PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team fell to Hofstra, 77-60, in the final game of the 2025 Cathedral Classic. With the win, the Pride ended up the de facto tournament champion with a 3-0 record on the weekend while the Quakers finish the weekend with a 2-1 mark.
 
Penn saw its four-game winning streak snapped and fell to 5-3 on the season, while Hofstra improved to 5-3.
 
Junior forward TJ Power was named to the Cathedral Classic All-Tournament Team along with Hofstra's Cruz Davis and Preston Edmead, Merrimack's Kevair Kennedy, and La Salle's Justin Archer.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Penn was outrebounded on the day, 40-31, but the Quakers had 16 offensive boards to Hofstra's eight and scored 19 second-chance points to the Pride's 10.
 
*Senior Ethan Roberts was the Quakers' top scorer on Sunday, with 16 points.
 
*Power finished the day with 10 points, three assists and three rebounds.
 
*Michael Zanoni also hit double digits in the scoring column, with 11 points.
 
*Freshman Dalton Scantlebury led Penn with six rebounds and three steals; he also scored eight points and dished off two assists.
 
*Davis led the way for Hofstra as all five starters scored in double figures for the Pride; he had 18 points. German Plotnikov had 12, Edmead added 11, and both Victory Onuetu and Biggie Patterson scored 10 each. Onuetu also had nine rebounds, while Edmead dished out eight assists and grabbed six boards.
 
How It Happened
The first half was a back-and-forth affair, the teams changing leads four times and tying six. Neither team had a longer run than Penn's 6-0 streak that pushed the Quakers from down 18-14 to up 20-18. Hofstra scored to tie it, only for the Red and Blue to get buckets from Roberts and Cam Thrower. Overall, it was a 10-2 run that made the score 24-20. The advantage was as large as six, a Scantlebury bucket making it 32-26, but Hofstra scored five of the last six point and Penn's lead was 33-31 at the break.
 
The Pride jumped out quickly in the second half. Plotnikov drained a three on the opening possession and then Onuetu hit a hook shot in the paint. Power answered with a triple that tied the game at 36-36, but Patterson answered from distance and then Edmead added a pair of free throws. Power again scored, making the score 41-38, but Plotnikov sandwiched a pair of buckets around two Patterson free throws and then A.J. Wills got in on the fun with another basket. Overall, it was an 18-5 run over less than six minutes and it left Hofstra ahead by a double-digit margin at 49-38.
 
Penn couldn't make up the deficit. The Quakers only got the margin back to single digits twice, at 49-40 on a Roberts floater and at 51-42 on a pair of Scantlebury free throws with 12:45 to play. But Hofstra scored the next four points after that and never looked back.
 
Up Next
Penn now begins preparation for the Big 5 Classic championship game, which will take place next Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Xfinity Mobile Arena. The Quakers will play the winner of Monday's Temple-Villanova game, which will be played at the Wildcats' Finneran Pavilion.
 
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