PRINCETON, N.J. – Sweep!
 
Put another "W" under the Penn name on the all-time Penn-Princeton scoreboard at The Palestra, as the University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team ran out to an 11-0 lead on its archrivals and never looked back en route to a nationally televised, 82-65 win as part of ESPN's "Rivalry Week" coverage on ESPNU.
 
The Quakers now hold a 126-113 lead in the all-time series thanks to its largest win at Jadwin Gym since a 24-point victory over the Tigers in a game Penn won, 62-38, on Feb. 12, 2002.
 
Notes
*The Quakers swept Princeton for the first time since 2007-08.
 
*Penn is 6-0 in Ivy League play for the first time since 2005-06.
 
*Penn scored 82 points, more than any other Quakers team in a game at Princeton and tied for the most in any Penn-Princeton game since the 1968-69 season (also 1972 and 2012).
 
*Penn shot a staggering 15-of-16 from inside the arc in the second half.
 
*Penn put five players in double figures in scoring.
 
*Penn went 13-of-17 at the foul line on Tuesday and is now 21-of-26 (80.8 percent) at the charity stripe over the last two games.
 
*Penn is 11-0 when taking more free throws than its opponent (Penn 17, Princeton 15) and 9-0 when making more FT than its opponent (Penn 13, Princeton 12).
 
*Penn shot 53.6 percent from the field, its best percentage since Delaware State on December 27 (61.4) and its sixth time shooting better than 50 percent this season.
 
*Penn is 14-1 this season when shooting a better field-goal percentage than its opponent (Penn 53.6, Princeton 40.4) and 14-3 when making more three-pointers than its opponent (Penn 9, Princeton 7).
 
*Penn is 14-2 this season when leading at the half and 11-3 when outrebounding its opponent (Penn 34, Princeton 31).
 
*Senior Darnell Foreman set career highs in points (21) and steals (5).
 
*Foreman was 7-for-8 from the field, including 3-for-3 from three-point range. His three made three-pointers tied his career high.
 
*Junior Max Rothschild was the only starter to finish in single digits in scoring (8 points), but he set a season/career high with six assists.
 
*Sophomore AJ Brodeur scored all of his 17 points in the second half, going 8-of-10 from the field in that period.
 
*Only six Quakers saw more than two minutes of action, and five of those six finished in double figures in scoring – the second time in three games that Penn had five players with 10+ points.
 
How It Happened
The Quakers had the game's first eight points after just 2:36 of game action, forcing a Princeton timeout. Out of the timeout, the Tigers turned the ball over and Antonio Woods capitalized with a three-pointer to give Penn an 11-0 lead.
 
Princeton made a modicum of a comeback to get within seven at 15-8, but Ryan Betley twice picked up a defensive rebound and turned the board into a bucket at the other end to extend Penn's lead to 20-8 with 12 minutes remaining in the first half to again force a Princeton timeout.
 
The Tigers settled down, climbing to within two at 25-23 following a Myles Stephen putback with 7:48 left in the first half. Betley countered on the next possession, with a layup of his own, adding a free throw to give him 11 points through 13 minutes and Penn a 28-23 lead.
 
Devin Cannady gave Princeton its first—and, as it turned out, its only—lead of the game with 2:19 remaining in the first half, laying in a bucket to tie the game at 30-30 before adding a subsequent free throw. That lead was short-lived, however, as Caleb Wood drained a three-pointer on the next possession to give Penn a 33-31 lead. Five made free throws extended the lead to 38-31 with 1:06 remaining before Sebastian Much hit a mid-range jumper to end Penn's 8-0 run and cut the Penn advantage to 38-33 with 37 seconds left in the half. A Myles Stephens tip at the buzzer was good and made the score 40-35 in favor of the Quakers after twenty minutes.
 
Out of halftime, Princeton crept back within two at 44-42 after a Stephens layup 2:28 in. Darnell Foreman countered with two layups of his own, building a six-point lead for the Red and Blue.
 
After going scoreless in the first half, AJ Brodeur caught fire in the second. He went 6-for-7 to open the second half, scoring nine points in a row including a personal 6-0 run to turn a 53-47 Penn lead into a 59-47 edge with 10:55 to play.
 
Brodeur's spurt to start the second half put Princeton away. The Tigers never clawed closer than 10 points down the remainder of the game, Penn's lead ballooning as high as 21 on two separate occasions. The highlight was a 13-2 Penn run to slam the door with 2:29 remaining after Princeton had closed within 10.
 
Up Next
Penn makes its first Ivy League weekend road trip this Friday and Saturday, traveling to Dartmouth and Harvard. The Quakers and Big Green tip off Friday at 7 p.m., while Penn and Harvard will meet Saturday at 4 p.m.
 
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