In the world of Philadelphia basketball, 33rd Street has belonged to Drexel since 2006. Following Tuesday evening, by the slimmest of margins, the road will remain Dragon territory.

It was business as usual for what is looking like a title-challenging team. Penn women’s basketball demolished a one-woman Wagner show Monday night, winning 78-50.

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In the wise words of Dorothy, there’s no place like home. And while Philadelphia may be not Kansas, no words have been truer in the crosstown matchup between Penn and Drexel women's basketball. Coming into Saturday’s edition of the Battle for 33rd Street, the home team had won the past five games.

When Weenies then-junior fullback/safety Matt Mantica proclaimed that the end of DPOSTM’s run of success was in sight at last year’s Kamin Cup, the incoming president’s prediction seemed ludicrous.

Benjamin Franklin's noble cause lives on in a group of Quakers who work to ensure that there is no perspiration without representation. The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) at the University of Pennsylvania is composed of 59 student-athletes representing each of the school's 31 varsity teams, and is dedicated to ensuring that student-athletes have a voice within the Athletics department. Each coach is asked to nominate one or two of their players to serve as the team's SAAC representative.

We’re in uncharted territory. With back-to-back wins over top 5 teams from the men’s side along with another perfect start to the season on the women’s side, associate head coach Gilly Lane finds himself as a leader of one of the most successful Penn squash programs in school history. “It hasn’t really sunk in yet,” Lane said.

Time for an encore. In its first Big 5 game of the season against La Salle, Penn basketball snapped out of a funk to capture its biggest win in several years.

To the victor goes the spoils. Fresh off leading Penn football to an Ivy League title, senior linebacker Tyler Drake was awarded the Bushnell Cup as the Ancient Eight's Defensive Player of the Year Monday. In a ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, Drake beat out fellow finalist Dartmouth senior linebacker Will McNamara for the honor. "He's a tireless worker.

Penn basketball has a busy schedule slated for this winter break, five games in total. But if you’re reading the team’s upcoming schedule, you may need be inclined to do a double-take at one matchup up in particular. That’s because on the Saturday after finals, the Red and Blue are set to take on ... Ursinus?

Their names might not be in the paper or in the record books, but their contributions to this school are no less mighty.

A dialogue about football’s future is brewing as we speak. Why shouldn’t the Ivy League take a part in leading that discussion?

Not only am I from the Lone Star State, but I may have a slight obsession with the place I call home.

Philadelphia is known for a lot of things.

For all of their accomplishments this year, and they were many – earning a share of the Ivy title, finishing the season on a six-game winning streak, garnering 11 All-Ivy award winners – Penn football was not the most successful team on campus this year. Not even close.

When it comes to men's basketball, the Ivy League is unique, but it looks like that's about to change. And it's about time.

When I went home for Thanksgiving break a few weeks ago, I engaged in all of the holiday-season small-talk with family that one might expect. Yes, I was enjoying life at school.