Daily News | After two regular-season losses to Princeton, Penn gets one more shot in the Ivy tournament
PRINCETON, N.J. — As the Penn men’s basketball team prepares to face Princeton in the semifinals of the Ivy League tournament on Saturday , it would be nice to tell a great tale about how this is another chapter in the Ancient Eight’s most famous basketball rivalry, built on hundreds of games and dozens of years of history.
Lucas Monroe concurred, saying Penn’s collapse last Saturday was more of an offensive problem than a defensive one. “That’s not something we go into games worrying about,” he said. “We had 16 good halves of basketball leading up to that game and then one really good one [in it], and then one pretty bad one on one side of the ball. … We were up by 17, so we know we’re good enough to be up on that team by a lot, and we don’t think we’re going to blow a big lead again.”But that view of things has two flaws, and Princeton played into both of them.
One is that when the Tigers took a 72-60 win out of the Palestra on Jan. 16, the Quakers shot 21-of-63 from the field — including 0-for-12 from three-point range . The other is that the recent game at Jadwin marked the fifth time this season Penn blew a second-half lead of consequence. They rescued a visit to
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