PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team will make its first appearance in Ivy Madness since 2023, with the Quakers looking to earn their second Ivy League Tournament championship in the eight-year history of the event. This year's tournament is taking place at Cornell's Newman Arena in Ithaca, N.Y.
 
The third-seeded Red and Blue will face second-seeded Harvard in Saturday's second semifinal at 2 p.m. on ESPNews, following top-seeded Yale and fourth-seeded Cornell who tip off at 11 a.m. on ESPNU. The winners will face each in Sunday's final, which is scheduled to tip off at noon on ESPN2. The winner of that game will earn the Ivy League's automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.

Fans can also watch "Live From Ivy Madness" on Friday afternoon, as all four men's teams will have their shootaround at Newman Arena air live while head coach Fran McCaffery talks to the ESPN+ staff prior to practice. Penn's shootaround is slated to run from 1:30-2:10 p.m., with Coach McCaffery joining the LFIM crew from 1:20-1:30.
 
GAME 28 – PENN (16-11, 9-5 Ivy League) vs. HARVARD (17-11, 10-4)
Ivy League Tournament semifinal
Saturday, March 14, 2026 | 2 p.m.
Ithaca, N.Y. | Newman Arena
Watch on ESPNews | Listen on QAN | Live Stats
 
Penn Game 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.
 
Penn is making its first Ivy League Tournament appearance since 2023 but its sixth overall, tied with Cornell and Princeton for second among Ivy programs behind Yale (which has played in all eight editions).
 
Penn's Ivy Madness History
*Penn is making its first Ivy League Tournament appearance since 2023 but its sixth overall, tied with Cornell and Princeton for second among Ivy programs behind Yale (which has played in all eight editions).
 
*Penn is a third seed for the third time, the others coming in 2022 and 2023. The Quakers lost in the semifinals both of those years, falling 67-61 to second-seeded Yale in 2022 and 77-70 to second-seeded Princeton in 2023.
 
*Penn hosted the first two Ivy League Tournaments at The Palestra and won it in 2018 as the second seed, knocking off top-seeded Harvard after the teams had tied for the Ivy League regular-season title and split the season series.
 
*Penn is 1-1 in Ivy Madness play against Harvard, 1-1 against Yale—romping the Bulldogs in a 2018 semi (80-57) and falling in that 2022 semi—and has never faced Cornell at this event.
 
Good to Know…
*Penn enters Ivy Madness having won three in a row and seven of its last eight; the only loss in that stretch came on February 21, a four-point loss on the road to Ivy champion Yale.
 
*Junior TJ Power was a unanimous selection as first-team All-Ivy—the program's first since Jordan Dingle in 2022-23—while senior Ethan Roberts received second-team All-Ivy honors. The All-Ivy teams were announced on Wednesday.
 
*Penn went 12-2 at The Palestra this season, the program's best home mark since the 2006-07 Ivy League champions also went 12-2. In Ivy play the Quakers were 6-1 at home this season, the only loss coming to Yale.
 
*Head coach Fran McCaffery is looking to become just the fifth coach in history to bring five different programs to March Madness (previously Lehigh, UNC Greensboro, Siena and Iowa).

The Series with Harvard
*The Quakers and Crimson are meeting for the 191st time overall, with Penn holding a 140-50 lead in the series.
 
*These teams just met two weeks ago in Philadelphia, Penn making up a 10-point deficit to win, 64-61. Ethan Roberts scored 17 of his game-high 21 points after the break, while AJ Levine dropped 13 and TJ Power nearly had a double-double (9 points/9 rebounds)
 
*Harvard won the first meeting, 64-63, in Cambridge on MLK Day. Roberts led Penn with 27 points—giving him 52 for the Dartmouth/Harvard road trip—while Levine scored 15 and Power had 12.
 
*Penn and Harvard have met twice before in the Ivy League Tournament. The second-seeded Quakers beat the top-seeded Crimson in the 2018 Ivy Madness final at The Palestra, 68-65, but a year later top-seeded Harvard got its revenge with a 66-58 win over fourth-seeded Penn in a semifinal at Yale.
 
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; subbed Cam Thrower for an injured Ethan Roberts for three games; subbed Lucas Lueth for a sick Thrower vs. NJIT; and went with the original starting five for every Ivy game.
 
+3.64 - Penn's turnover margin in Ivy League play, tops among the Ancient Eight programs.
 
5 - Penn players who have earned a weekly honor from the Ivy League or Philadelphia Big 5 so far this season: junior TJ Power, sophomore AJ Levine, Roberts, Michael Zanoni, and freshman Dalton Scantlebury.
 
5.4 - Difference in points-per-game average for Levine in Ivy play (10.9 ppg) vs. the non-conference portion of Penn's season (5.5 ppg).
 
8 - Penn players who have led the team in scoring in at least one game this season; also the number of players who have led the team in rebounding in a game this season. (See page 23 for a full breakdown of both stats.)
 
12 - Combined points that Penn lost by in its four Ivy road losses: 78-76 at Princeton (2), 64-63 at Harvard (1), 72-67 at Columbia (5), 74-70 at Yale (4).
 
16.9 - Overall points-per-game average by Roberts; that has him fourth among Ivy players.
 
19 - Steals collected by Penn last Friday at Brown, most against a D1 opponent since January 23, 1982 when current head coach Fran McCaffery was a senior. (He had six of those thefts.)
 
34 - Steals by sophomore AJ Levine in Ivy League play this season, tops among Ivy players; Harvard's Chandler Pigge is second, with 27.
 
34.6 - Minutes played per game overall by Power, tops among Ivy players.
 
35.4 - Penn's rebounds-per-game average in Ivy League games, tops among Ancient Eight programs.
 
38.2 - Penn's overall 3FG percentage this season, which is third among Ivy teams but 18th nationally.
 
47.7 - Power's 3FG percentage in Ivy League play (41-86), tops in the league; only Cornell's Cooper Noard (42) had more treys in league play than Power.
 
64 - The point total of the winning team in both Penn-Harvard regular-season games this season.
 
107 - Assists dished out by Levine this season; he is just the second Penn player with 100 in a season in the last five years. (Nick Spinoso had 107 in 2023-24.)
 
309 - Free throws taken in league play by Penn, most among the Ancient Eight programs; the Quakers have taken 81 more foul shots than their opponents in Ivy play, by far the biggest margin among the eight teams.
 
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