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Penn basketball puts best foot forward on and off court
Penn basketball hopes that its fast start allows it to gain momentum and draw fans.
Rudy Wise's second coaching job
But Wise, the second-year assistant coach for the men’s team, doesn’t always show up to the Palestra to coach Zack Rosen and Tyler Berardini.
Brian Kotloff | Last year’s lessons stick with Penn
Last year, everything the Quakers built during a trio of league wins crumbled to pieces in a nightmarish week. Penn believes this year will be different.
The dangerous hope of a 3-0 Ivy start
With each passing game, more and more credence is being lent to the idea that maybe, just maybe, the Quakers have a shot at the Ivy title that has been all but handed to the No. 23 Harvard Crimson.
Penn basketball races past Princeton, 82-67
No Penn player has ever graduated without beating Princeton at the Palestra. In a 82-67 win Monday night, Quakers seniors Tyler Bernardini and Zack Rosen quickly made sure they didn’t become the first.The Daily Pennsylvanian | Sorry we’re not sorry
It means, rather, that this year, the Tigers are going down. Penn is poised to widen the 122-102 all-time lead, and it starts tonight at the Palestra. VIDEO: Penn-Princeton RivalryThe Daily Princetonian | Keeping with the trend
But let’s chew on a little more recent history. None of the current Tigers have ever lost at the Palestra, and Princeton has won five straight overall against the Quakers.
First Monday Penn-Princeton matchup in 16 years
Toughening league competition and Princeton’s quirky academic calendar are the two main factors that brought about this year’s Monday night special at the Palestra.
After a surprising exit, the Tigers find another son to coach
Sydney Johnson had conquered the Ivy League. Yet three weeks later, he stunned the Tigers faithful when he left for Fairfield. His former teammate, Mitch Henderson, was hired as his replacement.Jerome Allen | To my fellow Quakers
To My Fellow Quakers, On behalf of the entire men’s basketball program, I want to thank all of you who have attended our basketball games this season.Jerome Allen's recruits winning large
A roundup about Penn Men's Basketball class of 2016.
'Battle of 33rd Street' on hiatus
This year, pride will have to wait. For the first time since 1997, there was no neighborhood matchup.
The Philadelphia Big 5 will never die
Formed in 1955 to exhibit the city’s hoops prowess, the unofficial conference has since become a staple — not just of Philadelphia, but of college basketball as a whole.
Alyssa Kress | It was my fault, Quakers fans
If my team loses more than they win in my presence, I convince myself that I must be cursed. So after witnessing Penn men’s basketball’s two most lopsided losses of the season, I began to worry that I might be bad luck.
Calder Silcox | Zack Rosen is in good company
Why the heck is this Ivy Leaguer Zack Rosen a finalist for the Bob Cousy Award? National writers can barely spell his name right, and you’d better believe they don’t botch Jardine.
Eli Cohen | Living life in the fast lane
If the Quakers continue to perform with this type of rapid-fire intensity throughout the conference season, composure will be an extremely valuable commodity.
Quakers knock off St. Joseph's in Big 5 Finale
In a nail biter at the Palestra, Penn’s men’s basketball team withstood a furious Red Hawk’s rally to notch their first Big 5 win of the season. VIDEO: Highlights from the game
St. Joe's and Penn square off under very different circumstances
Now, a year later, that same St. Joseph’s team will return to the Palestra on Saturday. However, much has changed for both teams.
Eli Cohen | Waking up to Penn in first place
Marveling at the inside of the self-proclaimed ‘Cathedral of College Basketball,’ I was rudely awakened from my daydream when my red-and-black plaid Washington Nationals cap was roughly flipped off my head.