almost

The Quakers gave it everything they had, and there were times I thought, this is it. This is going to be the year we finally win a tournament game.

But Texas was a bit too big down low, and Penn missed two or three shots too many, and the good guys ultimately fell, 60-52.

This is the best I've ever seen Penn play in the Dance - which figures, as this was the first year since I've started following Quakers basketball that it seemed the team had absolutely no chance to win its first-round tournament game. Yet they were within a point of second-seeded Texas - in Dallas - with five minutes to go.

I'm proud of the Quakers. They earned the respect of the college basketball world tonight. It just would have been so much sweeter to win.

Someday...