Gamecenter: Dartmouth 52, Penn 68

The Palestra – Philadelphia, PA	Boxscore
Postgame audio: Harvard \| Penn

Keys to the Game
Key sequence	After a Mike Lang four-point play finished off a 10-2 Dartmouth run that trimmed Penn’s lead to 32-29, the Quakers rolled off seven straight points on a pair of Ibby Jaaber fastbreak baskets — his first points of the game — bookended around an Eric Osmundson three-pointer. The Big Green never got closer than eight points the rest of the way.
Key sign it was over	With Dartmouth trailing by 12, Chuck Flynn missed two free throws with 6:03 left. David Whitehurst found Brian Grandieri for a layup at the other end, then Lang missed a three-pointer for the Big Green. Penn got out and ran on the rebound, and Grandieri fed Osmundson for a fastbreak layup with just under five minutes to play that put Penn up 60-44.
Key performance	In a first half where both teams struggled to put the ball in the bucket early on, Mark Zoller scored 13 points and grabbed six rebounds. He finished with a game-high 17 points on 6-of-11 shooting and 11 boards.
Key statistic	Penn’s 44-20 edge in points in the paint. Despite playing four guards for large portions of the game, the Quakers dominated the Big Green inside.


Notes
–	Penn went 14-for-16 from the line, by far its best performance of the season. On the season, the Quakers are shooting 67.7 percent from the free throw line, worst in the league. While it had a nice night from the line, Penn continued to struggle from three-point range, hitting only 2 of 13 attempts from beyond the arc. The performance dropped Penn’s three-point percentage to 32 percent on the year.

–	After scoring 18 in the first half the previous night against Harvard, Jaaber was held scoreless in the first 20 minutes for the first time all season. He finished with eight points, leaving him 37 shy of becoming the 33rd player in Penn history to reach the 1,000-point mark.

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–	With his three steals in the first half, Jaaber broke his own Penn and Ivy League record for steals in a season. He finished the game with four, giving him 87 on the season. Jaaber is only 38 behind the all-time Ivy League leader in career steals, Andrew Gellert of Harvard, who had 242. Only four players in Ivy League history have had over 200 steals.

–	Both Pennâ€™s Steve Danley and Dartmouthâ€™s Johnathan Ball played the game with protective facemasks.

–	Dartmouth had 14 offensive rebounds and 30 total boards. The Big Green turned those 14 second chances into 12 points.

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