PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team will get a national audience for the first of two times in Ivy League play this weekend, hosting defending league champion Yale on Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. The game will air nationally on ESPNU.
 
GAME 18 – PENN (9-8, 2-2 Ivy League) vs. YALE (14-3, 3-1)
Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026 | 2 p.m.
Philadelphia | The Palestra
Watch on ESPNU | Listen on QAN | Live Stats | Digital Program

Penn Game Notes (PDF) | Yale Notes (PDF)
 
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 Yale
*The Quakers and Bulldogs are meeting for the 243rd time, with Penn holding a 153-89 lead in the series.
 
*That said, Yale has won the last four and seven of the last eight matchups. That includes a season sweep last year, Eli winning 90-61 at The Palestra and then squeezing out a 72-71 win 13 days later in New Haven.
 
*Penn's last win in the series came at The Palestra, a 66-64 decision on February 17, 2023. In fact, prior to the last two seasons the Quakers had won their last six at home against Yale.
 
A New-Look Ivy Schedule in 2025-26
*After following the same structure for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons, the Ivy League schedule has a new look for the 2025-26 campaign.
 
*Penn will have some work to do in the first half of conference play—the Quakers 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 traditional "Ivy weekend" on the road this season: next weekend (January 30-31) at Columbia and Cornell.
 
*Two of Penn's Ivy League games will air nationally on ESPNU—Saturday's game with Yale and the February 7 home game with Princeton.
 
Penn MBB by the Numbers
3 - Games this season in which Penn was tied at halftime, including the last two Saturdays against Ivy rivals Brown and Dartmouth; the Quakers are 3-0 in such games.
 
4 - Double-doubles recorded by junior TJ Power so far this season, tied for most among Ivy League players with Dartmouth's Brandon Mitchell-Day.
 
5 - Penn players who have earned a weekly honor from either the Ivy League or Philadelphia Big 5 so far this season, including Power who was named Big 5 Player of the Week for the second time this season on Monday. The others are seniors Michael Zanoni and Ethan Roberts, sophomore AJ Levine, and freshman Dalton Scantlebury.
 
5 - Turnovers committed by Penn last Saturday against the Big Green, a season low and fewest by the Quakers in a game since they had just four against Princeton on March 9, 2024; taking it a step further, Penn committed just one turnover in the game's final 31:40 and that came on a desperation full-court inbounds play at the end of the first half.
 
+5.5 - Penn's rebounding margin in Ivy League games so far, tops among the Ancient Eight programs.
 
15 - Offensive rebounds grabbed in four Ivy games by junior Augustus Gerhart, most among Ivy League players; he is seventh in total rebounds per game in league play (6.8) and fifth in rebounds per game in all contests (6.4).
 
17.0 - Zanoni's points-per-game average across six games—he hit double figures in the scoring column in all six—before he was shut out Monday at Harvard; two days earlier, at Dartmouth, he scored all 11 of his points in the game's final 8:43 going 4-4 from the field in that span.
 
20.1 - Roberts' overall points-per-game average, tops among Ivy League players and 33rd nationally; that number jumps to 24.8 ppg in league play which is also tops in the Ancient Eight.
 
39.7 - Penn's percentage on three-point shots in Ivy League games so far (27-68), tops among the Ancient Eight programs; overall, the Quakers are at 39.1 percent which is 11th nationally.
 
52 - Combined points scored by Power (27) and Roberts (25) Saturday at Dartmouth; the last time the Quakers had two 25-point scorers in the same game was November 26, 2022 (Clark Slajchert 33, Jordan Dingle 26 vs. Colgate in the inaugural Cathedral Classic).
 
53.8 - Power's 3-point field-goal percentage in Ivy League games (7-13); that is second among Ivy players behind Harvard's Thomas Batties II (11-19, .579).
 
76 - Points scored by Levine across Penn's last six games (12.7 ppg), including 14 at Dartmouth and 15 at Harvard last weekend; prior to that, the sophomore had scored 41 in the Quakers' first 11 contests (3.7 ppg).
 
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