PHILADELPHIA – One night after allowing 90 points in a win over Brown, the University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team used shut-down defense throughout the entire 40 minutes on Saturday in defeating Yale, 59-50, at the Palestra.
 
With the win, the Quakers remain unbeaten in Ivy League play at 5-0 with all of the victories coming at home. Penn is 15-6 overall. Yale fell to 9-13 overall, 2-4 in Ivy play.
 
For the second straight night, senior Caleb Wood led the scoring brigade for the hosts as he scored 14 points and also grabbed seven rebounds (one shy of his season/career high). Junior Antonio Woods added 13 points, while Ryan Betley had 12 and Max Rothschild scored 10 while snaring eight boards and dishing out four assists. Among the other starters, both AJ Brodeur and Darnell Foreman scored just two points but Brodeur led the Quakers with nine rebounds and Foreman topped the team with five assists.
 
Notes
*Penn is 5-0 in Ivy League play for the first time since the 2005-06 season. That team ended the year 12-2 in conference play and won the league title.
 
*Penn has held five opponents to less than 60 points in a game this season, and is 5-0 in those contests.
 
*Penn improved to 9-3 at The Palestra this season, and the Quakers are now 13-2 this year when leading at the half.
 
*Penn is now 13-1 this season when shooting a better field-goal percentage than its opponent (Penn 37.7, Yale 33.9), and 13-3 when making more three-pointers than its opponent (Penn 5, Yale 1).
 
*Head Coach Steve Donahue is now 39-38 at Penn; he has a winning record overseeing the Quakers for the first time since he was 4-3 seven games into his tenure.

*Penn shot 8-of-9 from the foul line, a season-high 88.9 percent.
 
*Yale shot 1-of-19 from three-point land on Saturday, by far the worst percentage by an opponent in the Donahue coaching era; the previous low was Villanova's 1-for-11 performance on December 28, 2015.
 
*The Bulldogs' one trey matched an opponent low in the Donahue era, set twice previously (Villanova on 12/28/15, Yale on 2/20/16).
 
*Wood has now led Penn in scoring in two-straight games and four this season. This was his fourth-straight game in double figures, and his ninth such game this season. (Penn is 8-1 in those games.)
 
*Wood's seven rebounds were one shy of his season/career high, set on January 13 against Columbia.
 
*Woods has scored in double figures in three straight games and nine games this season. (Penn is 8-1 in those games.)
 
*Betley has now scored in double digits in eight straight games and 18 games overall this season.
 
*Rothschild's 10-point performance was his ninth such game this season.
 
*Brodeur has led Penn in rebounding in each of the last three games (33 in that span) and six of the last seven contests.
 
How It Happened
Yale's Miye Oni scored the game's first four points on the Bulldogs' first two possessions, but Penn recovered to score the next seven points. Yale again hit a modest four-point run, but Max Rothschild hit a layup off a Ryan Betley feed and the Quakers never trailed in the contest again. It was 19-18 before the Red and Blue went on a 10-2 run, holding the Bulldogs scoreless for more than three minutes and to just one field goal over a span of 7:18. At the half, Penn's lead was 31-25.
 
Betley hit a three-pointer to open the second-half scoring, and then Rothschild hit a layup to make it 36-25. Yale eventually got within three points, at 43-40, but sophomore Jake Silpe—who had hit just two three-pointers all season—knocked down a pair of treys on consecutive possessions and then Betley hit a layup that pushed the lead back up to double digits at 51-40.
 
Amazingly, neither team scored for the next 5:27 after that, before Brodeur scored his only points of the night to make it 53-40. Paul Atkinson (20 points, 13 rebounds) finally scored for Yale, ending a Bulldogs drought of 7:23, and that sparked the visitors to a 10-2 run that made the score 55-50 with 1:03 still to play. The Bulldogs then had a chance to get within one possession in the final minute, but turned it over and Caleb Wood hit a pair of foul shots that settled things down.
 
Up Next
Penn is on the road for the first time in 59 days on Tuesday night, facing archrival Princeton at Jadwin Gym in the first of five straight Ivy League road games. Tuesday's game will tip off at 6 p.m. and air on ESPNU.