PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team is (finally) ready to start the 2021-22 season! A mere 613 days since their last game, the Quakers jump right into the new season with a trip to Tallahassee and a meeting with No. 20 Florida State. This is the first of nine games the Quakers will play in November—eight of them being played somewhere other than The Palestra—with the tenth coming on December 1.
 
GAME 1 – PENN (0-0) at #20 FLORIDA STATE (0-0)
Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021 | 9 p.m.
Donald L. Tucker Center | Tallahassee, Fla.
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Penn Game Notes | FSU Game Notes
 
The Penn-FSU Series
• This is the first meeting between the Quakers and the Seminoles in men's basketball.
 
• Penn head coach Steve Donahue went 1-3 against FSU (0-2 at the Tucker Center) during his four years as Boston College's head coach, from 2011-14.
 
• This is Penn's first trip to the Sunshine State since the 2017-18 season, when they played three games in the Gulf Coast Showcase in Estero. The season before that, in 2016-17, the Quakers made road trips to Miami and UCF.
 
• Penn is 54-93 all-time against programs that currently play in the ACC.
 
• That said, the Quakers won the last time they played an ACC program; Miami came to The Palestra in Philadelphia on December 8, 2018 and Penn beat the 'Canes, 89-75.
• Penn's last win on an ACC road floor came November 19, 2001, a 79-74 victory at Georgia Tech.
 
• Penn is 0-3 all-time when facing a team ranked 20th in the AP poll. The most recent such game came November 11, 2006 at Syracuse (a 78-60 loss).
 
Penn MBB by the Numbers
2 • Penn players who have not yet played a collegiate game despite being upperclassmen: senior co-captain Jelani Williams and junior Jonah Charles; in total, 11 of the 19 players on Penn's roster have never suited up for an NCAA Division I college basketball game entering tonight's 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.
 
8 • Penn players who have been named Ivy League Rookie of the Year, the most recent being sophomore Jordan Dingle. He won the award in 2019-20, but is listed as a sophomore because he left school last year to preserve eligibility.
 
15 • Penn's 19-player roster features players from 12 different states, the District of Columbia, and two foreign countries (China and Israel).
 
18 • Combined double-figure scoring games by seniors Michael Wang (10) and Bryce Washington (8) when they were freshmen in 2018-19.
 
38 • Total starts made in 2019-20 by Dingle (20), fellow "sophomore" Max Martz (14), 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 has been since Penn last played a competitive intercollegiate game. 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).
 
820 • Three-point field goals made by Penn over its last three seasons; the Quakers hit at least 10 treys in 13 games in 2019-20.
 
991 • The number of days it will have been since Wang scored a collegiate point when he takes the floor at FSU; 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 entire 2019-20 campaign due to injury.
 
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).
 
4,211 • Total collegiate points scored by the eight players who have graduated from Penn since the Quakers last played a game.