Despite snow, cold and at times patchy play, the Quakers overcame UMBC with a 10-8 win in the first game of the spring season on Saturday.

Penn basketball — like most of Brown’s opponents — thought it could beat the Bears by limiting their powerful forwards, Rafael Maia and Cedric Kuakumensah. JR Hobbie begged to differ.

Penn defeated Yale easily on Friday, 61-42, before outscoring Brown, 83-75, on Saturday to sweep the Ivy weekend doubleheader on the road and take sole possession of second place in the Ancient Eight.

Yale men’s basketball came into the Palestra in first place in the Ivy League. And for 40 minutes, the Elis certainly looked the part. Penn basketball stood little chance against first-place Yale, falling 75-48 in the Friday night affair.

It’s that time of the year again. A year removed from a season that ended in an Ivy League Tournament title and NCAA Tournament berth, No.

What’s the cure for a hangover? Penn basketball is in  need of some relief after following up big Friday victories on its first two Ivy weekends of the season with equally deflating losses the day after. The Quakers (7-12, 3-6 Ivy) will take a crack at finding a cure on their own floor when they host Yale and Brown for a back-to-back at the Palestra. Last Friday, the Quakers took advantage of a second-half rally to stun Cornell in Ithaca, winning, 71-69, on a floater by junior guard Tony Hicks with only four seconds left. Saturday, though, Hicks and pretty much all of his teammates — save for freshman forward Sam Jones — went MIA.

It's never easy to say good bye. Nonetheless, after 15 seasons at the helm, three Ivy League championships, a handful of NCAA Tournament berths and an ECAC title in 2000, Penn women's soccer is in the process of bidding farewell to its all-time winningest coach. Penn Athletics announced on Jan.

Down, but certainly not out. Although Penn women's basketball will hit the road once again this weekend, the squad has no plans of going anywhere in the larger picture -- the race for the Ivy League title -- despite last Friday's letdown against Cornell. After splitting last weekend's contests with the Big Red and Columbia, the Quakers (12-7, 3-2 Ivy) will travel to New Haven, Conn., to face Yale on Friday before wrapping up their fifth road matchup in seven games against Brown on Saturday. While this weekend's slate of back to back games represents the third of six consecutive Ivy doubleheaders for the Red and Blue, coach Mike McLaughlin is confident in Penn's physical and mental states, despite the loss to Cornell. "We have some kids that are banged up like every other team, but physically we're in good shape," McLaughlin said.

When head coach Ray Priore took over Penn Football at the beginning of December, it gave him the opportunity to look internally at the program he’s been coaching at for the past 28 years. Late last week, Priore announced the hiring of offensive coordinator John Reagan, who had previously worked in the same role at Kansas and Rice.

An athletic phenom takes the league by storm as a freshman, matures and takes on a leadership role over the years, finishes senior year earning all-conference honors and rides off into the sunset.

Braun may trump brain this April for two athletes of the Ancient Eight. Yale senior running back Tyler Varga and Harvard senior defensive end Zack Hodges have been invited to attend the National Football League Scouting Combine, an event that showcases college football players to potentially interested NFL teams.

Penn women's basketball had fun in its 78-57 demolition of Columbia on Saturday. The Red and Blue came within one point of the school's first-half scoring record, four players scored in double digits and senior Kara Bonenberger notched her 1,000th point. But the win – although impressive – was inconsequential when compared to the results of the previous night's game.

Penn basketball has performed relatively well in recent weeks, splitting its past eight games including its past two Ivy weekend doubleheaders.

Anthony Bagtas pled guilty to eight charges including theft, burglary and trespassing.

On Saturday afternoon at the Palestra, a familiar voice shouted out from the sidelines as wrestlers went to work on the mats. "Work hard!" yelled Penn wrestling coach Alex Tirapelle.

On land, the senior hobbled around with the aid of a walker – the kind found most commonly in nursing homes. But in the water, it was a different story.

Columbia Athletic Director M. Dianne Murphy announced in September that she planned to resign from her position at the conclusion of the academic year. Now, six months after Murphy’s announcement and two months after football coach Pete Mangurian's resignation following allegations of abuse and misconduct with players, Columbia has announced that Peter Pillingok will take over as athletic director on Apr. 13. A graduate of Brigham Young University and Ohio University, Pilling is the former vice president of IMG College, one of the largest sports marketing companies in the country.