While the No. 24 Quakers have given up 10 in a row to the No. 8 Big Red, this season might very well be the team’s best shot to put an end to the long losing streak against its archrival.

On Nov. 18, Meghan McCullough’s basketball career reached a significant fork in the road.

Temple started slowly, but went on an extended 25-4 run to end the first half, and took down the Quakers, 59-51.

Sophomore year in high school, Mills began traveling 45 minutes into Manhattan in order to practice inside the biggest club in the city – the Fencers Club – with the Peter Westbrook Foundation, a nonprofit which mostly works with inner city youth.

There’s one change that should have been made before the game started that would have given the Quakers their first Big 5 win of the season: more Patrick Lucas-Perry.

The Quakers held the Khalif Wyatt in check and chugged along with small leads until the 5:25 mark when Wyatt hit yet another trey and gave Temple a 66-64 lead it would not relinquish.

Khalif Wyatt has learned how to take over basketball games with his head and the results have shown.

The Quakers face an Owls squad that has fought an uphill battle all year long with six freshmen on the roster.

Wednesday night at the Liacouras Center, Temple coach Fran Dunphy and his former player, Penn coach Jerome Allen, will be facing each other for the fourth time in Allen’s four years.

With the Big 5 slowly moving away from the Palestra, each school needs to evaluate where the Cathedral fits in Big 5 basketball.

Engaged in a four-way battle royal with Rutgers, Bridgeport and Ursinus, the Quakers came away from New Jersey with a final score of 190.525, good for third place.

On Saturday at Lehigh University, the men’s team won the meet with a combined total of 181 team points. Meanwhile, the women’s team finished second with a team score of 170 points.

The Red and Blue lost all nine matches to Trinity at Ringe Squash Courts on Saturday, winning just four games while falling to 3-6 on the season.

In Rhode Island, a depleted Penn men’s team (2-5, 1-5 Ivy) was defeated by Brown, 171-129. Meanwhile the women (3-5, 2-5) fell to both Brown, 219-80, and Harvard, 241-58.

Watching Nelson-Henry Saturday against the Hawks, it was easy to see why the center earned Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors after his efforts versus St. Joe’s and his first career double-double at NJIT on Thursday.

Penn women’s tennis proved solid enough to win handily at Levy Tennis Pavilion, even after splitting up the best duo in the Northeast region — freshman Sonya Latycheva and sophomore Sol Eskenazi.

On Saturday, the Quakers narrowly defeated a No. 4 Trinity squad ranked just one place above them, 6-3, in a match that featured plenty of drama.