PHILADELPHIA – The 11th-ranked University of Pennsylvania men's lacrosse team remains at home for the second weekend in a row. The Quakers host No. 14 Harvard on Saturday in the second half of an Alumni Day women's/men's doubleheader at Franklin Field. The men are scheduled to face off at 3:30 p.m., after the Penn women host Brown at noon.
 
#11/11 PENN (4-4, 1-3 Ivy League) vs. #14/13 HARVARD (7-2, 2-1)
Saturday, April 16, 2022 | 3:30 p.m.
Franklin Field | Philadelphia
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The Penn-Harvard Series
*Saturday's game will mark the 90th meeting between the Quakers and the Crimson, with Harvard holding a 44-43 lead in a series that also has seen two ties.
 
*That said, Penn is 10-2 all-time against Harvard under head coach Mike Murphy with seven consecutive wins.
 
*The last meeting came in 2019, the Quakers winning 26-13 and matching a program record for goals in a game (previously set against Drexel in 1994).
 
Penn Men's Lacrosse by the Numbers
0 * Penn's goal differential through four Ivy League games; though 1-3 in league play, the Quakers have scored 56 goals and given up 56 with a four-goal win, a two-goal loss, and two one-goal losses (both in overtime).
 
2 * Penn players who were named Inside Lacrosse Midseason All-America: senior middie Sam Handley (first-team All-America) and sophomore defenseman Brendan Lavelle (third-team All-America).
 
3 * Overtime games already this season for Penn: a 14-13 win over Duke on February 26; a 21-20 loss at Princeton on March 19 to open Ivy League play; and a 12-11 loss at Yale on April 2.
 
3 * Goals scored by Penn in the final seconds of games already this season. Shipley tied the Duke game with two seconds left, then a week later won the Penn State game with one second left. A week after that, Dylan Gergar scored at Villanova with one second left to give the Quakers an 8-7 win over the Wildcats. (For good measure, Gergar scored with just one second on the clock to end the first quarter last Saturday against Brown.)
 
3 * Penn players who have earned spots on the USILA Division I Team of the Week already this season: Gergar on March 1, Lavelle on March 15, and Handley on March 22.
 
3.75 * Goals per game scored by Cam Rubin in four Ivy League contests, tops among Ivy players.
 
3.75 * Assists per game dished out by Handley in four Ivy League contests, tops among Ivy players.
 
6 * Ivy League teams in this week's USILA Top 20: Princeton (3), Cornell (4), Yale (5), Penn (11), Harvard (14) and Brown (20). The rest of the top 10 has three Big Ten programs, two ACC programs, and one each from the Big East and the SoCon.
 
6.25 * Points per game recorded by Handley in four Ivy League contests, tops among Ivy players.
 
8 * Goals scored by Penn on extra man offense, out of eight opportunities, to start Ivy League play (5 at Princeton, 3 vs. Cornell); the streak ended in the second half of the Quakers' game with the Big Red.
 
8 * Assists by Handley against the Tigers, one shy of the single-game program record held since 1969 by Richard Bennett (set against Drexel).
 
9.50 * Penn's assists-per-game average in Ivy League play, tops among the Ancient Eight programs.
 
13 * Penn's ranking in this week's Inside Lacrosse media poll.
 
14 * Penn's ranking in this week's USILA national coaches' poll.
 
14 * Players who have scored this season for Penn, led by Gergar who has 24 tallies. Rubin has 18, Handley has 17, while Shipley has 11. (Luke DiGiacobbe became the Quakers' 14th different scorer last weekend when he scored his first collegiate goal vs. Brown.)
 
17 * Saves made last Saturday by Patrick Burkinshaw against Brown, tying his career high. He had a .586 save percentage in the contest.
 
39:04 * Regulation game time that Penn held Yale (23:45) and Brown (15:19) scoreless in a row, spanning the third and fourth quarters against the Bulldogs and the first two quarters against the Bears.
 
72.4 * Face-off win percentage by Jamie Zusi against Cornell on March 26 (21/29); overall, he has a 52.0 win percentage on the X this season.