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Although Penn men’s basketball impressed with a weekend sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth, the Quakers also showed that they may be plagued by one of the same issues that doomed them last season — fatigue.
Even after a close win over Big 5 rival Temple, the Quakers knew that they had to show up for conference play, and they did Friday night against Harvard.
From 1990 to 2000, Donahue worked on head coach Fran Dunphy’s staff and proved himself to be an integral part of one of the most successful stretches in Penn basketball history.
Despite mixed results for Penn men's and women's basketball against Temple, there were plenty of opportunities for the Quakers to make some highlights over both games.
It has been noted that Penn tends to win more games when it shoots three-pointers well, but there is another factor that is almost as important: defense.
Some nights, we see a team that struggles to make shots, plays poorly against conference opponents, and — especially this season — doesn't effectively defend three-point shots.
In Penn men’s basketball's final non-conference game of the season, the Red and Blue defeated Temple, 66-59, in a defensive battle that went down to the wire.