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Tydings | It’s time to look up front for Penn basketball
With questions still surrounding Penn’s guards, it might be time to start looking to the Quakers’ front court to lead the team next season.
Tony | Ivy success not made of just money for Penn basketball
What can Penn basketball do to get better? One answer is to keep having recruiting classes like the Quakers’ Class of 2017.
From The Buzz: Who should be Penn's starting point guard in 2013-14?
In this week’s roundtable discussion, our editors ask who should be Penn basketball’s starting point guard in 2013-14.Steele | The impact of Harvard’s upset on the Ivies
Harvard’s upset over New Mexico will surely force Ivy administrators to find new ways to increase the league’s visibility, as well as generating additional revenue for the league as well.Steele | Penn’s season doesn’t stack up to fellow Big 5 members
Perhaps what best illustrates Penn’s lack of success this season is the way it failed to stack up to its rivals within the Big 5.
Kasper | Comparing Fran Dunphy and Jerome Allen
The ending to Jerome Allen’s tale is yet to be written, but he and Fran Dunphy deserve comparison, if for no other reason than because Dunphy’s success represents the lofty expectations of the program.
The Palestra: A gym for all ages
Every Saturday morning, the Palestra gives guys like Scott Kegler a chance to mean a lot to both friends and strangers alike, while losing themselves in basketball.
Tony | Penn basketball's defense can make the grade next season
It’s Penn’s defense first and foremost that can elevate the Quakers back to Ivy contender status next season.
Penn-Princeton: A Palestra timeline
Over the course of these 31 games, many words have been spent on the Quakers’ ability to stay energized. But the Red and Blue, Hicks in particular, fed off of the Palestra crowd against Princeton.
Tony | Princeton showed the jury’s still out for Penn basketball
While conventional wisdom holds that the Quakers will make leaps and bounds with more experience in 2013-14, the reality is that nothing is guaranteed.
Bitter ending for Penn basketball against Princeton
It was a true battle on the court in the Quakers’ season finale against rival Princeton, but it all fell apart in the final minutes, as the Tigers came away with the victory.
Princeton means payback for Penn basketball
To get revenge, Penn (9-21, 6-7 Ivy) will have to flip the script of its last dance with Princeton (16-11, 9-4), a 65-53 defeat for the Quakers at Jadwin Gym on Jan. 12 that was more decisive than its final score suggests.
Phillips | Coach Allen, meet Charles Dickens
For Penn basketball, this Ivy season has truly been the best of times and the worst of times and a win against Princeton would provide much-needed team momentum throughout the offseason.
Tony | Time for Penn basketball to grow up
Next season will decide once and for all whether this team full of underclassmen has what it takes for long-term Ivy success. But the glimpses of brilliance Penn has shown from time to time in 2012-13 have been too few and far between to suggest that this team isn’t still a youthful bunch with everything to prove.
Penn basketball blown out by Yale, 79-65
Yale’s suffocating defense in the second half gave the Quakers fits, and the Bulldogs took advantage, turning a one point deficit at half time into a 14-point victory, defeating the Quakers, 79-65.
Phillips | Hot or cold, Cartwright leads Penn basketball
As flashy and important to the Quakers’ success as Hicks and Nelson-Henry have proven to be over the last two weekends, until junior Miles Cartwright graduates, he is the leader of this team. Without question.
Penn basketball ekes by Brown, 66-64
Penn bested Brown, 66-64, on the strength of another stellar showing from Cartwright, who notched 25 points on 8-for-12 shooting from the field.VIDEO: Penn v. Harvard postgame presser
See what Penn coach Jerome Allen and top scorers Tony Hicks and Darien Nelson-Henry had to say after the victory over Harvard.
Phillips | Time for consistency from Penn basketball
One thing Saturday’s win against Harvard doesn’t change is the fact that there are still more questions about this young Penn team than there are answers.