PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team is back on the road this weekend, traveling to Brown and Yale for the second of six straight Ivy League weekends. The Quakers face the Bears on Friday and the Bulldogs on Saturday, both games starting at 7 p.m.
 
GAME 21 – PENN (13-7, 1-3 Ivy League) at BROWN (13-7, 1-3)
Friday, Feb. 8, 2019 | 7 p.m.
Pizzitola Sports Center (Providence, R.I.)
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GAME 22 – PENN at YALE (13-4, 3-1)
Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019 | 7 p.m.
John J. Lee Amphitheater (New Haven, Conn.)
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The Brown-Yale Road Trip
• Penn is making this road trip for the 63rd time since the start of Ivy League play. The Quakers have swept the weekend 27 times, split it 26 times, and been swept nine times.
 
• Penn split this trip a year ago, losing by a point at Yale and then winning by six at Brown. The Quakers swept it two years ago, after being swept each of the previous three seasons.
 
The Brown Series
• The Quakers and Bears are meeting for the 135th time, with Penn holding a 107-27 lead in the series including wins in four of the last five matchups.
 
• Penn won a pair of offensively-charged games last season, taking a 95-90 overtime decision in Philly and then a 99-93 win in regulation here in Providence in the regular-season finale.
 
• Penn has won here two years in a row after losing three in a row from 2014-16.
 
The Yale Series
• The Quakers and Bulldogs are meeting for the 230th time, with Penn holding a 149-80 lead in the series including three of the last four matchups.
 
• These teams played three times last year, splitting the regular-season series with the home team winning each time (Penn 59-50 in Philadelphia, Yale 80-79 here in New Haven). In an Ivy League Tournament semifinal just eight days after that game in New Haven, Penn rolled to an 80-57 win.
 
• That said, Penn has typically had trouble at the John J. Lee Amphitheater. The Quakers are 1-6 over their last seven games here with Yale, the lone win coming two years ago (71-55).
 
Fun Stuff to Know
• Penn finished 12-4 in non-conference games this season; the last time the Quakers had a better record was the 2001-02 season when they went 13-3.
 
• Penn went 4-0 in Philadelphia Big 5 play and won the city series for the first time since 2001-02 (also 4-0); prior to that, the last time the Quakers went 4-0 in Big 5 play was 1973-74.
 
• Junior AJ Brodeur has a streak of 14 straight double-figure scoring games—averaging 18.4 ppg over the last 12 contests—with four double-doubles during that stretch.
 
• Freshman Bryce Washington has been the Ivy League Rookie of the Week each of the last two weeks and three of the last five weeks.
 
• Nine different players have scored in double figures in a game this year; four have reached 20 points in a game; and three have had double-doubles.
 
Penn by the Numbers
0 • Two-point baskets scored so far this season by senior Jackson Donahue (no relation to Coach Donahue); all 16 of his made field goals have come from beyond the arc.
 
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).
 
5 • Penn players with at least 30 assists this season: seniors Antonio Woods (53), Max Rothschild (32) and Jake Silpe (30), and juniors Brodeur (team-high 71) and Devon Goodman (51); Wang has 24 assists.
 
8:32 • Amount of time Wang needed to score his 16 points during the second half in last Friday's game at Cornell.
 
9 • Games this season in which Penn has hit more than 10 three-point shots; the Quakers hit 38 treys over a three-game span—12 vs. Temple, 14 vs. Saint Joseph's, 12 at Cornell—before draining just five last Saturday at Columbia.
 
13.0 • Average points per game by freshman Bryce Washington over Penn's last seven contests; he has scored at least eight points in each of those seven games.
 
14 • Points scored by junior Kuba Mijakowski over a span of 15:33 in the first half on January 19 at Temple; he entered the game with 28 career points, just 14 of them against Division 1 competition.
 
16 • Rebounds by Brodeur last Friday at Cornell, tied for the most by a Penn player in a game in the Donahue era.
 
31 • Points scored by Goodman last weekend at Cornell (12) and Columbia (19).
 
41 • Penn players who have scored 1,000 career points all-time, after Brodeur reached the mark at Toledo on December 29; he enters this weekend's games with 1,134 points including 242 over his current 14-game streak of double-digit scoring games (17.3 ppg).
 
51.7 • Penn's field-goal percentage in its 13 wins this season; on the flip side, the Quakers' field-goal percentage in its seven losses is 35.5.