MBB in New York State of Mind, at Cornell (Fri) and Columbia (Sat)

PHILADELPHIA – Fresh off a 76-68 win at Brown to open Ivy League play on Monday evening, the University of Pennsylvania males’s basketball workforce is again on the street this weekend. The Quakers are in a New York state of thoughts, hitting Ithaca on Friday evening earlier than they go dwell from New York (City) on Saturday evening.
 
GAME 16 – PENN (8-7, 1-0 Ivy League) at CORNELL (11-3, 1-0)
Friday, Jan. 6, 2023 | 7 p.m.
Newman Arena | Ithaca, N.Y.
Watch Live on ESPN+ ($) | Listen Live on QAN | Live Stats
Penn Game Notes | Cornell Game Notes
 
GAME 17 – PENN at COLUMBIA (6-10, 1-0)
Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023 | 7 p.m.
Levien Gym | New York City
Watch Live on ESPN+ ($) | Listen Live on QAN | Live Stats
Columbia Game Notes
 
Quaker Audio Network (QAN)
Again this season, Penn followers can hearken to most of Penn’s males’s basketball video games via the Quaker Audio Network, a free Internet-based audio streaming service. Matt Leon will likely be on the play-by-play name for each video games this weekend, with Brad Fadem offering evaluation. To entry the Quaker Audio Network, merely sort www.pennathletics.com/audio into your pc or gadget.
 
The Series with Cornell
*The Quakers and the Big Red are assembly for the 237th time in males’s basketball. Penn holds a 161-75 lead in the all-time collection.
 
*Penn has gained 5 in a row in the collection and 16 of the final 17 relationship again to the 2012-13 season. In his six seasons because the Quakers’ head coach, Steve Donahue is 11-1 towards the Big Red (whom he coached from 2001-10).
 
*Penn gained the primary assembly final season at The Palestra, 79-65, in a recreation that was nearer than the rating would point out. Clark Slajchert had 19 factors to steer the Quakers, whereas Jordan Dingle added 17.
 
*The final assembly at Newman got here on February 5, Penn escaping with a 73-68 victory. Dingle led the Red and Blue with 19 factors, whereas Max Martz matched his season excessive with 16 and Andrew Laczkowski scored 10.
 
The Series with Columbia
* The Quakers and the Lions are assembly for the 240th time, with Penn holding a 146-93 lead in the general collection.
 
*Penn has gained three of the final 4 and six of the final eight conferences between these packages. That features a cut up of final 12 months’s collection when the street workforce gained each instances.
 
*Columbia knocked off the Quakers nearly precisely a 12 months in the past at The Palestra, 73-69. George Smith and Max Martz led Penn offensively, with 14 factors apiece, whereas Clark Slajchert added 11.
 
*Penn returned the favor practically a month later at Levien, taking an 81-66 resolution. Jordan Dingle led all scorers with 23 factors, whereas Martz scored 16. Andrew Laczkowski proved to be the revelation, scoring 12 factors and including 4 offensive rebounds.
 
Rare Jordan
Junior guard Jordan Dingle has been placing up historic numbers this season…
 
*His 23.8 points-per-game common is third nationally, behind solely UAB’s Jordan Walker (25.2 ppg) and Detroit Mercy’s Antoine Davis (24.6).
 
*He has scored at least 20 factors in his final 11 appearances (25.0 ppg in that stretch); the final Penn participant to try this was Ernie Beck, who began his senior season (1952-53) with 16 such video games.
 
*He has reached double figures in 22 straight video games, the eighth-longest streak in program historical past; Zack Rosen is seventh, with 24 such video games.
 
*He scored 120 factors throughout Penn’s 4 Big 5 video games—28 vs. SJU, 37 vs. La Salle, 25 at Villanova, 30 vs. Temple—a Big 5 document for a single season; the earlier mark of 116 was set by SJU’s Cliff Anderson manner again in 1966-67.
 
