Penn-Dartmouth Box Score (PDF)
HANOVER, N.H. - The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team fought and fought, but could never break through Saturday night in taking a 74-71 loss at Dartmouth. The Quakers were down 14 early in the second half and by 10 with less than nine minutes to play, but got within a possession on several occasions down the stretch. However, Dartmouth was able to keep the Red and Blue at bay to gain its first Ivy win of the season. Penn is now 7-11 overall, 0-5 in Ivy play.
Numbers of Note
*Junior Darnell Foreman played nearly the entire game and led Penn with 15 points. He also had four rebounds and four assists (against just one turnover).
*Junior Sam Jones came off the bench and scored 12 point, including a trio of three-pointers and a rare four-point play (made trey and a foul shot).
*Freshman Ryan Betley scored seven of Penn's first nine points and finished with 11 points on the night.
*Freshman AJ Brodeur set a season/career high with five blocked shots, tied for the most by a Penn player in the Donahue coaching era. He also had nine points, three rebounds and three assists.
How It Happened
Thanks to a nice start by freshman Ryan Betley, Penn was up 15-8 early, before Dartmouth used a 14-2 run that pushed the Big Green in front 22-17. The teams traded points for several minutes after that, with Penn gaining a 30-28 lead late in the period on a Betley jumper. Dartmouth scored the next five points, though, and it was 33-31 Big Green at the break.
Dartmouth opened the second half on a 14-2 run that pushed the Big Green's lead out to 47-33, a run that was propelled by three long-range treys and an old-fashioned three-point play. Penn scored the game's next five points.
It was still 54-40 when the Quakers went on an 11-2 run that got them back into it. Dartmouth stopped the run in dramatic fashion, Ian Sistare hitting a trey just as the shot clock expired, but Penn responded with the next six points—four of them on a trey-and-one by Sam Jones—and that made it a one-possession game with more than six minutes left.
The teams then traded points the rest of the way, Penn crawling within a possession six more times but never able to tie or get ahead of its hosts. The Big Green's Miles Wright was a particular thorn, sandwiching a pair of three-pointers around a Jones trey to twice put Dartmouth up by five. After his second trifecta, Foreman hit a short jumper but Dartmouth's Evan Boudreaux answered with a fallaway along the baseline.
Next Up
Penn is at home for its next three games, starting Tuesday night when the Quakers host archrival Princeton at 7 p.m. Penn Athletics also will celebrate 90 years of The Palestra on that night, and the game will air on Comcast SportsNet in Philadelphia as well as the Ivy League Digital Network worldwide.
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