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Fran Dougherty, a 6-foot-8 senior center for Archbishop Wood in nearby Warminster, Pa., announced yesterday afternoon at a news conference that he will be joining the Red and Blue this fall.
Brushing past a collection of scantily-clad cocktail waitresses in a Las Vegas casino last month, my father and I stopped to stare down the cyber-wall of sports odds.
Winter break may have brought the men’s basketball team its first win of the season, but there’s little reason to believe that interim head coach Jerome Allen has made a huge difference on the court compared to Glen Miller.
It’s the coach against the player. It’s the student against the teacher. It’s two legends of Penn hoops lore back in action at the Cathedral of College Basketball for a classic Big 5 matchup.
Senior Drew Godwin, a 6-2 senior from Yardley, Pa., suited up for the varsity squad for the first time against UMBC, while freshman Carson Sullivan has decided to leave the program.
After a ten-game skid, the Quakers went on the road to defeat University of Maryland Baltimore County, 82-71. Sophomore Zack Rosen scored 28 of the Quakers' points.
AD Steve Bilsky was right to pinpoint poor community leadership as the main reason to dismiss Glen Miller, but he should have admitted that hiring Miller in the first place was a mistake.
AD Steve Bilsky stressed that the decision was not made entirely based on the team’s poor start. Assistant coach and former Quakers star Jerome Allen will take over as interim coach.
If Penn can't get a win on New Year's Eve against Duke or Dec. 28 against Davidson, the team will have recorded its longest losing streak ever to begin a season.
In Saturday night’s 80-75 loss to Monmouth in West Long Branch, N.J., Hawks sophomore Travis Taylor torched the Quakers for a game-high 28 points as Penn fell to 0-7 on the year.