PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team has little time to lick its wounds from Saturday's loss to Villanova in the Big 5 Classic championship game. The Quakers are back in action Monday night—less than 48 hours after that defeat—hosting Lafayette at The Palestra in their final game before fall-term exams begin.
 
GAME 10 – PENN (5-4) vs. LAFAYETTE (3-7)
Monday, Dec. 8, 2025 | 6 p.m.
Philadelphia | The Palestra
Watch on ESPN+ ($) | Listen on QAN | Live Stats | Digital Program
 
Penn Game Notes (PDF) | Lafayette 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 Lafayette
*The Quakers and the Leopards are meeting for the 58th time in men's basketball, with Penn holding a 46-11 lead in the series.

*Lafayette won last year's meeting in Easton, 65-63, snapping a streak that had seen Penn win three in a row and six of the last seven against the 'Pards.

*Penn has won the last four matchups played here at The Palestra, including a 74-72 victory two years ago as part of the Cathedral Classic.
 
*Arguably the most regular of Penn's non-conference opponents in the last several decades, Lafayette has faced the Quakers every season since 1985-86 with two exceptions: 1987-88 and 2006-07.
 
Penn MBB by the Numbers
1.000 - FT percentage by Michael Zanoni so far this season (16-16); another player who has been money at the charity stripe this season so far is senior Cam Thrower (14-15, .933).
 
1.000 • Freshman Dalton Scantlebury's field-goal percentage in Penn's Cathedral Classic win against Merrimack (10-10).
 
2 - Players who had double-doubles in Friday's win over the Warriors: Scantlebury scored 22 points (largely on the strength of his 10-10 FG performance) and added 13 rebounds, while junior TJ Power went for 14 points and 12 boards.
 
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 was Big 5 Rookie of the Week last Monday as well as Ivy League Rookie of the Week.
 
3.25 - Offensive rebounds per game averaged by Scantlebury; that leads the Ivy League and is 46th nationally. Scantlebury is also third among Ivy players in blocked shots per game (1.5).
 
3.5 - Assists per game averaged by sophomore AJ Levine; that is tied for fourth among Ivy League players. Levine also is third among Ivy players in assist/turnover ratio (2.15).
 
7.9 - Rebounds per game by Power; that is second among Ivy players, behind only Dartmouth's Brandon Day-Mitchell (9.5). Junior Augie Gerhart is fifth among Ivy players in the category (6.8 rpg).
 
15 - Deficit overcome by Penn when the Quakers came back to defeat city rival La Salle, 73-71, in the Cathedral Classic; the Explorers led, 53-38, with 15:40 left in the game.
 
16 - Points scored by freshman Jay Jones in Penn's last two games against city rivals; he had seven in the Cathedral Classic win over La Salle and nine on Saturday night against Villanova. All 16 points have been second-half points.
 
16.3 - Points-per-game average for Power in Penn's eight Division I games this season; he has hit double figures in all eight after opening the season with six points against D3 Rowan.
 
49.6 - Penn's overall shooting percentage during its four-game win streak over Saint Joseph's, Drexel, Merrimack and La Salle (112-226). Of particular note, the Quakers shot 53.9 percent (83-154) on two-point field goal attempts.
 
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.
 
2025-26 Penn MBB Schedule Notes
*Penn played five home games in November and will play five more in February, but in between those two months the Quakers are home just four times combined in December and January.
 
*Penn renews a dormant rivalry on December 20 when it makes the trip up to Rutgers. The Quakers and Scarlet Knights were traditional early-season foes through the 1950s and 1960s and have played 23 times overall, but the holiday matchup will be the first between the programs since 1975.
 
*Penn will play on New Year's Eve, hosting NJIT at 2 p.m. The last time the Quakers played on NYE was 2018-19, the Quakers falling in OT to Monmouth at The Palestra.
 
*The Ivy League schedule is new this season and Penn will have some work to do early on—the Quakers will play five of their first seven league games on the road, then five out of six at home before ending the campaign at Brown on Friday, March 6.
 
*That said, Penn will play just one road "Ivy weekend" this season—January 30-31 at Columbia and Cornell. The Dartmouth-Harvard trip will be a Saturday/Monday weekend, the game against the Crimson coming on MLK Day.
 
*Two of Penn's Ivy League games will air nationally on ESPNU—the January 24 home game with Yale and the February 7 home game with Princeton.
 
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