EASTON, Pa. – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team had a hard time stopping Lafayette's fast-paced motion offense on Tuesday night, and the Leopards took advantage with a scorching shooting performance en route to an 86-75 victory at the Kirby Sports Center.
 
The hosts shot 54.2 percent from the field on the night—a number of them coming near the end of the shot clock—and made exactly half of their 22 three-point shots. In fact, it was downright startling to look at the final box score and realize the Quakers matched them with 11 treys made, though Penn needed 11 more attempts to get theirs.

Penn is now 2-2 on the young season, while Lafayette is 3-2 with all the wins coming over Ivy League teams (Columbia, Princeton, Penn).
 
Notes
*Penn lost despite putting five different players in double figures in the scoring column, the first time that has happened since the Quakers' win over Villanova last December 11.
 
*Penn's 11 three-pointers were a season high, as were the Quakers' 17 assists (on 26 baskets).
 
*Senior Devon Goodman led Penn with 15 points, giving him 36 in the last two games.
 
*Senior AJ Brodeur had a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds, his second-straight double-double and third in four games this season.

*Brodeur also set a career high with eight assists; he leads the Quakers with 18 assists this season, nearly triple the next player on the list (Goodman, 7).
 
*Brodeur extended his streak of double-figure scoring games to 29, the fifth-longest streak in program history.
 
*Sophomore Bryce Washington scored 12 points on Tuesday, nearly doubling his output from Penn's first three games (7 points).
 
*Senior Ryan Betley had 11 points, his third time in double figures this season, and added six rebounds.
 
*Senior Ray Jerome came off the bench and was a nice spark with eight points, three shy of his career high set last year against Columbia.

*Jerome also had four assists, a career high.
 
*After going scoreless in his first two appearances, freshman Max Martz scored 10 points—all in the first half—and added three rebounds on Tuesday night.
 
*Lafayette turned the ball over just five times on Tuesday, one shy of an opponent low in the Donahue era (Columbia on February 27, 2016).
 
*Lafayette's shooting percentage was the sixth-best by an opponent in the Donahue era and best since Columbia shot 58.5 percent last year in New York City (a game Penn won).

*Lafayette's 50-percent night beyond the arc also was the sixth-best by an opponent in the Donahue era; the best by an opponent since Toledo shot 64.3 percent (9-14) on December 29, 2017; and the first time in the Donahue era a team hit 10 or more treys and shot 50 percent or better.
 
How It Happened
Lafayette opened the game with the first six points off a pair of Justin Jaworski three-pointers, and used a cold Penn start to hold that six-point lead through another six minutes. However, Ray Jerome and freshman Max Martz were the catalysts of a 17-4 Penn run that had the Quakers ahead by seven with 8:59 left in the half. The Leopards got back in it with an 8-0 run, and at the half the hosts held a 40-39 lead.
 
The teams traded points through the first several minutes of the second half, but Lafayette took advantage of another cold spell by the Quakers to go on a 15-4 run that turned a 51-51 game into a 66-55 Leopards advantage with just over 10 minutes to go.
 
Penn made a move, AJ Brodeur laying one in from the right side and Devon Goodman hitting a three-pointer to make it 72-64. That forced a Lafayette timeout with 6:01 to play, and out of the break Jaworski (20 points) hit a three-pointer as the shot clock expired to reset order for the Leopards.
 
Penn's last-gasp push came with 2:36 left when Goodman hit a three and then Ryan Betley took a nice backdoor feed from Brodeur to make it 77-71. That forced yet another Lafayette timeout, and once again the Pards answered as Lukas Jarrett drove and scored a hoop-and-harm three-pointer with just three seconds left on the shot clock. At the other end, Goodman lost the ball and Isaac Suffren put it away. The 5-0 run took less than 20 seconds and effectively ended this one.