PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team has just two home games in the first half of Ivy League play. The first of those comes Saturday, as the Quakers host Brown for a Saturday matinee at The Palestra. Both teams enter the game looking for their first Ivy win, as Penn lost by two to Princeton and Brown fell to preseason favorite Yale on opening night Monday.
 
GAME 15 – PENN (7-7, 0-1 Ivy League) vs. BROWN (6-8, 0-1)
Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026 | 2 p.m.
Philadelphia | The Palestra
Watch on ESPN+ ($) | Listen on QAN | Live Stats | Digital Program
 
Penn Game Notes (PDF) | Brown 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 Brown
*The Quakers and the Bears are meeting for the 147th time, with Penn holding a substantial 114-32 lead in the series.

*That said, Brown has swept the season series each of the last two years, including last year when Bruno took an 88-79 decision here at The Palestra and an 82-72 win two weeks later in Providence. Ethan Roberts scored a combined 55 points in the two games.
 
*Penn's last win in the series came here at The Palestra, a 90-69 rout on February 18, 2023. That was the Quakers' fifth win in a row in the series and their tenth in 11 meetings.
 
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—January 30-31 at Columbia and Cornell. Next weekend's trip to Dartmouth and Harvard 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
4.0 - Assists-per-game average by sophomore AJ Levine, third among Ivy League players. The Ancient Eight leader is Brown's Jeremiah Jenkins (5.4 apg).
 
4 - Double-doubles recorded by junior TJ Power so far this season, most among Ivy League players; he flirted with a fifth Monday at Princeton, with 13 points and seven rebounds to go with two assists.
 
5 - Penn players who have earned a weekly honor from either the Ivy League or the Philadelphia Big 5 so far this season, after Levine was named Ivy League Player of the Week on Monday. The others are Power, seniors Michael Zanoni and Ethan Roberts, and freshman Dalton Scantlebury.
 
5 - Players who hit double figures in the scoring column in Monday's loss at Princeton, a season high: Roberts—who scored a team-high 19 in his first game action in almost exactly a month—Levine (15), Power (13), Zanoni (13), and Scantlebury (12).
 
7 - Steals by Levine in Penn's 80-61 win over NJIT on New Year's Eve; that was the most by a Penn player in a game since the Ivy League's all-time leader in the category, Ibrahim Jaaber, had seven at Navy on December 7, 2006.
 
+12 - Penn's rebound margin on Monday at Princeton (35-23); the Tigers' rebound total was an opponent low this season.
 
13 - Consecutive points scored by Penn in a span of 2:07 as the Quakers cut a 14-point deficit to one in the final three minutes before falling at Princeton, 78-76.
 
19 - Free throws taken, and made, by Penn Monday night at Princeton; that is a program record dating back to the start of Ivy League play in 1956-57. The previous best 100-percent performance came on January 22, 2011 when the Quakers went 15-of-15 against Saint Joseph's.
 
36 - Offensive rebounds grabbed this season by junior Augustus Gerhart, including three on Monday at Princeton; that is tied for most among Ivy League players with Brown's N'famara Dabo. Scantlebury is fourth among Ivy players in the category, with 34.
 
39.1 - Penn's shooting percentage on three-point shots so far this season, good for 13th nationally entering the weekend; the Quakers have hit double digits in treys five times this season, most recently the win over NJIT when they were 13-33.
 
45 - Points scored by Levine across Penn's last three games (11 at George Mason, 19 vs. NJIT, 15 at Princeton); prior to that, the sophomore had scored 41 in the Quakers' first 11 contests.
 
62.2 - Zanoni 's overall field-goal percentage in Penn's last three contests (23-37) as he dropped a combined 59 points; that includes an 11-of-22 performance from beyond the arc.
 
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