The Penn men's basketball team used a 53-point second half -- which included 15 points from Ugonna Onyekwe -- to defeat Harvard on Friday night, 78-51.
The Quakers (18-6, 5-3 Ivy League) led, 25-18, after a sloppy first half in which the two teams combined for 21 turnovers and shot 15 for 55 from the field.
But in the second half, the Red and Blue exploded offensively. Penn guards Andrew Toole and Jeff Schiffner, who each scored 17 points, opened the second half with three-pointers. After a Toole three pointer with 10:23 left in the second half, the Quakers led, 50-33, doubling their point total of the first half in only 10 minutes of play.
Onyekwe, however, was the story in the second half. In addition to his 15 points, he grabbed six boards and had an electrifying steal and left handed dunk mid-way through the second that ignited a 16-0 run by the Quakers. The junior had 19 points and 10 boards for the game, his second consecutive double-double.
Patrick Harvey shot 5 for 8 from beyond the arc and hit for 19 points on the game for the Crimson (12-9, 5-4).
Penn next plays Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Palestra against Dartmouth.
In other Ivy League action Friday, Brown topped Columbia, 52-41, Princeton beat Dartmouth, 79-68, and Yale came back to beat Cornell, 80- 65.
The Penn women's basketball team fell to Harvard in Boston on Friday, 59-55. The Quakers fell to 4-4 in the Ivy League and 8-13 overall.
