PRINCETON, N.J. – A frantic second-half comeback was not enough for the University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team as the Quakers fell for the second time in seven days to Princeton, 63-58 at Jadwin Gym on Friday evening.
 
AJ Brodeur led all scorers with 22 points and 13 boards, including 13 tallies in the second half to propel a surge that saw a 16-point deficit trimmed to just three with under a minute to play. Devon Goodman made a trio of treys to account for 15 points and Ryan Betley joined them in double figures with 10 and seven rebounds.
 
Notes
*Penn had season lows in points (58), second-half points (30) and field goals (22).
 
*Penn shot 9-of-10 from the foul line on Friday night, a season-best 90.0 percent.
 
*Princeton became the third team to knock down 11 three-pointers against Penn this year.
 
*Princeton took just nine foul shots, making four of them for a 44.4 percentage. All of those are opponent lows for this season.
 
*After entering Ivy League play with at least 11 three-point baskets in seven of the previous eight games, Penn had just eight treys across the two Princeton games (3 last week, 5 on Friday).
 
*Penn entered the Princeton games leading the league with 16.8 assists per game and had at least 20 in each of the previous five games; the Quakers had 18 across the Princeton games (9 in both games).
 
*Senior AJ Brodeur had his eighth double-double this season and his 27th at Penn with 22 points to go with 13 rebounds; both numbers were one shy of his season highs.
 
*Brodeur extended his double-figure scoring streak against Division 1 opponents to 37 games, and this was his 22nd game with 20 or more points at Penn.
 
*Senior Devon Goodman piled up 15 points, hitting that mark for the eighth time this season, and tied a season high with three three-point baskets.
 
*Senior Ryan Betley totaled 10 points, finishing in double figures for the 10th time this year, and had a season-high four steals.

*Freshman Jordan Dingle tied season/career highs in assists (5) and steals (2).

*Junior Jarrod Simmons made his first collegiate start, scoring four points and tying a season high with two rebounds in a season-high 15 minutes of action.
 
How It Happened
A week after a slow start doomed the Quakers, Penn ripped off a tremendously bright start, burying each of its first three shots. After slipping a screen, Jarrod Simmons took a pass from Jordan Dingle and converted his lefty layup to get things started. After a stop on the other end, AJ Brodeur stepped out and drilled a three from straightaway just a possession before Ryan Betley canned a long ball from the corner to bust out to an 8-0 lead just 1:31 into the first half.
 
After Penn's hot start, though, Princeton countered with eight of the game's next 10 points, buoyed by a pair of three pointers from Ryan Schwieger. With 15:35 remaining in the half, a fastbreak layup from Jaelin Llewellyn leveled the game at 10-10. Penn responded by tightening things on the defensive end, holding the Tigers without a field goal for over three minutes while getting baskets from Simmons and Devon Goodman to inch out to a 15-11 advantage. Princeton eventually took its first lead of the game just past the midway point of the first half at 19-17 and, in total, sprinted out to a 18-3 spurt before Ryan Betley momentarily stopped the bleeding at 32-22 with 4:46 left in the half.
 
The Quakers scored six consecutive points to close within 34-28 in the final minute before a Princeton layup at the buzzer extended the deficit to eight at the break.
 
Through the first four minutes of the second half, Princeton put together yet another back-breaking 12-2 run to expand its lead to 46-30. Nearing the midway point of the second period, however, Brodeur went on a one-man 6-0 run to make it a 10-point game at 48-38 with 11:48 to play. The senior big eventually scored 11 of Penn's first 16 points of the half, but with 7:51 left, the Quakers still trailed 56-44 after an old-fashioned three-point play from Brodeur.
 
A silky behind-the-back dribble led to a layup for Ray Jerome, following a pair of free throws by Goodman that trimmed the deficit to 10 once more at 58-48 with six minutes to play. Brodeur scored again and then, on a brilliant hustle play, Betley laid out for a loose ball and tipped it forward to a bolting Goodman, who rose up and converted a layup with 3:58 left to inch even closer at 58-52. Betley banked in a putback plus the foul and did his business at the line to pull within 60-55 with under three to go.
 
After crucial stops on the defensive end, Goodman pulled up from distance to halve the deficit with 39 seconds left at 61-58. Princeton, though, iced the game with a bucket with only 10 seconds remaining as Penn fell for the second time in a row, 63-58.