FINAL: Penn 67, Brown 64

FINAL: Penn 67, Brown 64

The last-ditch three isn't even close, and Egee comes up with the ball afterwards. Game over. No worries of an RPI hit tonight.

Good night from The Buzz.

00:08.2, Second half: Penn 67, Brown 64

Wow. Robinson gets a timeout just before Huffman tumbles out of bounds under pressure. Brown has to get the last shot off here. With only eight seconds to go, letting Penn get the ball back and fouling isn't an option.

00:24.0, Second half: Penn 67, Brown 64

McAndrew picks up his fourth foul, and Grandieri hits both this time. That could be the game-changer, but there's still 24 seconds left.

00:45.4, Second half: Penn 65, Brown 64

Or maybe not. Hoffman is called for a reacharound on Danley on the inbounds. Penn ball after the timeout. Each team has two left. Ten team fouls for each side as well.

00:47.4, Second half: Penn 65, Brown 64

Darren Smith misses a runner, and after a jump ball Brown has 17 seconds to get a shot off and take the lead.

1:34, Second half: Penn 65, Brown 64

Kevin Egee corrals a bad pass and takes it to the rack for a three-point lead. Scott Friske sinks two foul shots to bring it back to one. Danley has four fouls.

2:13, Second half: Penn 63, Brown 62

MacDonald fouls out after smacking Grandieri after the two got tangled up on a rebound. He misses the first one badly, but collects himself for No. 2. One-point game until Jaaber takes a miss all the way to the rack for two.

3:05, Second half: Penn 60, Brown 62

Brown scores, then misses and again fails to get back on defense, where Kevin Egee puts in a bank shot and gets fouled. But his missed free throw could have put Penn up by one. Instead, Danley fouls Skrelja, and he make both. That is huge.

4:16, Second half: Penn 58, Brown 58

Becker shows great heart in coming out of a scrum around the basket with the ball for an easy layup. Jaaber quickly brings the ball upcourt and gets fouled, keeping the game tied.

5:17, Second half: Penn 56, Brown 56

Bad turnover by Darren Smith -- a wide-open look from the corner turns into a travel after he bobbles it. Penn still retakes the lead after drives by Jaaber and Grandieri. But sure enough, Skrelja drives for a layup and foul on -- you guessed it -- Zoller. Zoller's Palestra career is over, and the crowd gives him a standing ovation. As for the more immediate problems, the three-point play ties the game again, and a turnover at midcourt gives Brown the ball back.

7:29, Second half: Penn 52, Brown 53

Craig Robinson tells his player to "go right at Zoller" during the last timeout when he sees the Penn senior re-enter the game.

7:29, Second half: Penn 52, Brown 53

Kach misses an easy transition layup short. What a blown chance. Good thing MacDonald misses the front end of a one-and-one. After Grandieri drives baseline, the deficit is back to one.

9:40, Second half: Penn 50, Brown 53

Danley turns it over in a press, and Brown hits a three in transition to take the lead.

9:56, Second half: Penn 50, Brown 50

Jaaber finds McMahon open under the net for an easy basket, but Brown keeps on answering.

The Palestra just filled up with boos, and i can understand why. McMahon just got called for an up-and-down where it seemed clear that McMahon's feet remained on the ground.

12:31, Second half: Penn 45, Brown 43

Penn just picked up three fouls on one possesion -- two from Votel, one from Kach -- before Egee steals it away and hits one of two foul shots.

Justin Reilly is fouled next and hits both.

15:07, Second half: Penn 42, Brown 43

Brown's 1-3-1 zone is a tough nut to crack, and Penn is having no luck shooting over it either. Marcus Becker picks off a pass for a layup and McAndrew blows past Votel for two. But Jaaber completes another three-point play to keep it close.

Kach and McMahon in for Penn.

15:07, Second half: Penn 39, Brown 39

Oh, no! Zoller picks up his fourth foul. Votel enters to replace him.

15:30, Second half: Penn 39, Brown 39

Incredible play by Jaaber. He hesitated, drew the foul, popped up and drained an 18-footer. The three-point play ties the game for Penn.

