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PHILADELPHIA \u2013 The University of Pennsylvania men’s basketball team has its last two home games this weekend, hosting Dartmouth on Friday night and Harvard on Saturday night. Penn Game Notes (PDF) | Brown Notes (PDF)<\/a> The Series with Brown #FightOnPenn<\/p>\n \u00a0
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\nThe Red and Blue enter this weekend’s games alone in third place in the Ivy League standings, at 6-5, a game up on Dartmouth and Cornell and two up on Columbia and Princeton.
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\nGAME 27 \u2013 PENN (15-11, 8-5 Ivy League) at BROWN<\/a> (9-17, 3-10)
\nFriday, March 6, 2026 | 7 p.m.
\nProvidence, R.I. | Pizzitola Sports Center
\nWatch on ESPN+<\/a> ($) | Listen on QAN<\/a> | Live Stats<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nIvy League on ESPN+
\nA reminder that the Ivy League is paired with ESPN and you will be able to find all Penn home games, as well as road Ivy games and select non-conference road games, on ESPN+ again this season with the same high broadcast quality you’ve come to expect. ESPN+ is a subscription-based service that offers monthly and yearly packages. Click here to subscribe to ESPN+!<\/a>
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\nQuaker Audio Network (QAN)
\nFans can listen to the entire 2025-26 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 again this season, with Stan Pawlak providing analysis. To access the Quaker Audio Network, simply type www.pennathletics.com\/audio<\/a> into your computer or device.<\/p>\n
\n*The Quakers and Bears are meeting for the 148th time, with Penn holding a dominant 115-32 lead in the series.
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\n*Penn won the first meeting this season in Philadelphia, 81-73. Ethan Roberts<\/a> and Michael Zanoni<\/a> both broke the 20-point mark in the victory\u2014Roberts scoring 28 and Zanoni 20\u2014while TJ Power<\/a> had nine points and Augie Gerhart went for eight points and a team-high six rebounds.
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\n*That January 10 win snapped a four-game losing streak to Bruno in the series, including an 88-79 loss in Philadelphia and an 82-72 decision here in Providence last season.
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\n*Prior to the last two seasons, Penn had had great success at the Pizzitola Sports Center, winning six games in a row from 2017-23 (part of a stretch that saw Penn win 11 of 13 overall). The Red and Blue’s last win in this building took place on January 2, 2023, a 76-68 victory.
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\nHe Has The “Power”!
\n*Junior TJ Power<\/a> swept the Ivy League and Philadelphia Big 5 Player of the Week honors on Monday, largely on the strength of his 38-point night against Dartmouth that was the fifth-highest scoring game in program history.
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\n*On Tuesday, Power was named as one of five players on the USBWA’s Oscar Robertson Player of the Week list with Christian Anderson (Texas Tech), Mike Lewis (Saint Mary’s), Jordan Riley (East Carolina), and Seth Trimble (North Carolina).
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\nGood to Know
\n*Penn has won six of its last seven games, the only loss coming by four points at Ivy League champion Yale on February 21.
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\n*Penn finished with a 12-2 record at The Palestra this season, its best home mark since the 2006-07 team also went 12-2; the Quakers went 6-1 in Ivy play at home.
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\n*Penn has clinched the third seed in the Ivy League Tournament, which will take place next Saturday and Sunday at Cornell. This will be the Quakers’ first appearance in “Ivy Madness” since 2023.
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\n*Penn will meet second-seeded Harvard in the second semifinal next Saturday, at 2 p.m. The first semifinal, at 11 a.m., pits top-seeded Yale against fourth-seeded Cornell. The winners of Saturday’s semifinals will meet in the ILT final on Sunday at noon, with the winner of that game earning the Ancient Eight’s NCAA Tournament automatic bid.
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\nPenn MBB by the Numbers
\n+3.00 – Penn’s turnover margin in Ivy League play, tops among the Ancient Eight programs; Yale is second, at +1.62.
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\n6 – Ivy League wins for Penn at The Palestra this season, its best total since 2022-23; the Quakers’ overall home record (12-2) is their best since the 2006-07 Ivy champions\u2014with assistant coach Mike Martin\u2014also went 12-2.
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\n8 – Penn players who have led the team in scoring in at least one game this season; also the number of players who have led the team in rebounding in a game this season.
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\n12 – Combined points that Penn has lost by in its four Ivy League road losses: 78-76 at Princeton (2), 64-63 at Harvard (1), 72-67 at Columbia (5), and 74-70 at Yale (4).
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\n18 – Combined points Penn trailed by at halftime of last weekend’s games (8 to Dartmouth, 10 to Harvard); the Quakers came back to win both contests.
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\n30 – Steals by sophomore AJ Levine<\/a> in Ivy League play so far, tops among Ivy players; Harvard’s Chandler Pigge enters the weekend second, with 25.
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\n35.2 – Penn’s offensive rebounds per game average in Ivy League games, tops among Ancient Eight programs.
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\n38.2 – Penn’s overall 3FG percentage this season, which is third among Ivy teams\u2014Yale is 40.6 percent and Cornell is 39.2 percent\u2014but 18th nationally.
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\n46.2 – Junior TJ Power’s<\/a> 3-point field-goal percentage in Ivy League play (36-78), tops in the league; only Cornell’s Cooper Noard (40) has more treys in league play than Power.
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\n59 – Offensive rebounds grabbed this season by junior Augustus Gerhart<\/a>, second among Ivy player behind Columbia’s Mason Ritter (63).
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\n101 – Assists dished out by Levine this season; he is just the second Penn player with 100 in a season in the last five years. (Nick Spinoso<\/a> had 107 in 2023-24.)
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\n290 – Free throws taken so far in league play by Penn, most among the Ancient Eight programs (Princeton is a distant second, with 264); the Quakers have taken 78 more foul shots than their opponents in Ivy play, by far the biggest margin among the eight teams.
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\nFor the latest on Penn men’s basketball, follow @PennMBB on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram, and on the web at PennAthletics.com.
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