PHILADELPHIA – The Thanksgiving weekend starts a bit early if you're a University of Pennsylvania men's basketball fan, as the team continues its busy early-season schedule with a day trip to the Baltimore area and a Tuesday afternoon matinee with Towson.
 
GAME 8 – PENN (3-4) at TOWSON (2-2)
Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021 | 2 p.m.
SECU Arena | Towson, Md.
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Penn Game Notes | Towson 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 at Towson, 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-Towson Series
*The Quakers and the Tigers are meeting for just the fourth time in men's basketball, with Penn holding a 2-1 lead in the series.
 
*The most recent meeting was a neutral-site affair almost exactly four years ago at the Gulf Coast Showcase in Estero, Fla. Towson earned a 79-71 victory on November 23, 2017.
 
*This is Penn's second trip to Towson; the first came on December 6, 1995 and ended as a 67-61 Quakers win.
 
*The teams then met the following year at The Palestra, the Quakers gaining another six-point win (80-74).
 
*Penn is 42-18 all-time against teams that currently play in the Colonial Athletic Association; the Quakers will face another CAA team on December 28 when they host James Madison.
 
Busy Start to the Season
After not playing a regular-season game for 613 days—dating back to March 7, 2020 to be precise—Penn's game with Towson will be its eighth in 14 days, with seven of them coming away from home. The Quakers continue this brutal early stretch with another road game on Sunday, at No. 13 Arkansas.
 
Penn MBB by the Numbers
4 • 20-point games by sophomore Jordan Dingle already this season (23 at Florida State, 20 at George Mason, 24 at Bucknell, 31 vs. Utah State); he had five such games as a freshman in 2019-20.
 
4 • Games in which Penn has a double-figure total of three-point baskets (11 against George Mason, Lafayette and Old Dominion; 10 at Bucknell); overall, the Quakers have 69 treys in seven games so far this season.
 
7 • This is Penn's seventh game away from home already this season; overall, eight of the team's first nine games will be somewhere other than The Palestra.
 
8 • Consecutive points scored by Dingle November 14 at Bucknell, turning a 58-56 deficit into a 64-60 lead that the Quakers never relinquished.
 
15 • Penn's 19-player roster features players from 12 different states, the District of Columbia, and two foreign countries (China and Israel).
 
23 • Three-point baskets by junior Jonah Charles this season; he has just four two-point baskets.
 
31 • Points scored by Dingle in Thursday's double-overtime loss to Utah State, the first 30-point game by a Penn player since AJ Brodeur dropped 33 vs. Saint Joseph's on January 18, 2020.