PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team saw a late first-half lead erased quickly in the second half, and a pair of scoring droughts proved too much to overcome as Brown walked out of The Palestra with a 75-63 win on Friday night.
 
In a matchup of the two teams tied for third place in the Ivy League standings, Penn saw its five-game win streak snapped and dropped into a tie for fourth with Harvard as both teams are now 4-3. Brown moved into a tie for second place at 5-2 with Princeton, which fell to Yale in a meeting of the Ivy co-leaders.
 
Notes
*Penn lost for the first time this season when leading at the half; prior to Friday, the Quakers were 9-0 in such games.
 
*Penn set season highs in free throws made (21) and attempted (28).
 
*Penn shot just 31.6 percent from the field (18-57), a season low.
 
*Brown shot 92.9 percent from the foul line (13-14), an opponent high this season
 
*Senior AJ Brodeur had his tenth double-double for the second straight season with 19 points and a season-high 15 rebounds; prior to Brodeur, the last Penn player with at least 10 double-doubles in the same season was Bruce Lefkowitz, who had 10 in 1986-87.
 
*Brodeur now has 29 double-doubles for his career, most by a Penn players since Tony Price had 32 from 1977-79.
 
*Brodeur's 15 rebounds were one shy of his career high, and he also had four assists and three blocked shots.

*Brodeur had six field goals on Friday night, giving him 698 for his career; he is six shy of the program record (704) that has been held by Ernie Beck since 1953.
 
*Freshman Max Martz had his third straight double-figure scoring game with 10 points; he also set season/career highs with nine rebounds—nearly giving him his first collegiate double-double—and three assists.
 
*Freshman Jordan Dingle scored 16 points, his 11th game this season with at least 15 points.
 
*Senior Ray Jerome matched a season high with eight points.
 
*Senior Devon Goodman had a five-game streak of double-figure scoring games snapped as he finished Friday night with eight points.
 
How It Happened
Penn used a couple of early spurts, the first a 7-0 run and the second a 9-2 run which left the Quakers up, 21-10. The lead was still 35-24 when Brown got a three-pointer from Zach Hunsaker (21 points) and a bucket at the halftime buzzer from Brandon Anderson (31 points) to make it 35-29 at the break.
 
The Bears kept that momentum rolling through the early part of the second half. Hunsaker and Devon Goodman traded baskets to start the period, but for the Quakers it would be 9:08 of game time before they scored another field goal. Brown took advantage, scoring nine of the next 10 points for a 40-38 lead—the Bears' first lead since 4-2—and then using a 12-0 run covering less than three minutes. In all, it was a 28-4 run bridging the halves and Brown was in front, 52-39, with just under 13 minutes to play.
 
The lead was still 11 when Penn went on an 8-2 run. Ray Jerome hit a pair of three-pointers 2:03 apart to punctuate the run and draw the Quakers within 56-51 with 7:39 left. Points were hard to come by for both teams after that, as Anderson made it a seven-point game with 6:14 left but AJ Brodeur got those points back with 5:20 to play.
 
Unfortunately, Penn would score only one more field goal the rest of the way, Jordan Dingle hitting a layup with 44 seconds left. And while the Quakers stayed within striking distance via the foul line, eventually time became the enemy and Brown's lead proved insurmountable.