Penn basketball handily defeated by La Salle, 76-57, for seventh straight loss
The Red and Blue’s problems were on full display against the Explorers, leading Penn to an embarrassing 76-57 defeat.
The Red and Blue’s problems were on full display against the Explorers, leading Penn to an embarrassing 76-57 defeat.
Over the last six years, Penn basketball has taken on a losing mentality and that needs to change in 2014.
The Quakers let another game slip through their fingers, culminating in a game-winning three-pointer by Rider’s Anthony Myles with just 26.1 to go, finishing off Penn, 89-88.
After blowing a double digit lead in the second half, the Quakers were able to keep their win streak intact, pulling off a 67-66 upset over Miami.
Over the last six years, Penn basketball has taken on a losing mentality and that needs to change in 2014.
The Quakers let another game slip through their fingers, culminating in a game-winning three-pointer by Rider’s Anthony Myles with just 26.1 to go, finishing off Penn, 89-88.
After an embarrassing loss to a Marist team that started the season 0-9, Penn basketball is reeling. And looking at the way this season has gone, it wasn’t surprising.
Penn lost handily on the road against a lowly Marist squad, 76-62, extending its losing streak to four straight games and dropping its overall record to 2-7 on the year.
After falling behind by 19 points in the first half, the Quakers fought all the way back to topple Drexel in the final seconds at the Palestra, 46-44.
With both team’s entering the game riding long winning streaks, Penn pulled off a strong 67-57 win over Army, chiefly thanks to a 20-4 run late in the second half.
DPOSTM wins because that’s what DPOSTM does.
Jimmy Lengyel looks poised to lead DPOSTM, but Matt Mantica is sure to make Lengyel’s life a living hell in coverage and lead News to victory.
For Penn wrestling, the young season has featured significant turnover, tough matchups and injuries thus far. But while the Quakers (2-2) have not gotten off to an optimal start, that doesn’t mean Penn’s early matches can’t be valuable moving forward.
Penn women’s basketball may enter winter break on a three-game winning streak, but the team will face six new opponents over the holidays.
While the five games over break won’t be easy, the entire winter slate represents an opportunity for the Red and Blue (2-6) to finally turn the corner.
When Penn Athletic Director Steve Bilsky steps down effective June 30, he will leave behind in Penn Athletics an institution being pulled in a lot of different directions.
Penn Athletics has to take action to rectify the percentages for Title IX purposes, but the method that it has chosen with the gender equity initiative should be reconsidered.
I’ve seen more Penn sports than I’d like to admit in the last year (including, miraculously, covering five of Penn basketball’s nine victories since January), so I’d like to think that my look into the next semester’s worth of Penn sports will yield some strong predictions.
If you want the 250th and 300th meetings of the Penn-Princeton rivalry to mean anything to students, you need to make every game count, and Penn Athletics isn’t doing that
After losing to Penn in 2012, it was the Mountain Hawks (5-3) who flew out of the gate this time, taking the first five bouts en route to a 21-12 victory at the Palestra.