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Carried by senior guard Tim Begley, an early favorite for Ivy League Player of the Year honors, the Quakers (10-7, 3-0 Ivy) fought off a valiant Harvard rally to defeat the Crimson 70-57 at Lavietes Pavilion Friday night, notching their sixth consecutive win in the series and third straight on Harvard’s home court...
...They gave us everything we could handle,” Penn coach Fran Dunphy said. “I thought [Begley] took over the game on the offensive end, which we needed...
...here that Begley stepped up to eliminate any notion that first-place Penn’s Ivy League supremacy would be challenged. On the same night that preseason favorite Princeton was stunned by Dartmouth, the Quakers’ captain refused to let a similar scenario play out in Cambridge. Begley hit two quick jumpers to ignite the sizeable Penn crowd, and added an acrobatic reverse layup shortly thereafter to quickly give a cushion back to Penn...
...there’s a team in the league that has instant offense, it’s Pennsylvania,” Sullivan said. “I’d be surprised if [Begley] is not the player of the year at the end of the day...He’s got tremendous offensive instincts...
It’s never fair to say that Penn is rebuilding. The Quakers don’t rebuild: they reload. Sophomore point guard Ibrahim Jaaber and classmate Mark Zoller are ready to make a huge contribution to the club after posting outstanding rookie campaigns. Tim Begley shot the lights out last season hitting 46 percent of his three-point attempts. With Jeff Schiffner gone, Begley will get even more looks from long range, but the attention should shift to the senior guard, which should force his three-point percentage to take a bit of a hit. Penn should have...