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.

n Women's Water Polo. The squad hosted a five-team tournament at Sheerr Pool last Saturday and Sunday. They dominated all of their opponents, finishing the weekend with a perfect 4-0 record. After easily defeating Penn State and West Chester, Penn had tougher match-ups against Washington and Jefferson - a varsity squad - and the Greenwich Club team.

As it ends its 2006 season, the Penn volleyball team will try to finish on a high note when it travels to play Princeton tonight. The Quakers (11-13, 6-7 Ivy) will try to reverse their earlier 3-1 loss to the Tigers (20-3, 10-3). When these two teams first met on Sept.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

In the penultimate week of play, only three teams in the Ivy League had anything to play for.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The departure of Fran Dunphy and the hiring of Glen Miller presented two distinct problems for Penn's bench players.

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.

Clifton Dawson stopped and started. He zigged and zagged. He rumbled and stumbled. After 55 yards, he had rewritten the Ivy League record book.

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.

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.

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.

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.