PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team closes out the regular season with its final tune-up ahead of the Ivy League Tournament. Archrival Princeton comes to The Palestra on Saturday, the teams tipping off at 6 p.m. in the latest chapter of this epic rivalry.
 
GAME 28 – #3 PENN (12-15, 9-5 Ivy League) vs. #2 YALE (18-10, 11-3)
Saturday, March 12, 2022 | 2 p.m.
Lavietes Pavilion | Cambridge, Mass.
Watch Live on ESPNU | Listen Live (QAN) | Live Stats
Penn Game Notes | Yale Game Notes
 
2022 #IvyMadness Schedule
Saturday, March 12
  SEMIFINAL 1 - #1 Princeton vs. #4 Cornell | 11 a.m. | ESPNU | SiriusXM 133 | XM 202 | SXM App 965
  SEMIFINAL 2 - #2 Yale vs. #3 Penn | 2 p.m. | ESPNU | SiriusXM 133 | XM 202 | SXM App 965
Sunday, March 13
  FINAL – Semifinal winners | Noon | ESPN2 | SiriusXM 135 | XM 202 | SXM App 965
 
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 this weekend's game at Harvard, with Penn Athletics Hall of Famer Stan Pawlak offering analysis. To access the Quaker Audio Network, simply type www.pennathletics.com/audio into your computer or device.
 
The Penn-Yale Series
• The Quakers lead the overall series, 152-83, and have taken six of the last ten meetings after the Bulldogs won nine in a row from 2013-17.

• Penn won the first meeting this season at The Palestra, 76-68. Jordan Dingle had 31 points to lead the Quakers while Clark Slajchert scored 13 and Max Martz added 11. (recap/box, page 33)

• Yale returned the favor nearly a month later in New Haven with an 81-72 victory. Slajchert led the Quakers with 18 points, while Martz scored 11 and Dingle added 10. (recap/box, page 34)

• These teams split the series in 2019-20, Penn taking a 69-61 decision at The Palestra before Yale stunned the Quakers with a 76-73, comeback win in New Haven. They were scheduled to meet in an 2020 ILT semifinal before it was canceled due to COVID-19.
 
Penn in #IvyMadness
• Penn is playing Yale for the second time in the ILT. In a 2018 semifinal at The Palestra, the Quakers defeated the Bulldogs 80-57 en route to the title.
 
• Penn is the third seed for the first time in ILT history. The Quakers have been the second seed once before (2018) and the fourth seed twice (2017, 2019).
 
• Saturday's second semifinal features the only two programs to make every Ivy League Tournament to date. Penn and Yale are a perfect 4-for-4, while Princeton is making its third appearance and Cornell is in for the second time. Harvard was 3-for-3 before missing out this season.
 
• That said, the only player on Penn's current roster with any #IvyMadness game experience is senior guard Bryce Washington, who played two minutes in Penn's semifinal loss to Harvard in 2019.
 
Penn MBB By the Numbers
1 • Player in program history who has put up five 30-point games in Ivy League play in the same season: sophomore Jordan Dingle.
 
2.00 • Junior Michael Moshkovitz's assist/turnover ratio in Ivy League play (46/23), tops among Ivy players who average at least three assists per game.
 
5 • Consecutive double-figure scoring games by sophomore Clark Slajchert heading into #IvyMadness (15.8 ppg in that stretch); after scoring just four points in his first Ivy game, Slajchert has 11 double-figure scoring games, a nine-point game, and an eight-point game.
 
5.3 • Points-per-game difference between Ivy League games (7.8) and non-conference games (2.5) this season for Moshkovitz.
 
6 • 30-point games by Dingle this season; the last Penn player to accomplish that feat? The great Ernie Beck, who had six such games as a junior in 1951-52 and five as a senior in 1952-53.
 
10 • Penn players who have at least one double-figure scoring game in Ivy League play this season; overall this season, 12 different Quakers have at least one double-figure scoring game.

12.7 • Sophomore Max Martz's points-per-game average over his last eight appearances; the sophomore—who missed Penn's home win over Harvard due to COVID protocols—is shooting 54.7 pct from the field over his last 10 appearances (52-95) including a staggering 66.7 percent on two-point shots (36-54).
 
13 • Different starting lineups used by Penn across 27 games this season; only 12 NCAA Division 1 schools have had more. After using just two different starting lineups across their first nine Ivy games, injuries and/or COVID protocols have forced the Quakers to use four new lineups in their last five contests.
 
14 • Rebounds by junior co-captain Lucas Monroe last Saturday vs. Princeton, a Penn player high for this season; he has 43 boards across the Quakers' last five games (7 vs. Harvard, 7 at Yale, 9 at Brown, 6 at Dartmouth).
 
20.6 • Dingle's overall points-per-game average entering the weekend, tops among Ivy players; that is the ninth-best scoring average for a season in program history and the highest since Keven McDonald averaged 22.3 ppg in 1977-78.
 
22 • Double-figure scoring games for Dingle this season, in 25 appearances; he has nine points in the other three.
 
23 • Points scored by senior Bryce Washington in Penn's last two games (13 at Dartmouth, 10 vs. Princeton); prior to that, he had scored just eight points for the entire SEASON.
 
24 • Consecutive games started by fifth-year senior co-captain Jelani Williams before he was injured against Harvard on February 12; quite a feat, considering that when Williams started the season opener at Florida State it was his first game in 1,789 days, dating back to his senior year at Sidwell Friends when he tore an ACL prior to Christmas. He hopes to rejoin the lineup in time for Ivy Madness.
 
26.1 • Dingle's points-per game average over his last eight appearances.
 
45 • Games missed due to injury or illness this season by the starting five from Penn's first game this season, at Florida State (Max Lorca-Lloyd 21, Michael Wang 19, Williams, 3, Dingle 2).
 
47 • Years since a Penn player had back-to-back 30-point games, as Dingle did against Yale and Harvard on January 22 and 28 (making him the first player in program history with consecutive 30-point Ivy League games); Keven McDonald scored 35 points vs. Tennessee, then 32 one day later vs. Ohio State at the 1975 Sugar Bowl Classic.
 
53 • Three-point baskets by junior Jonah Charles so far this season, against just six two-point baskets; he had 14 points at Dartmouth on February 26, hitting four treys in the game's final 3:27.