PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team is on the road for the next two weekends, starting this Friday and Saturday when the Quakers make the long trek to Northern New England and matchups with Dartmouth and Harvard. The Red and Blue will tip off with the Big Green on Friday at 7 p.m., and 24 hours later they get after it with the Crimson in Boston.
GAME 22 – PENN (13-8, 5-3 Ivy League) at DARTMOUTH (9-14, 2-6)
Friday, Feb. 21 | 7 p.m.
Leede Arena | Hanover, N.H.
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Penn Game Notes |
Dartmouth Game Notes
GAME 23 – PENN at HARVARD (16-7, 5-3)
Saturday, Feb. 22 | 7 p.m.
Lavietes Pavilion | Cambridge, Mass.
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Harvard Game Notes
Also in the Ivy League This Weekend
*Yale (6-2) and Brown (5-3) are at Columbia (1-7) and Cornell (2-6); on Friday the Bulldogs meet the Big Red while the Bears face the Lions. On Saturday, Yale is in New York City and Brown is in Ithaca.
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 Dartmouth-Harvard Road Trip
• Penn has made this Northern New England swing 63 times previously; the Quakers have swept it 34 times—but not since 2012—split it 20 times, and been swept nine times.
• Penn has won at Dartmouth but lost at Harvard each of the last two years; prior to that, the Big Green and Crimson swept the Quakers four straight years from 2014-17.
The Penn-Dartmouth Series
• The Quakers and Big Green are meeting for the 219th time overall, with Penn holding a 156-62 lead in the series having won five in a row.
• Prior to Penn's current run, Dartmouth was 6-3 over a nine-game stretch including four straight wins in Hanover from 2014-17.
FEBRUARY 1: at Penn 54, Dartmouth 46
Devon Goodman led Penn with 16 points, while
Jordan Dingle added 13.
AJ Brodeur saw his streak of double-figure scoring games against Division 1 teams snapped at 40—he finished with nine—but he contributed 10 rebounds, five assists and two steals. For Dartmouth, Chris Knight nearly went for a double-double (10 points/8 rebounds) while Trevon Ary-Turner scored 10 points. The teams shot a combined 35.5 percent from the field (38 of 107) including just 25.7 on three-point shots (9 of 35).
The Penn-Harvard Series
• This is the
180th meeting between the Quakers and the Crimson, with Penn holding a sizable, 134-45 lead.
• Penn lost three times to Harvard last year, but drew first blood in this season's series with a 75-72 overtime win at The Palestra on January 31.
JANUARY 31: at Penn 75, Harvard 72 (ot)
The Quakers ended the Crimson's overtime win streak at 10 games—longest in the nation—by going 6-of-7 from the field and 5-of-7 from the foul line in the extra session.
AJ Brodeur stuffed the stat sheet with 20 points, eight rebounds, seven assists, three blocked shots and three steals.
Ryan Betley added 17 points, while
Devon Goodman and
Jordan Dingle had 15 each. Chris Lewis led four Harvard players in double figures with 16 points, while Justin Bassey nearly had a double-double (13 points/9 rebounds).
Brodeur in the (Record) Book
Senior
AJ Brodeur's positions in Penn's all-time record book...
• 1st in career FG made (705)
Ernie Beck second with 704
• t-2nd in career starts (113)
Tim Begley t-second with 113
Zack Rosen first with 115
• 2nd in career blocked shots (186)
Geoff Owens first with 195
• 3rd in career scoring (1,724 points)
Ugonna Onyekwe second with 1,762
• 4th in career rebounds (878)
Joseph Sturgis third with 924
• 6th in minutes played (3,616)
Tim Begley fifth with 3,682
• 8th in career assists (352)
Miles Cartwright seventh with 358
Penn MBB by the Numbers
1 • Games lost by Penn this season when leading at halftime (9-1) or tied (3-0); that game took place last Friday, the Quakers giving up a six-point halftime lead in a 75-63 loss to Brown.
1 • Games won by Penn this season when trailing at halftime (1-7); that game took place last Saturday, the Quakers making up a two-point halftime deficit in a 69-61 win over Yale.
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);
the trio has combined for 55.5 percent of the Quakers' scoring this season (864 of Penn's 1,558 points), despite Betley missing the last three games to injury.
4.9 • Brodeur's assists-per-game average entering the weekend, tops among Ivy League players.
6 • Turnovers committed by Penn last Saturday vs. Yale, tied for a program low in the
Steve Donahue coaching era.
8 • Games this season in which Penn has reached double figures in three-point field goals; the most recent came last Saturday, when the Quakers drained 10 treys against Yale.
10 • Double-doubles by
Brodeur for the second straight season, after he had 19 points and a season-high 15 rebounds last Friday vs. Brown;
prior to Brodeur, the last Penn player with 10 double-doubles in a season was Bruce Lefkowitz in 1986-87.
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.
29 • 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.
41 • Points scored by junior
Eddie Scott over Penn's last five games; prior to that, he had 49 points in the Quakers' first 16 games, 10 of them coming in the season opener at Alabama.
48 • Points scored by freshman
Max Martz over Penn's last four games; he also had season/career highs in rebounds (9) and assists (3) last Friday vs. Brown.
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.
64.7• Percentage of freshman
Jordan Dingle's points this season that have been scored after halftime;
of his 266 points, 94 have come in the first half while 172 have come after halftime.
89.0 • Percentage of Penn's points that have been scored either by members of the senior class (58.4 percent) or members of the freshman class (30.6).
101 • Games played at Penn by
Goodman, who reached the century mark last Friday vs. Brown.
705 • Career field goals scored by
Brodeur, breaking Ernie Beck's program record of 704 that had stood since 1953;
Brodeur's record-breaking field goal was a three-pointer—just his 56th—that broke a late 58-58 tie against Yale.
1,803 • All-time wins by Penn, which became the 19th Division 1 program to reach the 1,800-win milestone with its victory over Dartmouth two weeks ago.
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