PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania women's basketball team will square off against Brown on Saturday at the Palestra in the 2025-26 season finale.
 
The Quakers enter the game after going 1-1 on last weekend's road trip to Harvard and Dartmouth.
 
GAME 27 - PENN (16-9, 6-6 Ivy League) vs. BROWN (16-9, 8-5 Ivy League)
Saturday, Mar. 7, 2026 | 2 p.m.
Philadelphia Pa. | The Palestra
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THE SERIES WITH BROWN
* The Quakers and Bears are meeting for the 97th time in women's basketball, with Penn holding a 57-39 lead in the all-time series.
 
* Brown won the first meeting this season, taking a 77-65 decision in double overtime in Providence back on January 10. Amazingly, Penn never led in regulation, tying it with just 22 seconds left to force overtime. The teams traded the lead four times in the first extra session, before Brown took over with the first eight points and 12 of the first 14 in the second OT.
 
* Mataya Gayle stuffed the stat sheet in that game, finishing with 18 points, seven rebounds, four assists and four steals. Katie Collins collected a double-double (13 points/11 rebounds) and dished out three assists, while Saniah Caldwell drained five triples on the way to 16 points. Simone Sawyer added 10 points.
 
* These teams have split the season series each of the last three seasons, with the home team winning each time. In fact, the home team has been victorious the last eight times these teams have met if you tack on the first meeting this season and the last matchup in 2021-22.
 
THANK YOU, SENIORS!
Prior to Saturday's game, we will recognize and honor five men and women who have been an instrumental part of our program the last four years on the occasion of their final home game. We will honor seniors Saniah Caldwell, Simone Sawyer and Georgia Heine as well as senior student managers Darren Mason and Jai Smith.
 
QUAKER NOTEMEAL VS DARTMOUTH
* Simone Sawyer led all scorers with 23 points, one point shy of her career high.
 
* Tina Njike had a career-high 19 points, with eight rebounds and a pair of blocks.
 
* Mataya Gayle (16) and Katie Collins (15) also scored in double figures for Penn.
 
* Penn shot 58 percent from the floor, 37/63.
 
* The Quakers won the rebound battle, 34-25.
 
* Penn never trailed in the game.
 
* The Quakers moved the ball extremely well, tallying 24 assists.
 
* Penn swept Dartmouth in the season series.
 
PENN WBB BY THE NUMBERS
 
1.03 • Penn's overall assist/turnover ratio this season; that is second among the Ivy League programs, behind only league co-leader and 23rd-ranked Princeton (1.12).
 
1.44 • Caldwell's overall assist/turnover ratio (82/57); that is second among Ivy League players, behind only Princeton's Ashley Chea (1.58).
 
7.1 • Three-pointers made per game overall this season by Penn, tops among the Ivy programs; the Quakers hit 11 last Saturday at Dartmouth, a season high against a Division I opponent.
 
1.44 • Caldwell's overall assist/turnover ratio (82/57); that is second among Ivy League players, behind only Princeton's Ashley Chea (1.58).
 
7.1 • Three-pointers made per game overall this season by Penn, tops among the Ivy programs; the Quakers hit 11 last Saturday at Dartmouth, a season high against a Division I opponent.
 
7.7 • Overall rebounds per game averaged this season by Collins, second among Ivy players behind Brown's Alyssa Moreland (10.3 rpg).
 
15.2 • Points per game in league play by Gayle, fifth among Ivy players; Brown's Grace Arnolie is second (19.7 ppg).
 
35 • Points scored last weekend by junior Tina Njike: 16 on Friday at Harvard, then a career-high 19 on Saturday at Dartmouth; she shot 13-19 (.684) on two-point shots during the weekend and flirted with a double-double in both games, grabbing seven rebounds against the Crimson and eight vs. the Big Green.
 
36.5 • Overall opponent field-goal percentage against Penn this season; that is second among Ivy teams behind only Saturday''s opponent, Brown (35.1 pct).
 
38.2 • Minutes played per game in league play by Gayle, tops among Ivy players; teammate Collins is third (36.4).
 
41 • Overall blocked shots by Collins this season, tops among Ivy players; she is 46th nationally in blocked shots per game (1.58).
 
63 • Assists in league play by Gayle, tops among Ivy players; teammate Saniah Caldwell is seventh in the category (45).
 
78.2 • Penn's free-throw percentage for the season, tops among Ivy League teams and 13th nationally. The Quakers are shooting 75.9 percent from the line in league play, tops among Ivy programs.
 
88.3 • Sawyer's overall free-throw percentage this season (68-77), tops among Ivy players and 22nd nationally; currently, the program record for FT percentage in a season is 87.6, set originally by Sandy Hawthorne in 1982-83 and matched by Joey Rhoads in 2005-06.
 
89 • Points scored by Penn in last Saturday's win at Dartmouth; that was the most scored by the Quakers against a D1 opponent since they beat Siena, 92-44, to open the 2019-20 season.
 
113 • Assists dished out overall by Gayle this season, tops among Ivy players; with six Saturday, she would tie Alyssa Baron for 10th on the program's single-season list.