PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team is riding a five-game win streak and looks to keep the momentum going this weekend at home. The Quakers host Brown—with whom they share third place in the Ivy League standings—on Friday night, tipping off with the Bears at 7 p.m. On Saturday, Penn faces Yale which enters the weekend tied with Princeton atop the standings. (That will change on Friday, as the Bulldogs and Tigers meet at Princeton's Jadwin Gym.) The Quakers and Eli tip at 6 p.m.
 
GAME 20 – PENN (12-7, 4-2 Ivy League) vs. BROWN (11-8, 4-2)
Friday, Feb. 14 | 7 p.m.
Macquarie Court at The Palestra | Philadelphia
Watch (ESPN+) | Listen (QAN) | Live Stats | Penn Game Notes | Brown Game Notes
 
GAME 21 – PENN vs. YALE (17-5, 5-1)
Saturday, Feb. 15 | 6 p.m.
Macquarie Court at The Palestra | Philadelphia
Watch (ESPN+) | Listen (QAN) | Live Stats | Yale 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. Matt Leon will be on the call this weekend, 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 Brown-Yale Home Weekend
• Penn has hosted this weekend 60 times previously; the Quakers have swept 40 times, split it 17 times, and been swept three times.
 
• The last two years have been sweeps for the Red and Blue; prior to that, Brown and Yale came in and swept Penn three out of four years, the exception being 2015-16.
 
The Penn-Brown Series
• This is the 137th meeting between the Quakers and the Bears, with Penn holding a sizable 109-27 lead.
 
• Penn has won five in a row, including a sweep last season when the Quakers beat the Bears 92-82 in Providence and 58-51 here at The Palestra.
 
• Brown has actually had quite a bit of success here in recent years, going 3-3 over the last six meetings with one of the losses coming in overtime (2018).
 
The Penn-Yale Series
• The Quakers and Bulldogs are meeting for the 232nd time, with Penn holding a 150-81 lead in the series.
 
• These teams have split the regular-season series each of the last three seasons, including last year when Yale won 78-65 in New Haven and Penn avenged that 77-66 the final weekend here at The Palestra.
 
• Yale is another program that has had recent success here; in fact, the Bulldogs won five straight games at The Palestra from 2013-17.
 
Brodeur in the (Record) Book
Senior AJ Brodeur's positions in Penn's all-time record book...
• 2nd in career blocked shots (180)
   Geoff Owens first with 195
• 2nd in career FG made (697)
   Ernie Beck first with 704
• t-3rd in career starts (111)
   Jack Eggleston third with 111
   Tim Begley second with 113
• 4th in career scoring (1,686 points)
   Zack Rosen third with 1,723
• 6th in career rebounds (855)
   Ron Haigler fifth with 856
   Richard Censits fourth with 867
• 8th in minutes played (3,542)
   Ibrahim Jaaber seventh with 3,569
   Jerome Allen sixth with 3,570
• 8th in career assists (343)
   Miles Cartwright seventh with 358
 
Weekly Honors Update
• Freshman forward Max Martz was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week on Monday, after he went for 28 points (11 at Columbia, 17 at Cornell) and set a season/career high with seven rebounds against the Big Red.
 
• Senior forward AJ Brodeur was named Big 5 Player of the Week for the third time this season, also on Monday.
 
Penn MBB by the Numbers
0 • Games lost by Penn this season when leading at halftime (9-0) or tied at halftime (3-0); coincidentally, also the number of games won by the Quakers when trailing at halftime (0-7).
 
1.5 • Senior Devon Goodman's steals-per-game average entering the weekend, tops among Ivy players.
 
2.13 • Penn's assist/turnover ratio last weekend; the Quakers had 18 assists and nine turnovers at Columbia, then 16 assists and seven turnovers (tied for a season low) at Cornell.
 
4.9 • Senior AJ Brodeur's assists-per-game average entering the weekend, tops among Ivy League players; he had eight assists last Saturday at Cornell.
 
5 • Consecutive wins by Penn entering the weekend, its longest win streak since taking six in a row early in the 2018-19 season.
 
9 • Double-doubles by Brodeur this season, after he had 19 points and tied a season high with 14 rebounds on January 25 vs. Temple; that is the most by a Penn player in a season since Darien Nelson-Henry had nine in 2015-16.
 
10/9/8 • Points/rebounds/assists recorded by Brodeur last Sunday at Cornell, leaving him just shy of the first triple-double in program history.
 
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, Ryan Betley, Eddie Scott, Bryce Washington, Lucas Monroe).
 
14 • Consecutive Ivy League overtime games won by Harvard before Penn's 75-72 win on January 31 at The Palestra; the Crimson had a 10-game win streak in OT games overall, longest in the nation.
 
15.4 • Goodman's points-per-game average over the last five games; has reached double figures in scoring in 15 of Penn's last 17 contests the exceptions being 9 points at Providence on Nov. 23 and 8 vs. Saint Joseph's on Jan. 18.
 
28 • Career double-doubles by Brodeur, most by a Penn player since Tony Price had 32 such games during his three-year varsity career from 1977-79.
 
49.1 • Freshman Max Martz's overall three-point field-goal percentage this season (26-53), tops among Ivy players.
 
52.7 • Penn's field-goal percentage last weekend; the Quakers went 29-56 at Columbia and 30-56 at Cornell.
 
54 • Penn's point total in its 54-46 win over Dartmouth on February 1, fewest in a victory since, yup, a 54-46 win over Columbia on March 6, 2015.
 
67.9 • Percentage of freshman Jordan Dingle's points this season that have been scored after halftime; of his 243 points, 78 have come in the first half while 165 have come after halftime.
 
89.6 • Percentage of Penn's points that have been scored either by members of the senior class (59.4 percent) or members of the freshman class (30.2).
 
99 • Games played at Penn by Goodman entering the weekend.
 
1,802 • All-time wins by Penn, which became the 19th Division 1 program to reach the 1,800-win milestone with its victory over Dartmouth.