PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team has its 26th Ivy League title within reach. The Quakers' "magic number"—the combination of Penn wins and/or Harvard losses this weekend—is one to earn a share of the title and two to clinch it outright. The Red and Blue will attempt to take care of their business at Yale on Friday and Brown on Saturday, while Harvard is home for this final weekend to take on Cornell and Columbia.
 
Both of Penn's games this weekend will air worldwide on the subscription-based Ivy League Network (ILN), now available on Apple TV, Roku and the ILN app for Android and Apple devices. In Rhode Island, fans can watch Saturday's contest on MyRITV. On the radio, fans can listen to Friday's game nationwide on Westwood One Radio, with Scott Graham and Tom Brennan on the call. Fans also can listen to both of this weekend's games at XPN.org, the Internet site for WXPN 88.5, to hear Matt Leon and Stan Pawlak.
 
THE YALE-BROWN ROAD WEEKEND
Penn has made this traditionally tough New England road trip 61 times previously. The Quakers have swept it 27 times, including last season; split it 28 times, most recently in 2013; and been swept nine times, including three-straight years before last season's Penn sweep.
  
GAME 29 – PENN (21-7, 11-1 Ivy League) at YALE (14-14, 7-5)
Friday, March 2, 2018 * 7 p.m.
John J. Lee Amphitheater (New Haven, Conn.)
 
THE SERIES WITH YALE
• The Quakers and Bulldogs are meeting for the 228th time this weekend, with Penn holding a 148-79 lead in the series.
 
• After losing nine in a row, Penn has taken the last two in this series, a 71-55 decision last year here in New Haven and a 59-50 victory one month ago at The Palestra in Philadephia. Prior to last year's win in New Haven, the Quakers had lost five in a row and six of seven at Payne Whitney Gym.
 
• In the earlier game, senior Caleb Wood led Penn with 14 points while junior Antonio Woods had 13. Max Rothschild had 10 points and eight rebounds, while AJ Brodeur had nine boards.
 
GAME 30 – PENN at BROWN (11-14, 4-8)
Saturday, March 3, 2018 * 6 p.m.
Pizzitola Sports Center (Providence, R.I.)
 
THE SERIES WITH BROWN
• The Quakers and the Bears have met 133 times previously, with Penn holding a 106-27 lead in the series.
 
• Penn has won three of the last four meetings, including a 95-90 overtime decision one month ago at The Palestra. Last year, the Quakers ended a three-game losing streak in Providence with a 96-72 win here at Pizzitola.
 
• In that wild first game this season, Penn overcame a 29-point night by Brown's Desmond Cambridge. Caleb Wood (22 points) and Antonio Woods (21) led five Quakers players in double figures, while AJ Brodeur had nine points and a career-high 13 rebounds.
 
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW...
• Penn has won four in a row, nine of its last 10, 12 of 14, 16 of 19, and is 21-5 since dropping its first two games this season.
 
• Penn can clinch a share of its 26th Ivy League title—but its first since 2006-07—with a win this weekend, and is guaranteed an outright title with a sweep. Penn also wins outright with a win and a Harvard loss, or two Crimson losses. Harvard is home this weekend with Cornell (Fri.) and Columbia (Sat.).
 
• The Quakers have already clinched a bid into the 2018 Ivy League Tournament, which will take place March 10-11 at The Palestra in Philadelphia.
 
• Penn went 7-0 at home against the Ivy League this season, the 24th time that has happened since conference play began but the first time since 2006-07.
 
• Penn entered the weekend as Ivy League leader in four conference categories: scoring margin (+8.0), FG percentage (.468), 3FG percentage defense (.296), and assist/turnover ratio (1.27).
 
PENN BY THE NUMBERS
0 • Three-point shots made by Dartmouth last Friday, on 17 attempts. It was the worst three-point shooting night ever by an opponent against Penn. Previous worst? Penn State went 0-14 in a 62-37 Quakers win on Nov. 23, 2002.
 
2 • Wins over archrival Princeton this season, Penn's first season sweep of the Tigers since the 2007-08 season.
 
4 • Consecutive double-figure scoring games for senior Caleb Wood (12.8 ppg during that span) entering this weekend. Overall, he has 14 such games in 2017-18.
 
5.3 • Yale's three-point shooting percentage when these teams met a month ago; the Bulldogs went 1-19.
 
8 • Eight different players have led Penn in scoring in a game this season: seniors Caleb Wood and Darnell Foreman; juniors Antonio Woods and Max Rothschild; sophomores Ryan Betley, AJ Brodeur and Devon Goodman; and freshman Jarrod Simmons.
 
8 • Penn has had eight different players score at least 20 points in a game this season. That is tops among Division 1 programs in the nation.
 
11 • Rebounds by Foreman last Friday against Dartmouth, a career high. That made up for the fact he was held scoreless for the first time this season. On Saturday against Harvard, Foreman had 14 points and no rebounds.
 
12 • Penn has had 12 different players reach double figures in scoring in a game this year. Only Savannah State (13) has more.
 
21 • Penn wins this season, most in a regular season by the Quakers since they had 22 in 2006-07.
 
28 • Penn's margin of victory last Friday over Dartmouth (74-46), its biggest in an Ivy game since a 78-47 win over the Big Green on February 4, 2011.
 
44 • Points scored by Goodman over Penn's last four games, including 23 at Columbia (2/16). Prior to that, he had 35 points for the season, and had played just two minutes in the Quakers' previous six games (2 at Princeton on February 6).
 
72 • Three-point baskets by Betley so far this season. That is tied for ninth on Penn's single-season list with Garett Kreitz (1996-97 season).
 
81.0 • Penn's Ivy win percentage since a 64-49 loss to Princeton on February 7, 2017 at The Palestra. At the time, the Quakers were 0-6 in League play; since then, they are 17-4 against Ivy foes. The four losses? By 3 at Columbia last year, by 2 at home to Dartmouth last year, by 8 in OT to top-seeded Princeton in last year's Ivy League Tournament semifinal, and by 9 at Harvard on February 10.
 
90 • Penn has scored 90 points five times this season, the most since the 1994-95 squad did it 10 times.
 
100 • Ivy League wins for head coach Steve Donahue; he is the seventh coach in conference history to reach that mark, but the first to do it with two different schools (78 at Cornell, 22 at Penn).
 
102 • Blocked shots by Brodeur in his career. He's one of just six players in program history to reach triple digits in that stat. (He's a sophomore.)
 
185 • Total number of points scored the last time Penn played Brown; the Quakers won in overtime, 95-90. Penn has had only five Ancient Eight contests that ended with more combined points.
 
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