PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team embarks on another busy week, starting Tuesday night when the Quakers play their first home game in 619 days. The game is the back end of a doubleheader at The Palestra, as the Penn women host King's College in the opener at 4 p.m.
 
GAME 4 – PENN (1-2) vs. LAFAYETTE (0-2)
Game Presented by Morris Arboretum
Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021 | 7 p.m.
The Palestra | Philadelphia
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Penn Game Notes | Lafayette Game Notes
 
Quaker Audio Network (QAN)
Again this season, Penn fans can listen to most of Penn's men's basketball games through the Quaker Audio Network, a free Internet-based audio streaming service. Matt Leon will be on the play-by-play call with Penn Athletics Hall of Famer Stan Pawlak offering analysis. To access the Quaker Audio Network, simply type www.pennathletics.com/audio into your computer or device.
 
The Penn-Lafayette Series
• One of the Quakers' most regular non-conference opponents for several decades now, the teams meet Tuesday for the 54th time.
 
• Penn holds a 43-10 lead in the overall series, but the Leopards have won seven of the last 13 meetings.
 
• Lafayette won the last meeting, 86-75, when these teams played on November 19, 2019 in Easton, Pa.
 
• Penn has dominated the last two meetings played at The Palestra, winning 91-61 early in the 2018-19 season and 81-52 early in 2016-17.
 
• Penn is 167-59 all-time against teams that currently play in the Patriot League after defeating Bucknell on Sunday, 73-68..
 
Penn MBB by the Numbers
2 • Penn players who made their collegiate debuts last Wednesday despite being upperclassmen: senior co-captain Jelani Williams and junior Jonah Charles; in total, 11 of the 19 players on Penn's roster had never suited up for an NCAA Division I college basketball game entering the Florida State contest.
 
3 • Penn players with international playing experience: senior Michael Wang (China) and juniors Max Lorca-Lloyd (Chile) and Michael Moshkovitz (Israel). Of note, Moshkovitz started every game when Israel won the 2018 FIBA Under-20 European Championship in Germany, the first gold medal by an Israeli team at a FIBA event.
 
3 • 20-point games by sophomore Jordan Dingle already this season (23 at Florida State, 20 at George Mason, 24 at Bucknell); he had five such games as a freshman in 2019-20.
 
8 • Consecutive points scored by Dingle on Sunday at Bucknell, turning a 58-56 deficit into a 64-60 lead that the Quakers never relinquished.
 
12 • Points scored by Charles and sophomore Clark Slajchert Wednesday night in their college debuts.
 
13 • Points scored by Slajchert on Sunday at Bucknell, a season/career high.
 
15 • Penn's 19-player roster features players from 12 different states, the District of Columbia, and two foreign countries (China and Israel).
 
25 • Points scored by Williams across Penn's last three halves, after he had just two across their first three halves this season; he had 17 points and eight rebounds on Sunday at Bucknell.
 
30 • Three-point field goals made by Penn over its first three games (9 against FSU, 11 vs. Mason, 10 at Bucknell).
 
33 • Points scored by Charles in three games this season; his points have come from 10 three-point baskets and three foul shots.
 
38 • Total starts made in 2019-20 by Dingle (20), fellow "sophomore" Max Martz (14)—who missed the first three games this season due to injury—and junior co-captain Lucas Monroe (4).
 
59 • Overall wins by Penn during its last three seasons: 24 in 2017-18, 19 in 2018-19, 16 in 2019-20. That's the most over a three-year span since the Quakers had 62 wins from 2004-05 to 2006-07.
 
613 • The number of days it had been since Penn last played a competitive intercollegiate game when they took the floor in Tallahassee. In its last game, Penn defeated Columbia 85-65 at The Palestra on March 7, 2020—and what a game it was. AJ Brodeur became the program's all-time leading scorer AND recorded the first triple-double in program history (21 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists).
 
991 • The number of days between games in which Wang scored for Penn; a regular in the lineup as a freshman in 2018-19—he made nine starts and had 10 double-figure scoring games—Wang missed the 2019-20 campaign to injury.
 
1.000 • Free-throw percentage by Slajchert on Wednesday at Florida State; his 8-of-8 performance at the charity stripe was the best by a Penn player in the Steve Donahue era.
 
1,142 • Total collegiate points scored by the 19 players on Penn's 2021-22 roster entering the season. That includes just four players with more than 100 points: Dingle (338), Washington (261), Wang (222) and Martz (205). Total points by the eight players who have graduated since Penn's last game? 4,211.
 
1,789 • Days since Williams had played in a regular-season game when he started last Wednesday at FSU, dating back to December 18, 2016 when he was a high-schooler at Sidwell Friends; he suffered three ACL injuries which wiped out his first three seasons at Penn, then the pandemic wiped out last season.