The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team hung around with Ivy League leader Yale for about 35 minutes on Saturday night at The Palestra, but the Bulldogs blew away the Quakers in those final five minutes en route to a 90-61 win that was not nearly as bad as the final score would indicate.

  Penn trailed by a double-digit margin throughout the second half on Saturday, but the Quakers got as close as 12 with a little less than six minutes left when Ethan Roberts knocked down a putback layup. However, Yale outscored Penn 23-6 the rest of the way including nine points in a 55-second span in the game's final 1:20..

  Penn fell to 6-13 overall and is 2-4 in Ivy play, while the Bulldogs remain unbeaten at 6-0 and are 13-6 overall.

 
*Penn committed just nine turnovers on Saturday but Yale turned them into 13 points, while the Quakers turned the Bulldogs' 11 turnovers into just five points.

  *For the fourth straight game, Penn reached double digits with 10 three-point baskets; that gives them 53 over the last four contests.

  *Penn lost by 29 in a game where they took ten more shots than their opponent.

  *Junior Ethan Roberts once again led the Quakers in scoring, with 19 points; he also tied for team-high honors with five rebounds, sharing that honor with freshman Bradyn Foster.

  *Sophomore Sam Brown was Penn's only other double-digit scorer on Saturday, with 13 points as he went 3-of-7 from beyond the arc. Brown also had three rebounds and three assists.

  *Senior Nick Spinoso was in foul trouble much of the second half but ended the night with eight points, four boards and a team-high four assists in nearly 28 minutes.

  *Freshman AJ Levine scored nine points and added two rebounds, two assists and a team-leading two steals.

  *Yale got 23 points and nine rebounds from Nick Townsend, while John Poulakidas added 21 including a 9-for-9 performance at the foul line. Bez Mbeng scored 19 points and dished out four assists.

 
The Ivy leaders wasted no time establishing themselves on Saturday night, holding Penn scoreless for the game's first 4:32 and blowing out to a 9-0 lead that eventually bulged to 20-4 less than eight minutes in. At that point the Quakers took a timeout, and that seemed to settle things down as the offense got going. Penn scored 21 points over an eight-minute span and clawed its way back to within seven, a Niklas Polonowski backdoor layup making the score 32-25 with 4:38 left in the half.

  Yale responded. Townsend knocked down a three to start a 10-0 run that took just 1:26 of game time. The Bulldogs' lead was still 16 at the half, 48-32.

  Penn scored the first four points of the second half and six of the first eight, getting the margin to 12 both times, and when Brown hit a triple with 12:49 left the Quakers had gotten the margin to just 10, at 57-47. Once again, the veteran Bulldogs were unfazed—they held the Red and Blue scoreless for more than four minutes and gradually built a seven-point run. It was still 67-51 as the teams came out of the under-8 media timeout.

  Foster hit a pair of free throws with 6:59 left, and a little more than a minute later Roberts scored off a missed trey by Brown. That made the score 67-55, but Samson Aletan immediately scored for Yale and the Bulldogs went up by 19 as the Quakers hit another offensive drought. Yale cruised from there.

 
Penn closes out this four-game Ivy League homestand next Friday, hosting Princeton in the 251st meeting between these archrivals at 7 p.m.

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