Ivy League basketball used to be dominated by two schools, Princeton and Pennsylvania. That is not the case anymore. The last five years have belonged to Harvard, and tonight at Penn’s legendary Palestra, they showed why they are now the best in the league. The Harvard Crimson (13-5, 3-1) dominated the struggling Pennsylvania Quakers (6-11, 1-2), winning easily 63-38.

Harvard used a balanced attack, led by all-league players Siyani Chambers and Wesley Saunders. Chambers led all scorers with 14 points while Saunders added 11 points. Penn was led by Matt Howard, the sophomore guard, who scored 11 points as well. The cold-shooting Quakers also struggled to hold onto the ball, committing 14 turnovers.

Harvard led 36-15 at halftime and cruised to victory in front of a loud and loyal Penn crowd that stuck it out to the end. Penn freshmen guards Antonio Woods and Darnell Foreman really struggled and combined for just six points while committing half of Penn’s turnovers. Harvard also dominated on the glass, outrebounding Penn 35-19, with Jonah Travis and Steve Mondou-Missi combining for 17 of the 35 and nearly outrebounding the entire Penn team themselves.

Harvard shot better from the floor (49%) than Penn did from the free throw line (47.1%). Penn is the worst free throw-shooting team in the league and will now travel to face both New York schools, Cornell and Columbia, next weekend. Harvard will travel to Brown and Yale.

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