Penn-Yale Box Score (PDF)
PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania's men's basketball team was unable to overcome a cold shooting night, ultimately falling to the Yale Bulldogs in The Palestra by a score of 68-60.
With the loss, the Quakers fall to 0-2 in the Ivy League and 6-7 overall. Yale improves to 9-5, 1-0 in the Ivy League.
Numbers of Note
*Sophomore Jackson Donahue and freshman AJ Brodeur each scored a team-high 13 points. Brodeur also led the Quakers with eight rebounds.
*Junior Matt MacDonald scored eight points on 2-of-5 shooting, tying a season high with a pair of three-pointers.
*The Quakers shot 35 percent (21-of-60) from the floor, including 7-of-27 from three-point range.
*Penn tied a season-low with nine turnovers, a feat they have accomplished three times this season.
*The visitors began both halves on 10-2 runs, capitalizing on slow starts
from the Quakers. The Red and Blue didn't score their first points of the second
half until the 14:24 mark.
*Yale's Miye Oni scored all of his 18 points in the second half, finishing the game 5-of-7 from the field. He also added nine rebounds.
How it Happened
It was a slow start
for the Penn offense, as the Quakers made just four of their first 12 shots
from the floor. Brodeur put in two of those buckets, but Yale was able to build
early leads of 10-2 and 17-10. Although a three-pointer from Devon Goodman cut
the lead to four, the Quakers' shooting woes continued for much of the first
half.
Trailing by nine
with a little over five minutes remaining, a Matt MacDonald three-pointer
seemingly kick-started the Penn offense. Back-to-back lay-ups from Max
Rothschild and Jackson Donahue trimmed the lead to just two, 27-25. Rothschild
followed up with a pair of free throws to cap off an 11-2 run and tie the game
at 27-27. Caleb Wood finished the Penn scoring with a three-pointer with under
a minute left, but the Quakers went to the locker room down, 34-32.
Yale stretched its
lead in the second half thanks to another slow start offensively for Penn. In
fact, the Bulldogs began the second 20 just like the first—with a 10-2 run. The
Red and Blue didn't score their first points of the second half until the 14:24
mark—a circus shot from Howard which cut the Yale lead to 41-34. The Quakers inched
even closer to 44-38 following a Donahue step-back three-pointer.
The six-point
deficit, however, would be the closest Penn would get. Yale went on a 13-4 run to extend the lead out to 57-42. Donahue struck again to
cut the advantage to 57-45, but the Bulldogs never let the lead slip to single digits. Goodman knocked in Penn's final three-pointer of the game to trim the lead to 66-55.
Up Next
The Quakers will be
back at home tomorrow night, hosting the Brown Bears at 8 p.m. It will once
again be the nightcap of a men's and women's doubleheader at The Palestra. The
women are set for a 5:30 tip.
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