PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team has one final non-conference road trip on the schedule, and it's a daunting one as the Quakers travel to the D.C. area Sunday for a meeting with a George Mason squad that has lost just once this season.
 
GAME 12 – PENN (6-5) at GEORGE MASON (11-1)
Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Fairfax, Va. | EagleBank Arena
Watch on ESPN+ ($) | Listen on QAN | Live Stats

Penn Game Notes (PDF) | Mason Game Notes (PDF)
 
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 games 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)
Fans can listen to the entire 2025-26 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 again this season, with Stan Pawlak providing analysis. To access the Quaker Audio Network, simply type www.pennathletics.com/audio into your computer or device.
 
The Series with George Mason
*The Quakers and the Patriots are meeting for the seventh time in men's basketball, and the sixth to be played in Fairfax (including the last four in a row).

*Mason holds a 5-1 lead in the series, Penn's only win coming 72-71 on November 6, 2018.
 
*The most recent meeting took place last season, the Patriots running away with an 85-53 victory at EagleBank Arena. Ethan Roberts posted a double-double for the Quakers, with 10 points and 10 rebounds, while Michael Zanoni led the Red and Blue with 11 points and Niklas Polonowski finished the day with 10 points.
 
*The Quakers are 100-120 all-time against current Atlantic 10 programs, with wins over the A-10's Philadelphia teams (Saint Joseph's and La Salle) already this season.
 
Ringing It In
Penn will host NJIT on New Year's Eve day, hosting the Highlanders at 2 p.m. at The Palestra. The Quakers will be playing on New Year's Eve for the first time since 2018, when they fell 76-74 in overtime to Monmouth at The Palestra. Overall, the Red and Blue have played 12 NYE games since the first one way back in 1904, going 5-7 in those contests.
 
Penn MBB by the Numbers
1.000 - Freshman Dalton Scantlebury's field-goal percentage in Penn's Cathedral Classic win against Merrimack on November 28 (10-10); he is tied for third among Ivy League players so far this season in overall field-goal percentage (33-55, .600).
 
2.00 - Penn's assist/turnover ratio in its most recent win, December 8 over Lafayette (18/9); overall this season, the Quakers' 1.27 ratio is third among Ivy League teams.
 
2 - Starting lineups so far this season for Penn; the Quakers had gone with the same starting five in each of their first nine games before having to deviate due to injury.
 
2.73 • Offensive rebounds per game averaged by Scantlebury; that is second in the Ivy League (behind only Brown's N'famara Dabo's 2.83 orpg) and 111th nationally. Scantlebury is also third among Ivy players in blocked shots per game (1.27).
 
3 • Double-doubles for junior TJ Power this season, the most recent coming last Saturday (12/20) when he dropped 19 points and 13 rebounds at Rutgers.
 
3 • Penn players who have been named Philadelphia Big 5 Player of the Week this season: Michael Zanoni (11/17), Ethan Roberts (11/24), and Power (12/1). In addition, Scantlebury is already a two-time Rookie of the Week honoree from both the Ivy League and the Big 5.
 
3.9 • Assists per game averaged by sophomore AJ Levine; that is third among Ivy League players behind Brown's Jeremiah Jenkins (4.9 apg) and Yale's Will Townsend (4.7). Levine —who set a career high with eight assists against Lafayette—also is third among Ivy players in assist/turnover ratio (43/18, 2.39).
 
6 • Different players who have led Penn in scoring in a game this season (see page 13 for the breakdown).
 
6 • Offensive rebounds grabbed by Lucas Lueth in the Quakers' win over the Leopards last week; the sophomore transfer had seven overall, his Penn career high so far.
 
8.1 • Rebounds per game by Power, second among Ivy players behind only Dartmouth's Brandon Day-Mitchell (8.6) and 67th nationally. Junior Augie Gerhart is fifth among Ivy players in the category (6.1 rpg).
 
15 • Points scored by Gerhart in Penn's win over Lafayette, a career high for the junior; all of them came in the first half.
 
16.3 • Points-per-game average for Power in Penn's ten Division I games this season; he has hit double figures in all ten after opening the season with six points against D3 Rowan.
 
18 • Consecutive free throws made by Zanoni to start the season; his streak came to an end on his third and final foul shot in the Lafayette victory.
 
18.0 • Roberts' scoring average, tops on the team and third among Ivy players; he has missed Penn's last two games due to an injury suffered vs. Villanova.
 
26 • Points scored by freshman Jay Jones over Penn's last five games (5.2 ppg), after he totaled just four across the Quakers' first five Division I contests (0.8 ppg).
 
+44 • Penn's free-throw advantage over its ten Division I opponents. Hofstra, Villanova and Rutgers are the only three teams to shoot more than the Quakers in a game, with the Scarlet Knights holding a 31-25 advantage last Saturday.
 
53 • Points scored by Power during the Cathedral Classic—14 vs. Merrimack (to go with 12 rebounds and six assists), 29 in the comeback win over La Salle (19 of them coming in the second half), and 10 vs. Hofstra. Not surprisingly, he was named to the all-tournament team.
 
61.3 • Scantlebury's field-goal percentage this season (38-62), second among Ivy players behind only Yale's Samson Aletan; the freshman shot 11-16 (68.8 pct) for 27 points in Penn's last two games, vs. Lafayette and Rutgers.
 
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