PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team needed a three-game win streak to end the regular season to qualify for the Ivy League Tournament, but the Quakers pulled it off and so here we are. Penn heads to New Haven, Conn. this weekend for #IvyMadness as the fourth seed and will face off with top-seeded Harvard in Saturday's first semifinal at 12:30 p.m. Yale and Princeton will meet in the second semi, at 3 p.m. on Saturday, with the winners meeting for the Ivy's NCAA Tournament bid on Sunday at noon.
 
Saturday's semifinal games will be televised nationally on ESPNU, while Sunday's final will air on ESPN2. Fans can also watch Penn's open shootaround on Friday from 10:30-11:10 a.m., which will air on ESPN+.
 
GAME 31 – #4 PENN (19-11, 7-7 Ivy League) vs. #1 HARVARD (17-10, 10-4)
Saturday, March 16, 2019 | 12:30 p.m.
John J. Lee Amphitheater (New Haven, Conn.)
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PENN IN THE IVY TOURNAMENT
As a 1 seed: 0-0
As a 2 seed: 2-0 (2018)
As a 3 seed: 0-0
As a 4 seed: 0-1 (2017)
 
1-0 vs. Harvard
#2 Penn 68, #1 Harvard 65 in 2018 final
 
1-0 vs. Yale
#2 Penn 80, #3 Yale 57 in 2018 semifinal
 
0-1 vs. Princeton
#1 Princeton 72, #4 Penn 64 (ot) in 2017 semifinal
 
• The last time Penn was a 4 seed, in 2017, the Quakers lost a game to Princeton in which they never trailed in regulation and never led in overtime.
 
• Junior AJ Brodeur has had a double-double in all three of Penn's Ivy League Tournament games to date (17.0 ppg/10.3 rpg) and was Most Outstanding Player at last year's tournament.
 
The Penn-Harvard Series
• Ivy League co-champions a year ago, the Quakers and Crimson are meeting for the third time in 28 days and the 178th time overall; Penn leads the overall series, 133-44.
 
• Harvard swept the season series, winning 75-68 in overtime in Philadelphia on February 16 and then taking a 59-53 decision 13 days laterin Cambridge.
 
• Penn and Harvard split the season series a year ago, the home team winning each time, before the Quakers took the rubber match in last year's Ivy Tournament final at The Palestra, 68-65.
 
The First Meeting (February 16)
Penn had a six-point lead but Harvard hit a pair of late 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.next 5:27 after that, before AJ Brodeur scored his only points of the night to make it 53-40. Paul Atkinson finally scored for Yale, ending a Bulldogs drought of 7:23, and that sparked the visitors to a 10-2 run that made the score 55-50 with 1:03 still to play before Penn closed it out.
 
The Second Meeting (March 1)
A game with eight lead changes and 12 ties saw Harvard take a 54-46 lead. Penn held the Crimson scoreless for a 5:49 span after that—Harvard did not hit a field goal in the game's final 6:22—but could only make up three of the eight-point deficit. Brodeur had 23 points, giving him 47 in two games against the Crimson this season, while Goodman had 15 (37 in the two games).
 
Penn by the Numbers
1 • Players in the Ivy League who are top five in conference scoring, rebounding, assists and blocked shots: Penn junior AJ Brodeur.
 
1.76 • Assist/turnover ratio in Ivy League games for senior Antonio Woods entering the weekend (44/25), tops among Ivy players; Brodeur is third in that category (49/34, 1.44).
 
2 • Penn's All-Ivy players as voted on by the coaches and announced on Tuesday; Brodeur was a unanimous first-team All-Ivy pick for the second straight year, while junior guard Devon Goodman was a second-team selection.
 
2 • Two-point baskets hit by senior Jackson Donahue (no relation to head coach Steve Donahue) this season; he has 20 three-pointers.
 
3 • Consecutive wins by Penn to end the season—at Dartmouth, home vs. Yale and Brown—and the Quakers needed every one of them to qualify for #IvyMadness.
 
4 • The number of overtime games played by Penn during the Ivy League regular season, most since they played four such games in 2010-11; the Quakers went 1-3 in Ivy OT games this season, losing to Princeton, Harvard and Columbia and beating Dartmouth.
 
10.2 • Points-per-game difference for Goodman from last year (3.8) to this year (14.0).
 
12.4 • Woods' points-per-game average over Penn's last nine contests; he has hit double figures in seven of those contests, including a season-high 22 last Friday vs. Yale.
 
13 • Points scored by senior Jake Silpe last Saturday vs. Brown, all in the first half; it was his third double-figure scoring game in Penn's last six contests.
 
13 • Games this season in which Penn has hit more than 10 three-point shots, including three of the last six contests.
 
15.8 • Goodman's scoring average over the last 12 contests; he has reached double figures in 11 of those games, including three 20-point performances, and went for nine in the 12th.
 
16 • Brodeur's place on Penn's all-time scoring list, with 1,340 points; Herb Lyon (1,356 from 1946-50) is 15th.
 
17.4 • Brodeur's points-per-game average for the season thus far, best by a Penn player since Zack Rosen averaged 18.2 ppg in 2011-12.
 
24 • Consecutive double-figure scoring games by Brodeur entering the weekend; he has 448 points during the streak (18.7 ppg) and 427 points over the last 22 games (19.4 ppg).
 
37.6 • Average minutes per game for Goodman in Ivy League play entering the Tournament, tops among Ivy players; Woods is second at 37.2 mpg.
 
47 • Points scored by Brodeur against Harvard this year; he shot 58.1 percent from the field in those two games.
 
50.7 • Penn's field-goal percentage in its 19 wins this season; on the flip side, the Quakers' field-goal percentage in their 11 losses is 36.1.
 
275 • Three-point baskets scored by Penn this season, 16 shy of the program record set last year.
 
1.000 • Penn's free-throw percentage last Friday vs. Yale (12-12), the program's first perfect night at the charity stripe since February 1, 2012 (9-9 at Duke); the Quakers finished the season last in the league in conference FT pct, at .646.