PHILADELPHIA – With four wins in a row in Ivy League play, the University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team has put itself right back in the hunt for a spot in the inaugural Ivy League Tournament. The Quakers look to keep their momentum going with their second-straight road trip, this weekend to face Cornell on Friday and Columbia on Saturday.

Both of this weekend's games will air on the subscription-based Ivy League Digital Network (ILDN); Saturday's game at Columbia also will air for free on ESPN3.

FRIDAY (all at 7 p.m.): Penn (4-6) at Cornell (3-7); Princeton (10-0) at Columbia (4-6); Brown (2-8) at Dartmouth (3-7); Yale (6-4) at Harvard (8-2).

SATURDAY: Princeton at Cornell, 6; Penn at Columbia, 7; Yale at Dartmouth, 7; Brown at Harvard, 8.

• Penn has made this New York swing 57 times previously.

• The Quakers have swept this road trip 22 times, most recently in 2011-12; split it 25 times, including each of the last four years; and been swept 10 times, most recently in 2010-11.

 

• The Quakers hold a 153-74 lead in the series, and have beaten the Big Red more than any other team in the program's long and storied history.

• Penn has won eight in a row and ten of the last 11 meetings with Cornell.

• Penn won the first meeting between these teams two weeks ago, 82-63. Freshman Ryan Betley had 22 points to lead four Red and Blue players in double figures, while classmate AJ Brodeur scored 15 points and blocked five shots.

• Penn has won five in a row in Ithaca, including a 92-84 victory last year when Head Coach Steve Donahue made his first return to Newman Arena since leaving Cornell after the 2009-10 season (after a third-straight Ivy title and a trip to the NCAA's Sweet Sixteen). Jackson Donahue scored 25 points in the win, while Matt Howard added 20.

• The Quakers lead the overall series, 140-90; however, the Lions have won two of the last three, four of the last six, and five of the last eight meetings.

• Penn won the first meeting between these two teams, just 15 days ago, taking a 70-62 decision at The Palestra. Sam Jones had 17 points to lead the Quakers, while Brodeur had a double-double (14 points, 10 rebounds). Luke Petrasek had 18 points to lead the Lions.

 • Columbia swept Penn in last year's games, taking a 63-53 win here in New York City and then gaining a 93-65 victory at The Palestra.

• Penn has not won at Levien Gym since the 2012 season, losing the last four games here, and is just 3-8 over the last 11 games in NYC dating back to the Quakers' 2006 championship season. (The other wins came in 2007, Penn's last title campaign, and 2009.)

1 • Games lost by Penn when leading at the half under Steve Donahue; the Quakers are 16-1 (10-1 this season), with the loss coming February 3 at Harvard.

4 • Penn's win streak entering the weekend, its longest since a seven-game run late in the 2011-12 season.

7 • Players who have led Penn in scoring in a game so far this season: Ryan Betley, AJ Brodeur, Darnell Foreman, Matt Howard, Jackson Donahue, Caleb Wood, and Sam Jones.

+20 • Penn's rebound margin over Brown last Friday (43-23); the Quakers were +45 over a three-game span before going -7 at Yale last Sunday.

47 • Points scored by freshman Devon Goodman during this win streak; he totaled 27 in Penn's first 19 contests.

61 • Blocked shots this season for Brodeur, a Penn single-season record, after he had 10 last weekend at Brown (6) and Yale (4); the previous mark of 58 was set by Geoff Owens in 1998-99.

62 • Points scored over the last three games by Betley (22 vs. Cornell, 28 at Brown, 12 at Yale). On Monday, he was named co-Big 5 Player of the Week and co-Ivy League Rookie of the Week.

128:18 • Amount of game time that has passed since Penn trailed in a game. The Quakers never trailed against Brown or Yale last weekend, nor Cornell two weeks ago; the last time they trailed was with 8:18 left in their game with Columbia on February 10.