16:00, Second half: Penn 36, Brown 39

Jaaber blocked a finger roll, took the ball up the court, lost control and regained it for a layup. The Palestra crowd went crazy but was quickly silenced by another Brown layup.

17:31, Second half: Penn 32, Brown 37

Terrible start to the second half for Penn. Turnovers, fouls, and some great Brown shooting give Penn a hole to climb out of.

Halftime stats:

The most salient ones at least.

Penn: 1-10 from three-point land. Brown: 6-13.

Penn: 6 offensive rebounds. Brown: 1.

Penn: 3-9 from FT line.

Huffman: 16 points. Rest of team: 16.

Halftime: Penn 30, Brown 32

Jaaber got space for a three, but it rattled out. Brown missed on an 80-foot heave and heads into the locker room with a two-point lead.

Halftime stats coming shortly.

0:33.2 First half: Penn 30, Brown 32

Penn is relying on Grandieri and Jaaber to break the pres by themselves every time, and they're having more and more difficulty doing it. Grandieri has a runner in the lane rejected and Huffman hits a jumper to give Brown the lead.

2:24 First half: Penn 30, Brown 30

Huffman is on fire. He made two threes on consecutive possessions to tie the game, and Smith commits a silly foul to give the Bears back the ball.

3:26 First half: Penn 30, Brown 24

Brown's Damon Huffman hit tough fadeaway three from the corner, Kevin Egee made a bank shot, but Mark McAndrew made a three from straightaway to narrow the deficit. Then Stephen Danley really turned it on to get a hoop and a harm, and will shoot a free throw when we come back.

5:12 First half: Penn 25, Brown 18

Kevin Egee takes one coast-to-coast, but Brown is looking better, and only a terrible tendency to miss layups is keeping them from pulling even.

9:26 First half: Penn 20, Brown 13

Robinson is fired up. He just told Glen Miller to "stop crying, it's a foul" after Miller questioned Mark Zoller's second personal, and follows that up with "don't let him push you around." McMahon in for Zoller.

9:23 First half: Penn 20, Brown 13

Bad breaks for Brown. Smith nailed a line-drive three pointer, then Friske deflects a pass right to a streaking Zoller for an easy two. Zoller follows that up with another great drive. In between, though, Brennan Votel, in the game for Danley, misses from point-blank.

12:20 First half: Penn 13, Brown 13

Darren Smith nailed a fine back-door cut and Jaaber just took one coast-to-coast, but Penn is still having trouble. Brown's presure defense is working.

Scott Friske completes a three-point play, and Brown coach Craig Robinson is screaming at refs about not "know[ing] the score!" No one has any idea what he's talking about, least of all the refs.

One other note: Brown's Sam Manhange may be a force at 6-6 and 265 pounds, but he is lacking in the skill category. He picked up an offensive foul for flagrantly bowling over Zoller and then turned in one of the most misjudged bank shot's I've ever seen. Six inches higher and it would have hit the shot clock, no joke.

15:27 First half: Penn 6, Brown 6

For those who couldn't figure it out, the outlier tonight is Adam Franklin, who is getting his first-ever start on Senior Night. He's fared alright thus far, alertly grabbing a loose ball and doing his best to not get in the way on offense.

Brown's pressure defense forced Penn into turnovers, but things have been much more under control lately. Mark McAndrew missed an easy layup after a turnover and Mark Zoller hit two tough baseline drives to help tie the game.

Penn is playing for seeding today, but for a team looking to win a game in the Tournament, that's everything. Here's the starting lineups. And a challenge for Penn fans: what's out of the ordinary about them?

G Mark McAndrew (6-2, 190)
G Damon Huffman (6-2, 185)
G Marcus Becker (6-2, 195)
G Chris Skrelja (6-5, 205)
F Mark MacDonald (6-10, 245)

G Ibrahim Jaaber (6-2, 170)
G Brian Grandieri (6-4, 190)
G Adam Franklin (6-6, 215)
F Mark Zoller (6-7, 220)
F Stephen Danley (6-8, 225)