NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The fourth-seeded University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team fell to top-seeded Harvard on Saturday in an Ivy League Tournament semifinal, 66-58, at the John J. Lee Amphitheater on the campus of Yale University.
 
With the loss, Penn's season comes to an end at 19-12. Harvard advances to Sunday's Ivy tourney final, which will take place Sunday at noon. The Crimson will face Yale, an 83-77 winner over Princeton in Saturday's other semifinal.
 
Notes
*Penn fell to 2-2 all-time at the Ivy League Tournament, both losses coming as the fourth seed.
 
*Penn took just 19 three-point shots, only the fourth time this season the Quakers took fewer than 20. (Last time it happened was December 11 vs. Villanova.)
 
*Junior AJ Brodeur scored 25 points, giving him 72 points in three games against Harvard this season.
 
*Brodeur -- who on Sunday was named to the All-Tournament Team -- also had 10 rebounds for his tenth double-double this season and his fourth in as many Ivy League Tournament appearances over the last three years.
 
*Brodeur ends the year with a 25-game streak of double-figure scoring games and will enter his senior season 15th on Penn's all-time scoring list with 1,365 points.
 
*Junior Devon Goodman had 11 points, his sixth straight game in double digits and his 24th time reaching double figures this season.
 
How It Happened
Penn used a fast start, Max Rothschild scoring almost immediately after the opening tip and the Quakers putting the first seven points of the game on the scoreboard after just four possessions. Harvard made a line change at that point and scored four straight points, but Penn responded with another 7-0 run to take a 10-point lead at 14-4.
 
Harvard scored 10 of the next 12 points after that to get back within 16-14, and then another small run by the Quakers was matched as the Crimson got level for the first time at 23-23. The teams then matched points for a few minutes before Noah Kirkwood hit a trey to give Harvard its first lead at 31-28.
 
The Crimson led at the half, 36-34.
 
The second half started slowly, scoring-wise; only four points came before the first media timeout, all of them by Penn. The Quakers scored again quickly out of the break to make it 40-36, but Harvard finally got going with five straight points to take a 41-40 lead. Penn had eight of the game's next 10 points to go in front, 48-43, but once again Harvard responded with an 8-0 run over a 1:23 span to take a 51-48 lead and force head coach Steve Donahue to take a timeout with 8:43 left.
 
Out of the stoppage, Woods hit a trey to tie things up, but Aiken quickly put the Crimson back in front and it was 53-51 Harvard at the third media TO with 7:17 to play.
 
Penn looked like it might make it a one-possession game, but Rothschild and then AJ Brodeur missed bunnies in traffic, and instead Kirkwood hit an elbow jumper to make it 60-56. Brodeur was fouled as he laid it in but missed the foul shot, and so Harvard's lead was four as we went to the final media timeout with 3:33 left.
 
Penn went empty on a pair of possessions, and after turning it over in response Aiken hit a layup to make it 62-56 with just over two minutes to play. Goodman's layup was off the mark, but Harvard couldn't capitalize and so it was still a six-point game with 1:33 to go.
 
Brodeur's lefty effort at the hoop was swatted away by Chris Lewis with 1:17 left, and then a Devon Goodman pass was deflected into Harvard's possession inside a minute. The Crimson missed a three-pointer but got the offensive board—their tenth of the game—and Rothschild was forced to foul with 37.4 left. Danilo Djuricic made the first of two free throws to make it 63-58.
 
Brodeur put back an Antonio Woods shot that was tipped by Lewis, giving Brodeur a double-double on the day with 29.0 left. That was as close as the Quakers got, however, as Aiken knocked down three of his final four foul shots to set the final score.