Five reasons to watch Penn basketball's home opener
So what are you going to do this Saturday? Homework? No! Watching Netflix? No! How about going to the Palestra to root for your men’s basketball team?
So what are you going to do this Saturday? Homework? No! Watching Netflix? No! How about going to the Palestra to root for your men’s basketball team?
It’s a few days before Penn women’s basketball opens its season at No. 4 Tennessee, and the message in practice is clear: The team will need to find some way to counter the Lady Vols’ length and athleticism.
With fall sports coming to an end, Penn fencing is ready to prove why it should not be overlooked.
Penn wrestling will sport a much different look this year. The most prominent change, of course, is among the coaching ranks, where coach Alex Tirapelle has replaced Rob Eiter after Eiter resigned last May.
It’s a few days before Penn women’s basketball opens its season at No. 4 Tennessee, and the message in practice is clear: The team will need to find some way to counter the Lady Vols’ length and athleticism.
With fall sports coming to an end, Penn fencing is ready to prove why it should not be overlooked.
What a long, strange trip it’s about to be. This Friday, Penn men’s swimming begins the first of seven straight Ivy League road matchups at Columbia.
After an offseason of turmoil, change and speculation, there’s nothing more that Penn basketball would like to do than to just get on the court and play.
When a once-in-a-generation player like senior forward Duke Lacroix enters his final men’s soccer match, people take notice. This Saturday, Penn will need to rally behind the team’s five seniors in their final tilt of 2014 when Harvard comes to town.
So now we know where Penn cross country stands in the Ivy league, but where does that put the program in the larger scheme of things? The Red and Blue will provide an answer to this question this Friday as they look to improve on their results from Ivy Heptagonals two weeks ago at NCAA Regionals.
Our 2014-15 Penn basketball supplement came out today and below is everyone of our in-depth articles about the upcoming season.
No. 25 Harvard Crimson Last Season: 27-5, 13-1 Ivy Coach: Tommy Amaker, 8th season, 139-70, 67-31 Ivy Ivy League Media Poll predicted finish: 1st Last Ivy League Title: 2013-2014 Will win if: They can stay healthy and play up to expectations (or anywhere close). Wesley Saunders and Siyani Chambers give the Crimson one of the nation's best backcourts. Will lose if: The team’s lack of backcourt depth comes back to haunt it while the team’s frontcourt depth turns out to be more quantity than quality. Last year vs.
Sophomore 133-pounder Caleb Richardson has been under bright lights of college wrestling’s biggest stage when he went to the NCAA tournament as a 12- pound freshman.
Although this will also be his last campaign on the Quakers’ sideline, Bagnoli made it perfectly clear before the year started that he never wanted his impending retirement to overshadow what his players did on the field.
As one of the Quakers’ top players, sophomore forward Alec Neumann has been able to focus on his game, but as he becomes an upperclassman, he will try to add ‘leader’ to his impressive list of accomplishments at Penn.
Penn basketball is hard at work preparing for its opener against MEAC foe Delaware State on Saturday night.
This year, outside expectations are virtually nil for the Quakers. And they like it that way.
Understandably, the team wants to stress the process and not the results this year. That makes perfect sense with a young roster that was projected to finish seventh in the Ancient Eight in the Ivy preseason poll. But there will need to be results this year alongside the all-important process.
Starting in May of this year, there was a new presence around Penn basketball as Quakers alum Nat Graham joined Jerome Allen’s staff as a new assistant coach. And with Graham came a new buzz word: Tremendous.
With several important upperclassmen from last year parting ways with the program, the Red and Blue will count on the underclassmen to produce, and Howard will be looked upon to lead the way.