PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team has a midweek tune-up on Wednesday night at The Palestra, hosting Division 3 FDU-Florham ahead of Saturday's game with No. 16/17 Kentucky and Monday's matchup with Howard back here at The Palestra.
 
GAME 10 – PENN (5-4) vs. FDU-FLORHAM (3-5)
Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023 | 6 p.m.
The Palestra | Philadelphia
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Ivy League on ESPN+
A reminder that the Ivy League is paired with ESPN and you will be able to find all Penn home games, as well as road Ivy matches and select non-conference road games, on ESPN+ again this season with the same high broadcast quality you've come to expect. ESPN+ is a subscription-based service that offers monthly and yearly packages. Click here to subscribe to ESPN+!
 
Quaker Audio Network (QAN)
Penn fans can listen to most of the 2023-24 Penn's men's basketball season through the Quaker Audio Network, a free Internet-based audio streaming service. Matt Leon will be on the play-by-play call Wednesday, 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 FDU-Florham
*The Quakers and the Devils are meeting for the first time in men's basketball.

*This represents the seventh game against a non-Division I opponent in the Steve Donahue coaching era at Penn; the Quakers are 6-0 in the previous games with wins over Ursinus, PSU-Brandywine, Stockton, Widener, Wilkes, and (in this year's season opener) John Jay College.
 
Penn MBB by the Numbers
2 - Games played by Penn prior to this season at what is now the Wells Fargo Center—a number the Quakers will double this week after playing La Salle in the Big 5 Classic last Saturday and then Kentucky this Saturday. The Quakers split a pair of games with Villanova back when it was called the First Union Center, losing 80-51 on February 6, 2001 and winning 72-58 on December 10, 2003.
 
2 - Penn players who have collected a double-double this season: freshman Tyler Perkins (24 pts/11 rbs vs. Bucknell) and junior Nick Spinoso (11 pts/11 rbs at UMES). Spinoso flirted with a triple-double in Saturday's game vs. the Explorers with 17 points, eight rebounds and eight assists.
 
2 - Non-conference opponents who are ranked in this week's Associated Press (AP) National Poll: in addition to the Wildcats this Saturday, Penn will face No. 3 Houston on December 30.
 
4 - 20-point games racked up by Perkins already this season; the last freshman with that many such games was Jordan Dingle, who had five in 2019-20.
 
6 - Returning players who have had at least one double-figure scoring game during the course of their Penn career: senior Clark Slajchert (31), Spinoso (18), junior George Smith (8), senior Andrew Laczkowski (2), junior Ed Holland III (1), and sophomore Cam Thrower (1).
 
8 - Double-figure scoring games by Slajchert this season; in the ninth, he was held to nine points (on a trio of treys) in a win over Monmouth on November 26.
 
24 - Of Laczkowski's 36 rebounds this season, 24 have come on the offensive glass.
 
30 - Of Penn's 39 first-half points in its win over Monmouth, 30 of them were scored by freshmen (14 by Sam Brown, 6 by Augustus Gerhart, 5 each by Perkins and Niklas Polonowski).
 
35 - Turnovers committed by Penn over the last four games (9 vs. Lafayette, 8 vs. Belmont, 8 vs. Monmouth, 10 vs. La Salle); the Quakers averaged 16.0 turnovers per game across their first five games but are down to 8.7 tpg over the last four contests.
 
40.7 - Percentage of points returning to the lineup in 2023-24 (915 of 2,249) including three of the team's top five scorers: Slajchert (13.6 ppg in 2022-23), Spinoso (8.8 ppg) and Smith (5.6).
 
44 - Rebounds snared by Spinoso over the last five games (8.8 rpg); the junior had averaged 6.3 rebounds per game across the Quakers' first four contests.
 
51 - Points scored by Brown through five games this season; he missed Penn's first four contests due to injury but has started the last three games and shot 46.2 percent on 3FG so far this season (12-of-26).
 
52.3 - Penn's overall field-goal percentage in its last two games (67-128), a win over Monmouth (30-60, 50.0) and a loss to La Salle (37-68, 54.4); the Quakers shot 12-25 from three-point land in both games (48.0 pct).
 
+66 - Penn's rebound advantage through nine games this season (360-294); the Quakers have outboarded seven of their nine opponents so far this season including a 52-22 (+30) advantage against Bucknell on November 8, their largest margin against a Division 1 opponent since going +37 in a win over Columbia on February 2, 1974 (65-28).