Basketball: Penn To Wrap Up Season Against Rival Princeton
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The Penn Quakers can accomplish a lot with a win in their season finale on Tuesday against rival Princeton at the Palestra.
The Quakers can finish at .500 (14-14), which would be a marked improvement from last year's 6-22 campaign. They could also wrap up a tie with Yale for a third-place finish in the Ivy League, and they could also keep Princeton from finishing in a flat-footed tie with Harvard for first in the Ivy League.
Princeton is 23-6 overall and 11-2 in the Ivy League, and Quakers head coach Jerome Allen (right) says they really are that good.
"I just think Coach (Sydney) Johnson does a phenomenal job of getting those guys to play the right way," Allen told KYW Newsradio. "They all share the ball, they all believe in the system that they have on both ends of the floor, and I think it's proven by the season that they've had."
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Princeton beat the Quakers in overtime in their first meeting, back on February 8th, 62-59 in OT. Coach Allen talks about how his team can reverse that outcome in this game:
"Defensively, we have to lock in on (Coach Johnson's) system, his style of play, because they make you pay for every mistake you make. I think you really have to be disciplined and play to the personnel and rebound the basketball."
It will also be senior night at the Palestra as the Quakers say good-bye to Jack Eggleston (in photo), Dan Monckton, Andreas Schreiber, Darren Smith, and Conor Turley.
Reported by Matt Leon, KYW Newsradio 1060.
