The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team used strong play late in both halves on Monday at Harvard's Lavietes Pavilion, and the result was an 82-67 victory over the Crimson.

  Penn—which won at Lavietes for the third time in four years—improved to 5-11 overall and won for the first time in Ivy League play this season (now 1-2). Harvard, which beat Brown by 13 on Saturday in Providence, fell to 6-10 overall and is also 1-2 in conference action.

 
*Penn had its second-best shooting game of the season (29-of-57, .509).

  *The Quakers' shooting from beyond the arc also was second-best this season (11-of-25, .440).

  *Penn finished with 17 assists and eight turnovers, a 2.13 ratio.

  *Penn won for just the second time this season when getting outrebounded (Harvard won the board battle, 34-28); previously the Quakers were 1-8 in such contests.

  *Junior Ethan Roberts scored 21 points, giving him 47 across the weekend; he shot 7-of-14 from the field and knocked down four of his seven three-pointers.

  *Sophomore Sam Brown scored 19 points, his best offensive game since he had 22 against UMES on November 7. Fourteen of those points came after halftime, after he hit a half-court shot in the final 1.3 seconds of the first half.

  *Senior Nick Spinoso was the third Penn player in double figures, with 14 points on 7-of-11 shooting, and led the Quakers with five rebounds.

  *Freshman AJ Levine had another strong offensive performance with nine points and four assists (tying him for team-high honors with Brown).

  *Sophomore Augustus Gerhart only scored two points but was active with two offensive rebounds and two blocked shots.

  *Harvard got 15 points from Chandler Pigge, 13 each from Robert Hinton and Austin Hunt, and 12 from Thomas Batties II. Hunt also led the Crimson with eight rebounds while Hinton and Evan Nelson (9 points) had six boards each.

The teams were tied at 20-20 with just under eight minutes left in the first half when Penn made its first runout. Brown started things with a layup, then on the other side of the under-8 media timeout Roberts scored three the old-fashioned way. A pair of George Smith free throws built the Quakers' lead out to seven, at 27-20.

Harvard got back within two and had a chance to tie or take the lead. However, Gerhart blocked a Batties shot at one end, then grabbed two offensive rebounds at the other. Brown snared a third O board and kicked out to Dylan Williams for a fourth-chance three-pointer that the junior buried. The Quakers got another defensive stop after that, and in transition Williams muscled his way to the basket to get the margin back to seven.

Penn's lead was six late in the period, but it felt like it could be bigger and maybe Harvard was finding a way to hang around. However, it was the Quakers with all the momentum going into the locker room when, with just 1.3 seconds left, they went the length of the floor for a basket. Spinoso was the inbounder and he fired a pass to Brown near the midcourt circle. The lefty turned and chucked home a half-court shot from the left sideline which put the Red and Blue in front at the break, 39-30.

Penn's lead was still 11 with a little more than 14 minutes left, at 51-40, but the Quakers went dry offensively and Harvard took advantage. The Crimson ran up a 9-0 scoring streak to get back within two and had three more chances to tie or take the lead before Spinoso finally ended the Red and Blue's scoring streak after 5:35 of game time.

The teams traded points for the next few minutes after that, before another massive sequence pushed Penn's margin back up to double digits. With the score 56-53, Spinoso scored in the lane, then Roberts sandwiched a pair of three-pointers around a Harvard turnover (both of them coming off Smith feeds). It was eight points in 60 seconds and the Quakers led, 64-53, with five minutes to play.

The Crimson got as close as six, a Batties trey making the score 69-63 with 2:36 to play. However, Penn went to its senior center and Spinoso delivered, scoring as the clock went under two minutes, and then a Harvard turnover turned into another Roberts triple. That proved to be the dagger.

QUAKERS GET THE ROAD DUB. @PennMBB hit 11 triples in its 82-67 win over Harvard. Ethan Roberts led all scorers with 21 points and connected on four 3?-balls to give Penn its first league win. ???? pic.twitter.com/dk5Hujn4Hj

— Ivy League (@IvyLeague) January 20, 2025

Penn is home for its next four games, starting next Saturday when the Quakers host Columbia at The Palestra. Tip time with the Lions is scheduled for 2 p.m.

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