Penn Fades Late, Misses Chance to Beat Brown

Tonight's game in Providence vs. the Brown Bears (creative right?) was neck and neck the whole way through, but the Quakers just couldn't hang on late and dropped tonight's contest 62-55. The Quakers would have moved into 3rd in the Ivy League with a win, but now sit at 5th with a 3-4 conference record.

Penn led the entirety of the second half, but Sean McGonagill stole the lead back for Brown with 3:58 left with his back-to-back 3 pointers. McGonagill had 15 points for a Brown, but their leading scorer was Cedric Kuakumensah with 18.

The 3 pointers killed Penn tonight, they shot an underwhelming 1-13 from 3 point range and for the second straight game doubled the amount of turnovers that Brown had 22-10.

While Darien Nelson-Henry had his usual 20 points and Tony Hicks chipped in with 16 points, bench support is an obvious problem for Penn. 11 players clocked minutes tonight, but 6 of them were held scoreless including starter Steve Rennard. 1 point from each of those guys would have made a world of difference.

Next weekend now becomes pretty important for Penn, 2 more back-to-back losses will all but knock them out of Ivy League contention. First place Harvard invades the Palestra Friday night followed by Dartmouth on Saturday.

-Ben Lebo
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