Going into the national championship, Duke face-off specialist Brendan Fowler had already earned the NCAA single-season record for face-off wins. While each face-off win doesn’t matter any more than the next when it comes to that record, the 20 that Fowler accumulated on Monday afternoon will mean a little more to Fowler. After all, it was on his shoulders that Duke became the national champions, going on a 16-6 run from the second quarter until the end of the game to come back from an early Syracuse lead, ultimately winning, 16-10. Fowler won 20 of 28 face-offs, allowing Duke (16-5) to maintain possession for the majority of the contest. “Obviously winning face offs and getting the ball back makes it a lot easier to score goals,” Fowler said.

It only took 60 minutes of regulation and three overtime periods, but 31 seconds into that third overtime of the NCAA Championship, North Carolina put a Maryland team that came into the title game with a perfect record down for the count, winning, 13-12.

On Tuesday night, rising senior Jonny Dolezal, fellow classmate Stephen Baker and rising junior Duke Lacroix took the field to play in the second round of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.

The NCAA women’s lacrosse national championships will be held at Villanova Stadium in Villanova, Pa. this weekend, featuring three of the opponents that Penn faced off against in the regular season.

We won’t see the immediate impact of Penn’s nascent prestige on this year’s recruiting class, but that’s not to say this year’s recruits won’t step in and make an impact.

The Red and Blue came off of a 12-0 shutout at the hands of the Texas A&M Aggies heading into its elimination game versus the Arizona Wildcats in College Station. On Saturday, the Quakers (30-20) battled with a storied Arizona (33-25) team, coming up just short in extra innings, 3-2.

The Quakers fell in 5 innings to Texas A&M, managing just one hit while the Aggies smashed Penn pitching

Saturday, Texas A&M will host a four-team double elimination tournament for the NCAA Softball Regional Finals including Baylor, Arizona and Penn.

Ryan Deitrich won’t be returning to Penn for his final year of eligibility after missing his freshman campaign due to injury, but he’ll still be playing college baseball — as a Duke Blue Devil.

The Quakers will travel to College Station, Texas, to battle Texas A&M in the first round of Penn’s first ever NCAA Tournament Friday at 6 p.m. Eastern time, in a game that will be aired on ESPN2.

Sparked by a goal from Casey Bocklet with 3:01 left in the first period, Virginia scored seven unanswered goals, demoralizing the Quakers en route to a 12-6 win that drew the Red and Blue’s season to an abrupt close at Georgetown’s Washington, D.C. campus.

The NFL chose Penn as the place to inject more diversity within its coaching and management ranks.

This was a great year for Penn women’s sports. Am I right, ladies? Am I right? The penny slots were successful — I’ll credit my grandmother, who was known to win hundreds of dollars at a time on these games, for the lucky genes — and I went a respectable 3-for-5 on my predictions from earlier this fall. That’s a heck of a lot better than last’s years picks by Brian Kotloff, who went 3-for-9.

Thanks to 1996 Penn graduate Nasia Muoto, Dau Jok will travel at the end of May to Nigeria as a fellow for We Play to Win, a foundation started and run by Muoto.

Among the thousands of students who will graduate on Monday are dozens of athletes who are officially retiring from their respective sports. Sports have been a large part of their identities dating back to their childhood. And the large majority of Penn’s athletes have played their last competitive games … ever.

From sitting next to him at Sunday breakfast, I learned everything I know about sports and sports writing. We’d sit together and read a profile on an up-and-coming pitcher or a big feature on the college football bowl games. He taught me how to read box scores and stat sheets, and when breakfast was over and the weather was nice, we’d all go to the park with a wiffle ball and bat or a frisbee.

One of the most challenging things I have ever done. Working on a deadline, thinking critically quickly and building relationships with coaches and athletes are all things that have tested me. But it is because of these challenges that I have found my four years with the DP one of the most rewarding aspects of my time at Penn.