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Final |
| Penn (12-8, 3-1 Ivy) |
33 |
35 |
68 |
| Yale (9-10, 5-1 Ivy) |
40 |
37 |
77 |
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| Keys to the Game |
| Key sequence |
With Penn leading 27-23 with under seven minutes before halftime, Matt Kyle hit a jumper, then Travis Pinick tied it up with jumper over two minute later. Steve Danley put the Quakers back on top with a layup off a feed from Reilly, but Pinick assisted on a Kyle dunk, and Eric Flato gave the Bulldogs the lead with a jumper at the 2:54 mark. Kevin Egee equalized with a jumper, but couldn’t convert the and-one free throw, and Ross Morin put Yale ahead for good with a bucket at the other end. Following a Reilly turnover, Flato connected from long range to increase the lead to five, then hit one of two free throws to make it a 37-31 contest. Egee was fouled shooting a three-pointer, but missed all three free throws, and Flato sank an NBA-range three with the shot clock in single digits to cap off a 17-4 run that put Yale in front 40-31 with just 21 seconds remaining in the first half.
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| Key sign it was over |
After trailing by as many as 15 in the second half, Penn fought back to within 67-61 on a Danley layup with 2:10 remaining. But Ibby Jaaber fouled Caleb Holmes while attempting to set a trap, and Holmes hit two free throws to push the margin back to eight. Tommy McMahon lost the ball going up for a three-pointer, but Yale gave it right back, and after two offensive rebounds, Mark Zoller hit a three-pointer to make it a 69-64 contest with 1:02 remaining. Flato converted two free throws, then committed a bumping foul that turned out to be a good thing for Bulldogs, wiping out a second three by Zoller and sending the Penn forward to the line, where he only could muster one of two. Caleb Holmes was perfect on two attempts at the stripe, and Penn couldn’t knock down two looks from beyond the arc. Flato hit one of two free throws before a Jaaber three brought the Quakers to within six with 13 seconds on the clock. However, Flato hit both free throws with 10 ticks left for a 76-68 lead, cueing the celebration in New Haven.
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| Key performance |
Casey Hughes came up huge for Yale, finishing with 15 points on 6-for-10 shooting. He also added a game-high 13 rebounds — including six at the offensive end. Hughes energized the gym with four steals that led to a pair of breakaway dunks.
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| Key statistic |
In a game that essentially was even in the other statistical departments, the Quakers sealed their own fate at the free throw line, where they hit just 8 of 21 for an abysmal 38.1 percent. It was even worse than the final total implies, as two of those misses were the front ends of one-and-ones. The Bulldogs were a much more efficient 18 of 26 (69.2 percent) at the stripe.
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| Notes
– Flato was the game’s leading scorer with 21 points on 5-for-14 shooting, adding four assists and four rebounds.
– Jaaber led the way for Penn with 14 points, but attempted only six shots in 37 minutes on the evening. The senior added six assists and six rebounds.
– Mark Zoller was limited to 25 minutes because of foul trouble and finished with just eight points on 2-for-10 shooting — missing all four attempts inside the arc — and committed five turnovers.
– The win was Yale’s third in the last four meetings in New Haven against Penn and the fourth in six years.
– The Quakers had an early 13-2 run to claim an 18-11 advantage near the midway point of the first half.
– Penn returns home for its Ivy League home opener against Dartmouth (7-12, 2-4 Ivy), while James Jones takes his team on the road to face his brother’s 12-8 (3-3 Ivy) Columbia squad, with both games on Friday, February 9 at 7:00 pm ET.
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