PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team faces an important Ivy League weekend on the road, as the Quakers are at Harvard on Friday and at Dartmouth on Saturday. The Red and Blue enter the weekend at 4-6 in Ivy league play and are one game out of fourth place behind Brown and Cornell. The Quakers split the season series with the Big Red after last Saturday's 68-50 win in Philadelphia, and already hold a win over the Bears with the second matchup taking place next Saturday.
 
Both of this weekend's games will tip off at 7 p.m. Friday's game will air to a national television office on ESPNU.
 
GAME 27 – PENN (16-10, 4-6 Ivy League) at HARVARD (14-9, 7-3)
Friday, March 1, 2019 | 7 p.m.
Lavietes Pavilion (Cambridge, Mass.)
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GAME 28 – PENN at DARTMOUTH (11-15, 2-8)
Saturday, March 2, 2019 | 7 p.m.
Leede Arena (Hanover, N.H.)  
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Ivy Weekend 5 – Friday
  Columbia (2-8) at Brown (5-5), 5 p.m.
  Penn (4-6) at Harvard (7-3), 7 p.m.
  Princeton (7-3) at Dartmouth (2-8), 7 p.m.
  Cornell (5-5) at Yale (8-2), 7 p.m.
Ivy Weekend 5 – Saturday
  Cornell at Brown, 6 p.m.
  Penn at Dartmouth, 7 p.m.
  Princeton at Harvard, 7 p.m.
  Columbia at Yale, 7 p.m.
 
The Harvard-Dartmouth Road Weekend
• This marks the 63rd time Penn has made this trip to the Ivy's northernmost schools. The Quakers have swept this road trip 34 times—most recently in 2011-12—split it 19 times and been swept nine times.
 
• Penn split this trip last year, the win coming at Dartmouth; the Quakers were swept each of the previous four years.
 
The Harvard Series
• Ivy League co-champions a year ago, the Quakers and Crimson are meeting for the second time in 13 days and the 177th time overall; Penn holds a 133-43 lead in the series.
 
• Harvard won the first meeting two weeks ago in Philadelphia, hitting a late three-pointer to tie things up in regulation and then pulling away in overtime for a 75-68 win.
 
• Penn—which last won in Cambridge in 2012—split the regular-season series with Harvard last year, then took the rubber match in the Ivy Tournament final.
 
The First Meeting (February 16)
Penn had a six-point lead late but Harvard hit a pair of treys to tie things up, then scored 10 of the first 12 points in the extra session. AJ Brodeur scored 23 points and Devon Goodman had 22 to lead the Quakers in scoring, and Antonio Woods had 10 points and eight boards.
 
The Dartmouth Series
• The Quakers and Big Green are meeting for the second time in 15 days and the 217th time overall on Saturday; Penn holds a 154-62 lead in the series.
 
• Penn has won three in a row over Dartmouth after taking an 82-79 decision from the Big Green in overtime two weeks ago at The Palestra. The Quakers swept last year's season series, after Dartmouth earned a sweep in 2017.
 
• Penn earned a 64-61 win last year here at Leede Arena; however, the Big Green had won four in a row over the Quakers here in Hanover before that.
 
The First Meeting (February 15)
A back-and-forth game that featured 22 lead changes, Penn made up an 11-point deficit early in the second half to win. AJ Brodeur had 36 points—most by a Penn player since Matt Maloney scored 36 against Brown in 1995—and knocked down 15 field goals which was most by a Penn player since the 1989-90 season. Antonio Woods had a double-double (10 points, 10 rebounds).
 
Fun Fact
Junior AJ Brodeur scored 59 points when Penn played Dartmouth (36) and Harvard (23) two weeks ago. It was the best Ivy League scoring weekend by a Penn player since Keven McDonald scored 61 combined points at Yale (36) and Brown (25) way back in 1978.
 
Penn by the Numbers
25.0 • Penn's win percentage in its first 20 regular-season Ivy League games under Steve Donahue (5-15).
 
68.8 • Penn's win percentage in its last 32 regular-season Ivy League games under Donahue (22-10).
 
1.70 • Assist/turnover ratio in Ivy League games for senior Antonio Woods entering the weekend (34/20) which is second among Ivy players, behind only Dartmouth's Brendan Barry (1.88); junior AJ Brodeur is third (1.32).
 
4 • Three-point baskets hit last weekend by junior Ray Jerome—three vs. Columbia, one vs. Cornell—giving him six in the last four games; he entered the February 15 Dartmouth game with two treys for his career.
 
5 • Consecutive double-digit scoring games by Woods (12.8 ppg in that run).
 
5 • The number of overtime games played by Penn this season, most since they played five such games in 2010-11; the Quakers—who went OT in three straight games from Feb. 15-22—are 1-4 in OT this season, and 3-8 in such games in the Steve Donahue coaching era.
 
5 • NCAA Division 1 players this year from China, including freshman Michael Wang. He shares the distinction with Michael Ou (CSU Northridge), Johnny Wang (Cal State Fullerton), Kevin Zhang (Tulane) and James Zhao (Cal).
 
9.9 • Points-per-game difference for junior Devon Goodman from last year (3.8) to this year (13.7).
 
10 • Penn players who have reached double figures in a game at least once this season, after Jerome scored a career-high 11 last Friday vs. Columbia (previous career high was six).
 
12 • Games this season in which Penn has hit more than 10 three-point shots; the Quakers have reached double figures in this category in six of their last 10 games after knocking down 11 against both Columbia and Cornell last weekend
 
15.9 • Goodman's points-per-game average over Penn's last eight contests; he has reached double figures in seven of those games, and went for nine points in the eighth.
 
20 • Consecutive double-figure scoring games by Brodeur entering the weekend; he has 363 points during the streak (18.1 ppg) including 342 points over the last 18 games (19.0 ppg).
 
20 • Brodeur's place on Penn's all-time scoring list, with 1,255 points; Perry Bromwell (1,265 from 1985-87) is 19th.
 
26 • Points scored last weekend by senior Jake Silpe (14 vs. Columbia, 12 vs. Cornell); last Saturday, he made his first start since December 31 vs. Monmouth.
 
36 • Points scored by Brodeur vs. Dartmouth two weeks ago, a career high; the last 36-point game by a Penn player came February 4, 1995 when Matt Maloney scored 36 at Brown.
 
38.8 • Average minutes per game played by Goodman in Ivy League play entering the weekend, tops among Ivy players; his 35.5 mpg average overall is also tops.
 
51.9 • Penn's field-goal percentage in its 16 wins this season; on the flip side, the Quakers' field-goal percentage in their ten losses is 37.1.
 
59 • Points scored by Brodeur two weekends ago vs. Dartmouth (36) and Harvard (23), most by a Penn player in an Ivy League weekend since Keven McDonald scored 61 at Yale (36) and Brown (25) in the 1977-78 season.
 
99 • Assists this season by Brodeur entering the weekend.
 
100 • Games played at Penn by senior Max Rothschild; another senior, Jackson Donahue, has played in 99 games.