PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team has another Saturday/Monday weekend ahead, this time in Connecticut. The Quakers open the weekend Saturday night in New Haven, facing Yale in their fifth Ivy League road game already this season. Following that, the Red and Blue make the short drive North to face the University of Hartford in the final non-conference game of the 2022-23 season on Monday night.
 
GAME 20 – PENN (9-10, 2-3 Ivy League) at YALE (12-6, 2-3)
Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023 | 6 p.m.
John J. Lee Amphitheater | New Haven, Conn.
Watch Live on ESPN+ ($) | Listen Live on QAN | Live Stats
Penn Game Notes | Yale Game Notes
 
GAME 21 – PENN at HARTFORD (4-16)
Monday, Jan. 23, 2023 | 7 p.m.
Chase Arena | West Hartford, Conn.
Watch Live on HH All-Access | Listen Live on QAN | Live Stats
 
Quaker Audio Network (QAN)
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 Brad Fadem providing analysis. To access the Quaker Audio Network, simply type www.pennathletics.com/audio into your computer or device.
 
The Series with Yale
*The Quakers and the Bulldogs are meeting for the 237th time in men's basketball, with Penn holding a 152-84 lead in the series.
 
*The teams are 6-6 across the last 12 meetings, which includes a split of two Ivy League Tournament games (Penn winning in 2018, Yale winning last year).
 
*The home team won both regular-season games last season, Penn taking a 76-68 decision at The Palestra (Jordan Dingle leading the way with 31 points) and Yale gaining revenge with an 81-72 decision about a month later here at the JJL (Clark Slajchert scoring a team-high 18 for the Quakers).
 
*Yale took the rubber match on a neutral court, defeating Penn in an ILT semifinal at Harvard, 67-61. Dingle led all scorers with 28 points, while Nick Spinoso scored 14 for the Red and Blue.
 
The Series with Hartford
*The Quakers and Hawks are meeting for the second time this season and the fourth time overall, Penn winning all three of the previous matchups.
 
*Penn defeated Hartford on November 25, 77-57, on the first day of the inaugural Cathedral Classic. Dingle led all scorers with 20 points—including the 1,000th of his Penn career—while Max Martz dropped 15 and Slajchert added 11.
 
*The two meetings before this season took place exactly 10 months apart way back in 1985 (59-57 on Jan. 26, 70-66 on Nov. 26).
 
Rare Jordan
Dingle—who was named to the Oscar Robertson Trophy Midseason Watch List on Thursday—has been putting up historic numbers this season...
 
*His 23.4 points-per-game average is third nationally, behind only Detroit Mercy's Antoine Davis (26.2 ppg) and UAB's Jordan Walker (23.8).
 
*He has scored at least 20 points in 14 of his last 15 games; his 13-game streak, snapped at Dartmouth, was the longest by a Penn player since Ernie Beck started 1952-53 with 16 such games.
 
*He has reached double figures in 26 straight games, the sixth-longest streak in program history.
 
*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
1 - Ivy League players named to the 50-player Midseason Watch List for the Oscar Robertson Trophy, given annually to the outstanding men's college basketball player by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA): Dingle. The Midseason Watch List was announced Thursday.
 
2 - Ivy League players named to the Lou Henson Award Watch List by CollegeInsider.com on November 22: Princeton's Tosan Evbuomwan and Dingle. The Henson Award is presented to the country's top mid-major player.
 
3 - Consecutive games not reaching double figures in scoring for Slajchert—9 at Columbia, 8 at Dartmouth, 8 vs. Princeton—after he did so in seven straight and 11 of 12.
 
4 - Ivy League Player of the Week honors for Dingle this season, all of them coming over a seven-week span (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.
 
5.4 - Points-per-game difference between Ivy League games (11.8) and non-conference games (6.4) by sophomore Nick Spinoso.
 
9 - Starting lineups used by Penn this season, through 19 games; the only player who has started every game he played is Slajchert.
 
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.
 
11.8 – Scoring average for Martz over his last 14 games; Martz—who matched his career high with 22 points last Saturday at Dartmouth—has hit double digits nine times in that run and nine points in two other contests.
 
23.4 - Dingle's scoring average entering the weekend, third nationally behind Detroit Mercy's Antoine Davis (26.2) ppg) and UAB's Jordan Walker (23.8).
 
25 - Points scored by Spinoso in Penn's last two games with Yale last season; he had three, combined, in all of the Quakers' other Ivy games in 2021-22.
 
26.2 - Penn's three-point FG defense in Ivy League play, tops among Ancient Eight programs.
 
29 - Penn's victory margin at Columbia on January 7, 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).
 
34 - Points scored by Spinoso last weekend (career-high 22 at Dartmouth, 12 vs. Princeton) which earned him a spot on the Ivy League Honor Roll.
 
39.3 - Combined scoring average of Dingle (23.4 ppg) and Slajchert (15.9) this season; they are the second highest-scoring backcourt at the NCAA Division 1 level, and rank first and fourth among Ivy players in overall points per game.
 
43.9 - Penn's league-leading 3-point field-goal percentage in Ivy play when they hit halftime at Dartmouth last Saturday (29-66); the Quakers are 0-25 from beyond the arc in the three halves they've played since then.
 
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: Ernie Beck (50 games), Keven McDonald (50), and Stan Pawlak (52). With 1,278 career points, Dingle is 20th on Penn's all-time scoring list.
 
65.2 - Penn's 3-point shooting percentage at Columbia (15-23); it was the Quakers' best performance beyond the arc since they shot 66.7 percent (8-12) at Kentucky on January 3, 2010.
 
93.6 - Slajchert's overall free-throw percentage (44-47), tops among Ivy League players and fourth nationally.
 
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.