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Dougherty is averaging 20.4 points and 9.0 rebounds per game in the first five games of this season. He’s playing all the roles for a team that still has plenty of casting to do. From beyond the arc, he’s nailed four three-pointers.
As the buzzer called the end of the game, Miles Cartwright’s last-second three-point heave fell short and Fordham handed Penn a 70-68 defeat in the consolation round of the NIT Season Tip-Off tournament.
It’s hard to make any generalizations about the Quakers four games into the season — no one can know how the young players are going to develop or how the team will gel.
While it’s understandable for coach Jerome Allen to be frustrated by two losses in as many day, the improvement Fran Dougherty has made since last season is something the coach has to be pleased with, if he’ll admit to it or not.
Penn fell to Fairfield 62-53 in a game in which the Quakers again failed to spread the wealth offensively. Fran Dougherty led the way for Penn with 31 points.
It’s hard to land a punch when every swing is aimless.
That’s what the Penn men’s basketball team found out Monday night in its 84-69 loss to Delaware as the Quakers hacked, hacked, hacked away to the tune of 31 fouls. If there was a triple bonus, Delaware would have been in it.
An entire season was wasting away before the eyes of the Palestra crowd Friday night, and it was a moment of truth for the Quakers. Would they accept defeat and admit they had lost too much talent to their last graduating class? Would their season end before it had even started?
Jerome Allen and his staff bring in a talented four-man recruiting class this season and also return sophomore Greg Louis. With the loss of key seniors, these five players will have plenty of opportunity this season to show what they can do.
Polykoff, entering his first year as the volunteer assistant coach, comes to the Quakers following a highly successful five-year stint as head coach of local Friends’ Central School.
On a team without any seniors, Bowman is in many ways a leader that his players can look up to not just as a source of authority, but also as a role model.
First-year Penn assistant Scott Pera, who comes to Penn after five years as an assistant at Arizona State, has coached some of the biggest names in the business.