PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team closes out the 2024-25 season with a matchup against archrival Princeton. The Quakers and Tigers will meet on Old Nassau at 2 p.m.
 
GAME 27 – PENN (8-18, 4-9 Ivy League) at PRINCETON (18-10, 7-6)
Saturday, March 8, 2025 | 2 p.m.
Princeton, N.J. | Jadwin Gymnasium
Watch on ESPN+ ($) | Listen on QAN | Live Stats
 
Penn Game Notes (PDF) | Princeton 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 Saturday's game, with Brad Fadem and Vince Curran providing analysis. To access the Quaker Audio Network, simply type www.pennathletics.com/audio into your computer or device.
 
Spoiler Alert!
Penn can help keep Princeton out of next weekend's Ivy League Tournament by beating the Tigers on Saturday, but only if Dartmouth beats Harvard and Brown beats Yale. If those three things happen, then the Bears—who are hosting this year's event—will earn the fourth seed. In all other scenarios, Princeton is into the ILT as the fourth seed. With all four league games tipping off at 2 p.m. on Saturday, you can imagine there will be some serious scoreboard watching going on around the league.
 
Yale has already clinched the ILT's top seed, while Dartmouth and Cornell are in the tournament and guaranteed to play each other in the semifinal round as the second and third seeds. This weekend's results will essentially determine which team wears white as the higher seed.
 
The Series with Princeton
*252nd meeting; Penn leads, 226-225
 
*Princeton earned a 61-59 decision in the first meeting this season, on February 7 at The Palestra, after Jackson Hicke was fouled going up for a shot and hit both foul shots with just 0.6 seconds left. Penn—which played the game without junior and leading scorer Ethan Roberts, who was injured—got 12 points each from senior Nick Spinoso and sophomore Sam Brown.
 
*The Tigers swept last season's series, as well, taking a 77-70 decision here at Jadwin and then shooting the lights out in the season finale at The Palestra—in particular, going 17-of-27 on three-point shots—to win 105-83.
 
*The last time these teams met at Jadwin on the final day of the regular season, two years ago, the Ivy League title was on the line. Princeton came back from down by as many as 17 and defeated Penn in overtime, 77-69. One week later, the teams were back at Jadwin meeting in an Ivy League Tournament semifinal. The Tigers pulled out that win by an almost identical score (77-70), this time in regulation.
 
Penn MBB By The Numbers
2 - Players who had double-doubles two weeks ago vs. Dartmouth: Ethan Roberts (15 points/11 rebounds) and Sam Brown (15 points/10 assists); it marked the first time two Penn players had double-doubles in the same game since January 25, 2020 (AJ Brodeur and Ryan Betley).

2.9 - Three-point field goals made per game in Ivy League play by Roberts, second in the league behind Cornell's Cooper Noard (3.2); Brown is tied for fourth (2.7), while Princeton's Blake Peters is third (2.8).
 
3 - Saturday marks the last of three straight Ivy League road games Penn is playing to end the season; extending it by another two weeks, five of Penn's last seven conference games were on the road this season.
 
9 - Points scored by Williams last Saturday at Columbia, his high since he dropped 12 against Maine at the Cathedral Classic Invitational on November 30; the junior transfer made his first start since December 7.

10 - Consecutive free throws made by Brown in the final 1:35 of game time last Saturday at Columbia; as a team, Penn went 15-16 at the line in the final two minutes to defeat the Lions.
 
10 - Assists dished out by Brown in the Dartmouth game on February 21, high for a Penn player this season and most since Nick Spinoso had 11 against Saint Joseph's on November 20, 2022.

12 - Points scored by sophomore Augustus Gerhart—his season/career high—in Penn's overtime loss to Harvard on February 22.
 
12 - Penn players who have started at least one game this season; no one has started all 26 but Spinoso and Brown lead the way with 25 each. Only one D1 school nationally has had more players start a game (San Diego, 15).
 
15 - Penn used its 14th and 15th different starting lineups last weekend; only one D1 team nationally has had more starting lineups this season (Wyoming, 17) and San Diego is tied for second with the Quakers at 15.

19 - Double-figure scoring streak currently held by Roberts; he has averaged 17.8 ppg during the run, which includes eight 20-point games and started with a collegiate-high 33-point outing against Navy on November 29.
 
19.3 - Points-per-game average for Brown in Ivy play, second in the league behind Dartmouth's Ryan Cornish (19.5). Roberts is sixth, averaging 17.3 ppg.
 
44 - Penn players who have scored 1,000 points in their career; Spinoso became the 44th when he reached the milestone last Saturday at Columbia. He enters his final college game with 1,002.

55.2 - Penn FG percentage last Saturday at Columbia (32-58), a season high; the Quakers also shot 89.5 percent from the foul line (17-19).

80 - Points scored by Spinoso over the last two weekends (20.0 ppg); he tied his career high two weeks ago with 23 against Dartmouth, bettered it a night later with 24 vs. Harvard, then went for 17 last Friday at Cornell and 16 last Saturday at Columbia.
 
251 - Points scored by Brown in 13 Ivy League games so far this season (19.3 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.