PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team has its last two home games this weekend, hosting Dartmouth on Friday night and Harvard on Saturday night.
 
The Red and Blue enter this weekend's games alone in third place in the Ivy League standings, at 6-5, a game up on Dartmouth and Cornell and two up on Columbia and Princeton.
 
Prior to Saturday's game with the Crimson, Penn will honor four graduating seniors: Ethan Roberts, Cam Thrower, Johnnie Walter, and Dylan Williams. In addition to airing nationally on the ESPN+ streaming service, that game will also be broadcast in the Philadelphia region on NBC Sports Philadelphia.
 
GAME 25 – PENN (13-11, 6-5 Ivy League) vs. DARTMOUTH (11-13, 5-6)
Friday, Feb. 27, 2026 | 7 p.m.
Philadelphia | The Palestra
Watch on ESPN+ ($) | Listen on QAN | Live Stats | Digital Program

GAME 26 – PENN vs. HARVARD (15-10, 8-3)
Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026 | 6 p.m.
Philadelphia | The Palestra
Watch on ESPN+ ($) | Listen on QAN | Live Stats | Digital Program

Penn Game Notes (PDF) | Dartmouth Notes (PDF) | Harvard 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 D/H Home Weekend
*The Quakers are hosting the Big Green and the Crimson on the same weekend for the 65th time since the start of Ivy League play; however, it's just the second time this has happened in the last six years.
 
*Penn has swept this home weekend 46 times (most recently in 2019-20); split it 17 times (most recently last season); and been swept just once, in 2008-09.

The Series with Dartmouth
*The Quakers and Big Green are meeting for the 229th time overall, with Penn holding a 162-66 lead in the overall series.
 
*Penn won the first meeting this season in Hanover, 84-74. TJ Power and Ethan Roberts led the way for the Red and Blue, scoring 27 and 25 points, respectively, while AJ Levine added 14 and Michael Zanoni chipped in with 11.
 
*These teams split last year's series, Dartmouth getting a 73-70 victory in Hanover in the Ivy opener for both clubs but Penn coming back for an 88-75 win at The Palestra. The year before, the Red and Blue swept the Green.
 
*Penn has had great success against the Big Green at The Palestra, winning the last seven and ten of the last 11 dating back to 2014.
 
The Series with Harvard
*The Quakers and Crimson are meeting for the 190th time overall, with Penn holding a 139-50 lead in the series.
 
*Harvard won the first meeting this season, 64-63 in Cambridge on MLK Day. Roberts led Penn with 27 points—giving him 52 for the D/H road trip—while Levine scored 15 and Power had 12.
 
*Penn and Harvard split the series last year, the road team winning each of the games. Penn beat Harvard in Cambridge, 82-67, but the Crimson came back with a 79-78 win in overtime in the rematch about a month later in Philly.
 
*Penn is looking to snap a two-game losing streak to Harvard at The Palestra; prior to that, the Quakers had won six of seven dating back to 2017.
 
Penn MBB by the Numbers
+2.82 - Penn's turnover margin in Ivy League play, tops among the Ancient Eight programs; Yale is second, at +1.55.
 
7.2 - Overall rebounds per game being pulled down this season by junior TJ Power, good for third among Ivy players; Dartmouth's Brandon Mitchell-Day is the overall leader, at 9.0 rpg.
 
17.1 - Overall points-per-game average by Harvard's Robert Hinton (428 points in 25 games) and Penn's Ethan Roberts (342 in 20 games); that has them second and third, respectively, behind Cornell's Cooper Noard (18.4 ppg).
 
29 - Steals by sophomore AJ Levine in Ivy League play so far, tops among Ivy players; Harvard's Ben Eisendrath entered the weekend second, with 21.
 
56 - Offensive rebounds grabbed this season by junior Augustus Gerhart, tied for most among Ivy League players with Yale's Samson Aletan and Columbia's Mason Ritter.
 
99 - Assists dished out by Levine this season; with his next one, he will become the second Penn player with 100 in a season in the last five years. (Nick Spinoso had 107 in 2023-24.)
 
243 - Free throws taken so far in league play by Penn, most among the Ancient Eight programs (Princeton is a distant second, with 220); the Quakers have taken 65 more foul shots than their opponents in Ivy play, by far the biggest margin among the eight teams.
 
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