PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team showed no signs of rust off an 18-day layoff from exams, as the Quakers used a quick start to dominate Delaware State Wednesday night at The Palestra, 105-52.

The 53-point margin of victory was the largest ever by the Quakers against a Division 1 opponent, surpassed only by the team's 99-40 win over Penn State-Brandywine earlier this year. Prior to the season, the record for margin of victory was 51, against Cornell in 1974 
 
With the win, the Quakers have now won four in a row, six of the last seven, and are 9-2 since a 0-2 start to the season. The 9-4 record is Penn's best after 13 games since the 2001-02 team was 10-3 at this juncture. The Hornets, meanwhile, fell to 2-13.
 
Notes
*Penn set an NCAA Division 1 record on Wednesday night, as ten different players hit three-point shots in the game. The previous record of nine was set three times, originally by Dartmouth in 1993 and most recently by Michigan in 2008.

*The 105 points matched the amount of points scored by the Quakers the last time they reached 100 in regulation. That was January 16, 2006 when they beat Lafayette, 105-73.
 
*Penn has scored more than 100 points twice this season, after doing so just three times previously this century. The last time the Quakers had two 100-point games in the same season was 1994-95. The program record? Penn's 1974-75 team broke the century mark a staggering seven times, while the program's famed 1970-71 team had four such games.
 
*Penn had 55 points at halftime, a high for one period against an NCAA Division 1 team since the Quakers scored 56 in the second half two seasons ago at Cornell.
 
*Penn had nine three-pointers by halftime and finished with 14. The Quakers have reached double figures in that category in four-straight games (48 in that span) and seven times in the last 10 contests.
 
*Penn shot 14-of-27 (.519) from beyond the arc; in the last two games the Quakers are 27 of 49 (.551).
 
*Overall, Penn shot 35 of 57 from the field, a .614 percentage that is a high since the Quakers shot 27 of 43 (.628) against Dartmouth on February 4, 2011.
 
*Penn went 21 of 25 at the foul line, a season-best 84.0 percentage; the Quakers are 34-of-43 (79.1) at the charity stripe the last two games.
 
*Penn had 23 assists, the third time in four games the Quakers have had 20 or more; they have had five such games overall this season.
 
*Additionally, Penn turned it over just seven times which matched a season low (originally set against La Salle).
 
*Penn had five players score in double figures, the third time that has happened this season.
 
*Freshman Jarrod Simmons scored a team-high 12 points, his second double-figure scoring game this season.
 
*Senior Caleb Wood had 11 points, his third time in the last four games reaching double digits and the fifth time this season. Penn is unbeaten this season when Wood hits double figures.
 
*Junior Antonio Woods had all of his 10 points before halftime; this was his second-straight game in double figures and fifth this season.
 
*Junior Max Rothschild scored 10 points, hitting each of his first four field goals. He also has five such games this season.
 
*Sophomore Devon Goodman also had 10 points, his first double-digit game this season and fourth of his career. Goodman becomes the 12th different Penn player to record at least one double-figure scoring game this season, which is just 13 games old.
 
*Senior Sam Jones knocked down three more three-pointers in the game for nine points, giving him 12 in the last four contests. He is 12 of 19 (.632) beyond the arc during this four-game stretch.
 
*All 15 Penn players who took a field goal in the game made one.
 
How It Happened
Delaware State opened the scoring on Wednesday with an Artem Tavakalyan bucket, but Penn reeled off the game's next 12 points and that set the tone for the night. If there was any doubt left before halftime, the Quakers put it to rest by going on a 15-2 run to end the period, the exclamation point an emphatic slam dunk by freshman Jarrod Simmons. That made it 55-24 as the teams went to the locker rooms.
 
Penn went on a 7-2 run to start the second half, and after that the only question was whether or not the Quakers would reach 100 at home for the first time since the 2005-06 season. Despite liberal substitutions throughout the period, they did that with more than three minutes left when sophomore Ray Jerome knocked down a three-pointer, making him the tenth different player to hit a trey in the game for the Red and Blue.
 
Up Next
Penn is back in action on Friday, hosting Toledo in its final tune-up before Ivy League play starts a week from Friday. The Quakers and Rockets will tip off in The Palestra at 4 p.m.