PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team has two more non-conference games before its final stretch of Ivy League weekends. They will take place the next two Saturdays, starting this weekend as Saint Joseph's comes to Macquarie Court at The Palestra for its annual tussle with the Quakers.
 
WEAR YOUR BLUE! With the usual split house for Saturday's game, Penn fans are encouraged to show their support by wearing their BLUE Penn gear.
 
Saturday's Big 5 contest will air nationally on ESPN+, but fans in the Philadelphia region also have the option of watching the game live on NBC Sports Philadelphia.
 
GAME 14 – PENN (7-6, 1-1 Big 5) vs. SAINT JOSEPH'S (3-13, 0-2)
Saturday, Jan. 18 | 2 p.m.
Macquarie Court at The Palestra | Philadelphia
Watch (ESPN+/NBCSP) | Listen (QAN) | Live Stats | Penn Game Notes | SJU Game Notes
 
Quaker Audio Network (QAN)
New this season, Penn fans can listen to every men's basketball game through the Quaker Audio Network, a free Internet-based audio streaming service. On Saturday, Matt Leon will be on the call while former director of operations Brad Fadem provides analysis. To access the Quaker Audio Network, simply type www.pennathletics.com/audio into your computer or device.
 
The Penn-Saint Joseph's Series
• This is the 88th meeting between the Quakers and the Hawks in men's basketball, with Saint Joseph's leading the series 50-37.
 
• Penn has not played any non-Ivy League team more than Saint Joseph's. Next closest is Navy, whom the Quakers have played 85 times.
 
• Penn has won the last two meetings, taking a 78-70 win last year—clinching the Big 5 title outright in the process—and a 67-56 decision two years ago; the last time the Quakers won three in a row in the series was 1977-79.
 
• Overall, the Quakers have enjoyed more success against the Hawks than any other Big 5 opponent over the last decade, winning five of the last nine meetings. Entering the 2019-20 season, Penn had just three wins over La Salle in that same span and one each vs. Temple and Villanova.
 
• In keeping alive the tradition of the Big 5, every game in this series dating back to the 1996-97 season has been played here at The Palestra. In the 24 games played during this stretch, Saint Joseph's has 15 wins and Penn nine.
 
CollegeInsider.com Recognitions
• On December 31, senior forward AJ Brodeur was named to the CollegeInsider.com Lou Henson All-Decade Team for the 2010s. He was one of four Ivy Leaguers named to the 40-player squad—representing the best mid-major players in the country over the last 10 years—and the only active player among those four. The other Ivy Leaguers on the All-Decade Team are Wesley Saunders (Harvard), Justin Sears (Yale) and Miye Oni (Yale).
 
• Brodeur also was named to CollegeInsider.com's Mid-Season Watch List for this year's Lou Henson Award, one of just two Ivy Leaguers on the list along with Yale's Paul Atkinson.
 
Penn Men's Basketball by the Numbers
1.22 • Penn's assist (210)/turnover (172) ratio this season, best among the Ivy League teams.
 
3 • All-Ivy players in Penn's lineup: senior captains AJ Brodeur (two-time unanimous first-team All-Ivy), Ryan Betley (second-team in 2017-18) and Devon Goodman (second in 2018-19).
 
4 • Consecutive Big 5 home games won by Penn, dating back to the 2017-18 season; amazingly, it's the Quakers' longest home winning streak in the city series since they won 12 in a row from the 1971-72 season to 1974-75.
 
5 • Games in which freshman guard Jordan Dingle has reached at least 20 points so far this season.
 
8 • Double-doubles by Brodeur through 13 games this season, after he went for 22 points and 13 assists last Friday at Princeton; that includes his first-ever points (11)/assists (10) double-double, which occured against Arizona on November 29.
 
9.6 • Three-point baskets per game by Penn so far this season, tops among Ivy League teams; the Quakers have reached double figures in treys in seven of their last 10 games.
 
10 • Double-figure scoring games so far this season for senior guard Ryan Betley, after he went for 10 last Friday at Princeton.
 
11 • Penn players who have recorded at least one double-figure scoring game during their career; that includes six players with at least one game of 20 or more points and five with double-doubles (Brodeur, Betley, Eddie Scott, Bryce Washington, Lucas Monroe).
 
15.0 • Senior guard Devon Goodman's points-per-game average over Penn's last eight contests; he has reached double digits in all of them.
 
32 • Goodman's assist total over Penn's last six games; that includes seven against both Long Beach State and the first meeting with Princeton, tying his career high in both cases.
 
38/27 • Total points and rebounds by Brodeur through Penn's first two Big 5 games this season (20/13 vs. La Salle, 18/14 at Villanova).
 
48/116 • First-half/second-half points by Dingle this season; of his 91 points over his last six appearances, 65 of them have come in the second half.
 
52.6 • Freshman Max Martz's shooting percentage from three-point land this season (20-of-38), tops among Ivy League players.
 
76.5 • Penn's scoring average so far this season, tops among Ivy teams, even after the Quakers were held to 64 and 58 the last two games by Princeton.