It isn’t always pretty. Coming off of a big win over Princeton last weekend, the Quakers came out flat against La Salle before fighting off a late comeback en route to a 78-68 win on Martin Luther King Day.

For a meeting between two of the top five women’s sides in the country, the No. 2 Penn and No. 5 Stanford matchup seemed to carry little of the tension that one would expect of such high ranked goliaths.

It’s Harvard’s world, and unfortunately for Penn men’s and women’s swimming and diving, they are still living in it.

They’re off to the best start in school history. Let’s see if they can keep it going.

After weeks of practicing and an intrasquad meet back in December, the Penn gymnastics team kicks off their season in earnest this Sunday at the Lindsey Ferris Invitational, hosted by George Washington University, in Washington D.C.

Although Penn boasts countless spectacular student-athletes, the most impressive aspect of their success may not even be the athletic success itself.

2016 has already been a noteworthy year for two Penn basketball players no longer with the team.

From the warmup, you could tell that something was special about this Penn basketball game. The Palestra crowd, often all too sparse in recent years, was today sizeable, raucous and often on their feet.

As many people start their new years with resolutions and hope, the Penn fencing team is following suit in preparation for a trophy-laden 2016.

All great things must come to an end. Penn Squash knows that all too well after this weekend.

In a season defined by dominant veteran performances, Penn swimming’s youth movement made a mark of its own over the weekend.

Freshmen play clutch minutes in near-victory

By any conventional metric, the matchup between Penn women's basketball and Princeton on Saturday was anything but aesthetically pleasing.

It was that very defense that held Princeton coach Courtney Banghart’s squad to 48 points as Penn women’s basketball downed the Tigers to open Ivy play, 50-48, at the Palestra on Saturday.

Penn basketball guard Antonio Woods has been declared ineligible for the remainder of the season.

On Tuesday, The Daily Pennsylvanian confirmed that Hicks had elected to play his final season at Louisville in 2016-17. We spoke to Hicks by phone Wednesday afternoon.

Tony Hicks, the former Penn basketball star who was slated to serve as a team captain in his final season with the Quakers before leaving the program in October, will transfer to Louisville.