Penn MBB By the Numbers
1 – Games Penn has performed towards NCAA Division 1 competitors since December 10; that was Monday, when the Quakers opened Ivy League play with a 76-68 win at Brown.
 
2 – Ivy League Players of the Week this season for Penn, after junior guard Clark Slajchert was honored on Tuesday following his 31-point recreation at Brown on Monday evening; junior guard Jordan Dingle was honored three straight weeks previous to the vacations.
 
2 – Ivy League gamers who had been named to the Lou Henson Award Watch List by SchoolInsider.com on November 22: Princeton’s Tosan Evbuomwan and Dingle. The Henson Award is introduced to the nation’s high mid-major participant.
 
2 – Wins head coach Steve Donahue has this season towards former Cornell assistants of his, Drexel’s Zach Spiker (64-59) and Wilkes’ Izzi Metz (93-61).
 
9 – Starting lineups utilized by Penn this season, via 15 video games; the one participant who has began each recreation he performed is Clark Slajchert.
 
9 – Rebounds grabbed by Laczkowski towards Temple, a profession excessive; 5 of them got here on the offensive glass.
 
10 – Penn gamers with a double-figure scoring recreation this season, after freshman Cam Thrower hit for 13 factors towards Wilkes; the Quakers have had at least 10 gamers with a double-digit scoring recreation in 5 of Coach Donahue’s seven seasons, after doing it simply eight instances from 1951-2015.
 
10 – Rebound secured by sophomore Nick Spinoso in Penn’s win Monday at Brown; he had his first collegiate double-double by including 10 factors.
 
11 – Assists dished out by Spinoso towards Saint Joseph’s on November 30, most by a Penn participant in the Donahue teaching period.
 
12.2 – Scoring common for junior Max Martz over his final ten video games (he missed the 11/30 Saint Joseph’s recreation attributable to sickness); Martz has hit double digits seven instances in that run, scored 9 factors in two different contests, and had eight Monday at Brown.
 
16 – Rebounds by senior Lucas Monroe towards Saint Joseph’s; that’s tied for probably the most by a Penn participant in the Donahue period (AJ Brodeur at Cornell, 2/1/19; Darien Nelson-Henry vs. Cornell, 2/13/16).

19 – Points scored by junior Andrew Laczkowski over Penn’s final 4 video games, after he went scoreless throughout the Quakers’ first 11 video games this season (together with eight DNPs).

 

23.8 – Dingle‘s scoring common, good for third nationally behind solely UAB’s Jordan Walker (25.2 ppg) and Detroit Mercy’s Antoine Davis (24.6).

 

26 – Penn’s disparity in scoring from the primary half (25 factors) to the second (51) Monday at Brown; the Quakers have scored 51 second-half factors in every of their final two video games towards D1 foes.

 

39 – Combined second-half factors by Slajchert (21) and Dingle (18) Monday at Brown.

 

41.8 – Combined scoring common of Dingle (23.8 ppg) and Slajchert (18.0) after they mixed for 51 at Brown on Monday (Slajchert 31, Dingle 20); they’re the highest-scoring backcourt at the NCAA Division 1 degree.

 

51.9 – Penn’s field-goal proportion at Brown on Monday (27-52), the third time this season the Quakers have shot higher than 50 % in a recreation.

 

57 – Games Dingle wanted to succeed in 1,000 factors for his profession (he reached the mark 11/25 vs. Hartford); solely three gamers reached 1,000 factors sooner than Dingle, and all of them began their varsity careers as sophomores: Ernie Beck (50 video games), Keven McDonald (50), and Stan Pawlak (52). Ron Haigler and Joe Sturgis hit the mark in Game 58.

 

62 – Second-half factors scored by Dingle in his final three appearances, out of 75 whole (23 of 25 at Villanova on 12/7, 21 of 30 vs. Temple on 12/10, 18 of 20 at Brown on Monday).

 

103 – Wins at Penn for head coach Steve Donahue; he turned the seventh of Penn’s 20 head males’s basketball coaches to hit triple digits in the win column when the Quakers defeated Delaware on November 27, 86-73.

 

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