PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team is home for its last two regular-season games this weekend, hosting Cornell (Friday at 7 p.m.) and Columbia (Saturday at 6 p.m.). The Quakers are tied for fourth place in the Ivy League standings and can go a long way toward securing an Ivy League Tournament berth with a pair of wins.
 
GAME 26 – PENN (14-11, 6-6 Ivy League) vs. CORNELL (6-19, 3-9)
Friday, March 6 | 7 p.m.
Macquarie Court at The Palestra | Philadelphia
Watch (ESPN+) | Listen (QAN) | Live Stats | Penn Game Notes | Cornell Game Notes
 
GAME 27 – PENN vs. COLUMBIA (6-11, 1-11)
Saturday, March 7 | 6 p.m.
Macquarie Court at The Palestra | Philadelphia
Watch (ESPN+) | Listen (QAN) | Live Stats | Columbia Game Notes
 
The #IvyMadness Scenarios
*Three teams are still in the mix for the fourth and final seed heading into the final weekend, with Penn and Brown tied for fourth place and Dartmouth one game behind the two of them in sixth.
 
*The top three seeds aren't quite set yet, either. Currently Yale is the top seed at 10-2, followed by Harvard which is a game behind at 9-3 and then Princeton which is 8-4.
 
*Four of the six teams listed above play each other this weekend—Yale and Brown are at Dartmouth and Harvard—and basically you have the potential for some serious chaos.
 
*The simplest way Penn can get in? Beat Cornell on Friday while Harvard wins at home against Brown. The tiebreakers work out in such a way that the Quakers cannot be overtaken by the Bears for the fourth and final seed, setting the stage for a celebratory Saturday.
 
*Click here for the Ivy League's tiebreaker system, and click here for a pretty good breakdown by Mid-Major Madness.
 
Speaking of Saturday…
The men's basketball program will honor six members of the program for whom Saturday's game is their last in The Palestra. The Quakers will honor manager Garrett Colvin as well as players Ryan Betley, AJ Brodeur, Devon Goodman, Ray Jerome and Kuba Mijakowski at approximately 5:40 p.m., prior to tipoff with Columbia.
 
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 Cornell-Columbia Home Weekend
• Penn has hosted the Ivy's New York duo on the same weekend 60 times previously; the Quakers have swept 44 times, split it 14 times, and been swept two times.
 
• Penn split this weekend last year, falling to Columbia in overtime. Prior to that, the Quakers swept the weekend five out of seven years from 2011-12 to 2017-18.
 
The Penn-Cornell Series
• The Quakers and Big Red have met 233 times previously, with Penn winning the last two, 13 of the last 14, and 15 of the last 18 en route to a 158-75 overall lead.
 
• Penn won the first meeting this season, 79-73 in Ithaca on February 9. Devon Goodman led the Quakers' offense with 18 points, while freshmen Max Martz and Jordan Dingle both scored 17. Senior AJ Brodeur, meanwhile, nearly had the first triple-double in program history with 10 points, nine rebounds and eight assists.
 
The Penn-Columbia Series
• The Quakers and Lions have met 236 times, with Penn winning four of the last five and holding a 144-92 overall lead in the series.
 
• Penn won the first meeting between these teams, taking a 76-67 decision in New York City on February 8. Brodeur scored 24 points and dished out five assists, while Goodman scored 16 points and Martz added 11. Columbia got 21 points from Mike Smith. the win was Penn's third in a row in the Big Apple, the program's longest win streak at Levien since winning four in a row from 2002-05.
 
Brodeur in the (Record) Book
Senior AJ Brodeur's position in Penn's all-time record book entering the weekend...
• 1st in career FG made (734) … Ernie Beck second with 704
• 1st in career starts (117) … Zack Rosen second with 115
• 2nd in career blocked shots (192) … Geoff Owens first with 195
• 2nd in career scoring (1,789 points) … Ernie Beck first with 1,827
• 3rd in minutes played (3,760) … Miles Cartwright second with 3,896
• 4th in career rebounds (908) … Joseph Sturgis third with 924
• t-4th in games played (117) … Foreman/Rosen t-4th with 117; Cartwright/Klatsky/Onyekwe with 118
• 7th in career assists (373) … David Klatsky sixth with 387
 
Penn MBB by the Numbers
1.6 • Senior Devon Goodman's overall steals-per-game average entering the weekend, tops among Ivy League players; he had five last Saturday at Brown, tied for most by a Penn player in the Steve Donahue coaching era.
 
2 • Games Penn has lost this season when shooting a better field-goal percentage than its opponent (12-2 in such games); it happened in two of the last three games, February 22 at Harvard (P 46.4, H 45.0) and last Friday at Yale (P 48.3, Y 43.5).
 
2.80 • Senior AJ Brodeur's assist/turnover ratio last weekend at Yale and Brown (14/5).
 
3 • All-Ivy players in Penn's lineup: senior captains 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 54.4 percent of the Quakers' scoring this season (995 of Penn's 1,828 points), despite Betley missing five games to injury.
 
4.9 • Brodeur's overall assists-per-game average entering the weekend, tops among Ivy League players; he had seven in both games last weekend and has 14 games with at least five dimes so far this season.
 
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.
 
11 • Games this season in which Penn has reached double figures in three-point field goals, including four of the last five games (10 each against Yale, Dartmouth and Harvard, then 12 last Friday in New Haven).
 
28 • Points needed by Goodman to reach 1,000 for his Penn career, after he went for a combined 29 last weekend at Yale and Brown.
 
29 • Points scored by freshman Lucas Monroe in Penn's last four games (7.3 ppg), after he scored 71 in the Quakers' first 20 games against Division 1 opponents (3.5 ppg).
 
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.
 
60.9 • Out of 256 possible scenarios that could play out this weekend in the eight Ivy League games, the percentage that end with Penn in the Ivy League Tournament as the fourth seed (156).
 
63 • Points scored by junior Eddie Scott across Penn's last nine games, after he scored just 49 in the Quakers' first 16 contests (10 of those coming in the season opener at Alabama).
 
67 • Years that Ernie Beck's career scoring record has stood at Penn, the longest-standing mark among NCAA Division 1 programs; Brodeur enters the weekend needing 38 points to tie him.
 
70 • Overall wins for the Class of 2020 (Betley, Brodeur, Goodman, Ray Jerome, Kuba Mijakowski) entering the weekend; that is the most for a men's basketball class since the Class of 2008 graduated with 75 wins.
 
89.3 • Percentage of Penn's points that have been scored either by members of the senior class (57.0 percent) or members of the freshman class (32.3).
 
90 • Points scored by freshman Max Martz over Penn's last eight games (11.3 ppg); this week's Ivy League Rookie of the Week has reached double figures in seven of those eight contests.
 
117 • Career starts made by Brodeur, the program record; he passed Zack Rosen last Friday at Yale with his 116th start.
 
117 • Career games played by Brodeur, one shy of the program record; he will tie the mark shared by Miles Cartwright, David Klatsky and Ugonna Onyekwe with his 118th appearance Friday night.
 
1,804 • 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.