after the game and get ready to face Brown. "We've got to throw it in the trash can and move on," he said. "We don't have any time to moan about it."
Ten months and seven days ago, the Penn women's basketball team walked out of the Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, Conn., after losing to Connecticut in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
After spending two seasons in the Ivy League cellar, Columbia was revived last year under new head coach Joe Jones. This year, Jones is looking to help the Lions further narrow the gap between the Upper West Side of Manhattan and the Ivy League's traditional powers.
One of the most endearing aspects of the Penn Relays is the seemingly endless array of high school teams that come to Franklin Field each year.
Saint Joseph's and La Salle paid their first visits of 2005 to West Philadelphia on Saturday, meeting at a critical juncture both in the Big 5 and the Atlantic 10 conference seasons. By the end of the day, both teams were going in vastly different directions.
It is not uncommon for high school basketball players who get recruited by Ivy League schools to choose to attend another institution.
In a town known for producing crayons, the Penn women's basketball team used the whole box last night to create its most convincing win of the season.
CHICAGO -- The Penn men's basketball team arrived in Chicago on Friday and found itself surrounded by the remnants of a blizzard which had blanketed the Windy City and its sprawling suburbs with over a foot of snow. The temperature struggled to top 40 degrees even with the sun shining, testing the wills of the fans who arrived at the UIC Pavilion to watch the Quakers take on the Illinois-Chicago Flames.
The Penn men's basketball team arrived in Chicago on Friday and found themselves surrounded by the remnants of a blizzard which had blanketed the Windy City and its sprawling suburbs with over a foot of snow. The temperature struggled to top 40 degrees even with the sun shining, testing the wills of the fans who arrived at the UIC Pavillion to watch the Quakers take on the Illinois-Chicago Flames. So it might be appropriate that Penn's shooting was just as frigid.
Twenty minutes into its first game of 2005, the Penn women's basketball team seemed to have not yet shaken off the effects of the past week's holiday celebrations. After that, though, the Quakers set off a serious display of offensive fireworks.