PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team has turned the calendar to 2026 and faces nothing but Ivy League play the rest of this regular season. The first test comes on Monday and what a test it is—the Quakers make the short trip North to Old Nassau to take on their archrivals.

In addition to airing nationally on ESPN+, Monday's game will air in the Philadelphia region on NBC Sports Philadelphia and in the New York City metro area on SNY.
 
GAME 14 – PENN (7-6, 0-0 Ivy League) at PRINCETON (4-11, 0-0)
Monday, Jan. 5, 2026 | 7 p.m.
Princeton, N.J. | Jadwin Gym
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)
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 Penn-Princeton Series
*253rd meeting; series is tied, 126-126.

*Princeton has dominated the series for several years now, winning the last 13 meetings, 21 of the last 23—Penn sweeping the 2018 games on the way to the Ivy title—and 29 of the last 33 dating back to the 2008-09 season.
 
*The Tigers swept last season's games, eking out a 61-59 decision at The Palestra and then using a late first-half spurt on the way to a 95-71 victory at Jadwin Gym in the regular-season finale.
 
*By calendar date, Monday's game is the earliest meeting in a season between these Ivy rivals since they played on January 4, 2020. Prior to that, you have to go back to January 3, 1978—when Penn head coach Fran McCaffery was a freshman at Wake Forest—to find the last time the Quakers and Tigers met so early in the season.
 
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 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 traditional "Ivy weekend" on the road this season—January 30-31 at Columbia and Cornell. The Dartmouth-Harvard trip will be a Saturday/Monday weekend, the game with 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.
 
Penn MBB by the Numbers
3 - Starting lineups so far this season for Penn; the Quakers went with the same starting five in each of their first nine games, deviated for three contests due to Ethan Roberts' injury against Villanova, then subbed Lucas Lueth for a sick Cam Thrower vs. NJIT.
 
3 - Penn players who have been named Philadelphia Big 5 Player of the Week this season: Michael Zanoni (11/17), Roberts (11/24), and TJ Power (12/1). In addition, Dalton Scantlebury is a two-time Ivy League and Big 5 Rookie of the Week honoree.
 
4 - Double-doubles for Power this season, including two of the last three games (19 pts/13 rbs at Rutgers, 13 pts/11 rbs vs. NJIT).
 
4.0 - Assists per game averaged by sophomore AJ Levine, third among Ivy League players; he is also second among Ivy players in assist/turnover ratio (2.67).
 
6 - Different players who have led Penn in scoring and/or rebounds in a game this season (see page 13 for the breakdown).
 
7 - Steals by Levine last Wednesday against NJIT, most by a Penn player since Ibrahim Jaaber had seven at Navy on December 7, 2006.
 
7.9 - Rebounds per game by Power; that is second among Ivy players, behind only Dartmouth's Brandon Day-Mitchell (8.8). Junior Augustus Gerhart is fifth among Ivy players in the category (6.2 rpg).
 
10 - Consecutive double-figure scoring games by Power, before he was held to eight points (on just six shots) at Mason; he followed that up with 13 vs. NJIT and is averaging 15.3 ppg vs. D1 opponents.
 
13 - Points scored by Lueth in Penn's last two games (7 at George Mason, 6 vs. NJIT; the sophomore transfer's season high is nine, set November 28 vs. Merrimack.
 
14-6-5 - Points, rebounds and assists recorded by Thrower last Sunday at Mason; the assist total was a career high, the rebound total matched his career best, and the 14 points—giving him 42 across the last four games (10.5 ppg)—were two shy of his career standard.
 
16 - Points scored by Gerhart in Penn's win over NJIT, a career high; his previous best was 15, set December 8 against Lafayette, and he had 10 at George Mason last Sunday.
 
18.0 - Roberts' scoring average, tops on the team and third among Ivy players; he has missed Penn's last four games due to an injury suffered vs. Villanova.
 
23 - Points scored by Zanoni in each of Penn's last two games; he shot 17-29 (.586) from the field in the two games including 10-20 (.500) from beyond the arc, and is averaging 14.8 ppg across the Quakers' last six contests.
 
30 - Points scored by Levine across Penn's last two games—11 at George Mason, career-high 19 vs. NJIT—after he had 41 in the first 11 contests (3.7 ppg).
 
31 - Points scored by freshman Jay Jones across Penn's last seven games (4.4 ppg) after he scored just four in the first five games vs. D1 opponents (0.8).
 
33:23 - Minutes played per game by Power, most among Ivy players so far this season; he has gone the full 40 twice, including Wednesday vs. NJIT.
 
39.0 - Penn's shooting percentage on three-point shots so far this season, good for 20th nationally entering the weekend; the Quakers were 11-26 from distance at Mason and 13-33 vs. NJIT.
 
60.0 - Scantlebury's overall field-goal percentage this season (39-65); that is tied for third among Ivy League players.
 
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