PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team has nothing but Ivy League games the rest of the way after routing Hartford on Monday night. Adding flavor to the final lap, six of the Quakers' last eight games will be played at The Palestra, starting Saturday when they host Harvard in an afternoon matinee.
 
GAME 22 – PENN (10-11, 2-4 Ivy League) vs. HARVARD (12-8, 3-3)
Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023 | 2 p.m.
The Palestra | Philadelphia
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Penn Game Notes | Harvard Game Notes
 
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 Saturday, 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 Harvard
*The Quakers and the Crimson are meeting for the 183rd time, with Penn holding a 136-46 lead in the series.
 
*These teams have played 14 games since 2015-16 and split them, 7-7. That includes two Ivy League Tournament meetings which have also been split, Penn winning the 2018 ILT final here at The Palestra and Harvard avenging that a year later in a semifinal hosted by Yale.
 
*Penn swept last year's meetings, a first for the program since 2006-07. The first win came at Harvard's Lavietes Pavilion, 78-74, the Red and Blue's first win in Cambridge since 2012. Two weeks later, at The Palestra, Penn earned an 82-74 victory.
 
*Of note, junior Jordan Dingle scored 31 points in the first meeting and 33 in the second—the first time in program history a Penn player hit the 30-point mark in both regular-season meetings with an Ivy opponent.
 
Rare Jordan
Dingle has been putting up historic numbers this season...
 
*His 23.6 points-per-game average is third nationally, behind only Detroit Mercy's Antoine Davis (27.0 ppg) and UAB's Jordan Walker (23.8).
 
*He has scored at least 20 points in 16 of his last 17 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 28 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): junior guard Jordan Dingle. The Midseason Watch List was announced January 19.
 
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.
 
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); that is tied for second-most in a season by a Penn player with Ibrahim Jaaber in 2005-06.
 
4 – Three-point baskets made by sophomore George Smith last weekend, two each against Yale (on 2 attempts) and Hartford (on 5 attempts).
 
5 – Three-point baskets made by junior Max Martz—on just six attempts—across a 14:09 span of the second half in Monday's win at Hartford.
 
5.5 - Points-per-game difference between Ivy League games (11.7) and non-conference games (6.2) by sophomore Nick Spinoso.
 
8.8 – Penn's turnover average across its last four games; prior to that, the Quakers were averaging 14.0 turnovers per game against Division 1 competition.
 
9 – Rebounds grabbed Monday at Hartford by senior Lucas Monroe, his fourth time reaching that mark this season; his high, 16 vs. Saint Joseph's, is tied for most by a Penn player in the Donahue coaching era.
 
10 - Penn players with at least one 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.
 
11.7 – Scoring average for junior Max Martz over his last 16 games; Martz—who matched his career high with 22 points at Dartmouth on January 14—has hit double digits ten times in that run and nine points in two other contests.
 
12 – Foul shots taken by Penn across its two road games last weekend (9 at Yale, 3 at Hartford); the three taken against the Hawks tied a program low in the Steve Donahue coaching era.
 
12 – Of junior Andrew Laczkowski's 24 rebounds this season, 12 have been offensive and 12 have been defensive.
 
16 - 20-point games by Dingle this season, all of them coming across his last 17 appearances; the junior already has 37 such games for his career, good for fourth on Penn's all-time list.
 
23.6 - Dingle's scoring average entering the week, third nationally behind Detroit Mercy's Antoine Davis (26.4 ppg) and UAB's Jordan Walker (23.8).
 
24 - Three-point baskets hit by Penn last weekend (10 at Yale, 14 at Hartford); the Quakers have reached double digits in treys nine times this season.
 
28.5 - 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).
 
38.5 - Combined scoring average of Dingle (23.6 ppg) and Slajchert (14.9) 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.
 
45 – Points scored by Spinoso across Penn's last three Ivy League games (15.0 ppg); he had 22 at Dartmouth, 12 vs. Princeton, and 11 last Saturday at Yale.
 
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 fifth nationally.