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Northfield Mount Hermon School has produced alumni that have gone on to become diplomats, athletes, and federal judges. Three of them play for Penn men’s basketball.
Freshman guard Bryce Washington picked up his third straight Ivy Rookie of the Week award after two sizzling back-to-back performances at Brown and Yale this past weekend.
There have been too many poor shooting games for it to be a coincidence. You can’t get unlucky this frequently. At some point it stops being an off night and starts being the norm.
After a back-and-forth first half in which both teams did not shoot well, Yale pulled away from Penn men’s basketball in the second half and took the game by a score of 78-65.
To start the game, the Quakers took a 2-0 lead off of junior guard Devon Goodman’s fastbreak layup and never looked back, leading for the rest of the game and ultimately taking down the Bears, 92-82.
Ivy League play continues for both Penn men's and women's basketball as the Quakers take on Brown. The men are looking to win back-to-back Ivy games for the first time this season, while the women are hoping to stay undefeated in league play.
The defending Ivy League champion Quakers have gotten off to a rocky start in conference play, but with wins this weekend they could build up some significant momentum going into a four-game home stand.
Penn basketball had a busy weekend in New York against Cornell and Columbia, with the women’s team winning both games and the men splitting their pair of matchups.