The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team starts the back half of the Ivy League schedule with a weekend in New England. The Quakers are in the Nutmeg State to face Ivy League leader Yale on Friday night, then continues up 95 to match up with Brown on Saturday night.

  The Quakers will play five of their final seven games on the road, starting with this weekend of action.

 
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Penn fans can listen to all of the 2024-25 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 for both of this weekend's game, with Mike Mahoney providing analysis. To access the Quaker Audio Network, simply type www.pennathletics.com/audio into your computer or device.

 
*Penn is on the road to face the Bulldogs and the Bears on the same weekend for the second straight year and the 67th time since the start of Ivy play in 1956-57.

  *Overall, Penn has swept this road weekend 27 times (most recently in 2016-17), split it 29 times (most recently in 2021-22), and been swept ten times (including last year).

 
*Friday's meeting is the 242nd between the Quakers and the Bulldogs, with Penn holding a 153-88 lead.

  *Yale has won three in a row these last two seasons, including a 90-61 decision two weeks ago at The Palestra. In that game, scored 19 points to lead Penn and had 13.

  *Prior to last season, Penn and Yale had split the regular-season series six straight years. In fact, when the Bulldogs won last year's game at The Palestra it ended a streak of 11 straight games that saw the home team victorious.

  *The teams also split two Ivy League Tournament semifinal meetings during that six-year span of splits, Penn winning in 2018 at The Palestra (80-57) and Yale winning in 2022 at Harvard (67-61).

 
*Saturday's meeting is the 146th between the Quakers and the Bears, with Penn holding a 114-31 lead.

  *Brown earned a season sweep last year, its first since 2015, and took an 88-79 decision two weeks ago in Philadelphia. led the Quakers with 29 points while (18), (13) and (12) also reached double digits in scoring.

  *Prior to 2023-24, Penn had won five in a row over the Bears and ten of the last 11, the outlier being a 75-63 loss at The Palestra on February 14, 2020.

 
Penn's assist/turnover ratio so far in Ivy League play (103 assists/68 turnovers), tops among the Ancient Eight programs.

Three-point field goals made per game in Ivy play by junior entering the weekend, tops among Ivy League players.

Steals picked up against Princeton last Friday by freshman , most by a Penn player in a game this season.

The Quakers enter the weekend with seven Ivy League contests left. Five of them will be on the road, starting with this weekend's Yale/Brown trip. After coming back home to face Dartmouth and Harvard next weekend, the Red and Blue end the regular season with the Cornell/Columbia road trip and then the finale at Princeton.

  Penn's 3FG per game in Ivy League play so far, good for third place among the Ivy teams behind Princeton (11.1) and Cornell (10.6)

Penn has used 12 different starting lineups this season, the 12th coming last Friday against Princeton.

  Penn players who have started at least one game this season; no one has started all 20, but senior and sophomore lead the way with 19 each.

  Double-figure scoring streak currently held by ; he has averaged 19.5 ppg during the run, which includes seven 20-point games and started with a collegiate-high 33-point outing against Navy on November 29.

  Points scored two weeks ago by senior against Brown; it was not just a season high but the most he had scored in a game since his freshman season when he dropped 23 on, you guessed it, the Bears in his very first Ivy League game wearing the Red and Blue; the senior then led Penn with a season-high eight rebounds last Friday against Princeton.

  Points-per-game average for in Ivy play, which leads the league just ahead of Yale's John Poulakidas (20.1) and Dartmouth's Ryan Cornish (19.6). Brown is eighth, averaging 16.3 ppg.

  48 - Points scored by Levine in Ivy League play (6.9 ppg) after he scored 26 in the Quakers' 13 non-conference contests (2.0 ppg).

  60 - Three-point baskets made by Penn over the last five games, including a program-record 18 two weeks ago vs. Columbia and 14 last Friday against Brown; the Quakers have reached double digits in 3FG in seven of their last ten games after doing it just once in the first ten contests.

62 - Points scored by sophomore Niklas Polonowski over the last ten games, after he scored just seven across the Quakers' first ten contests.

  114 - Points scored by Brown in seven Ivy League games so far this season (16.2 points per game); that is more than his point total (104) from the Quakers' 13 non-conference games (8.0 ppg). Brown has scored in double figures in every Ivy game so far this season.

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