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W. Hoops: Many questions remain on offense for Penn

The Quakers had one of the worst seasons in the history of Penn women's basketball last season, winning only five games. What little success they had, however, can largely be attributed to one player: Joey Rhoads. She sat on the bench for only 53 minutes of the 27-game season.


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.

Club sports roundup

By Krista Hutz · Nov. 15, 2006

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.

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The women's basketball team compiled a dismal 5-22 overall record last season, yet somehow eluded last place in the Ivy League with a 3-11 mark, beating out both Yale and Columbia. But coach Pat Knapp has already put on the blinders. "Our mentality is that we have moved forward.

Hoping for revenge against the Tigers for a 3-1 defeat at the Palestra earlier in the season, the Penn volleyball team looked to get one back on Princeton's home court last night. In an electrifying and competitive match, the Quakers lost to the Tigers in three highly contested games (28-30, 25-30, 29-31).


Final score belies tight Quakers loss to Tigers

Hoping for revenge against the Tigers for a 3-1 defeat at the Palestra earlier in the season, the Penn volleyball team looked to get one back on Princeton's home court last night. In an electrifying and competitive match, the Quakers lost to the Tigers in three highly contested games (28-30, 25-30, 29-31).


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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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Club sports roundup

By Krista Hutz · Nov. 15, 2006

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.


Seniors try to end year with Princeton upset

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.






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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.


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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.



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


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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.



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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.


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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.


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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.



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