PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team makes the shortest road trip in NCAA Division I basketball on Tuesday night, when the Quakers make the 0.4-mile trip North on 33rd Street to face Drexel. This will be Penn's second game against a CAA opponent in three days.

Tuesday's game will air nationally through subscription-based FloHoops and its CAA package. However, fans in the Philadelphia region can watch the action live on NBC Sports Philadelphia.
 
GAME 4 – PENN (0-3) at DREXEL (1-0)
Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022 | 7 p.m.
Daskalakis Athletics Center | Philadelphia
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Penn Game Notes | Drexel 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 Tuesday's game, with Brad Fadem and Vince Curran offering analysis. To access the Quaker Audio Network, simply type www.pennathletics.com/audio into your computer or device.
 
The Penn-Drexel Series
*This is the 27th meeting between the Quakers and the Dragons, with Penn holding a 16-10 lead in a series that dates back to the 1920-21 season; that said, Drexel won six in a row from 2007-15 before Penn won in 2016 (below).
 
*This is the first regular-season meeting between these programs since the 2016 holiday season, as Penn hosted Drexel on December 28 that year and defeated the Dragons, 75-67.
 
*This is just Penn's third trip to the DAC, the others coming in 2008 (a 66-64 loss) and 2015 (a 53-52 loss in overtime); the 2008 game was part of ESPN's "Hoops Madness" and tipped off at 10 a.m. for a national TV audience.
 
*In a true "Battle for 33rd Street," The Palestra and the DAC are separated by 0.4 miles, making this the shortest road trip at the NCAA Division 1 level.
 
*This is Penn's second game against a Colonial Athletic Association team in three days; the Quakers hosted CAA preseason favorite Towson Sunday and fell, 80-74. Penn also will play Delaware next week as part of the inaugural Cathedral Classic at The Palestra.
 
*Penn enters this game with a 48-22 record against current CAA programs.
 
*In 2009, Penn and Drexel played a game in which neither team hit a three-pointer (Penn 0-8, Drexel 0-11). The Quakers have had only one other game like that: December 1, 1987 at Georgia Tech, Penn's first game with the three-point shot in play (Penn 0-2, GT 0-3).
 
*Penn is playing 10 games in 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; Penn followed that up with a 9-of-10 performance on Sunday, making them 20-of-21 (95.2 pct) the last two games.
 
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 Penn player since Keven McDonald averaged 22.3 ppg as a senior in 1977-78.
 
21 - Points scored by Slajchert in each of Penn's last two games; he had just one 20-point game all of last season.
 
24 - Points scored by Dingle in Sunday's loss to Towson; all of them came in the game's final 18:31 after he was held scoreless in the first half.
 
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 15 points have come on five 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).
 
938 - Points scored by Dingle through the third 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).