Thanks to Cotton’s tremendous growth on the basketball court, the Bulldogs are in position to earn a postseason appearance for only the second time since the 2002 team earned a trip to the NIT after finishing second in a three-team playoff.

After winning the game’s opening face off, senior attack Danny Feeney charged to the goal and scored, all within a mere six seconds. It was a sign of things to come.

Penn released its schedule for the 2014 season, and the team will face six road games in its 10-game slate.

De Alwis, a sophomore, is a Sri Lankan native who has had an interesting path to Penn, including stops in international play and learning the game in other countries.

Coach David Geatz and his staff successfully recruited five new freshmen from across the country.

Though the Penn men’s and women’s tennis teams achieved mostly mediocre results last year,  there were plenty of happy moments to go around. Here are the top five.

After a deflating loss to the last-place team in the conference the night after claiming the top spot, most teams would struggle to rebound. But this Penn team is not most teams.

And while Penn still took care of the Big Green on Saturday, Friday night was a clear display of a new hierarchy in the Ivy League: Harvard ... and everyone else.

A three-time All-American with a Wikipedia page full of athletic achievements, Reynolds is the premiere upperclassman on a youth-heavy Penn program.

With a score of 190.15, the Quakers finished behind host Brown and Yale, but managed to edge out Cornell. After struggling to do so all season, the Red and Blue managed to top 190 for the third straight meet.

In the program’s first ever match against the Redbirds (4-3), the injury-riddled Quakers (1-5) fought hard across the board, but ultimately the team was not able to win the close matchups it needed, falling 5-2 on Sunday.

Competing at Brown’s Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center, the Quakers finished fifth overall in the team standings with 882 points, which was the team’s best finish since the 2010-2011 season.

With the most important challenge of the year looming on the horizon, sometimes all a team needs is a little morale boost.That’s exactly what Penn wrestling got this weekend, going on the road to defeat rivals Princeton and Drexel, 22-9 and 20-10, respectively.

The Quakers began the weekend with a big victory on Friday at Harvard, 63-50, before last-place Dartmouth upset the Red and Blue on Saturday night, 53-50.

Over the course of the Quakers Ivy League slate, it's become evident that Penn seems to be the athletic embodiment of both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

In a major upset, one that ended in heartbreaking fashion, the Quakers fell to the Big Green, 53-50.

It was the game Henry Brooks was always meant to have. All of the Penn junior forward’s best attributes were on display. The active hands. The deft touch inside. And most of all, the nasty attitude on defense.