mshimmy
Sophomore
Posts: 193
Loc: Miami, FL
Reg: 11-22-04
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01-20-19 04:27 PM - Post#273181
It's been a long time. Is this a thing? Can it be found online?
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QuakerPTPer
Sophomore
Posts: 184
Reg: 10-31-06
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01-27-19 10:39 AM - Post#273775
In response to mshimmy
Penn Basketball tweeted this last night, which has a URL to some gear:
https://twitter.com/PennBasketball/status /10893522...
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10Q
Professor
Posts: 23360
Loc: Suburban Philly
Reg: 11-21-04
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01-27-19 10:50 AM - Post#273779
In response to QuakerPTPer
Im guessing we did not cut the nets
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LyleGold
PhD Student
Posts: 1712
Reg: 11-22-04
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01-27-19 10:55 AM - Post#273781
In response to QuakerPTPer
The site is down for maintenance. What are they offering?
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LyleGold
PhD Student
Posts: 1712
Reg: 11-22-04
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01-27-19 10:58 AM - Post#273782
In response to 10Q
No nets. I was slightly disappointed, but not surprised. Steve wants to keep things in balance and focused on the league. I remember cutting down nets in 1977 after beating LaSalle to go 3-1. That shows how much bigger the Big 5 was then.
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penn nation
Professor
Posts: 21193
Reg: 12-02-04
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01-27-19 11:02 AM - Post#273783
In response to LyleGold
Cutting down the nets while being 0-2 in IL play would have seemed quite odd at the very least.
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LyleGold
PhD Student
Posts: 1712
Reg: 11-22-04
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01-27-19 11:06 AM - Post#273785
In response to penn nation
Yet another reason that scheduling the Princeton games so early was a mistake. The Big Five season should be finished before league play begins.
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Silver Maple
Postdoc
Posts: 3770
Loc: Westfield, New Jersey
Reg: 11-23-04
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01-27-19 12:03 PM - Post#273793
In response to LyleGold
Agreed. Cutting down the nets would have felt wrong.
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weinhauers_ghost
Postdoc
Posts: 2137
Age: 64
Loc: New York City
Reg: 12-14-09
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01-27-19 02:53 PM - Post#273802
In response to Silver Maple
Merch site is back up. You have until February 6 to order.
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LyleGold
PhD Student
Posts: 1712
Reg: 11-22-04
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Big 5 Champs Gear?
01-27-19 05:08 PM - Post#273818
In response to Silver Maple
Agreed. Cutting down the nets would have felt wrong.
Yeah, I guess so. There was a time when it would have felt right, but not anymore. Posing with the banner was appropriate.
Anyone remember Yale cutting down the nets in an empty Payne Whitney after clinching a three-way tie? James Jones famously declared,"It's great to be king!" Yale went on to beat Princeton at the Palestra before getting clobbered by Penn at Lafayette for the title. Despite their dirty tactics (remember Josh Hill and T.J. McHugh?) resulting in a gash over Jeff Schiffner's eye, Jones did make his team watch us cut down the nets just to give them a taste of what they were missing, which impressed me at the time.
Coincidentally, that was the same year we last swept the Big Five. Anyone remember if we cut down the nets that year?
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LyleGold
PhD Student
Posts: 1712
Reg: 11-22-04
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Re: Big 5 Champs Gear?
01-27-19 07:20 PM - Post#273832
In response to LyleGold
By empty, I mean they waited for the Tuesday night Penn-Princeton game that sealed the 3-way tie (We had to win ten straight down the stretch.) and then opened up the gym and turned the lights on to do it. That was groping for an excuse a lot more than our cutting them on Saturday would have been. Yale still had to take care of business (which they did not do) while we completed our unlikely mission with an outright title.
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Quakers03
Professor
Posts: 12530
Reg: 12-07-04
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01-27-19 08:40 PM - Post#273836
In response to LyleGold
That Yale playoff win, on a rainy night in Easton, was one of the more contenting wins in my sports fandom.
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LyleGold
PhD Student
Posts: 1712
Reg: 11-22-04
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01-27-19 09:28 PM - Post#273839
In response to Quakers03
That Yale playoff win, on a rainy night in Easton, was one of the more contenting wins in my sports fandom.
Yeah, it was right up there with that Princeton playoff win, also in Easton, in 1980. Booney Salters hit an 18 footer from the right wing over the Princeton zone in the final seconds. Princeton's buzzer beater attempt failed.
Craig Obama Robinson was on the court for the Tigers that night. When I bumped into him in the concourse of the Palestra at last year's tournament, I told him I always rooted against him as a player but for him as a brother-in-law. He looked at me kinda strangely and then said,"Thanks a lot, man!"
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