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2/28/2026 | 6:00 PM


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Feb. 28 (Sat) / 6:00 PM


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PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men’s basketball team shook off a sluggish start Friday night at The Palestra, and with TJ Power having a career night the Quakers came back from a 12-point deficit to knock off Dartmouth, 80-71.
 
While the Quakers (7-5 in Ivy play) did their part, other results around the league did not. With Cornell beating Yale and Columbia knocking off Brown, Penn still must wait a day to clinch its spot in the Ivy League Tournament. They will do so with a win over Harvard, a Columbia loss to Yale, or a Cornell loss to Brown.
 
Penn won for the fifth time in six games and improved to 14-11 overall. Dartmouth fell to 11-14 overall, 5-7 in league play.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Penn improved to 11-2 at The Palestra overall and 5-1 in Ivy League play.
 
*The eight-point halftime deficit that Penn made up to win was its largest this season; this season, the Quakers are now 3-7 when trailing at the break.
 
*Penn outrebounded Dartmouth on Friday, 44-33; the 44 boards were two shy of the season high against a Division I opponent, topped only by the 46 the Quakers grabbed against Merrimack in the Cathedral Classic opener back in November.
 
*Of those 44 rebounds, 15 came on the offensive glass; that was one shy of the season high vs. a D1 foe, behind the 16 grabbed by the Red and Blue vs. Hofstra in its Cathedral Classic finale.
 
*Penn entered Friday’s game having taken more foul shots in league play than anyone else, and the Quakers added 37 to that total against the Big Green—their second-highest total this season, behind only the 41 taken two games ago vs. Cornell.
 
*Power scored 38 points on Friday, the fifth-highest scoring game in program history and most this season by a Quaker. He also had a game-high 12 rebounds for his fifth double-double this season.
 
*Power was efficient offensively, going 14-22 from the field and knocking down six of his eight three-point shots. The six treys were tied for most by a Penn player this season (Michael Zanoni hit six at American on November 9).
 
*At one point on Friday, Power had 38 points and the rest of Penn’s team had 22. By the same token, at one point in the second half he had scored 22 of the Quakers’ first 36 points of the period.
 
*Speaking of Zanoni, he was the Quakers’ only other double-figure scorer on Friday, with 10 points.
 
*Freshman Jay Jones had another outstanding performance off the bench, playing nearly 25 minutes and finishing with three points, six rebounds, a game-high four assists—his season/career best—and two steals.
 
*Sophomore Lucas Lueth also came off the bench to grab six boards—four of them coming on the offensive glass—and added two steals.
 
*Freshman Dalton Scantlebury finished the night with six points and five rebounds.
 
*Senior Cam Thrower scored five points on Friday night, which doesn’t seem particularly noteworthy until you realize they were his first points since January 19.
 
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Up Next
Penn concludes this Ivy League weekend Saturday night with Harvard, the Quakers’ final home game of the season. The game is scheduled for 6 p.m. and will air in the Philadelphia region on NBC Sports Philadelphia in addition to nationally on the ESPN+ streaming service. Prior to tipoff, the program will recognize and honor its four graduating seniors: Ethan Roberts, Thrower, Johnnie Walter, and Dylan Williams.
 
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