Bantams notch 156th in a row, at Penn's expense
There was never a doubt who the favorite was.
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There was never a doubt who the favorite was.
Harvard basketball coach Frank Sullivan should be fired.
As I was watching Florida demolish Ohio State in the BCS National Championship game last week, it made me reminisce about the days when Penn used to win national football titles.
In the November 13 Associated Press college basketball poll, Harvard received a single top-25 vote. And Harvard remains the only Ivy team to receive a vote this year.
When commercial timeouts end during radio broadcasts for WXPN, the producer says "cue" to tell the announcers they are back on the air. In Dallas for the NCAA tournament, the producer said "cue," but Penn senior and play-by-play Quakers announcer Brian Seltzer was silent. Color announcer Vince Curran saved Seltzer as he awoke from his daze.
The last time an Ivy League basketball team earned an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament was in 1968, when three -time All-American Jim McMillian was a star for Columbia.
Senior Mike Nardi is Villanova's lone remnant from an outstanding backcourt that saw three guards jump to the NBA last June.
Tuesday night, Dartmouth was beaten senseless by Kansas, 83-32. And that humiliation was just one of 26 non-conference losses from Ivy League men's basketball teams so far this season.
When you enter the Palestra and look above the east basket, you see flags representing the Big 5 schools. While Penn has created great rivalries with Villanova, Saint Joseph's, Temple and La Salle, it is the Philadelphia school without a flag that Penn should have its greatest rivalry with.
Glen Miller is ready to make his mark at the Palestra. For the first time in his career, he will hover over the west bench as the Quakers play their home opener against Florida Gulf Coast tomorrow night.
We are just four days from tip-off for the first home basketball game. With that, here are some rules all fans should consider when attending a game at the Palestra.
When Fran Dunphy left Penn, he left his legacy, a talented team and three recruits hanging in the air. All three decided to keep their commitments to Penn, despite the legendary coach's departure.
"He's got everything."
With five games to play in the fall season, Penn's teams have an overall record 43-37-5 and will not bring home any Ivy League titles.
Last year, quarterback Pat McDermott and the Penn football team passed for 1,993 yards in ten games. Given that the graduating receivers were responsible for just 375 of those yards, the Quakers looked to their receiving corps as an area of potential strength in 2006.
Dear athletic director Steve Bilsky:
At Saint Joseph's University, diehard basketball fans like to say that "the Hawk will never die." For one year though, the Hawk will be forced to flap its wings outside of Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse - and quite possibly in the Palestra.
Every year, the Penn Relays attract over 15,000 athletes and 100,000 fans to Franklin Field for one of the country's greatest amateur athletic events.
Penn, journalism and the sports world lost one of its great figures on Sunday when Frank Dolson died at the age of 73.
With 36 seconds remaining in the first half of last weekend's football game against Dartmouth, coach Al Bagnoli was presented with a decision. The Quakers had the ball at the Dartmouth 9-yard line on 4th-and-1. Should Penn go for the first down or try to kick a 26-yard field goal?