PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team continues its grueling opening week, playing its third game in five days on Wednesday night when Navy sails into town. The Quakers and the Midshipmen will tip off at 7 p.m. at The Palestra, less than 48 hours after Penn's grueling, 75-71 double-overtime loss to Big 5 rival La Salle on Monday night.
 
GAME 3 – PENN (0-2) vs. NAVY (1-1)
Wednesday, November 15, 2017 * 7 p.m.
The Palestra (Philadelphia)
 
THE SERIES
• This marks the fourth-straight year the Quakers and Midshipmen have played, and the 85th meeting all-time. Penn has not played any other non-Ivy, non-Big 5 opponent more times.
 
• Navy has won two in a row and four of the last five in this series, but Penn still holds a 58-26 lead overall.
 
• The Midshipmen won last year's contest in Annapolis, holding the Red and Blue scoreless for the game's final 5:21 and scoring the last nine points to take a 70-68 decision.
 
PENN vs. THE PATRIOT LEAGUE
The Quakers are 163-58 all-time against programs that currently play in the Patriot League. This is the first of two games that Penn will play against Patriot competition, as the Red and Blue travel to Lafayette on December 6.
 
PENN BY THE NUMBERS
3 • This is the third season for Penn's John R. Rockwell Head Coach of Men's Basketball, Steve Donahue. Prior to his return to University City, where he was an assistant coach for 10 years, Donahue was head at Cornell and Boston College.
 
5 • The number of players who set career highs in minutes played on Monday: Ryan Betley (46), AJ Brodeur (46), Darnell Foreman (44), Antonio Woods (31), and Max Rothschild (38). Coincidentally, all five reached double figures in scoring.
 
9 • Penn will play nine games in November, a program record. In an informal survey of the other SIDs around the country, only Chicago State (with 10) will play more games before the calendar turns to December.
 
10 • Consecutive games in which the sophomore Betley has scored in double figures, dating back to last season; he has averaged 17.6 ppg in those contests including 34 points so far this year (20 at Fairfield, 14 vs. La Salle).
 
12 • Players on this year's roster with at least one double-figure scoring game at Penn. That includes six players who have had at least one 20-point game, and five with at least one double-double.
 
16 • Combined number of turnovers committed by Penn in its first two games; the 8.0 per-game average is well below that same number from last year (12.8), and Penn is +17 in turnovers and +16 in points off turnovers.
 
39 • Three-point shots taken Saturday at Fairfield by Penn, a program record for a game. The previous mark of 38 was set last year against Saint Joseph's.
 
40.5 • Average minutes per game played by the sophomore Brodeur so far this season. That is unusual to see, of course, because a typical game is just 40 minutes. That's what happens when the second game of the season goes double overtime!