The view is different from the top. And it’s been quite a few years since Penn women’s basketball has had that view.

Last year, Penn’s women’s basketball proved it was the best time in the Ivy League. This year, the Red and Blue will put their skills to the test against some of the best teams in the entire country, facing a strong schedule fit for the defending Ivy champions.

Penn emerged victorious from last year’s Ivy scramble. Let’s take a look at how the league is shaping up as we enter the new season.

The Quakers’ four seniors – forwards Katy Allen and Kara Bonenberger along with guards Renee Busch and Kathleen Roche – have been named the captains for the 2014-15 season and plan on carrying the torch from last year’s successful group.

This season, the freshman class as a whole will be playing a big role from the opening tip on Nov. 14 in Tennessee.

After Penn football’s 21-13 loss to Brown on Saturday, coach Al Bagnoli was not about to make any excuses for the Quakers’ offensive performance. But curiously enough, Brown coach Phil Estes was.

Homecoming has the potential to be great for any school. A ton of alumni (read: possible donors) all in the same place, interacting with your campus and taking in the athletic events you have on tap. But when events unfold like they did for Penn Athletics on Saturday, it is hard to call this rain-soaked Homecoming great for the athletic department.

Seven games into the 2014 season, it's impossible to deny the sense of disappointment surrounding Penn football.

Led by junior captain Alexis Genske, the Quakers (7-14, 4-6 Ivy) cruised to a 3-1 victory at Columbia on Saturday.

The Red and Blue were scheduled to face Princeton on Halloween, but the Tigers were forced to forfeit.

Playing in a game that Rudy Fuller had earlier described as one where “if you don’t win it, we don’t deserve to be [Ivy League] champions,” Penn men’s soccer failed to live up to its coach’s ultimatum .

After defeating Lehigh earlier in the week, the Quakers continued their winning streak with another victory against Brown, 2-0, in conference play.

On Saturday, two Penn wrestlers, senior Lorenzo Thomas and senior C.J. Cobb, represented the Quakers in the National Wrestling Coaches Association All-Star Classic in front of over 5,000 fans.

What a way to go out. On Senior Day, the Quakers took their seniors out on top, outlasting Brown, 2-1, on a cold and rainy Saturday afternoon on Ellen Vagelos field.

After the women’s team was unable to break through at Heptagonals – finishing last as a team in the Ivy championship meet – junior Tom Awad took first in the men’s race, leading the men’s team to an impressive third-place finish.

A bitterly cold rain drove much of the anticipated Homecoming crowd away, and the Quakers didn’t give the several thousand that braved the rain many reasons to cheer.

A bitterly cold rain has kept most fans from attending Penn football’s homecoming game against Brown. It apparently drove away Penn’s offense for much of the first half as well.