Ib-by Jaa-ber! I can still hear it. The chant, followed by five quick claps, would echo off the Palestra walls after Ibrahim Jaaber delivered one of his devastating fast-break dunks, sending a buzz through the crowd. And before that, "UUUU," for Ugonna Onyekwe.

The Quakers have 24 long days - a program record for time off - to stew over what went wrong against Navy on Friday night. At least when Dec. 29 finally rolls around and Penn tips off again, the Palestra will be a good 900 miles away. They'll be in Orlando, Fla.

With 310 victories as Penn men's basketball coach, Fran Dunphy knew the taste of victory in the Palestra. But two years ago, in his first opportunity to savor success as a visiting head coach, Dunphy and his current team - Big 5 rival Temple -- blew an early 19-point lead and lost to Penn, 76-74, on a trio of Mark Zoller free throws with 1.

There's that old sinking feeling again. Though desperate to notch its second win of the season against a perennially mediocre Navy squad, Penn was still dominated on both ends of the floor en route to a 76-65 loss at the Palestra on Friday. After losses to Albany and Villanova in their last two contests, the Quakers put forth another underwhelming effort.

Up 14 at halftime against Lafayette, Penn could have turned in a poor second half like it did against Campbell last week. Instead, the Quakers got a trio of threes to start the half, as Tyler Bernardini, Zack Rosen and Rob Belacore drained deep balls on three successive possessions to key Penn's 9-2 to start the second frame.

ORLANDO, Fla. - When the Quakers finally took the stage again tonight against Central Florida after a record 24-day layoff it was just for more of the same as before the break. Penn fell 81-64 to UCF in the second game of the UCF Holiday Classic and dropped into the third place contest tomorrow against 3-7 Campbell slated for 4:30 p.

To say that the Penn men's swimming team took the cake at the Jan. 3 Florida Atlantic Invitational would be an understatement. The men placed first with a score of 830.5, defeating Ivy League rival Brown by a margin of 264.5 points in a league-sanctioned dual meet.

After getting knocked down by a better team, it's good to have an inferior one to bounce back against. That was how the men's squash team felt, as it rebounded from an 8-1 thrashing at the hands of No. 3 Yale to dominate No. 14 Brown by the same score. "It's refreshing to be able to go from a bad performance to a pretty good performance," junior Mark Froot said.

Women's tennis coach Mike Dowd will resign effective December 31. Assistant coach Sara Schiffman, a 2006 Penn graduate who was a captain for the Quakers both her junior and senior years, will be interim head coach through the spring semester. "I have made the difficult decision that I need to step down at the end of the month as head coach of women's tennis," Dowd told Penn Athletics.

Yale's home fans were making a lot of noise at the women's squash match against Penn on Saturday, but the Quakers stole their thunder. Tuning out the spectators, the No. 2 Quakers prevailed, 5-4, giving No. 5 Yale a loss in the Bulldogs' first match of 2008-09.

Desperate for a win, the Penn basketball team soothed its wounds with a 78-67 victory over Campbell on Tuesday night. It was just the second of the season for the Quakers; their other came against Monmouth back on Nov. 22nd. "When you go out and work hard everyday in practice and you're trying to compete, it's a relief and you feel good about that," Miller said.

Penn men's and women's fencing coach Dave Micahnik describes himself as a perfectionist. As a recent inductee into the U.S. Fencing Hall of Fame, Micahnik is always looking to improve his teams' performance. On Saturday and Sunday, both teams began their seasons at the Philadelphia Multi-Meet in Hutchinson Gymnasium.

Las Vegas is very familiar with the concept of redemption in the face of long, daunting odds. So it should come as no surprise that redemption was on the minds of Penn wrestlers Rollie Peterkin, Cesar Grajales and Matthew Dragon as the No. 23 Quakers competed in the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational this past weekend.

The Penn women's basketball team may have thought it was experiencing déj… vu. For the second consecutive game, Penn held a small lead in the closing seconds, this time at home against Navy. Once again, the Quakers forced a missed shot, scrambled for the rebound and dove on the loose ball.

When women's basketball senior captain Carrie Biemer sees her team show flashes of exceptional play to stake an early lead, she senses that her team is on the verge of turning the corner. But suddenly - and without explanation - the Quakers revert to their wildly inconsistent ways.

It's a good thing that coaches can't play for their teams. If they could, the Penn women's squash team would be facing a tough task in tonight's match at Franklin and Marshall. The Diplomats' men's and women's head coach, John White was ranked No. 1 in the world in March 2004, and retired from professional squash in October as No.

The season may be young, but the men's squash team is already facing the sport's heavy-hitters. The Quakers travel to Brown (0-1, 0-1 Ivy) on Sunday, but are more concerned with Saturday's match against Yale. The Bulldogs are the first member of squash's elite quadrumvirate --- Trinity, Harvard and Princeton will come later - that Penn will play this season.