PRINCETON, N.J. – Playing its first Ivy League road game of the season—albeit in front of a small crowd at cavernous Jadwin Gym—the University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team fell to Princeton, 74-64.
 
The Quakers are now 6-12 overall and 3-2 in Ivy League play, while the Tigers remain unbeaten in Ivy play (4-0) and are 14-3 overall.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Penn had eight steals on Monday, giving the Quakers 26 across their last three games.
 
*Penn set season lows in three-pointers taken (12) and made (3); in fact, the three treys tied a program low in the Donahue coaching era.
 
*Penn also set season lows in free throws taken (5) and made (3).
 
*Penn's eight assists were a season low.
 
*Freshman George Smith nearly had his first collegiate double-double, pulling down a game-high 10 rebounds and scoring nine points. The 10 boards were a season/career high.
 
*Senior Jelani Williams led Penn with 13 points, his second straight game scoring in double figures and his fifth such game this season.
 
*Junior Michael Moshkovitz score 12 points, the fourth time in six games he has recorded a double-digit point total.
 
*Sophomore Clark Slajchert finished the day with 10 points, his fourth straight game in double figures.

*Two other players, sophomores Jordan Dingle and Max Martz, scored nine points. Martz also had five rebounds, two assists, a blocked shot and a steal.

*Princeton had four players finish in double figures on Monday, led by Ethan Wright's 16 points. Two other players had nine for the Tigers, one of them being Tosan Evbuomwan who also had six rebounds, five assists and three steals.
 
How It Happened
Penn got off to a good start on Monday afternoon, jumping out to a 14-9 lead that extended to 17-11 when Smith drained a three-pointer off a Martz feed. The Tigers showed their claws at that point, however, holding the Quakers scoreless for more than three minutes and running off 11 straight points for a 22-17 lead.
 
Slajchert ended the skid with a floater in the lane, and after another drought of 2:13 he scored again to make it a 22-21 game. Princeton traded a pair of threes for two Penn buckets to extend the lead to three, then scored on consecutive possessions to open it back up to 32-25. It was 34-28 Tigers at the break.
 
Penn could never get all the way back. The Quakers fought, whittling away at Princeton's 12-point lead from early in the period with a 9-2 run that ended with Slajchert slicing through the lane for another bucket. The teams then traded baskets for a few possessions before both hit droughts with the score 51-47. No points were scored by either team for 3:35 of game action before Martz ended the skid with a bucket in the lane to get Penn within two points.
 
Afterward, all that you could see were missed opportunities. In all, Penn held Princeton scoreless for 5:31 of game action but only scored six points itself in that span. When Evbuomwan finally got the Tigers back on the board with a foul shot, it started the hosts on a methodical 6-0 run over a 1:50 span and gave them a 57-49 lead with less than seven minutes to play as Penn went scoreless for nearly four minutes.
 
The Quakers couldn't recover from there. The Princeton lead hit double digits four times in the final 3:21 and the closest Penn could get was six, at 70-64.
 
Up Next
Penn is back at home on Saturday, hosting Yale in a game that is scheduled to tip off at 4 p.m.