Be ready when your number is called. It’s what all bench players are told, but it’s hard to understand until they get their opportunity.On Wednesday night at the Palestra, Steve Rennard got that opportunity.

Freshman Alex Porter has made up a steep learning curve in only his first few meets.

After a shoddy five-game stretch that included four losses, the Penn basketball team got its mojo back at the Palestra Wednesday night. Post-game presser: Penn vs. Delaware

While the University of Delaware isn’t exactly high up in the standings, Blue Hens sophomore guard Devon Saddler is — ranking second in the nation in scoring at 24.7 points per game.

Of the 1,696 players currently on NFL rosters, only six played their college ball in the Ivy League. If Erik Rask has his way, that number will be at least seven next season.

Sophomore swimmer Shelby Fortin has to prove herself just one more time in order to join the United States Olympic swimming team.

After an eight-year hiatus, a familiar ally has returned to Penn wrestling. Brian Dolph, who first joined the Quakers coaching staff as an assistant in 1994, left to pursue work as a high-school coach and physical education teacher in 2003.

Currently at 1-1, the team will have to win both of its matches this week to reach its goal of heading into winter break with a winning record.

To ban rollouts is a sin, and the powers that be at Villanova should make sure this doesn’t happen again.

Though the Penn women’s basketball team is off to its hottest six-game start since 1980-81, the team’s true test lies ahead.

Long before Connecticut and Tennessee emerged as national powerhouses, it was Immaculata University — a small Catholic college just 20 miles outside Philadelphia — that was the unlikely winner of the first three national championships in women’s basketball from 1972-1974.

The Quakers have a fever — and the only prescription? More Zack Rosen.

Harvard basketball team is ranked in the national basketball for the first time in program history and Crimson DT Josue Ortiz won the award for Ivy Defensive Player of the Year.

Men’s Squash loses all of its matches against Princeton on Sunday.

Even the momentum from a 4-1 start wasn’t enough to carry the Quakers to victory against one of the nation’s top teams — as they fell, 69-38, to No. 3 Notre Dame.

Sunday’s wrestling match against the rival Mountain Hawks displayed the two teams’ complementing weight classes, but Lehigh prevailed, 21-15.

Penn’s battle down low was lost before it even began.