PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team opened play at the Cathedral Classic Presented by the Sheraton University City Hotel on Friday with a 75-55 win over the University of Hartford.
The Quakers have won two in a row and improved to 3-4 overall with the victory, while the Hawks fell to 3-4 on the season.
In the first game of Friday's doubleheader, Delaware came back in the second half to defeat Colgate, 72-68.
Quaker Notemeal
*This was Penn's largest victory of the season to date.
*Penn hit 12 three-pointers, its second time reaching double figures in that category, and matched a season best by shooting 50 percent beyond the arc.
*Penn had 43 rebounds for the second straight game; that is a season high.
*Hartford shot 31.3 percent from the field on Friday, lowest by a Penn opponent this season.
*Junior
Jordan Dingle scored 20 points in just over 18 minutes on Friday night, and his three-pointer and-one with 9:33 left gave him 1,000 points for his Penn career.
*Dingle reached 1,000 points in his 57th game at Penn; the only players to reach 1,000 faster in program history are Ernie Beck (50), Keven McDonald (50), and Stan Pawlak (52).
*Dingle matched his season best with four three-pointers, going 4-of-6, and he extended his consecutive free-throw streak to 22 before missing his fourth foul shot of the night.
*Junior
Max Martz scored 15 points, giving him 43 across Penn's last three games (14.3 ppg), and knocked down four treys which was a season high.
*Junior
Clark Slajchert hit double digits in the scoring column for the fifth time in the last six games with 11 points.
*Senior
Jonah Charles scored seven points—including his first two two-point baskets this season—and set a career high with nine rebounds which led all players in the game.
*Senior
Max Lorca-Lloyd dished out four assists, a career high, and pulled down seven rebounds.
*Sophomore
Gus Larson scored his first points of the season on a three-pointer.
*Hartford was led by La Salle transfer Jared Kimbrough, who scored 13 points, while Pano Pavlidis had 12 points and a team-high seven rebounds.
How It Happened
Penn opened the scoring on Friday with three-pointers from Martz and
Reese McMullen, but Hartford recovered and scored on five straight possessions to go ahead 11-8. The teams traded triples after that to 17-14, but at that point senior
Lucas Monroe and Dingle combined to score 10 of the game's next 12 points and push Penn in front by five, 24-19. It was still a five-point lead heading into the final minute of the half, but the Red and Blue scored the final five points in the period to take a 10-point lead into the break, 34-24.
Penn then scored the first five points in the second half, making it a 10-0 run bridging the halves and giving the Quakers a 39-24 lead. The advantage bulged to 20 (48-28) before the half was five minutes old. From there the only drama involved Dingle and his quest to reach 1,000 career points. That happened just past the midway point of the half when he knocked down a three-pointer at the top of the key and was fouled for the rare four-point play. When he knocked down the foul shot Penn's lead was 27, at 62-35, and Coach Donahue was already in the process of substituting liberally.
Up Next
Penn continues play at the Cathedral Classic presented by the Sheraton University City on Saturday at 4:30 p.m., taking on Colgate. That will be the second game of a single-admission doubleheader, with Delaware facing Hartford in the first game tipping off at 2 p.m.
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