PHILADELPHIA – The calendar has turned from the busiest November in history, but there is no rest for the University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team. Not just yet. The Quakers continue this stretch that has them playing eight straight games away from home, and will play three games in a five-day stretch this week. The first takes place on Monday night in our nation's capital, as the Red and Blue make their first appearance ever at Howard's Burr Gymnasium.
 
GAME 10 – PENN (5-4) at HOWARD (1-7)
Monday, Dec. 4, 2017 * 7 p.m.
Burr Gymnasium (Washington, D.C.)
 
THE SERIES
• This is just the second meeting between the Quakers and the Bison in men's basketball.
 
• The first meeting took place on November 17, 2007 at The Palestra in Philadelphia. Howard, coached at the time by longtime Penn assistant coach Gil Jackson, came into Philly and knocked off the Quakers, 80-65.
 
PENN vs. THE MEAC
Penn is 1-2 all-time against programs that currently play in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. As it turns out, the only other MEAC team Penn has played in its history is Delaware State, and the Quakers and Hornets will match up again on December 27 at The Palestra to break a 1-1 tie in the series.
 
PENN BY THE NUMBERS
5 • Five different players have led Penn in scoring in at least one game this season: senior Caleb Wood; junior Max Rothschild; sophomores Ryan Betley and AJ Brodeur; and freshman Jarrod Simmons.
 
6 • Overtime periods played this season by Penn, including four two Saturdays ago at Monmouth. It was just the second 4OT game in program history, the first coming on March 13, 1920 (Penn 26, Princeton 23).
 
8 • Penn is in the midst of playing eight-straight games away from The Palestra, The Quakers have not played at home since November 18, and their next home game is not until December 27 when Delaware State comes to town.
 
9 • Penn played nine games in November, a program record. Among NCAA Division 1 programs, only Chicago State (10) played more before December.
 
14 • Players on this year's roster with at least one double-figure scoring game at Penn. That includes seven players who have had at least one 20-point game, and six with at least one double-double. This season alone, 10 different players have reached double digits!
 
21 • Points scored by freshman Eddie Scott in the win at Monmouth; he has a combined 12 points in Penn's other eight games. Scott also had 13 rebounds, a Penn high this season, for his first collegiate double-double.
 
48 • Points scored at the Gulf Coast Showcase by Brodeur, who earned all-tournament honors.
 
90 • Penn has scored at least 90 points three times already this season (99 vs. PSU-Brandywine, 93 vs. Northern Illinois, 101 at Monmouth). The last time the Quakers had three such games in an entire season was 2006-07.