PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team looked like it might escape with a win over Columbia on Friday night after Devon Goodman knocked down a three-pointer with just 1:23 left in overtime to give the Quakers a 77-72 lead.
 
Instead, the Lions took advantage of uncharacteristically sloppy play at both ends of the floor by the Red and Blue over the final 83 seconds, capping it off by finding an open man directly under the basket on an inbounds play with just 1.3 seconds left. The bucket by Maka Ellis went through with just 0.4 left, and instead it was Columbia who emerged with a 79-77 win.
 
Penn fell to 15-10 overall and now faces an uphill climb in the race for an Ivy League Tournament spot, holding sixth place in the standings at 3-6 with just five games to play. Columbia, which entered the game in last place in the league but with three of those losses by two or fewer points and a fourth by just six points to first-place Yale, improved to 7-16 overall and 2-7 In Ivy play.
 
Notes
*Penn has played three straight Ivy League overtime games for just the third time in program history, the others being 1984 and 2011.
 
*Penn has played four Ivy League OT games already this season, most since the 2010-11 team which also played four. The record is held by the 1983-84 squad, which played a staggering six OT games in Ivy play.
 
*Penn is 1-4 in OT games this season and 3-8 in such games in the Donahue coaching era.
 
*Penn fell to 12-3 when leading at the half this season.
 
*Penn had 19 assists on 27 baskets, a 70.4 percentage.
 
*Penn hit 11 three-point baskets, the 11th time this season the Quakers have reached double figures in that category.
 
*For the sixth time this season, Penn took more three-point shots (30) than two-point shots (29).
 
*Columbia set opponent highs for the season with 34 baskets and 18 assists.
 
*Senior Antonio Woods led Penn in scoring with 16 points—tying a career high with four three-pointers—and added eight rebounds and five assists.
 
*Woods has scored in double figures in four straight games, averaging 13.0 ppg in that stretch.
 
*Senior Jake Silpe had 14 points, just two shy of his season/career high set against Rice way back on November 9. He also tied a season high with six rebounds and added two assists and a team-high three steals.
 
*Junior AJ Brodeur did not score until there was just 12:55 left in the game, but he ended up with 13 points to extend his double-figure scoring streak to 19.
 
*Brodeur now has 1,238 career points; he moved past Dave Wohl and Ron Haigler into 23rd place on Penn's all-time scoring list.
 
*Brodeur also had a team-leading seven assists and two blocked shots on Friday, moving into second place alone on Penn's all-time blocked shots list with 141.
 
*Junior Ray Jerome scored 11 points, nearly doubling his previous career high of 6; he knocked down a trio of three-pointers, giving him five in the last three games after having two for his career before last Friday.
 
*Junior Devon Goodman saw his streak of double-figure scoring games end at six, as he finished with nine points.
 
How It Happened
Columbia took advantage of some early Penn turnovers to take a 6-2 lead into the first media timeout. A shot from Jake Silpe sandwiched a pair of layups from the Lions' Patrick Tape out of the timeout.
 
Ray Jerome nailed consecutive treys to tie the game at 10 apiece, but a Gabe Stefanini step-back reestablished the Lions' lead. Penn took its first lead of the game after a Woods trey, but Columbia snatched it right back after a layup down low.
 
Max Rothschild sparked a 5-0 run with three points the old-fashioned way, and a nice dish from Jerome set up a Michael Wang layup to make it 20-16. Columbia responded with a 10-0 run to take a 26-20 lead with five minutes left in the half, halted by a Penn timeout.

The Quakers regained the lead after some nifty shooting from beyond the arc. Silpe hit a trey coming out of the timeout, Jerome sank a three at the top of the key following a Columbia turnover, and Woods hit another from the outside wing to give Penn a one-point lead. A layup from Rothschild and a pair of freebies by Silpe extended the lead to five, and Penn went into the half with a 35-30 lead. 
 
Columbia came out in the second half firing from deep. Jake Killingsworth nailed a pair of treys, with a Goodman layup in between, to cut Penn's lead to one. Woods responded with another trey, but a Tape layup made it 40-38 at the under 16.
 
A flagrant-1 foul against Goodman led to a pair of Stefanini shots from the charity stripe, then the Lions hit a layup under the basket on the following play to tie the game at 42 each. Woods drove through traffic to the hole to regain Penn's lead, but a corner three at the other end swung the pendulum in the opposite direction
 
Brodeur's first points of the night came in unusual fashion, from beyond the arc. His trey regained the lead for the Quakers. It was a short-lived lead, however, as Columbia tied it at 47 on the following possession. Then two consecutive baskets from Columbia led to a four-point Lions' lead. Brodeur hit his second trey of the night to cut it to one, but a 7-0 run from Columbia halted Penn's momentum. A basket from Silpe and a layup on the other end gave the Lions' a 61-53 lead at the under eight.
 
With the Quakers in the bonus, Silpe hit three of four one-and-ones to cut the deficit to five. Columbia extended back to seven after a stepback from Stefanini. Two more freebies from Silpe cut it to five and a trey from Woods made it a one-possession game. The teams each exchanged a bucket to give the Lions a 67-65 lead at the final media timeout.
 
Following a missed trey from the Lions, Brodeur drove into traffic for the bucket and the foul. He hit the free throw to tie the game at 70. Strong interior defense from Penn on the next possession forced a missed shot.
 
Brodeur posted up on the next possession and banked in to give Penn the lead, but Stefanini responded with a bank shot of his own to tie it again. A shot clock violation from the Quakers gave Columbia the ball with 3.2 seconds on the clock. Stefanini missed a half-court shot as the clock expired with the two tied at 72 at the end of regulation. The overtime was Penn's third straight in consecutive Ivy League games.
 
The Quakers won the opening tip, and Woods utilized some finesse to sink a floater and give Penn a quick 74-72 lead. After several empty possessions by both teams, Goodman stepped behind a screen and hit a three to make it 77-72 with just 1:23 left for the Red and Blue's biggest lead since halftime.
 
Columbia moved the ball around, though, and Penn got caught up in chasing it. Ellis was left wide open and he scored Columbia's first points of the extra session on a three-pointer with just over a minute to play.

A weird play allowed the Lions to tie it, as Woods raced to the rim and was blocked by Petre Barba. No Penn player was back to defend, and Barba instead raced down the floor uncontested for an easy layup which tied the game at 77-77.

There was about a 2.8-second differential between the game clock and the shot clock, and so it seemed a little quick when Goodman charged to the rim and put up a highly contested shot that was off the mark with nearly eight seconds left. Instead, Columbia got the rebound and raced down the floor, Stefanini's pass deflected out of bounds by Jerome with 1.3 left on the clock. That set the stage for Ellis to find his way under the basket, take the pass from an inbounding Stefanini, and win the game.
 
Up Next
Penn is back at home on Saturday to face Cornell, which lost 68-59 to Princeton on Friday night but remains in fourth place in the Ivy League standings. The Quakers and Big Red are scheduled to tip off at 7 p.m., following the women's game with Cornell which will start at 4:30.