PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team opens Ivy League play this weekend with its archrival, as the Quakers make the short trip North to face Princeton. Saturday's game is scheduled to tip off at 5 p.m. as the second half of a doubleheader at Jadwin Gym, following the Penn-Princeton women's game at 2 p.m. Both games will air on ESPN+, and in the Philadelphia viewing region fans can watch it on TV on NBC Sports Philadelphia+.
 
GAME 15 – PENN (10-4, 0-0 Ivy League) at PRINCETON (7-5, 0-0)
Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019 * 5 p.m.
Jadwin Gym (Princeton, N.J.)
Penn Game Notes | Princeton Game Notes
 
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The Series with Princeton
• This represents the 240th meeting between Penn and Princeton in men's basketball, with the Quakers holding a 126-113 lead in the series. Penn has not played any other opponent more than Princeton in its history.
 
• Penn swept the series last year, taking a 76-70 win at The Palestra and an 82-65 victory in New Jersey. 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.
 
Penn-Princeton Scheduling Notes
• By calendar date, Saturday's game represents 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 home game with the Tigers will take place next Saturday.)
 
• The last time both Penn-Princeton regular-season games were played before February was 1977-78.
 
Fun Stuff to Know
• Penn's 10-2 start was its best through 12 games since 1993-94, when the Quakers were 9-2 after 11 games before ripping off 16 straight wins.
 
• For the first time in program history, Penn had 10 wins prior to the New Year.
 
• Penn is 4-1 in true road games this season, winning its first four before falling at Toledo last Saturday.
 
• Junior AJ Brodeur became the 41st player in program history to reach 1,000 career points, hitting the mark last Saturday at Toledo.
 
• Senior Antonio Woods had his second double-double at Penn on Monday—his first with a points/rebounds combination—with 19 points and a career-high 12 rebounds vs. Monmouth.
 
Penn by the Numbers
25.0 • Penn's win percentage in its first 20 regular-season Ivy League games under head coach Steve Donahue (5-15).
 
81.8 • Penn's win percentage in its last 22 regular-season Ivy League games under Donahue (18-4).
 
15 • The combined number of points Penn has lost by in its last four Ivy League losses (by 2 at Columbia on 2/25/17; by 3 to Dartmouth on 3/3/17; by 9 at Harvard on 2/10/18; by 1 at Yale on 3/2/18)
 
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.
 
3 • Points scored by junior Ryan Betley in Penn's season opener, when he drained a three-pointer on Penn's first possession of 2018-19; less than five minutes later he ruptured his patellar tendon, and so last year's leading scorer will miss the remainder of the season.
 
5 • Penn players with at least 25 assists this season: seniors Antonio Woods (39), Rothschild (28) and Jake Silpe (25) and juniors AJ Brodeur (team-high 53) 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).
 
6 • Consecutive Penn wins prior to last Saturday's loss at Toledo; it was the Quakers' longest win streak since the 2011-12 season (7 games).
 
12 • Penn steals in Monday's game with Monmouth, one shy of the team high for this season (13 vs. Northern Iowa).
 
13 • Consecutive Penn losses to ACC programs, dating back to 2000-01, before the Quakers beat Miami on December 4, 89-75.
 
14.1 • Penn's average margin of victory in its nine Division 1 wins this 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.
 
25 • Consecutive Philadelphia Big 5 games won by Villanova—a city record that covered six years and three days—before Penn beat the 17th-ranked Wildcats, 78-75, on December 11.
 
41 • Penn players who have scored 1,000 career points all-time, after Brodeur reached the mark last Saturday at Toledo; he enters today's contest against Princeton with 1,023 career 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 last Saturday's game at Toledo and sat out Monday's game vs. Monmouth.
 
129 • Three-point baskets by Penn this season, a 9.3 per-game average; the Quakers have hit double figures in that category six times in 14 games, most recently on Monday when they hit 11 against Monmouth.
 
131 • Points scored by Brodeur over the last eight games, all double-digit outings; he has 110 in the last six contests, an 18.3 per-game average.