PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team gets back on the road this weekend for a pair of important Ivy League games. With just four contests left, it appears five teams are in the running for the four Ivy Tournament spots with four of those five—the Quakers, Princeton, Yale and Brown—facing off with each other in four games over Friday and Saturday.
 
GAME 24 – PENN (13-10, 5-5 Ivy League) at YALE (20-6, 8-2)
Friday, Feb. 28 | 7 p.m.
John J. Lee Amphitheater | New Haven, Conn.
Watch (ESPN+) | Listen (QAN) | Live Stats | Penn Game Notes | Yale Game Notes
 
GAME 25 – PENN at BROWN (13-10, 6-4)
Saturday, Feb. 29 | 6 p.m.
Pizzitola Sports Center | Providence, R.I.
Watch (ESPN+) | Listen (QAN) | Live Stats | Brown Game Notes
 
Also in the Ivy League This Weekend
*Princeton (7-3) is at Brown on Friday and at Yale on Saturday.
 
*Harvard (7-3) and Dartmouth (3-7) are at Cornell (3-7) and Columbia (1-9) this weekend; the Crimson face the Lions and the Big Green battle the Big Red on Friday, while on Saturday Dartmouth is in the Big Apple while Harvard 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 Yale-Brown Road Trip
• Penn has made this New England swing 63 times previously; the Quakers have swept it 27 times—the last time being 2017—split it 27 times, and been swept nine times.
 
• Penn has split this trip each of the last two years, the win coming at Brown both times. The Quakers were swept three straight years from 2014-16.
 
The Penn-Yale Series
• This is the 233rd meeting between the Quakers and the Bulldogs, with Penn holding a sizable, 151-81 lead.
 
• These teams have split the regular-season series each of the last three years, Penn winning in New Haven in 2017 and in The Palestra the last two years.
 
FEBRUARY 15: at Penn 69, Yale 61
Senior AJ Brodeur broke the program's 67-year-old record for career field goals in dramatic fashion, hitting a three-point shot to break a 58-58 tie and send the Quakers on to the victory at The Palestra. He stuffed the stat sheet with 19 points, eight rebounds, five assists, four steals and three blocked shots. Junior Eddie Scott was the revelation, breaking out for 18 points, while freshman Max Martz had 12. For Yale, Paul Atkinson had a double-double (20 points/10 rebounds) while Azar Swain scored 13 points.
 
The Penn-Brown Series
• This is the 138th meeting between the Quakers and the Bears, with Penn holding a 109-28 lead.
 
• Brown ended Penn's five-game win streak in the series back on Valentine's Day, coming to The Palestra and knocking off the Quakers 75-63. Last year, Penn beat the Bears 92-82 in Providence and 58-51 at The Palestra.
 
FEBRUARY 14: Brown 75, at Penn 63
The Bears overwhelmed the Quakers in the second half, turning a six-point halftime deficit into a 12-point win at The Palestra. Brandon Anderson had a massive game for Brown, scoring 31 points and grabbing nine rebounds, while Zach Hunsaker knocked down 21. For Penn, AJ Brodeur had a double-double with 19 points and 15 rebounds—one board shy of his career high—while Jordan Dingle scored 16 points and freshman Max Martz nearly collected his first collegiate double-double (10 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 (715) … Ernie Beck second with 704
• t-1st in career starts (115) … Zack Rosen t-first with 115
• 2nd in career blocked shots (189) … Geoff Owens first with 195
• 3rd in career scoring (1,744 points) … Ugonna Onyekwe second with 1,762 points, Ernie Beck first with 1,827
• 4th in career rebounds (895) … Joseph Sturgis third with 924
• 5th in minutes played (3,687) … Michael Jordan fourth with 3,719
• 7th in career assists (359) … David Klatsky sixth with 387
• t-8th in games played (115) … several t-eighth with 115, Tim Begley/Koko Archibong with 116
 
Penn MBB by the Numbers
1 • Games Penn has lost this season when shooting a better field-goal percentage than its opponent (11-1 in such games); it happened last Saturday at Harvard (Penn 46.4, Harvard 45.0).
 
1.5 • Senior Devon Goodman's overall steals-per-game average entering the weekend, tops among Ivy players.
 
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 Goodman (second in 2018-19); the trio has combined for 54.5 percent of the Quakers' scoring this season (916 of Penn's 1,682 points), despite Betley missing the last five games to injury.
 
4.7 • Brodeur's overall assists-per-game average entering the weekend, tops among Ivy League players; Yale's Eric Monroe is second.
 
6 • Turnovers committed by Penn on February 15 vs. Yale, tied for a program low in the Steve Donahue coaching era.
 
10 • Games this season in which Penn has reached double figures in three-point field goals, including each of the last three games (10 each against Yale, Dartmouth and Harvard).
 
10 • Double-doubles by Brodeur for the second straight season; prior to Brodeur, the last Penn player with 10 double-doubles in a season was Bruce Lefkowitz in 1986-87.
 
12 • Points scored by freshman Lucas Monroe last Friday at Dartmouth, one shy of his career high (vs. Widener) but nearly double his previous high against a Division 1 opponent (seven in the season opener at Alabama).
 
17 • Total points scored by Brodeur in two games vs. Dartmouth this year (9 on February 1, 8 last Friday); he has hit double figures in his other 44 games against Division 1 opponents dating back to the start of last season.
 
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.
 
53 • Points scored by junior Eddie Scott across Penn's last seven games, after he scored 49 in the Quakers' first 16 contests (10 of those coming in the season opener at Alabama); the current stretch includes an 18-point game vs. Yale two weeks ago.
 
63.2 • Percentage of freshman Jordan Dingle's points this season that have been scored after halftime; of his 293 points, 108 have come in the first half while 185 have come after halftime.
 
65 • Points scored by freshman Max Martz over Penn's last six games.
 
89.0 • Percentage of Penn's points that have been scored either by members of the senior class (57.3 percent) or members of the freshman class (31.7).
 
115 • Career starts made by Brodeur, tied with Zack Rosen for the program record; it is expected he will break the mark Friday night at Yale.
 
715 • Career field goals scored by Brodeur, breaking Ernie Beck's program record of 704 that had stood since 1953; Brodeur's record-tying and record-breaking field goals were three-pointers, his 55th and 56th career treys.
 
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 on February 1.