PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team struggled offensively for much of the second half of Friday's matchup with defending Ivy League champion Harvard. However, the Quakers went 6-of-7 from the field in overtime and outscored the Crimson, 17-14, in the extra period to outlast their guests, 75-72, at The Palestra.
 
Penn's win snapped Harvard's 10-game winning streak in overtime games, which stretched back to the 2014-15 season and was the longest in the nation. The Crimson had won 14 Ivy League OT games in a row prior to Friday.
 
With the win, Penn improved to 9-7 on the season and is now 1-2 in Ivy League play. Harvard fell to 13-5 overall, 2-1 in Ivy play.
 
Notes
*This was Penn's first overtime game of the 2019-20 season, and the Quakers improved to 4-8 in OT in the Steve Donahue coaching era.
 
*This was the second straight year that Penn and Harvard needed overtime to settle things at The Palestra; last year, the Crimson won 75-68.
 
*Penn made 18 free throws on 25 attempts, both season highs.
 
*Penn had eight steals on Friday, one shy of its season high.
 
*Penn won despite taking 27 fewer field goals than Harvard on Friday (Harvard 80, Penn 53), the third time this season the Quakers have won a game and taken at least 23 fewer shots than their opponent (also UCF and Temple).

*Harvard 80 field-goal attempts were an opponent high in the Donahue era.
 
*Senior AJ Brodeur finished with 20 points, hitting that mark for the sixth time this season and the 24th time in his career.
 
*Brodeur also had eight rebounds, seven assists—giving him 13 in Penn's last two games—three blocked shots which tied a season high, and two steals.
 
*Senior Ryan Betley scored 17 points, his best scoring night against a Division 1 team since he had 20 vs. Arizona on November 29. (He had 20 vs. Widener on December 21.) Betley has now reached double digits in four straight games.
 
*Betley also had seven rebounds, giving him 21 across Penn's last two games.
 
*Senior Devon Goodman scored 15 points, his 12th double-figure game this season, and also collected a season-high four steals.
 
*Freshman Jordan Dingle also scored 15, his tenth double-figure game this season.
 
*Senior Ray Jerome scored three points—Penn's only bench points of the night, all of them coming in the final 21 seconds of overtime—and grabbed a career-high six rebounds.
 
How It Happened
Penn jumped out early and got the crowd involved right away. After Max Martz started the scoring with a layup and Justin Bassey answered with a three-pointer at the other end—for what would be Harvard's only lead of the night—the Quakers went on a 14-0 run that took just 3:08 of game time. Chris Lewis finally ended Harvard's scoreless streak of nearly four minutes, but a Devon Goodman steal and dunk and then back-to-back treys by Ryan Betley and Martz pushed the Red and Blue's lead to 24-5.
 
Harvard came back, scoring the game's next nine points and holding Penn without a bucket for nearly four minutes. The overall run was 19-3 and with a little less than six minutes left in the half it was just a three-point game at 27-24. Defense ruled the rest of the period, which ended with the Quakers leading 35-28 despite missing four of five foul shots—including the front end of a 1-and-1—in the final seconds.
 
Harvard scored the first four points of the second half, only for AJ Brodeur to hit a layup and Jordan Dingle to knock down a triple which pushed Penn's lead back to 40-32. The lead was 52-40—Penn's 6-0 run exclusively on foul shots—when Harvard went on an 8-0 run that spanned just 1:21 of game time and forced head coach Steve Donahue to call a timeout.
 
The timeout slowed the scoring, but the Crimson scored the game's next four points, tying the game for the first time on a Danilo Djuricic three-pointer from the left corner. Goodman ended the run with Penn's first field goal in 7:56 of game time, a layup with 4:16 left that ended up being the Quakers' final field goal of regulation. Those points were matched at the other end by Noah Kirkwood, and then Dingle hit a pair of foul shots to make it 56-54.
 
Kirkwood tied it up again with 1:20 left, but Brodeur was fouled and made both of his free throws to put Penn back in front heading into the final minute. He then stole Kirkwood's pass, and Penn got a timeout in the frontcourt just before Goodman lost the ball in traffic. However, a Brodeur pass was stolen by Justin Bassey and Harvard again had a chance to tie or take the lead. Kirkwood was called for an offensive foul with 12.5 seconds left, but a soft inbounds pass went out of bounds and back to the Crimson. With just 1.7 left on the clock, Kirkwood pivoted in the lane, rose up, and nailed a fallaway jumper. Brodeur was well short on a three-pointer at the other end, and we went to overtime.
 
Whatever offensive doldrums Penn had in the second half, the Quakers shook them off quickly in OT. Goodman finished a Brodeur pass just 20 seconds in, and then Dingle got into the lane for a four-point lead just a minute into the period. Harvard got three of those points back, sandwiching a Kirkwood free throw and layup around a missed Dingle trey attempt—Penn's only missed field goal in OT—but Brodeur found Betley and he finished for a 64-61 lead midway through the session.
 
Kirkwood quickly made it a one-point game again, but Brodeur came right back with a basket and then Goodman finished another field goal and was fouled to make it 68-63 with just 1:17 left. He missed the freebie, and when Christian Juzang knocked down a triple the lead was just two with less than a minute remaining.
 
Penn worked the clock and Brodeur scored with 49 seconds left for 70-66, and then after a defensive stop Betley was fouled with 31.0 left and made both. Harvard wouldn't go away, Bassey hitting a quick triple, and then the Crimson fouled Ray Jerome who missed the first but made the second for a 73-69 lead with 21.7 seconds left. Bassey missed his next three-point shot and Jerome rebounded, was fouled, and hit both shots to make it 75-69 with 13.2 left.
 
Harvard wouldn't die. Bassey hit a three-pointer with 9.0 left and Jerome fouled him. Bassey missed the free throw but got his own rebound, only for Kirkwood to miss a potential game-tying three from the top of the key. The rebound squirted out to Goodman, who escaped the chasing Crimson players down the floor and was able to run out the clock.