PHILADELPHIA – It's déjà vu all over again this weekend as the University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team meets its archrival, Princeton, for the second time in as many Saturdays. This game will take place on Macquarie Court at The Palestra, tipping off at 2 p.m.

Saturday's game will air nationwide on ESPN+. In the Philadelphia viewing region, fans can watch it on TV on NBC Sports Philadelphia Plus. In New York, fans can watch the game SNY, while in Chicago fans can watch it on NBC Sports Chicago. 
 
GAME 16 – PENN (10-5, 0-1 Ivy League) vs. PRINCETON (8-5, 1-0)
Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019 | 2 p.m.
Macquarie Court at The Palestra (Philadelphia)
Penn Game Notes | Princeton Game Notes
 
Alumni Events
Saturday's game is the showcase for a busy day around the Penn men's basketball program.
 
The program's annual Alumni Game will tip things off on Saturday, taking place from 11 a.m. to noon on the Palestra floor. Fans are invited to come to this free event and cheer on their favorite former Quakers.
 
Penn also will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of the program's 1978-79 Final Four team. Central to that celebration, at halftime of Saturday's Penn-Princeton game the players and coaches from that team will be presented on-court with championship rings signifying their accomplishment.
 
Finally, it's 1970s and 1980s "Decade Day" and all former players from those decades are invited back for pre-game and post-game receptions.
 
Contact Tim McLaughlin (tmclau@upenn.edu) or Nick Kokiko (nkokiko@upenn.edu) with the Penn Champions Club for more information about this weekend's alumni events.
 
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The Series with Princeton
• Saturday represents the 241st meeting between Penn and Princeton in men's basketball, with the Quakers holding a 126-114 lead in the series. Penn has not played any other opponent more than Princeton in its history.
 
• Princeton won the first meeting of the season between these rivals last Saturday in New Jersey, taking a 68-65 decision in overtime. It was the eighth OT game in the last 31 contests between these teams dating back to 2003-04.
 
• Penn swept the series last year, taking a 76-70 win here at The Palestra and an 82-65 victory at Princeton. It was the Quakers' first sweep of the Tigers since the 2007-08 season, and their 82 points in the second win marked a program high at Jadwin Gym.
 
• Prior to last year's Red and Blue sweep, Princeton had won eight in a row over Penn, 11 of the last 12 meetings, and 16 of the previous 18 encounters.
 
Last Saturday at Princeton
Penn and Princeton played a back-and-forth game that saw 14 lead changes, five ties, and no team ever leading by a double-digit margin. Penn put four players in double figures in scoring, led by AJ Brodeur who had 18 points and a career-high 15 rebounds. Devon Goodman scored 15 points, while Bryce Washington and Antonio Woods scored 11 each. For Princeton, Myles Stephens had 11 points and 16 rebounds while Richmond Aririguzoh scored a game-high 20 points.
 
Penn-Princeton Scheduling Notes
• By calendar date, last Saturday's game at Princeton represented the earliest meeting between these Ivy rivals and travel partners since they met on January 5, 1980.
 
• For the first time in history, the Penn-Princeton series will be done before the Quakers play another Ivy League game. Penn's next Ivy League game won't take place until the Red and Blue play at Cornell on Friday, Feb. 1.
 
• The last time both Penn-Princeton regular-season games were played before February was 1977-78.
 
Penn by the Numbers
25.0 • Penn's win percentage in its first 20 regular-season Ivy League games under Steve Donahue (5-15).
 
78.3 • Penn's win percentage in its last 23 regular-season Ivy League games under Donahue (18-5).
 
15 • The combined number of points Penn has lost by in its last five Ivy League regular-season losses.
  by 2 at Columbia on 2/25/17 (70-67)
  by 3 to Dartmouth on 3/3/17 (76-74)
  by 9 at Harvard on 2/10/18 (76-67)
  by 1 at Yale on 3/2/18 (80-79)
  by 3 at Princeton on 1/5/19 (68-65 ot)
 
0 • Two-point baskets scored so far this season by senior Jackson Donahue (no relation to Coach Donahue); all 14 field goals have come from beyond the arc.
 
2 • Consecutive overtime games played by Penn, both of them losses (76-74 to Monmouth on 12/31, 68-65 at Princeton last Saturday). They were the Quakers' first back-to-back OT games since early in 2011-12, when the Red and Blue lost to Temple on November 14 but then beat Rider on November 17.
 
5 • Penn players with at least 25 assists this season: seniors Antonio Woods (40), Max Rothschild (31) and Jake Silpe (25) and juniors AJ Brodeur (team-high 55) and Devon Goodman (33).
 
5 • NCAA Division 1 players this year from China, including freshman Michael Wang. He shares the distinction with Michael Ou (Cal State Northridge), Johnny Wang (Cal State Fullerton), Kevin Zhang (Tulane) and James Zhao (California).
 
12 • Rebounds by Woods in Penn's OT loss to Monmouth on December 31, a career high; he also had 19 points for his second career double-double (his first with a point/rebound combination); Woods had 11 points and eight boards last Saturday at Princeton.
 
14.1 • Penn's average margin of victory in its nine Division 1 wins this season.
 
22 • The number of times Penn and Princeton have split their season series in the Ivy League era; there have been six splits since 2000, the most recent occuring during the 2013-14 season.
 
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.

41 • Penn players who have scored 1,000 career points all-time, after Brodeur reached the mark at Toledo on December 29; he enters today's contest against Princeton with 1,041 points.
 
53 • Combined Ivy League titles won by Princeton (27) and Penn (26). The rest of the league has 20 combined.
 
74 • Points scored by Wang over a four-game stretch from Miami (12/4) to New Mexico (12/22), an 18.5 per-game average; he was injured early in Penn's 12/29 game at Toledo, sat out the 12/31 game with Monmouth, and saw limited minutes last Saturday at Princeton.
 
149 • Points scored by Brodeur over the last nine games, all double-digit outings; he has 128 in the last seven contests, an 18.3 per-game average.