PHILADELPHIA – Following a bit of a break—four days, to be exact—the University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team is back at it this weekend as they travel to SEC Country to close out a brutal November schedule.
 
GAME 9 – PENN (3-5) at #13/12 ARKANSAS (5-0)
Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021 | 3 p.m. (4 p.m. EST)
Bud Walton Arena | Fayetteville, Ark.
Watch on SEC Network | Live Stats
Penn Game Notes | Arkansas Game Notes
Arkansas' radio broadcast is scheduled to air on SiriusXM Channel 84
 
The Penn-Arkansas Series
*The Quakers and the Razorbacks are meeting for the first time in men's basketball.
 
*The last time Penn traveled to play an SEC team, the Quakers won; that was the season opener of the 2019-20 season, an 81-80 win over Alabama in Tuscaloosa that was Nate Oats' coaching debut with the Crimson Tide.
 
*Overall, Penn is 7-17 against current SEC programs with the other wins coming against Florida (2), South Carolina (2), Georgia (1) and Vanderbilt (1).
 
*In addition, Penn is 2-2 all-time when facing a team ranked 13th in the AP poll.
  2/20/52 - at Penn 53, #13 Penn State 52
  12/17/54 - at Penn 87, #13 Iowa 75
  12/28/87 - #13 Indiana 94, Penn 54
  1/11/94 - at #13 Temple 76, Penn 65
 
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 the Razorbacks will be its ninth in 14 days, with eight of them coming away from home. After spending 11 nights in hotels since November 9, when the Quakers arrive back home from Fayetteville they will not spend a night in a hotel again until Friday, Jan. 28 (at Harvard).
 
Penn MBB by the Numbers
2 • Penn players who made their collegiate debuts on November 10 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.
 
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 78 treys in eight games so far this season.
 
5 • 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, 21 at Towson—matching his total as a freshman in 2019-20; no one else on the roster has scored more than 18 points in a game this season.

8 • Consecutive points scored by Dingle on November 14 at Bucknell, turning a 58-56 deficit into a 64-60 lead that Penn never relinquished.
 
9 • Penn is playing its ninth game of the season already; eight of those games have been played somewhere other than The Palestra.
 
15 • Penn's 19-player roster features players from 12 different states, the District of Columbia, and two foreign countries (China and Israel).
 
25 • Three-point baskets by Charles this season; he has just four two-point baskets.
 
31 • Points scored by Dingle in last 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.
 
613 • The number of days it had been since Penn last played a competitive intercollegiate game when they took the floor November 10 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).
 
1.000• Free-throw percentage by sophomore Clark Slajchert this season (16-16); he went 8-8 at the foul line in Penn's opener at Florida State, the best performance by a Penn player in the Donahue coaching era.