Quakers survive scare, beat Dartmouth, 58-55
A night after its toughest loss of the season to No. 25 Harvard, Penn almost let one slip away against the Ivy League’s worst team.
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A night after its toughest loss of the season to No. 25 Harvard, Penn almost let one slip away against the Ivy League’s worst team.
This weekend’s Ivy basketball results may best be compared to Bill Belichick’s Super Bowl wardrobe: boring and predictable.
No one would have blamed Jess Knapp if she had called it quits after tearing two ligaments in her left knee in late December.
In a search to take Penn men’s track and field recruiting to the next level, coach Robin Martin set up four open houses for athletes over the summer, sent out a mailing to every recruitable athlete in the U.S. — roughly 2,400 letters —and put 4,000 miles on his car traveling to various meets from coast to coast.
We get it, Princeton. You beat us last year, you beat Harvard in the playoff for the Ivy Championship, you played well against Kentucky before collapsing in the final minutes (Penn did it too, alright?).
Jess Knapp was just driving the basket, something the forward had done countless times throughout the course of her three-plus years in college basketball.
Cheesesteaks, soft pretzels and Big 5 basketball.
ITHACA, N.Y. — While watching Penn dominate Cornell from start to finish on Saturday night, one thought came to my mind: It’s about time.
Not many players receive an ovation from their home crowd when they foul out of a game.
Philadelphia is known for its illustrious basketball history. Home to the Big 5, the Palestra has hosted more college basketball games than any other arena in the country. The Philadelphia Warriors won the inaugural NBA Finals in 1947.
Among opposing players and coaches this season, there’s been a similar theme to postgame press conferences at the Palestra.
With Penn down two points and less than 10 seconds to go against James Madison on Saturday, everyone in the Palestra knew who the Quakers wanted to take the last shot.
The Penn men’s basketball team is off to its best start since the Fran Dunphy era, and a large portion of its success thus far can be attributed to Zack Rosen.
When coach Andrew Toole leads his Robert Morris team into its matchup with Penn on Saturday night, it will mark exactly 10 years since he took to the Palestra floor for the first time as a member of the Red and Blue.
Even before the Owls won the opening tip, Penn’s home opener against Temple was making history.
It hasn’t been easy being a fan of Penn men’s basketball over the last few years, considering that Red and Blue supporters used to take NCAA tournament trips for granted.
With any team in a rebuilding mode, the whole transformation is a process.
The irony about Philadelphia’s most beloved sports idol is that he didn’t even win.
Take the best four players away from any sports dynasty, and although it may still be competitive, chances are it won’t be championship-caliber.
At a rain-soaked Franklin Field early yesterday morning, the Penn field hockey team ran drills on the track, practicing precision passing and ball control before this weekend’s matchup with Brown.