PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team closes out the home portion of its 2024-25 schedule this weekend, hosting surprising Dartmouth on Friday night and Harvard on Saturday in the back end of a Palestra doubleheader that sees the Penn women hosting Cornell at 2:30 and the men tipping off with the Crimson at 6 p.m.
 
Prior to Saturday's game against the Crimson, the men's basketball program will honor its three graduating seniors ahead of their final home game: Reese McMullen, George Smith, and Nick Spinoso. That ceremony is scheduled to take place beginning at 5:40 p.m.
 
GAME 23 – PENN (6-16, 2-7 Ivy League) vs. DARTMOUTH (12-10, 6-3)
Friday, Feb. 21, 2025 | 7 p.m.
Philadelphia | The Palestra
Watch on ESPN+ ($) | Listen on QAN | Live Stats | Game Program (PDF)
 
GAME 24 – PENN vs. HARVARD (9-13, 4-5)
Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025 | 6 p.m.
Philadelphia | The Palestra
Watch on ESPN+ ($) | Listen on QAN | Live Stats | Game Program (PDF)
 
Penn Game Notes (PDF) | Dartmouth Game Notes (PDF) | Harvard 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)
Penn fans can listen to all of the 2024-25 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 for both of this weekend's games, with Brad Fadem providing analysis. To access the Quaker Audio Network, simply type www.pennathletics.com/audio into your computer or device.
 
The Dartmouth/Harvard Home Weekend
*Penn is hosting Dartmouth and Harvard on the same weekend for the first time since 2020 and the 64th time since the start of Ivy League play.
 
*Overall, Penn has swept this home weekend 46 times (most recently in 2020), split it 16 times (most recently in 2019), and been swept just once (2009).
 
*Quakers head coach Steve Donahue is 7-1 against Dartmouth at The Palestra—including six in a row entering the weekend—and 6-2 at home against the Crimson during his Penn tenure.
 
The Series with Dartmouth
*227th meeting; Penn leads 160-66.
 
*The Big Green won the first meeting this season, a 73-70 decision on January 11 in Hanover that was the Ivy League opener for both teams. Nick Spinoso led four Penn players in double figures with 16 points and added eight rebounds.
 
*Penn swept last season's series, including an 80-51 decision here at The Palestra. Prior to that, the teams split the season series in 2020, 2022 and 2023, the home team winning all six games.
 
The Series with Harvard
*188th meeting; Penn leads 139-48.
 
*The Quakers won the first meeting this year, 82-67, in Cambridge on January 20—their third win at Harvard in the last four seasons. Ethan Roberts scored 21 points in the win while Sam Brown had 19 and Spinoso added 14.
 
*Harvard swept last year's games, taking a 70-61 victory here at The Palestra and then eking out a four-point win (74-70) in Cambridge.
 
*Penn had won four in a row prior to that, sweeping the season series in both 2021-22 and 2022-23. The teams split the series in 2019-20, the home team winning both times.
 
Penn MBB By The Numbers
3 - Sophomore Augustus Gerhart has snatched at least three offensive rebounds in five different games this season, including both of last week's games at Yale and Brown.
 
8 - Consecutive Ivy League games missed by junior Michael Zanoni due to various ailments; he was expected to play last weekend but came down ill during the trip, so his return to the court was pushed to this week.
 
10.3 - Penn's 3FG per game in Ivy League play so far, tied for first place with Princeton; Friday's opponent, Dartmouth, is third (10.1 3FG per game).

12 - Penn has used 12 different starting lineups this season, the 12th coming last Friday against Princeton.
 
12 - Penn players who have started at least one game this season; no one has started all 22, but senior Nick Spinoso and sophomore Sam Brown lead the way with 21 each.
 
15 - Double-figure scoring streak currently held by junior Ethan Roberts; he has averaged 19.3 ppg during the run, which includes eight 20-point games and started with a collegiate-high 33-point outing against Navy on November 29.
 
19.8 - Points-per-game average for Roberts in Ivy play, which leads the league just ahead of Dartmouth's Ryan Cornish (18.9). Brown is sixth, averaging 17.3 ppg.
 
27 - Three-point field goals made in Ivy League play by Brown, tied for second behind Brown's Kino Lilly, Jr. (31); Roberts has played one fewer game but has hit 26 treys, so his per-game average (3.3) is second in league play behind Lilly.

58 - Points scored by Levine in Ivy League play (6.4 ppg) after he scored 26 in the Quakers' 13 non-conference contests (2.0 ppg).
 
80 - Points scored by sophomore Niklas Polonowski over the last 12 games, after he scored just seven across the Quakers' first ten contests; he hit for nine points in both games last weekend, in both cases on a trio of three-pointers.
 
100 - Senior George Smith is on course to play his 100th game for the Red and Blue on Friday night; he would be the second player to reach the milestone this season, as Spinoso got there on February 1 against Yale and is up to 103 appearances.
 
156 - Points scored by Brown in nine Ivy League games so far this season (17.3 points per game); that is far more than his point total (104) from the Quakers' 13 non-conference games (8.0 ppg). Brown has scored in double figures in every Ivy game so far this season.