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The men's basketball team rallied from a deficit at halftime to win, 80-78, in overtime. The Quakers are now 2-0 in the Ivy League and have won three games straight.
The Ivy League is the only conference that chooses its NCAA representative based on the regular-season champion. You probably won’t see Penn clamoring for a change.
Fresh off its first Big 5 victory in four years, the men’s basketball team will now set its sights on another goal pending since 2007: an Ivy League championship.
On Saturday, Xavier Harris watched Penn beat St. Joe’s at a packed Palestra before 8,000 fans. Before the weekend was over, he committed to play for Penn.
With Ivy play beginning for Penn Friday night, this is our last chance to romp through the Ancient Eight without implications, without being shot down by those roaring Lions of Columbia. So here we go:
Saturday's win against St. Joseph's, which secured seniors Jack Eggleston, Conor Turley and Dan Monckton their first Big 5 win at the eleventh hour, was no small feat.
The Quakers fell to Temple, 73-56, Wednesday night at the Liacouras Center, marking the seniors’ 15th-career Big 5 loss, and Penn’s 16th in a row dating back to 2007.
If you’re a fan of the Eagles (the band, not the disappointment of a football team), you know exactly the motto that traveling partners Penn and Princeton are living by this January: take it easy.
It is with great pleasure that we re-introduce a long-lost feature of DP Sports, the Ivy Roundup. In principle, it’s the same as the recent Ivy Notebook feature, with one small difference: Less Plotnick!
Penn erased an 11-point deficit in the game’s final three minutes, but ultimately could not erase its four-year Big 5 losing streak, which extended to 15.
As the Quakers and Wildcats squared off at Kentucky's Rupp Arena last week, it was a meeting of two teams that can easily call home one of the most iconic settings in college basketball.