PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team has won four in a row, including three in Ivy League play. The Quakers hit the road this weekend for another important Ancient Eight tussle, looking to complete a season sweep of Harvard. Just two weeks after Penn won at The Palestra, 83-68, the Quakers and Crimson tip off in another Saturday matinee, this time in Cambridge.
 
GAME 25 – PENN (13-11, 5-4 Ivy League) at HARVARD (12-11, 3-6)
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023 | 2 p.m.
Lavietes Pavilion | Cambridge, Mass.
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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 for Saturday's game, 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 184th time, with Penn holding a 137-46 lead in the series.
 
*These teams have played 15 games since 2015-16 with Penn leading, 8-7. That includes two Ivy Tournament meetings which have been split, Penn winning the 2018 ILT final at The Palestra and Harvard avenging that a year later in a semifinal hosted by Yale.
 
*Penn has won three in a row including a sweep of last year's meetings, the Quakers' first since 2006-07. That included the Red and Blue's first win here in Cambridge since 2012.
 
*Junior Jordan Dingle led Penn with 27 points in its 83-68 win two weeks ago at The Palestra. Junior Max Martz added 16 points, sophomore Nick Spinoso had 12 (on 6-of-6 shooting), and senior Lucas Monroe grabbed 10 rebounds.
 
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.
 
4.7 - Points-per-game difference between Ivy League games (10.9) and non-conference games (6.2) by sophomore Nick Spinoso.
 
5 - Penn players who reached double figures in scoring in last Saturday's win over Cornell (Dingle, 27; Max Martz, 13; Clark Slajchert, 13; Lucas Monroe, 12; Spinoso, 12); it was the first time the Quakers have done that this season.
 
10 - Three-point baskets made by sophomore George Smith over Penn's last five games, after he had eight across the Quakers' first 19 contests; after hitting double figures just once in Penn's first 21 games, he has 36 points over the last three.
 
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 - Games this season in which Penn has reached double figures in three-point baskets; that includes three of the last four games, including 11 vs. Harvard two weeks ago.
 
13.8 - Scoring average for Martz over his last four games; Martz—who had 16 points in the first meeting with Harvard—has hit double digits 12 times in his last 19 appearances, with three other nine-point games.
 
14 - Dingle's standing on Penn's all-time scoring list, with 1,407 points; Mark Zoller (2004-07) is 13th, with 1,429 points, while Bruce Lefkowitz (1984-87) is 12th with 1,443.
 
15 - Of junior Andrew Laczkowski's 36 rebounds this season, 15 have been on the offensive glass; he matched a season high with seven points and set a career best with two blocked shots last Friday vs. Columbia.
 
19 - 20-point games by Dingle this season, all of them coming across his last 20 appearances; the junior already has 40 such games for his career, good for fourth on Penn's all-time list behind Ernie Beck (54), Keven McDonald (43) and Stan Pawlak (42).
 
24.0 - Dingle's scoring average, second nationally behind only Detroit Mercy's Antoine Davis (26.6 ppg).
 
+27 - Penn's rebound margin last weekend over Columbia (45-29, +16) and Cornell (48-37, +11); the 48 boards against the Big Red were a season high.
 
30.0 - Penn's three-point FG defense in Ivy League play entering the weekend, tops among Ancient Eight programs.
 
31 - Consecutive double-figure scoring games by Dingle, the sixth-longest streak in program history; AJ Brodeur (2017-20) has the fifth-longest streak, at 34 games.
 
39 - Rebounds grabbed over the last four games by Monroe, including 10 vs. Harvard two weeks ago; the senior had his first collegiate double-double against a Division 1 opponent last Saturday vs. Cornell (12 pts/13 rbs), the other came his freshman year against D3 Widener.
 
40.6 - Penn's overall FG defense in Ivy play entering the weekend, tops among Ancient Eight programs.
 
63 - Free throws attempted by Penn last weekend; the Quakers set a season high with 31 attempts Friday against Columbia, then bettered it with 32 free throws against Cornell.
 
73 - Points scored by Spinoso in Penn's last six Ivy League games (12.2 ppg); he had 12 points on a perfect 6-of-6 shooting performance in the first meeting with Harvard two weeks ago.
 
91 - Points scored by Dingle in his last three games vs. Harvard; he had 31 and 33 in last year's games, the first time a Penn player hit 30 in both meetings with an Ivy opponent in the same season.