PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team plays its second home game of the 2016-17 season on Wednesday night, tipping off with regional rival Lafayette at 8 p.m. The game is the second half of a doubleheader, as the Penn women open things with city rival La Salle at 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday's men's game will air live to a worldwide audience on the Ivy League Digital Network; in the Philadelphia viewing area fans can watch the game on TV on Comcast SportsNet.

• The Quakers hold a sizable 40-9 advantage in the series; however, the Leopards have won the last four meetings including the last two played here at The Palestra. Penn's last win came January 4, 2012 in Easton, Pa.

 

• Lafayette won last year's game, 92-86, as each team put five different players in double figures in the scoring column. Among Penn's current players, Matt Howard had 15 points in last year's game while Sam Jones had 10.

• This will be the second meeting between Penn head coach Steve Donahue and Lafayette head coach Fran O'Hanlon since Donahue returned to University City. The two were assistant coaches at Penn together under current Temple head coach Fran Dunphy for five seasons (1990-91 to 1994-95), helping the Quakers to three-straight undefeated Ivy League championships from 1993-95.

Following a loss to Navy on November 26, Penn is now 162-58 all-time against programs that currently play in the Patriot League. (American 6-0, Holy Cross 3-3, Army 21-12, Lafayette 40-9, Boston University 1-0, Lehigh 22-5, Bucknell 4-1, Loyola (Md.) 0-1, Colgate 7-1, Navy ... 58-26)

2 • Categories in which senior Matt Howard leads the Ivy League: three-point field goal percentage (.524) and offensive rebounds per game (2.5).

5 • Double-figure scoring games so far for freshman AJ Brodeur , tops among Penn players this season.

8.0 • Average steals per game by Penn so far this season, tied with Brown for tops among Ivy League teams.

11 • Number of Penn players on the current roster who have had at least one double-figure scoring game during their career; six different players have reached double digits in a game this season.

11.5 • Average offensive rebounds per game by Penn so far this season, tops among the Ivy League. (Second-place Yale is at 11.4; Harvard is third at 10.0)

78.8 • Percentage of points from a year ago that return to Penn's lineup for the 2016-17 season (1,506 out of 1,911).

88.2 • Penn's free-throw percentage last Saturday at Temple (15 of 17).

92.3 • Percentage of sophomore Jackson Donahue's field goals this season (13) that have come from beyond the arc (12).