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The men are set for their home opener, as the group hosts La Salle at the Palestra. The women's team will take on NJIT looking to build off of a dominant opening effort against Siena on Saturday.
Freshman guard Jordan Dingle has not just been the best player in his class, but also one of the most important players on the team, earning him DP Sports Player of the Week.
In this week's edition of Is Stat So?, Penn football gets a burst from a new quarterback and men's and women's soccer wrap up their seasons while the basketball teams get theirs underway.
Penn men’s basketball, coming off of an impressive opening victory on the road against Alabama on Tuesday, suffered an 80-61 loss to Rice in Houston on Saturday.
In a fast-paced, back-and-forth contest on Tuesday night, Penn men’s basketball opened the season with a nail-biting 81-80 victory against Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
After working with the team for the last four years as a student manager, Sarah Parks was hired this year as the new Director of Operations for Penn men’s basketball.
Sophomores Bryce Washington and Michael Wang both played well while seeing an unprecedented amount of minutes as freshmen over the course of last season.
The two-time unanimous first team All-Ivy forward has carried the Red and Blue to a Big 5 title and Ivy League Tournament appearance over his three-year career.
While it may have taken him longer to find his voice and his role in the offense, nobody can question how important Goodman will be to Penn men's basketball this season, even if he is sometimes overshadowed.
Second place would be fine for most programs in most years, but not these ones. Expectations are high, and justifiably so. At least one of these programs will win the conference.