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1st |
2nd |
OT |
Final |
| Penn (20-7, 12-1 Ivy) |
24 |
36 |
14 |
64 |
| Brown (10-17, 6-8 Ivy) |
32 |
28 |
8 |
68 |
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| Pizzitola Center – Providence, RI |
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| Keys to the Game |
| Key sequence |
Tied at 55, Eric Osmundson drilled a long three-pointer to put Penn up three with 1:18 left in regulation. Osmundson fouled Keenan Jeppesen at the other end and the Brown sophomore hit both free throws to make it a one-point game. After the two teams traded turnovers, Brian Grandieri hit a pair of free throws to restore the margin to three with 21 seconds on the clock. Ibby Jaaber stole the ball from Marcus Becker with 11 seconds left, but made the very questionable decision to attack the basket rather than running out the clock. Becker ended up redeeming himself by blocking Grandieri’s layup attempt. Scott Friske grabbed the loose ball and found Becker at the other end for a tying three-pointer at the buzzer to force overtime. |
| Key sign it was over |
Down three in the final minute of overtime, Brown caught a huge break when Grandieri missed both free throws. Jeppesen got a dunk to make it a one-point game with 18 ticks left, and Brown immediately fouled Jaaber. The league’s top player hit his first free throw and missed the second, but grabbed his own rebound and was fouled again. This time Jaaber knocked down both attempts from the stripe to put Penn up 72-68. Mark MacDonald couldn’t connect on a three-pointer with six seconds left, and Jaaber once agan grabbed the rebound, was fouled, and converted both free throws to put Penn up six with five seconds left. |
| Key performance |
Eric Osmundson. While Mark Zoller’s fourth straight double-double was certainly impressive, Osmundson had one of his better games in a Penn uniform. The senior was hot from the perimeter, hitting 5 of 11 from the arc en route to 15 points. He also dished out five assists, committed just one turnovers, and held Brown’s Huffman to just four points. |
| Key statistic |
Penn’s 13-4 edge in second-chance points. The Quakers grabbed 15 of 40 rebounds at their offensive end (37.5 percent) and did a good job of taking advantage of those additional opportunities. And none of these second-chance points were bigger than Jabber’s free throws off his offensive rebound in the final seconds of overtime with Penn clinging to a two-point lead. |
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| Notes |
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Jeppesen led all scorers with 21 points on 8-of-18 shooting, with all but three of his buckets coming on shots in close. Perhaps most impressively for Jeppesen, he hit all four free throws after entering the game shooting 53.7 percent from the line on the season. However, his six turnovers were the most on the team on a night when Brown was too careless with the ball. |
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Brown lost the turnover battle 23-17, and Penn outscored the Bears 27-18 in points off turnovers — 18 to 7 after halftime, as Brown committed 17 turnovers in the final 25 minutes. |
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Steve Danley had 12 points and a game-high nine assists for the Quakers, but this was largely offset by his eight turnovers. |
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Penn recorded 20 assists on its 24 field goals (83.3 percent) — by far its highest assist percentage on the season. |
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The Quakers hit the same number of free throws (17) that Brown attempted. It was just the third time in 14 Ivy games that Brown attempted fewer free throws than its opponent, with one of the other such occurrences coming against Penn at The Palestra. |
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Brown outshot Penn 55.6 percent to just 31.0 percent in the first half and led 32-24 at intermission. |
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Penn’s first lead did not come until the 13:36 mark of the second half and the Quakers’ largest lead in regulation was three points. Brown led by as many as 12 in the first half and held a seven-point lead with under 10 minutes left in the second half. |
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The loss foiled Brown’s attempt to beat every Ivy League team this season. The Bears finish the year in fifth place at 6-8. |
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