Quakers get dance card punched again

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, March, 2007 | by MIKE KERN

FAILURE was never an option for Penn's basketball team this season.

Sure, the Quakers had a new coach. They also had three senior starters who'd been part of the last two Ivy League champions. So, they were favored to threepeat for a reason. Still...

"Sometimes, it's harder to do what you're supposed to do, than what you're not supposed to do," said Glen Miller, the former Brown coach, who took over when Fran Dunphy left for Temple last April.

Fair enough. That wouldn't have stopped folks from killing him, had it somehow gone wrong. Now, they'll say he only won with somebody else's players. That's OK, too. His team is going to the NCAA Tournament. And that's enough.

"This feels absolutely fabulous," he gushed. "All the credit in the world goes to the...