PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team gets back to facing Division 1 competition on Tuesday, as the Quakers make the short trip to Delaware State to face the Hornets in a game that tips off at 7:30 p.m.
 
GAME 8 – PENN (5-2) vs. DELAWARE STATE (1-5)
Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018 * 7:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall (Dover, Del.)
Penn Game Notes | DSU Game Notes
 
The Series with Delaware State
• This is the fourth meeting between the Quakers and the Hornets in men's basketball, all of them happening in the last five seasons.
 
• Penn leads the series 2-1 after a 105-52 rout last year at The Palestra. It marked the first time the home team had won in the series, as DSU won in Philadelphia in 2014-15 (77-75 in overtime) and the Quakers returned the favor in Dover in 2015-16 (60-54).
 
• In last year's win over the Hornets, Penn broke an NCAA Division 1 record when 10 different players hit three-pointers. As it turns out, the Quakers fell just one player short of their own mark on Saturday, as nine different players hit treys in the team's 112-63 win over Division 3 Stockton.
 
• Penn is 3-2 all-time against programs currently in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), as the Quakers are 1-1 against Howard and 2-1 vs. DSU.
 
Fast Out of the Gate
Penn started 4-0 for the first time since the 1978-79 season, which coincidentally was the year that the Quakers made it to arguably the most famous Final Four of all time with Magic Johnson's Michigan State, Larry Bird's Indiana State, and Mark Aguirre's DePaul teams. The Quakers enter the Delaware State game 5-2, with the losses coming to No. 12 Kansas State and Oregon State.
 
Penn by the Numbers
2 • Philadelphia Big 5 Player of the Week awards won by Penn players through the first three weeks of the season. Junior AJ Brodeur was Player of the Week for Nov. 12, and junior Devon Goodman won it for Nov. 19.
 
3 • Ivy League weekly awards won through the first three weeks this season by Penn. Junior AJ Brodeur was Ivy Player of the Week for Nov. 12, and Goodman (Player) and Wang (Rookie) swept the awards for Nov. 19.
 
3 • Points scored by junior Ryan Betley in Penn's season opener, when he drained a three-pointer on Penn's first possession of 2018-19; less than five minutes later he ruptured his patellar tendon, and so last year's leading scorer will miss the remainder of the season.
 
3 • NCAA Division 1 players this year from China, including freshman Michael Wang. He shares the distinction with James Zhao (California) and Kevin Zhang (Tulane). Wang played his high school ball at Mater Dei (Calif.).
 
4 • Three-point baskets made by freshman Bryce Washington in the second half of Penn win over Northern Iowa on November 16. They came on four attempts and were hit in a span of 9:06 of game time.
 
5 • Consecutive games in which Goodman has led Penn in scoring; he has averaged 18.0 ppg in that span.
 
11 • The number of times Penn has hit 90 points in the 96-game Donahue era after wins over Rice (92-76), Lafayette (91-61) and Stockton (112-63). The last time the Quakers surpassed 90 points against consecutive Division I opponents was 2002-03, when they scored 99 points at USC and then scored 98 vs. Monmouth.
 
12 • Kansas State's AP national ranking when Penn played the Wildcats in a Paradise Jam semifinal on November 18. K-State beat the Quakers, 64-48.
 
20 • Consecutive games Penn won when shooting more free throws than its opponent, before the Quakers lost such a game on November 18 vs. Kansas State. (Penn took 22 foul shots, KSU 18.)
 
24 • Penn wins last season, most since the Quakers had 25 in 2001-02. All time, the Red and Blue have had nine seasons with 24 or more victories.
 
26 • Ivy League titles won by Penn. That is behind only Princeton (27). The rest of the league has 20 combined.
 
29 • Assists on Penn's 42 field goals Saturday vs. Stockton, a 69.0 ratio.
 
40 • Years since Penn started 4-0, which they did this season before Paradise Jam losses to Kansas State and Oregon State. Penn's last 4-0 start came in 1978-79 and ended with a Final Four.
 
58 • Points scored by Goodman at the Paradise Jam (27 vs. Northern Iowa, 18 vs. Kansas State, 13 vs. Oregon State). He was named all-tournament.
 
112 • Penn's point total against Stockton on Saturday, the fourth-highest total in program history and most since scoring 114 vs. Haverford on December 18, 1993.
 
114 • Career blocked shots by Brodeur. Just past the midway point of his college career, he is already fifth on the program's all-time list in that category. Brodeur set the program's single-season record as a freshman, with 66.
 
291 • Three-point baskets scored by Penn last year, a program record. The Quakers have also set program marks each of the last two years in three-point attempts, with 690 in 2016-17 and then 830 last season.
 
39.6 • Penn's win percentage in its first 48 games under head coach Steve Donahue (19-29).
 
70.8 • Penn's win percentage in its last 48 games under Donahue (34-14).