Simone Sawyer went out with a bang, and the Penn women’s basketball team wrapped up its season sooner than it wanted but with an emphatic home win Saturday over Brown, 69-56.
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Penn women’s basketball blows by Dartmouth
A day after losing its last chance at Ivy Madness, the Penn women’s basketball team came out and put on a championship-level clinic at Dartmouth, barely missing a shot in the first quarter en route to an 89-66 victory Saturday night.
Harvard women’s basketball locks up Ivy League Tournament berth, eliminating Penn
The Harvard women’s basketball team punched its ticket to Ivy Madness on Friday night with a home win against Penn, 60-46 – but not before the Quakers gave the Crimson a scare.
Penn women’s basketball keeps hope alive by beating Yale
The Penn women’s basketball team got the win it needed Saturday at home – not an inspiring win, not a dramatic one, but a comfortable one against a shorthanded and struggling Yale squad, 68-52, to stay in the race for a slot in Ivy Madness.
Columbia women’s basketball takes revenge on Penn
Columbia wasn’t going to let lightning strike twice.
Two weeks after the women’s basketball team lost to Penn in West Philly, it put on a showcase of smothering defense, consistently found the open shooter in the lane or on the perimeter, withstood a Penn comeback and won comfortably at home Saturday, 69-56, at Levien Gym.
Penn women’s basketball clips Cornell in overtime
In the end, Penn women’s basketball coach Mike McLaughlin didn’t talk about Friday’s win at Cornell in terms of the Ivy League standings, though it was crucial.
And he didn’t mention revenge for the loss Cornell dealt Penn in West Philly last month.
He spoke like a fan.
“First of all, it was a great college basketball game,” he told ESPN+.
Penn women’s basketball upsets Columbia at the Palestra
In this least predictable of Ivy women’s basketball seasons, it only makes sense that a fired-up Penn team would bounce back from a loss to Cornell to topple Columbia, 64-55, on Saturday in West Philly.
Resurgent Cornell women’s basketball downs Penn to hit .500 in Ivies
The Cornell women’s red-hot-shooting Big Red built a big lead over Penn and held on for a 62-58 win Friday night at the Palestra – breaking a 16-game losing streak to the Quakers, climbing to 3-3 in league play and taking another step on the road to relevance in the Ivies.
Penn women’s basketball breaks losing streak with win over Dartmouth
The Penn women’s basketball team, which lost its first three Ivy League games of the season, finally came away with a win over Dartmouth on Monday at the Palestra, 67-59.
Brown women’s basketball survives Penn comeback in double overtime
The Penn women’s basketball visit to Brown didn’t figure on being easy for either team. After all, they spent the past two seasons clawing at each other for the fourth slot in the Ivy League Tournament, with Penn claiming the honor both times.
What they produced Saturday was a classic, a double-overtime win for the Bears that looked easy at the start and easy at the finish but was brilliant and exhausting basketball in between. If this is the sort of thing we can expect for the rest of the season, we’ll have a lot of exciting games to watch, and both Brown and Penn will go to the tournament in March.