Men’s Basketball Opens Big 5 Pod Play With 83-74 WIn Over Saint Joseph’s

PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania males’s basketball workforce opened Big 5 pod play with a riveting, 83-74 victory over Saint Joseph’s Monday night time at The Palestra.
 
Penn’s win was its first over SJU because the 2018-19 season and ended the Hawks’ unbeaten run in Big 5 play because the begin of pod play; they have been 7-0 over the past two-plus years, successful the town collection every of the final two seasons and opening this marketing campaign with a win over Drexel.
 
Both groups are actually 2-2 total, however the Quakers have a leg up in pod play and head to Drexel on Friday with an opportunity to advance to the Big 5 Classic championship sport on December 6.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Penn shot 45.2 p.c from the sector total (28-62) and 44.4 p.c from past the arc (8-18); each have been season highs towards Division I competitors.
 
*For the fourth time in as many video games, Penn took extra foul pictures (23) than its opponent (15).
 
*Penn led SJU in factors off turnovers (24-12), factors within the paint (38-32), and second-chance factors (8-7).
 
*Monday’s sport had extra lead adjustments (12) and ties (15) than every other sport to date on this younger season; the earlier highs have been six lead adjustments and 5 ties, each at American on November 9.
 
*Penn allowed simply 33 factors within the second half, fewest by a D1 opponent in a half towards the Quakers to date this season.
 
*Senior Ethan Roberts led the way in which offensively for the Quakers, scoring 31 factors—two shy of his profession excessive—of which 24 got here within the second half. He additionally had 5 rebounds, two assists, and tied his profession finest with three steals.
 
*TJ Power posted his first double-double as a collegian, scoring 23 factors and grabbing a game-high 15 rebounds. Both have been profession highs for the junior switch, enjoying his fourth sport for the Red and Blue.
 
*Power’s 15 rebounds have been probably the most by a Penn participant in a sport since Lucas Monroe grabbed 16 towards, you guessed it, Saint Joseph’s on November 30, 2022.
 
*The final time Penn had one participant rating at the very least 30 factors and one other rating at the very least 20 in the identical sport was December 2, 2023—coincidentally, additionally a Big 5 sport (Clark Slajchert 33 factors, Tyler Perkins 20 vs. La Salle).
 
*Senior Cam Thrower pitched in with 9 factors, three rebounds and two assists.
 
*Junior Augustus Gerhart grabbed 5 rebounds.
 
*Freshman Dalton Scantlebury completed the night time with eight factors, three rebounds, two steals and two blocked pictures in rather less than 17 minutes.
 
*Saint Joseph’s had 4 gamers rating in double figures: Deuce Jones II (24), Derek Simpson (16), Jaiden Glover-Toscano (12), and Anthony Finkley (10). Austin Williford completed with 5 factors, seven rebounds and tied Finkley with a team-high 5 rebounds
 
How It Happened
Saint Joseph’s was the primary to open up any semblance of a niche, breaking a 10-10 tie with six straight factors, however Penn responded with seven of the subsequent eight factors and a Power triple tied issues at 17-17. The remainder of the interval went forwards and backwards, the lead altering fingers 9 instances and the groups tying 11 totally different events. When Dylan Williams faked a handoff and took the ball to the opening for a layup to finish the half, the groups went to the break tied at 41-41.

THAT IS HOW YOU END A HALF! All stage via 20 at The Palestra!#FightOnPenn ?????? pic.twitter.com/giWijumFMG

— Penn Men’s Basketball (@PennMBB) November 18, 2025

Roberts opened the second half with a triple—because it turned out, one thing huge was brewing. While Saint Joseph’s hung round, tying the sport twice at 48-48 and 50-50, the Hawks couldn’t push previous the Quakers and when Thrower knocked down a triple with 9:05 left Penn’s lead was its largest of the night time at six, 62-56.

2H (13:19) | Penn 55, St. Joe’s 50

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— Penn Men’s Basketball (@PennMBB) November 18, 2025

Penn went chilly after that, not scoring a subject purpose for greater than two minutes, and the Hawks took benefit by drawing stage at 63-63 on a Jones layup with 6:55 to play. Thrower ended the Red and Blue’s skid with a layup in response, however Simpson adopted with a triple that gave SJU its first lead of the half with 6:26 left, 66-65.
 
Roberts took over from there. The senior scored Penn’s subsequent 12 factors over a span of 5:10. That included an unanswered six-point run that pushed the Quakers in entrance by 5 with 4:47 left. That lead was nonetheless intact because the clock went beneath a minute thanks for Roberts’ driving layup to make it 77-72. SJU obtained a type of factors again on a Jones free throw, after which after a Red and Blue turnover the Hawks had an opportunity to make it a one-possession sport. However, Jones missed a pair of jumpers—one contained in the arc, one outdoors—and in between Glover-Toscano had a shot blocked by Power. Power then grabbed Jones’ second miss and was fouled. He made each pictures to make the rating 79-73 within the ultimate few seconds.
 
Jones was fouled with simply two seconds left, and hit his first shot to make it 79-74. He missed his second shot on function and Power rebounded it and was fouled. A skirmish ensued after the whistle and two SJU gamers have been known as for technicals, Penn extra foul pictures to set the ultimate rating at 83-74, the nine-point margin the widest both workforce had within the sport.
 
Up Next
Penn makes the shortest street journey within the nation on Friday, touring a half mile alongside thirty third Street to the Daskalakis Athletic Center (DAC) to tackle Drexel in its ultimate Big 5 pod sport. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.
 
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