VILLANOVA, Pa., March 11 - The room full of Villanova faithfuls got a serious scare from Greg Gumbel on Sunday. "Maryland will play the Wildcats of ." What?! ". Davidson." Whew! The fans quieted down quickly during Sunday's NCAA Tournament selection broadcast when they realized their Wildcats were not the 13-seed forced to play the No.

History put Glen Miller in an unfortunate spot. Win, and he did what he was supposed to do. Lose and he was the second coming of Joe Scott. Get your seniors to roll with the changes, and it was just another Ivy title. Suffer a mutiny, and it was a disappointment of historic proportions.

After a week long tour of the Golden State, freshman Marissa Rosen emerged as Penn's top competitor. Although Penn (192.95) fell just short of Sacramento State (193.925) in its first meet over break, the highlight of the meet was Rosen's win in the all-around with 39.

It was a roller coaster affair Sunday evening at World Cafe Live - a far cry from the last two years, when Penn's seeding in the NCAA Tournament was quick and painless, over within a few minutes. This time, there were more than a few teams that Greg Gumbel called that got very different reactions from the assembled crowd, as the Quakers were among the last teams placed in the field of 65.

Over a month ago, as its league title hopes evaporated in a matter of one weekend, the future of the Penn wrestling team's season appeared grim. That weekend seems like a long time ago. Under the guidance of coach Zeke Jones and the team's seniors, Penn has admirably bounced back from losses to Columbia and Cornell, recording a third-place finish at the EIWA Championships over spring break to continue an impressive run.

A fired-up women's basketball team entered Jadwin Gymnasium last Tuesday evening just off its second Ivy-weekend sweep this year. It left as devastated 61-51 losers to rival Princeton in the final game of the season. "We don't like losing to Princeton," a sullen coach Pat Knapp said.

Coming into the 2007 season, Penn women's lacrosse coach Karin Brower believed that this year's freshman class was the team's best ever. Led by Ali DeLuca's team-high 13 points and 10 goals, the Class of 2010 hasn't disappointed thus far. The No. 15 Quakers went 1-1 over spring break, with a 15-7 win over Towson (2-1) on March 3, and a 13-4 loss to No.

Spring Break brought some mixed emotions for the Penn golf teams last week. Both the men's and women's squads were in action, with the men's team competing in the Braveheart Classic in Beaumont, Calif., and the women's team travelling south to Florida for the Springlake Invitational.

Maybe it wasn't the shot heard 'round the world, but junior Kyle Armeny's home run propelled Penn to what coach John Cole called its biggest win in years. In the fourth contest of Penn's eight-game Florida trip, Armeny dug in against Boston College closer Dan Houston.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - They lived by the three-pointer all season long, but the Hawks died by it Thursday night. A team that shoots a blistering 38.4 percent from deep, sixth-seeded Saint Joseph's went cold when it needed to make a few, and fell to No. 3 George Washington, 58-48 in the second round of the Atlantic 10 Tournament.

March 2 - This was just the way it was supposed to happen for Penn's seniors. On their home floor, seniors Ibrahim Jaaber, Mark Zoller and Stephen Danley led the Quakers to an 86-58 victory over Yale to clinch a third-straight Ivy League title and NCAA Tournament berth, and avenge their lone conference blemish of the season, a nine-point loss in New Haven a month ago.

The next George Mason? Well, Drexel won't get a shot at replicating that Cinderella run - at least not in the NCAA Tournament this year. The Dragons instead garnered a 3-seed in the NIT tournament and will face No. 6 North Carolina State tonight at the Daskalakis Athletic Center.

After a successful fall season, the Penn men's tennis team was on a quest this spring to prove it belongs among the nation's elite. Having lost to all seven ranked teams it faced heading into spring break, the team had come up well short. But after two wins against ranked foes over break, the Quakers may have at least put themselves in the discussion.

Al Bagnoli did not have to wait long to get the man who'll be running his offense next year. Just a few weeks after the athletic department announced the firing of Shawn Halloran, it announced that Bill Schmitz would occupy the vacant position. Schmitz, who has spent the last two years as the running backs and tight ends coach at Alabama-Birmingham, will take over an offense that was fourth in the league in scoring last year.

Although the men and women's track and field teams weren't able to spend their spring breaks in warm Arkansas weather, the Quakers did manage to bring back a few souvenirs from Boston. Despite falling just shy of NCAA qualifying marks that would have let them compete in Fayateville, Ark.

After this spring break, coach Michael Dowd may want to consider playing all of Penn's future games in San Diego. The southwestern locale, known for its scenic beaches and temperate weather, was kind to the women's tennis team during its seven-day, five-game California road trip.

Split. Penn's softball players must be hearing that word in their sleep. Not only did the team split their final day of games at the Rebel Spring Games, losing to South Dakota State 3-2 and beating Fairleigh Dickinson 10-2, it also ended up splitting the six-day event, going 5-5.