Tony | How to keep the Big 5 thriving
With the Big 5 slowly moving away from the Palestra, each school needs to evaluate where the Cathedral fits in Big 5 basketball.
With the Big 5 slowly moving away from the Palestra, each school needs to evaluate where the Cathedral fits in Big 5 basketball.
In Rhode Island, a depleted Penn men’s team (2-5, 1-5 Ivy) was defeated by Brown, 171-129. Meanwhile the women (3-5, 2-5) fell to both Brown, 219-80, and Harvard, 241-58.
Watching Nelson-Henry Saturday against the Hawks, it was easy to see why the center earned Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors after his efforts versus St. Joe’s and his first career double-double at NJIT on Thursday.
The Red and Blue lost all nine matches to Trinity at Ringe Squash Courts on Saturday, winning just four games while falling to 3-6 on the season.
In Rhode Island, a depleted Penn men’s team (2-5, 1-5 Ivy) was defeated by Brown, 171-129. Meanwhile the women (3-5, 2-5) fell to both Brown, 219-80, and Harvard, 241-58.
Watching Nelson-Henry Saturday against the Hawks, it was easy to see why the center earned Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors after his efforts versus St. Joe’s and his first career double-double at NJIT on Thursday.
Penn women’s tennis proved solid enough to win handily at Levy Tennis Pavilion, even after splitting up the best duo in the Northeast region — freshman Sonya Latycheva and sophomore Sol Eskenazi.
On Saturday, the Quakers narrowly defeated a No. 4 Trinity squad ranked just one place above them, 6-3, in a match that featured plenty of drama.
Quakers allowed 11 three-pointers in loss to their Big Five rivals, despite Darien Nelson-Henry’s 17 points
The No. 5 women’s squash team faces another major test this weekend when it welcomes No. 4 Trinity College to Ringe Courts.
Penn gymnastics will face off against Rutgers, Bridgeport and Ursinus in New Brunswick, N.J., on Saturday at 1 p.m.
This weekend, the women’s swimming team heads to Providence, R.I., for its last conference meet against Harvard and Brown.
With Penn heading to Lehigh Saturday for the second time in six weeks, they hope to build on what has been a solid season thus far.
The men’s swimming team will take the trek northward to Providence, R.I., to square off against Brown.
Having faced three top-10 schools within the span of a week, the Quakers take to the courts Saturday against No. 2 Trinity.
Penn held NJIT to just 27.7 percent shooting from the field, a season-best for the Quakers’ defense, as they took a 54–53 victory at the Fleisher Center on Thursday night.
Villanova (14-2, 4-0 Big 5) pulled away from the Quakers with an early second half run, defeating the Quakers in a low-scoring affair, 48-44.
Penn has the worst proportionality of male to female athletes in the Ivy League, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics database.
The Quakers are just 2-13 and have yet to win a road game this season. Penn will seek its first road win and 1700th win as a program Thursday night against the NJIT Highlanders (9-8) at the Fleisher Athletic Center.
In his four years as an assistant coach at NJIT, Bowman played a large role in helping the program achieve respectability — going from 1-30 in his first season to 15-15 and 15-17 in his third and fourth seasons, respectively.