PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team kept its Ivy League Tournament hopes very much alive with a 73-68 win at Brown on Saturday night. With the victory, the Quakers and the Bears are tied for fourth place in the Ivy standings, both 6-6 heading into the final weekend. Penn will host Cornell on Friday and Columbia on Saturday, while Brown is at Harvard and Dartmouth next weekend.
 
Notes
*For just the second time this season, Penn won a game it trailed at halftime.
 
*Penn grabbed 17 offensive rebounds on Saturday, tied for a season high but most against a Division 1 opponent. (The Quakers also had 17 offensive boards against Widener.)
 
*Senior AJ Brodeur flirted with a triple double on Saturday night, scoring 20 points, grabbing eight rebounds, and dishing out seven assists (with just one turnover).
 
*Brodeur had 45 points on the weekend, and this was his 11th game reaching 20 points this season.
 
*Freshman Jordan Dingle scored 17 points, his 16th double-figure scoring game this season.
 
*Freshman Max Martz hit double figures in scoring for the seventh time in the last eight games with 13 points, knocking down all three of his three-point shots and grabbing seven rebounds.
 
*Freshman Lucas Monroe nearly had a double-double with eight points and nine rebounds, the board total a high against a Division 1 opponent.
 
*Senior Devon Goodman scored just six points, but he set a career high with three blocked shots and tied his career best with five steals.
 
*Goodman's five steals matched a Penn player high in the Steve Donahue coaching era.
 
How It Happened
Brown blew out to an early 8-2 lead, but Jordan Dingle and AJ Brodeur had five points each during an 11-2 run that left the Quakers in front, 13-10. Penn's lead was still 17-14 when the Quakers went cold, going more than three minutes without a point. Brown took advantage, scoring 11 straight points and going up 25-17. At that point the Bears hit their own drought, and over a three-minute span the Red and Blue scored eight in a row to tie things up at 25-25. Brown scored the next four points after that, but Dingle hit a three-pointer late and Brown's lead was 29-28 at the half.
 
Max Martz opened the second-half scoring, but Brown went on a 5-0 run to go up 34-31. At that point, Brodeur—with layups on three straight possessions—and Martz combined for a 10-2 run that pushed the Quakers out to a 41-36 lead by the second media timeout of the second half.
 
Penn's lead was 46-44 when Dingle hit a second-chance three-pointer, then a steal led to a breakout and Lucas Monroe was fouled on the layup, hitting both foul shots. Zach Hunsaker (21 points) got two of those points back for Brown, but Devon Goodman's acrobatic layup gave Penn a 53-46 lead headed into the under-8 media timeout.
 
A 6-0 Brown run made it a one-point game with 4:59 left, Brandon Anderson (14 points) hitting two foul shots to cap the streak. Dingle was fouled and hit both sides of a 1-and-1, and then Goodman poked the ball away from Anderson and that led to a spectacular dunk by Eddie Scott at the other end and a five-point lead. After another defensive stop, Monroe put back Brodeur's blocked shot and Penn's lead was 61-54 with less than four to play.
 
Anderson hit two free throws to end the Quakers' run, but Goodman got in the lane for a bucket and then Dingle banked home a jumper to make the score 65-56 with 2:30 left. With the Pizzitola crowd imploring Brown to get back in it, Hunsaker hit a three-pointer and Jaylan Gainey hit one of two free throws to make it a five-point game inside two minutes. However, Brodeur made a nice slip, took a pass from Goodman and threw it down for a seven-point lead. Gainey got them back for Bruno, but then Brodeur found Martz for an open three and the freshman coolly knocked it down for a 70-62 advantage inside a minute.
 
Brown got two free throws from Tamenang Choh—who had 20 points, 12 rebounds and six assists—and then after Monroe missed the front end of a 1-and-1 Hunsaker drained another trey which made the score 70-67 with 38 seconds left. Penn fans may have had visions of Friday's nightmare finish at Yale in mind, but apparently the lessons were learned over the last 24 hours. The Quakers broke Brown's press, Martz was fouled and hit one, and then Eddie Scott rebounded Hunsaker's long missed three and was fouled. He hit both to make it 73-67. Brown could only muster a Hunsaker foul shot in the final seconds.