PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team will have no time for Thanksgiving leftovers this weekend. Fresh off an overtime win at Lafayette on Tuesday night, the Quakers are at The Palestra on Friday, Saturday and Sunday as they join Colgate, Delaware and Hartford for the inaugural Cathedral Classic presented by Sheraton University City. The four-team, round-robin event will feature doubleheaders at 2 and 4:30 each day.
 
GAME 7 – PENN (2-4) vs. HARTFORD (3-3)
Friday, Nov. 25, 2022 | 4:30 p.m.
The Palestra | Philadelphia
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GAME 8 – PENN vs. COLGATE (4-2)
Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022 | 4:30 p.m.
The Palestra | Philadelphia
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GAME 9 – PENN (1-4) vs. DELAWARE (1-2)
Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022 | 4:30 p.m.
The Palestra | Philadelphia
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Penn Notes (PDF) | Hartford Notes (PDF) | Colgate Notes (PDF) | Delaware Notes (PDF)
 
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 all weekend, with Brad Fadem offering analysis. To access the Quaker Audio Network, simply type www.pennathletics.com/audio into your computer or device.
 
PENN vs. THE CC FIELD...
Hartford (Friday)
*The Quakers and Hawks are meeting for the third time, Penn winning the previous two meetings which took place exactly 10 month apart way back in 1985 (59-57 on Jan. 26, 70-66 on Nov. 26).
 
Colgate (Saturday)
*The Quakers and Raiders are meeting for the tenth times, Penn leading the all-time series 7-2.
 
*That said, this is the first meeting this century between these teams. The last matchup took place on January 16, 1999 at The Palestra (a 68-50 Penn win).
 
*The last time Colgate beat Penn? Try February 21, 1903 (a 28-8 romp).
 
Delaware (Sunday)
*Penn is playing the Blue Hens for the 25th time, a bit surprising given their relative proximity to each other.
 
*The last meeting took place almost a decade ago, Delaware rolling to an 83-60 win in Newark on December 21, 2012.
 
*Penn—which leads the overall series with Delaware, 18-6—won the last time these two met at The Palestra, a 69-60 victory on December 7, 2011.
 
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*Saturday's matchup, of course, pits Penn against former Quakers standout Matt Langel, who was part of three Ivy League championship squads at Penn from 1997-2000. In fact, current Penn head coach Steve Donahue was on the staff that recruited and coached Langel.
 
*Langel is one of four Penn grads who are head coaches at the Division I level along with Michael Jordan (Lafayette), Fran McCaffery (Iowa) and Andrew Toole (Robert Morris). Coincidentally, the Quakers beat Jordan's Lafayette team in overtime on Tuesday, 74-68.
 
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
0 - Two-point baskets scored this season by senior Jonah Charles; his 24 points have come from eight three-point baskets.

2 - All-Ivy players back across the league in 2022-23: Princeton's Tosan Evbuomwan and Jordan Dingle.

2 - Former Penn players the Quakers will face this week. Not just former Quakers, in fact, but former teammates and backcourt mates wearing the Red and Blue: Michael Jordan (head coach at Lafayette) and Matt Langel (head coach at Colgate).

3 - 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 Ivy COVID-19 restrictions.

6 - 30-point games registered by Dingle last year, tied for most in a season in program history (Ernie Beck, 1951-52); in fact, the six games put Dingle fourth on the program's list of CAREER 30-point games behind Beck (13), Keven McDonald (8) and Stan Pawlak (7).
7 - Penn players with a double-figure scoring game already this season; the Quakers returned nine players who had at least two such games in 2021-22.

8 - Turnover committed by Penn in Tuesday's overtime win at Lafayette, a season low and in fact the first time the Quakers were in single digits in that category this season.
 
9 - Rebounds grabbed by sophomore Nick Spinoso in Tuesday's win at Lafayette; he grabbed them in less than 20 minutes of action.

9 - Points scored by Dingle in Tuesday's overtime period; he had the Quakers' first seven points in the extra session en route to 22 overall.

10 – Games Penn is playing in the month of November, more than any other NCAA Division I program.

28 - Points scored by Martz the last two games, to go with 18 rebounds (after he had just two boards across Penn's first four games); Martz had his first collegiate double-double last Friday at West Virginia (10 pts/10 rbs).

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 - Consecutive double-figure scoring games by Dingle dating back to last year; he missed Penn's game last Friday at West Virginia due to injury.

16 - Three-point baskets hit by Penn 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.

19 - Points needed by Dingle to reach 1,000 for his career. Only three players reached 1,000 faster than Dingle, who could do it in his 57th game at Penn: Ernie Beck (50 games), Keven McDonald (50), and Stan Pawlak (52). Ron Haigler and Joe Sturgis hit the mark in Game 58.
 
19 - Consecutive free throws made by Dingle entering the weekend; he went 8-8 in his last two games entering the weekend, at Drexel and at Lafayette.
 
20.8 - Dingle's scoring 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.

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).

1.000 - Slajchert's free-throw percentage so far this season (13-13).