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Basketball

02/01/19 5:56pm
At halftime, Penn men’s basketball leads Cornell, 37-30, in the team’s search for its first Ivy League win of the season.
01/26/19 8:01pm
With an outright Big 5 title on the line, the Penn men's basketball lead St. Joseph’s 35-31 after 20 minutes of play. 
01/12/19 2:53pm
One week after falling to Princeton in a heartbreaking overtime loss, Penn men’s basketball is tied with the Tigers, 27-27, after 20 minutes of play. 
01/05/19 5:53pm
With one half in the books at Jadwin Gym, Penn men’s basketball trails the Tigers 33-32 following a back-and-forth 20 minutes.
01/05/19 2:57pm
After one half of play at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym, the Red and Blue find themselves up by a score of 33-28.
12/11/18 8:02pm
Through one half of action at the Palestra, Penn men’s basketball leads Villanova 32-28. Penn raced out to an early 14-2 lead, making it clear that the group could play with the Wildcats. 
12/04/18 7:53pm
After an exhilarating first half of play, Penn men’s basketball leads Miami, 50-36. The two teams combined to shoot nearly 60 percent from the field, as shoots were falling all half long.
11/06/18 8:02pm
Penn men’s basketball trails George Mason, 37-33, after one half of play in both team’s season openers. But the big story of the half was an injury to junior guard Ryan Betley, who went down awkwardly and painfully just five minutes into the game.
08/01/17 3:34pm
In today's college basketball landscape, there truly is no offseason. Coaches at all levels flock to AAU tournaments across the country throughout the summer to catch a glimpse of the premiere high school talent.
06/21/17 4:53pm
Now, a new set of freshmen are up to bat. While the class only has five players, it is replacing an even smaller group of seniors that boasted only one major contributor in Matt Howard.
06/15/17 1:39pm
Karl Racine, the current Washington, D.C. Attorney General and a 1980s Penn men’s basketball standout, is leading a lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump.
06/07/17 8:00pm
Over Thanksgiving break next season, the Quakers will be heading down to the Bahamas to participate in the Junkanoo Jam, the team announced earlier today. The annual event consists of two separate four-team bracket, with two guaranteed games for each team.
06/02/17 11:21am
Jack McCloskey, the former Penn basketball player and coach who went on to have a long and successful career in the NBA, died Thursday in Savannah, Georgia at the age of 91.
05/22/17 10:08am
But now, Allen is facing a whole new kind of challenge. As an assistant coach for the Boston Celtics, Allen now has to help his team slow down the NBA defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers.
05/11/17 2:16pm
The Ivy League Basketball tournament will return to the Palestra in 2018 for its second year.
04/25/17 12:53am
As the 2016-17 school year nears its close, there have been some incredible Penn Athletics feats to reflect upon. But with so many Penn teams having such thorough success this year, there’s one natural question to ask — which one was best? DP Sports set out to find out.
04/18/17 6:34pm
It's been 60 years since Penn last hosted the East Regionals in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, when the Palestra saw March Madness played out under its roof for four straight years in 1954-57.
04/17/17 11:26pm
We started out the season trying to find our identity. While we had many of the same players, it was not the same team. We battled through some tough losses, but only to come out stronger. We were able to do that by focusing on one possession at a time. We took that mentality through to the end of the season.
04/11/17 7:02pm
Penn women's basketball may have ended its season almost a month ago, but the awards haven't stopped coming in, recognizing the team's standout season. Junior forward Michelle Nwokedi was just named a member of the All-Big 5 First-Team of the season, while senior center Sydney Stipanovich picked up a Second-Team honor herself.