PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team plays its home opener on Sunday, as Colonial Athletic Association preseason favorite Towson comes to The Palestra. This is the second of three games the Quakers will play in a five-day span.
 
GAME 3 – PENN (0-2) vs. TOWSON (2-0)
Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022 | 4 p.m.
The Palestra | Philadelphia
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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 for Sunday's game, with Brad Fadem offering analysis. To access the Quaker Audio Network, simply type www.pennathletics.com/audio into your computer or device.
 
The Penn-Towson Series
*Despite their relative proximity—the campuses are about 90 minutes apart—the Quakers and the Tigers are meeting for just the fifth time in program history. The series is tied, 2-2.
 
*These teams met last year in Towson, the Tigers rolling to a 76-61 victory at the SECU Arena; in that game, Penn lost by 15 despite scoring the last 15 points in the contest.
 
*These teams also met in 2017 as part of the Gulf Coast Showcase in Estero, Fla. Towson won that meeting as well, 79-71.
 
*Towson's only other appearance here at The Palestra to play Penn came on December 3, 1996, the Quakers knocking off the Tigers 80-74.
 
*The first meeting took place in Towson on December 6, 1995 and ended in a 67-61 Penn victory.
 
*This is the first of two games Penn will play against CAA teams in three days; on Tuesday, the Quakers make the shortest road trip in NCAA Division I when they walk down 33rd Street to Drexel. Penn also is scheduled to play Delaware as part of the inaugural Cathedral Classic over Thanksgiving Weekend.
 
*Penn entered the season with a 48-21 record against current CAA programs.
 
*Towson is one of three teams on Penn's non-conference schedule to be picked to win their league; the others are Iona (MAAC) and Colgate (Patriot).
 
*Penn is playing 10 games in the month of November; in an informal survey of the other Division I SIDs around the country, that is more than any other program. The closest are Coppin State and Hofstra, who are playing nine each.
 
Penn Picked to Win Ivy League
*Penn was (barely) picked to finish first in the Ivy League's Preseason Media Poll, which came from the votes of two members within each school's media contingent. The poll was announced on Wednesday, Oct. 19.
 
*Penn and Princeton both got six of the poll's 16 first-place votes, but the Quakers finished with 111 voting points while the Tigers had 110. Yale was close behind with 106 voting points including three first-place votes. Harvard was fourth with 86 points and the final first-place vote, while the bottom half consisted of Cornell (54), Brown (53), Dartmouth (31), and Columbia (25).
 
*This marks the first time Penn has been picked first in the Ivy's preseason media poll since the 2006-07 season. That team, behind Ivy League Player of the Year Ibrahim Jaaber and fellow All-Ivy first-teamer Mark Zoller, won the Ivy title with a 13-1 record before losing to Texas A&M in the NCAA Tournament's first round.
 
Penn MBB By the Numbers
2 - All-Ivy players back across the league in 2022-23: Princeton's Tosan Evbuomwan and Jordan Dingle.
 
2 - Penn players with international playing experience: seniors 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 - 2022-23 non-conference opponents who were picked in the preseason to win their respective leagues: Iona (MAAC), Towson (CAA), and Colgate (Patriot League). Penn was picked by the Ivy League media to win the Ancient Eight.
 
4 - Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors won last season by junior Clark Slajchert (3) and sophomore George Smith (1); sophomores like Slajchert were eligible for the award last season because there was no 2020-21 season due to COVID-19.
 
6 - 30-point games registered by Dingle last year, tied for the most in a season in program history (Beck, 1951-52); in fact, the six games put Dingle fourth on the program's list of CAREER 30-point games behind Beck (13), McDonald (8) and Pawlak (7).
 
9 - Returning players who had at least two double-figure scoring games in 2021-22, led by Dingle (23), Slajchert (15), and junior Max Martz (12).
 
9 - Returnees who made at least one start in 2021-22, led by Dingle who started all 26 games in which he played. The other returnees who had double-figure start totals last year are Martz (22), Moshkovitz (16), senior Jonah Charles (14) and Smith (11), while Lucas Monroe made nine starts.
 
11 - On November 11 at Missouri—or 11/11, you might say—Penn went 11-of-11 at the foul line, the third time the Quakers have shot 100 percent at the foul line in the Steve Donahue coaching era.
 
14 - Rebounds by Lorca-Lloyd in Penn's season opener against Iona, a season/career high for the senior.
 
16 - Three-point baskets hit by Penn Friday night at Missouri, tying a program record against an NCAA Division 1 program (vs. Harvard on 2/21/2003; vs. Drexel on 1/28/2001); the Quakers hit 17 against Widener on December 21, 2019.
 
20.8 - Dingle's points-per-game average last season, seventh on Penn's single-season list and highest by a Quakers player since Keven McDonald averaged 22.3 ppg as a senior in 1977-78.
 
46 - Points scored by Slajchert in two games he has played on an SEC home court, after he dropped a game-high 21 Friday at Missouri; last season, he had a season-high 25 when Penn played at Arkansas.
 
53 - Three-point baskets hit by Charles last season, good for second on the team behind only Dingle (66); of note, however, was that the senior only had six two-point baskets. This season, his 12 points have come on four baskets from beyond the arc.
 
88.5 - Percentage of Penn's points that return from last season (1,785 of 2,017); that includes the Quakers' top four scorers in Dingle (20.8 ppg), Slajchert (10.7), Martz (10.0) and Charles (6.7).
 
914 - Points scored by Dingle through the second game of his junior year; there are only four players in program history who scored more points in their first two seasons than Dingle (880): Ernie Beck (1,154), Keven McDonald (1,021), Ron Haigler (947), and Stan Pawlak (922).