'Big' difference

• TWEET
• SHARE
• SHARE

To go from down 16-1 to a 74-52 win over Yale, Penn certainly had to make more than one adjustment.

But the biggest difference between the first half and the second half was in who controlled the game underneath.

In the first half it was Yale, and specifically Dominick Martin, who scored 12 points on six field goals. He had his way with Steve Danley in the post, catching the ball and making solid post moves.

Danley, meanwhile, looked uncoordinated at the offensive end. His moves were slow and ended in turnovers or wild shots. Danley was held without a field goal in the first half.

But in the second, he turned it around on the offensive end, scoring nine points on more confident post moves, while Martin was held without a field goal.

Odds and ends:
Tonight's game ball, despite Danley's turnaround and Eric Osmundson's 17 points, goes to Friedrich Ebede for keeping Penn in the game in the first half. When nothing was going right, it was Ebede who hit two huge threes early on and scored all of his 11 points in the first half.

Isn't it funny to think that the Quakers won by more points tonight against Yale than last night in the laugher against Brown.

As much fun as it may have been to taunt Eric Flato with the airball chant for the entire second half, the shot in question was blocked by Ibrahim Jaaber. It was Jaaber's 10th block of the season, which is good for second on the team, behind only Danley's 16.