PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team has two more Ivy League games coming up over this holiday weekend. The Quakers close out a four-game road trip to start league play on Saturday at Dartmouth, before they finally come home to host travel partner and archrival Princeton in an MLK Day affair Monday night at The Palestra.
 
A note for fans in the Philadelphia region, Monday's home game with Princeton will air live locally on NBC Sports Philadelphia.
 
GAME 18 – PENN (9-8, 2-1 Ivy League) at DARTMOUTH (5-12, 1-2)
Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023 | 2 p.m.
Leede Arena | Hanover, N.H.
Watch Live on ESPN+ ($) | Listen Live on QAN | Live Stats
Penn Game Notes | Dartmouth Game Notes
 
GAME 19 – PENN vs. PRINCETON (12-4, 3-0)
Monday, Jan. 16, 2023 | 7 p.m.
The Palestra | Philadelphia
Watch Live on ESPN+ ($) | Listen Live on QAN | Live Stats
Princeton 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 both games this weekend, with Mike Mahoney joining him on Saturday and Brad Fadem providing analysis on Monday. To access the Quaker Audio Network, simply type www.pennathletics.com/audio into your computer or device.
 
The Series with Dartmouth
*The Quakers and the Big Green are meeting for the 222nd time, with Penn holding a 157-64 lead in the series.
 
*These teams have split the season series each of the last two seasons they have played, the home team winning in all four games. In fact, Penn is just 2-6 in its last eight trips to Leede.
 
*Penn won the first meeting last year at The Palestra, 78-68. The Quakers put five players in double figures, led by Max Martz who had 13 points. George Smith added 12, while Jordan Dingle and Clark Slajchert had 11 each.
 
*The Quakers made a late-season trip to Hanover without Dingle last year and it cost them, the Big Green rolling to an 84-70 victory. On his older brother Wes' Senior Day at Dartmouth, Slajchert led Penn with 18 points while Jonah Charles scored 14 (with four treys).
 
The Series with Princeton
*The Quakers and the Tigers are meeting for the 246th time in their storied men's basketball rivalry, with Penn holding on to a 126-119 advantage in the series.
 
*Princeton has held the upper hand in recent years, however, with six wins in a row and a 22-6 mark over Penn dating back to the 2008-09 season. That includes a sweep of last year's series.
 
*Princeton won the first game, at Jadwin Gym, 74-64. For Penn, Michael Moshkovitz led the way with 12 points while Slajchert added 10. George Smith nearly had a double-double (9 points/10 rebounds).
 
*The Tigers dominated the season-finale rematch at The Palestra, 93-70. That, despite a 31-point performance from Dingle and another 12 from Slajchert.
 
Rare Jordan
Junior guard Jordan Dingle has been putting up historic numbers this season...
 
*His 24.2 points-per-game average has him second nationally entering the weekend, behind only Detroit Mercy's Antoine Davis (25.4).
 
*He has scored at least 20 points in his last 13 appearances (25.3 ppg in that stretch); the last Penn player to do that was Ernie Beck, who started his senior season (1952-53) with 16 such games.
 
*He has reached double figures in 24 straight games, tied for the eighth-longest streak in program history and one shy of the seventh-longest streak.
 
*He scored 120 points across Penn's four Big 5 games—28 vs. SJU, 37 vs. La Salle, 25 at Villanova, 30 vs. Temple—a Big 5 record for a single season; the previous mark of 116 was set by SJU's Cliff Anderson in 1966-67.
 
Penn MBB By the Numbers
2 - Ivy League players who were named to the Lou Henson Award Watch List by CollegeInsider.com on November 22: Princeton's Tosan Evbuomwan and Jordan Dingle. The Henson Award is presented to the country's top mid-major player.
 
3 - Non-conference opponents who were picked in the preseason to win their respective leagues: Iona (MAAC), Towson (CAA), and Colgate (Patriot League). Penn—which was picked by the Ivy League media to win the Ancient Eight—lost to the Gaels and the Tigers but defeated the Raiders.
 
4 - Ivy League Player of the Week honors for junior Dingle this season, all of them coming over the last seven weeks (including two when Penn didn't play a game); that is tied for second-most in a season by a Penn player with Ibrahim Jaaber in 2005-06.
 
9 - Starting lineups used by Penn this season, through 17 games; the only player who has started every game he played is junior Clark Slajchert.
 
9 - Assists dished out by senior Michael Moshkovitz at Columbia, his season/career high; Moshkovitz led the Ivy League in assist/turnover ratio last year.
 
10 - Penn players with a double-figure scoring game this season; the Quakers have had at least 10 players with a double-digit scoring game in five of Coach Donahue's seven seasons, after doing it just eight times from 1951-2015.
 
10 - Rebound secured by sophomore Nick Spinoso in Penn's win at Brown on January 2; he had his first collegiate double-double by adding 10 points.
 
11 -Assists dished out by Spinoso against Saint Joseph's on November 30, most by a Penn player in the Donahue coaching era.
 
11.8 – Scoring average for junior Max Martz over his last 12 games (he missed the 11/30 Saint Joseph's game due to illness); Martz has hit double digits eight times in that run and scored nine points in two other contests.
 
12 - Rebounds by senior Max Lorca-Lloyd last weekend at Cornell (6 in 5:51) and Columbia (6 in 13:59).

16 - Rebounds by senior Lucas Monroe against Saint Joseph's; that is tied for the most by a Penn player in the Donahue era (AJ Brodeur at Cornell, 2/1/19; Darien Nelson-Henry vs. Cornell, 2/13/16).

21 - Assists by Penn in last Saturday's win at Columbia, the third time hitting that number this season against Division 1 competition; the Quakers also had 22 in a win over NCAA D3 Wilkes.
 
24.2 - Dingle's scoring average entering the weekend, good for second nationally behind only Detroit Mercy's Antoine Davis (25.4 ppg).
 
26 - Foul shots made, out of 27 attempts, by Slajchert dating back to Penn's win over Colgate on November 26 (96.3 percent).
 
29 - Penn's margin of victory Saturday at Columbia, its largest in an Ivy League win since January 14, 2006 (87-55 over Columbia) and largest in an Ivy League road game since February 5, 2000 (83-48 at Brown).
 
41.3 - Combined scoring average of Dingle (24.2 ppg) and Slajchert (17.1) this season; they are the highest-scoring backcourt at the NCAA Division 1 level, and rank first and third among Ivy players in overall points per game.
 
41.3 - Penn's 3-point field-goal percentage through three Ivy League games, tops in the Ancient Eight.
 
50.9 - Penn's overall field-goal percentage through three Ivy League games, tops in the Ancient Eight.
 
57 - Games Dingle needed to reach 1,000 points for his career (he reached the mark 11/25 vs. Hartford); only three players reached 1,000 points faster than Dingle, and all of them started their varsity careers as sophomores: Ernie Beck (50 games), Keven McDonald (50), and Stan Pawlak (52). Ron Haigler and Joe Sturgis hit the mark in Game 58.
 
65.2 - Penn's 3-point shooting percentage at Columbia (15-23); that was the Quakers' best performance beyond the arc since they shot 66.7 percent (8-12) at Kentucky on January 3, 2010.
 
1.000 - Senior Jonah Charles' shooting percentage last weekend at Cornell and Columbia (7-of-7 with six three-pointers and one two-pointer).
 
104 - Wins at Penn for head coach Steve Donahue; he became the seventh of Penn's 20 head men's basketball coaches to hit triple digits in the win column when the Quakers defeated Delaware on November 27, 86-73.