Penn really wasted an opportunity for a quality win when it could not put away Texas-El Paso in its season opener. Those are victories that really impress the NCAA Tournament committee come Selection Sunday and help a team get a better seed. And over the course of the season, how many of these chances does Penn really have? The answer is realistically two, or at the absolute most, four.
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With strong freshman class, sixth-ranked men trying to challenge the league's elite
With its strongest recruiting class in recent memory, nine returning letterwinners and two All-America seniors, expectations have never been higher for Penn men's squash. The team enters the season ranked sixth in the nation, its highest preseason ranking in years.
M. Hoops Notebook: Zoller broke out of free throw malaise at BCA
In recent years, the charity stripe has been anything but charitable to the Penn men's basketball team.
Football Notebook: Veteran tailback Sandberg will return in 2007
The road that senior running back Joe Sandberg has traveled started at Penn and will end at Penn, but it won't end this year. While he is a senior by name, Sandberg has only used three years of his NCAA eligibility, and will most likely be back for another year in the Quakers' backfield.
With strong freshman class, sixth-ranked men trying to challenge the league's elite
With its strongest recruiting class in recent memory, nine returning letterwinners and two All-America seniors, expectations have never been higher for Penn men's squash. The team enters the season ranked sixth in the nation, its highest preseason ranking in years.
M. Hoops Notebook: Zoller broke out of free throw malaise at BCA
In recent years, the charity stripe has been anything but charitable to the Penn men's basketball team.
The nation's No. 4 women's squash team has not lost any starters from the previous season
Big Red loses starting point guard for year
By Zachary Levine The Daily Pennsylvanian With all-Ivy swingman Lenny Collins gone, the Cornell basketball team was pinning most of its hopes on Adam Gore, last year's Ivy League Rookie of the Year. Now, the Big Red will have to find another option. Gore will miss the rest of the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
Wittman beats Dad's old conference
Big Ten basketball fans beware - Randy Wittman is back. No, not the Randy Wittman who won a national championship with Indiana in 1981 and was the Big Ten Player of the Year two years later - his son, Randy Scott Wittman, a freshman guard at Cornell.
Yale, Princeton in position for title
In the penultimate week of play, only three teams in the Ivy League had anything to play for.
Now entering the game.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The departure of Fran Dunphy and the hiring of Glen Miller presented two distinct problems for Penn's bench players.
Matt Meltzer: Five rules for supporting Penn hoops
We are just four days from tip-off for the first home basketball game. With that, here are some rules all fans should consider when attending a game at the Palestra. 1. Go to the games. None of the other rules matter if you do not follow this one. There are so many reasons to attend, and just listening on the radio isn't a substitute.
Zachary Levine: Dawson humble as he topples records
Clifton Dawson stopped and started. He zigged and zagged. He rumbled and stumbled. After 55 yards, he had rewritten the Ivy League record book.
Volleyball: Cornell sets up title against Penn
Before Cornell clinched its third straight Ivy League championship, it battled through a tough challenge from Penn. Following the 3-1 loss to the Big Red, the Quakers won their second match of the New York road trip on Saturday by defeating last-place Columbia, 3-0.
Rookie rowers lead Penn to 2nd
The Penn rowing teams ended their fall seasons by giving the rookies some experience. All three of the Quakers rowing squads were in action Sunday afternoon in the Belly of the Carnegie at Princeton, N.J., a race that is different from most because only freshmen compete.
Quakers still struggling against zone defense
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Coming to upstate New York for the Black Coaches Association Invitational, the Quakers knew they would be seeing some zone defense. After all, they would be playing one of the three games against Syracuse, a team famous for its 2-3 zone, one that Penn forward Mark Zoller referred to as the best in the country.
Herrington takes title at Michigan State Open
The Quakers' opening tournament witnessed the resurfacing of proven stars and the emergence of fresh new faces. Quakers All-American Matt Herrington captured the 174-pound title at Michigan State Open yesterday, while Matt Valenti, last year's national champion at 133 pounds, recorded a second-place finish for the Red and Blue.
Quakers take only 60 minutes to exorcise demons
With a chance to go up by a pair of touchdowns on Saturday, the Penn offense ran into a wall. So out strode Penn's leading wide receiver, Braden Lepisto, to try a 38-yard field goal.
Kim finishes in sixth, earns trip to Nationals
While Saturday's NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional marked the end of the cross country season for most of the men's and women's teams, junior Stacy Kim has one more race on her schedule. Her time of 20:56.6 was good enough for sixth place and a berth in the NCAA National Championship taking place Nov.
All eyes were on Harvard's Clifton Dawson on Saturday, but it was the Penn senior class that ultimately stole the show on Senior Day. Running back Joe Sandberg notched yet another impressive performance, scoring Penn's two touchdowns with a pair of nearly identical plays in the first quarter.










