PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia Big 5 has announced its weekly award winners in men's and women's basketball, and University of Pennsylvania junior guard Jordan Dingle was once again honored as the Big 5 Men's Player of the Week. This is Dingle's fourth time earning Big 5 Player of the Week honors already this season.
 
Dingle had another spectacular weekend as Penn swept Columbia and Cornell at The Palestra, leading the Quakers in scoring in both games with 25 points against the Lions and 27 against the Big Red. In doing so, he became just the 11th player in program history to score at least 50 points in an Ivy League weekend. Seventeen of Dingle's 25 points on Friday came in the second half, including two three-point plays late after Columbia had cut an 18-point deficit to five. The junior guard has six straight 20-point games and 19 in his last 20 appearances. His 19 20-point games this season are tied for second-most in a single season with Stan Pawlak, who accomplished the feat in 1965-66. (Ernie Beck holds the record, with 25 such games in 1952-53.)
 
Dingle has hit the 20-point mark 40 times in his career—fourth all-time behind Beck (54), Keven McDonald (43), and Pawlak (42)—and his double-figure scoring streak is now at 31 games which is the sixth-longest streak in program history. Following this weekend's action, Dingle—who entered the week second nationally in scoring (24.0 ppg)—sits 14th on Penn's all-time scoring list with 1,407 points.
 
Penn (13-11, 5-4 Ivy League) has won four games in a row after the Columbia/Cornell sweep. The Quakers will look to keep the momentum going at Harvard this Saturday, tipping off with the Crimson at 2 p.m.