PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team was forced to go to overtime with Monmouth for the second year in a row. After Penn went to West Long Branch last year and emerged victorious after a record-tying four extra sessions, the Hawks exacted revenge on Monday as they pulled out a 76-74 win on Macquarie Court at The Palestra.
 
The loss was the second in three days for the 10-4 Quakers and snapped a 12-game win streak at The Palestra that dated back to last year. Monmouth, meanwhile, won for the first time this season and improved to 1-12 overall.
 
Notes
*For the first time this season, Penn lost a game it led at halftime (previously 8-0 in such games).
 
*For the first time this season, Penn lost a game in which it reached 70 points (previously 10-0 in such games).
 
*For the first time this season, Penn lost a game in which at least three players scored in double figures (previously 9-0 in such games).
 
*For the first time since the 2016-17 season, Penn lost a game in which it made more free throws than its opponent (Penn 19, Monmouth 17); the Quakers were 6-0 in such games this year and 14-0 last year.
 
*Penn hit 11 three-point baskets, the sixth time hitting double digits in that category this season.
 
*Senior Antonio Woods had his second collegiate double-double—his first with a point-rebound combination—as he finished the day with 19 points and a career-high 12 rebounds.

*Woods went a perfect 6-of-6 at the foul line, tied for the best free-throw performance by a Penn player in the Donahue coaching era.
 
*Senior AJ Brodeur finished one rebound shy of a double-double, with a game-high 20 points and nine boards.

*For the first time in his Penn career, the Quakers lost when Brodeur hit the 20-point mark in a game (previously 10-0 in such games).
 
*Brodeur has 110 points over Penn's last six games (18.3 ppg) and 131 during his eight-game streak of double-figure scoring games (16.4 ppg).
 
*Freshman Bryce Washington hit season/career highs in points (17) and three-point baskets (5).
 
*Junior Kuba Mijakowski scored five points, one shy of his season high, set a season high in rebounds (4), and established a career high with three assists.
 
*Sophomore Jarrod Simmons matched his season high with five rebounds.
 
How It Happened
Penn has been playing short-handed all year, without last year's leading scorer (Ryan Betley, injured in the season opener) and the Quakers' projected starting point guard (Jelani Williams, injured over the summer).
 
Starting center Max Rothschild has sat out the last three games. His replacement in the lineup, Michael Wang, was injured early against Toledo and also sat on Monday. Add in another key bench player, Tyler Hamilton, and suddenly depth is becoming a concern for Penn.
 
That was certainly the case on Monday, as an undersized and short-handed Quakers team fell to a winless Monmouth squad.
 
This game was back-and-forth all night, with 13 lead changes and 12 ties and neither team ever holding a lead larger than six points.
 
Penn led 32-30 at the half, but Monmouth rolled up 10 of the first 12 points in the second period to go up 40-34. The Quakers would not lead again until less than two minutes remained, as Antonio Woods hit a three-point shot to tie things up at 65-65 and then followed up with two free throws after a defensive stop. Monmouth's Ray Salnave (17 points) came back with his own foul shots to tie things up with 1:15 left, and neither team scored again in regulation.
 
AJ Brodeur scored quickly to open the extra session, but then missed four foul shots in a row that could have extended the lead. Instead, Diago Quinn (19 points, 14 rebounds) hit both ends of a 1-and-1—after a Penn lane violation nullified his missed first shot—and then Melik Martin banked home a jumper to put the Hawks up 71-69. Woods hit another trey to give Penn a 72-71 lead, and Quinn hit one of two free throws to tie things at 72-72 with 1:23 to play.
 
Penn turned it over on its possession, a tapped pass going through a Quakers player legs and into the backcourt. At the other end, Salnave got in the lane and hit a layup to give Monmouth a 74-72 lead. Brodeur came back to tie the game one final time with a layup off a nice feed from Woods with 13.4 seconds left, but his and-1 free throw (which would have given Penn the lead) was off the mark. That set the stage for Salnave's heroics, as he drove into Woods and made the layup with 2.3 seconds left.
 
Woods had a long three to win the game, but his effort just inside the half-court line was off to the right.
 
Up Next
Penn opens Ivy League play on Saturday at Princeton, the first of consecutive games against the archrival Tigers. Tipoff next Saturday in New Jersey is 5 p.m., following the Penn-Princeton women's game at 2 p.m.