HANOVER, N.H. – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team struggled on offense throughout Friday night's game at Dartmouth, and unlike three weeks ago it proved fatal as the Big Green had enough to pull out a 66-59 win at Leede Arena.
 
The loss was critical to Penn's Ivy League Tournament hopes, as the Quakers (13-9 overall) dropped to 5-4 in Ivy play and fell behind Harvard and Brown in the Ivy League standings. Yale—which won at the buzzer in double overtime at Cornell—is alone in first place after tonight's games, while the Crimson, the Bears and Princeton are all tied for second, one game back of the Bulldogs. The Quakers are fifth, a game behind that group. Dartmouth won its third in a row, all at home, and improved to 3-6 in Ivy play and 10-14 overall.
 
Notes
*Dartmouth's win snapped Penn's five-game win streak in the series.
 
*Two of Penn's three lowest scoring games this season came against Dartmouth; the Quakers' win over the Big Green three weeks ago came by a 54-46 score.
 
*Penn shot 37.5 percent from the field in its two games with Dartmouth this year, going a combined 42-of-112.
 
*Penn hit double figures in three-point baskets for the second straight game and the ninth time this season.
 
*Penn took just five foul shots, a season low.
 
*Senior Devon Goodman led Penn's scoring parade with 17 points, 14 of them coming in the first half.
 
*Freshman Lucas Monroe scored 12 points, one shy of his season/career high but nearly double his previous high against a Division 1 opponent (7 at Alabama).
 
*Monroe also had six rebounds, an assist, a blocked shot, and a steal.
 
*Monroe was the only Penn player to take foul shots on Friday night, going a perfect 5-of-5.
 
*Freshman Jordan Dingle scored 11 points, nine of them coming in the second half on a trio of three-pointers.
 
*Senior AJ Brodeur made his 114th start at Penn, moving into second place all-time in that category; it is expected that he will tie Zack Rosen's record tomorrow at Harvard.
 
*For the second time in as many games this year against Dartmouth, Brodeur was held to single digits in scoring with just eight points; he has reached double figures in the other 44 games he has played against Division 1 opponents dating back to the start of the 2018-19 season.
 
*Brodeur still grabbed 10 rebounds—as he did in the first meeting with the Big Green—and blocked two shots, but his two assists were tied for a season low.
 
*Junior Eddie Scott had six points and finished one rebound shy of his season high with six rebounds.
 
How It Happened
These teams struggled offensively throughout the game three weeks ago in Philadelphia, and that trend continued early on Friday night. Turnovers and missed shots dominated the early action, as it took 3:24 of game action before Dartmouth's Chris Knight opened the scoring with a three-pointer and Penn didn't get on the board until Devon Goodman's layup 27 seconds later. The Quakers led, 17-16, but went scoreless for more than four minutes as the Big Green used a 10-0 run to gain control. However, Goodman popped for eight points in the final three minutes of the first half, spurring a 10-2 Penn streak that had the Red and Blue down, 28-27, at the break.
 
Dartmouth's lead was 37-31 early in the second half, before Jordan Dingle dialed long distance for three and Lucas Monroe got a hoop-and-harm to tie things up. The Big Green responded with the next five points, though, Aaryn Rai (18 points/9 rebounds) completing a personal 11-point stretch and Knight (16 points) getting three the old-fashioned way. By the second media timeout, Dartmouth's lead was seven (46-39).
 
A Monroe three made it 46-42, but the Green scored the game's next six points as the lead expanded to double figures midway through the second half. Dingle ended a scoreless streak of 2:32 with a three from the top of the key, and AJ Brodeur quickly followed with a layup to get Penn within five, and that was still the margin (55-50) at the final media timeout, with 3:46 left.
 
Dartmouth got its lead back to 10 points on Rai free throws out of the timeout and then a Rai trey, which Goodman quickly got back to make it 60-53. That was about all the Quakers had in the tank, though, as they had to resort to fouling and hitting threes at the other end. Back-to-back treys by Martz and Eddie Scott got it as close as 63-59, but it was too little too late as Dartmouth made the free throws to pull away.