GAME 8 ? Penn (1-6) at UCF (6-4)
UCF Holiday Classic 1st Round
Orlando, Fla.
Monday, Dec. 29, 2008 * 7 p.m.
TV: None
Radio: WXPN 88.5 FM (Brian Seltzer, Vince Curran)
Penn Game Notes (PDF)
UCF Game Notes (PDF)
Quaker Notemeal...
? The six teams Penn has lost to this season are a combined 52-17, a 75.0 winning percentage (UNC 11-0, Drexel 3-6, Penn State 11-2, Albany 8-4, Villanova 11-1, Navy 8-4).
? Penn has five players among the top 17 scorers in the Ivy League;; no other team has more than four in the top 20 (Brown 4, Cornell 3, Dartmouth 3, Yale 3, Harvard 1, Princeton 1).
? Through seven games, Penn has had five different players lead it in scoring (Tyler Bernardini vs. UNC, Monmouth and Albany; Kevin Egee vs. Drexel; Jack Eggleston vs. Penn State; Harrison Gaines vs. Villanova; Brennan Votel vs. Navy) and four different players lead in rebounding (Eggleston vs. UNC, Penn State, Villanova and Navy; Votel vs. Drexel and Villanova; Conor Turley vs. Monmouth; Zack Rosen vs. Albany).
? Bernardini has reached the 20-point mark twice this season, giving the sophomore eight such games for his career. He leads Penn with five double-figure scoring games so far this season.
? Rosen, a freshman, leads the Ivy League in assists per game (5.60) and assist/turnover ratio (3.55); he is seventh nationally in assist/turnover ratio. In his first four collegiate games, Rosen had 25 assists and just three turnovers (all against No. 1 UNC).
? Sophomores Eggleston and Gaines have scored in double figures in three of Penn's last four games, averaging 12.8 and 11.5 ppg, respectively, during that span.
? Votel, a senior, entered this season with one double-figure scoring game as a collegian; he has three such games already this season, with 17 points at Drexel and 14 against both Monmouth and Navy. He also fell one rebound shy of a double-double against both Drexel and Navy.
? After scoring in double figures in each of Penn's first four games, Egee -- also a senior -- has been held to a combined 14 points the last three contests.
Penn vs. UCF
? The Quakers and the Knights are meeting for the first time in men's basketball.
? Taking it a step further, Penn is entering uncharted waters with this entire tournament field; the Quakers have also never met either Campbell or Chicago State, the other teams in Orlando this week.
? Penn has a 7-8 all-time record against the teams that currently comprise Conference USA. The last time the Quakers played a Conference USA team was the 2006-07 season opener, when they lost to UTEP 67-66 in the BCA Invitational at Syracuse, N.Y.
Marshall ... 0-1
Memphis ... 0-1
Rice ... 1-1
SMU ... 3-2
Tulane ... 3-1
Tulsa ... 0-1
UTEP ... 0-1
? The Penn men's basketball program is making its second trip to Florida in as many years; last year the Quakers came to the Sunshine State for regular-season games against Florida Gulf Coast and Miami.
Break's Over
Monday's game is Penn's first since December 5; the 24-day break was an in-season record for the program, which dates games to 1897.
Notemeal From Navy...
? The loss snapped a seven-game win streak Penn had over the Midshipmen, dating back to the 1989-90 season.
? The game was played at The Palestra on the eve of the Army-Navy football game, which took place this season at Lincoln Financial Field (home of the Philadelphia Eagles).
? Senior Brennan Votel became the fifth different player to lead Penn in scoring in a game, with 14 points; he also had nine rebounds, nearly getting his first collegiate double-double.
Notemeal From Villanova...
? Sophomore Harrison Gaines became the fourth different player to lead Penn in scoring in a game, with 14 points.
? Sophomore Remy Cofield made his first start of the season, and just the second of his collegiate career.
? After missing the first five games due to a shoulder injury, junior Andreas Schreiber saw his first game action of 2008-09; he had two points, a rebound, a steal and an assist in 14 minutes.
