NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team used quick starts in both halves on Sunday afternoon at Yale's John J. Lee Amphitheater. The second, a 21-5 run to start the second half, proved insurmountable as the Quakers gained a 71-55 win over the Bulldogs. It was Penn's first win at Yale since the 2010-11 season.

It was the Red and Blue's fourth win in a row and moved them to 11-12 overall, 4-6 in Ivy League play. Yale fell to 14-9 overall, 6-4 in Ivy play.

Penn has moved from last place in the Ivy League standings to fourth in the span of nine days. The Quakers are tied with Columbia for fourth in the standings, but currently hold the tiebreaker by virtue of their 70-62 win over the Lions last Friday at The Palestra. Penn and Columbia meet in New York City on Saturday night.

PENN GAMES LEFT: at Cornell, at Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard

COLUMBIA GAMES LEFT: Princeton, Penn, at Brown, at Yale

*The four-game win streak is Penn's longest this season and the longest since a seven-game win streak near the end of the 2011-12 season.

*This was Penn's first Ivy road sweep since that same 2011-12 season (at Dartmouth/Harvard), and the Quakers' first road sweep of Brown and Yale since 2011.

*The last time Penn swept an Ivy road weekend with a pair of double-digit wins was its first two league games during its last championship season, 2006-07. The Quakers opened Ivy play with a 74-56 win at Cornell and a 69-43 victory at Columbia.

*For the second time in as many games, Penn put five players in double figures (after not doing it in any of the first 21 contests).

*For the third-straight game, Penn never trailed at any point. 

*Penn shot 50.9 percent on Sunday, the third-straight game the Quakers were over the 50-percent mark. During that span, Penn is 92 of 169 (54.4 percent).

*Penn has made 43 three-pointers during this four-game win streak.

*Penn had 19 assists on Sunday, and has a 64.7-percent assist-to-FG ratio over the last five games (88 assists on 136 field goals).

*Junior Darnell Foreman had a team-high 15 points—including a trio of three-point baskets, his career high—and added four assists and three steals.

*Senior Matt Howard had 14 points and five assists, and also had three treys.

*Freshman AJ Brodeur nearly had a double-double (12 points, 9 rebounds) and blocked four shots; that gave him 10 blocks for the weekend and 61 for the season which is a program single-season record. The previous mark was 58, set by Geoff Owens in 1998-99.

*Freshman Ryan Betley scored 12 points, giving him 62 for the last three games, while Devon Goodman had 11 points off the bench. They also combined for seven assists and four steals.

Penn started Sunday's game red-hot, scoring nine in a row after the teams traded baskets to open the contest. That put the Quakers up 11-2, and they never relinquished that lead in the period although the Bulldogs crept within a point by halftime. The score was 28-21 late in the period after Ryan Betley knocked down a corner trey, but Yale scored nine of the final 12 points in the period to make it 31-30 at the break.

Penn used another blitz to start the second half, AJ Brodeur scoring twice inside and Matt Howard hitting a pair of treys for 10 straight points that forced Yale to call timeout. Out of that break, another Penn steal led to a trey by Darnell Foreman, making it a 13-0 run, before Miye Oni finally ended the run with an acrobatic layup.

Penn's lead opened up to 52-35 when Devon Goodman hit a layup with just over 11 minutes remaining, Yale got within 54-42, but Ryan Betley completed an and-1 play around a media timeout and that jump-started the Quakers on an 8-0 run that made it a 20-point margin with just over six minutes to play (62-42).

Penn is on the road again next weekend, traveling to Cornell to face the Big Red on Friday night and then meeting Columbia in New York City on Saturday. Both games will tip off at 7 p.m.