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Remembering Penn basketball: former DP sports editor Jeff Shafer

(10/29/13 4:55am)

#1. Comeback game against Princeton in 2005. That was by far the loudest I have ever heard the Palestra. Recall that coming in to that season, Princeton was the heavy favorite to repeat as Ivy champs. They returned basically their whole team and were even receiving votes in the AP Top 25 early in the year. But Princeton came in at 1-3 in the league, while Penn, at 4-0, could see a path to the title. Except they were down 18 late in the second half, and against Princeton’s deliberate system, 18 feels like 30.


Q&A with Penn basketball alum Craig Littlepage

(10/29/13 3:58am)

_Although he has served as Virginia’s athletic director since 2001, Craig Littlepage’s much of college basketball career will always be associated with Penn. Littlepage played for the Quakers from 1970-73 and was a part of Penn’s legendary of 1970-71 squad that notched an undefeated record (26-0) and advanced to the Eastern Regional Final in the NCAA Tournament (inexplicably losing 90-47 to a Villanova team it had beaten earlier in the season).



Remembering Penn basketball: former DP sportswriter Andrew Todres

(10/28/13 3:41am)

Our new series “Remembering Penn basketball” lets former Daily Pennsylvanian sportswriters and notable Penn men’s hoops fans give their greatest memories of the program. The first installment features former sportswriter Andrew Todres (C’ 09). (A joking moniker that has held up through the years, “DPOSTM” is short for Daily Pennsylvanian’s Only Section That Matters.)