Some happenin' stuff

You know what they always say. Stuff happens. But some stuff happens all the time, and some stuff hasn't happened in a while.

Here's some stuff that just happened and when else that stuff happened.

The event: The Ivy League went nine straight years without winning an NCAA Tournament game.
The last time: 1985-1993
The details: Just those two. With one more loss, the Ivies will break the collective consecutive record for futility.

The event: A Penn player (Ibrahim Jaaber) has scored 15 or more points three times in his Tournament career.
The last time: Ugonna Onyekwe 2000, 2002, 2003
The details: The always-consistent Jaaber went 15, 15, 16 in 2005, 2006 and 2007, while U dropped 17 as a freshman followed by 16 and 30 in his final two seasons.

The event: No team in the lower half of the seeds made the Sweet 16
The last time: 1995
The details: In fact, '95 was the only year since the tournament seeding began that no 9-seed or below (or 7-seed or below back when there were only 48 teams) has made it to the round of 16.

The event: Two Penn starters went without a field goal in a Tournament game.
The last time: Paul Romanczuk and Geoff Owens in 1999.
The details: This year it was Steve Danley, who gets an asterisk for his injury and the 0-for-6 Darren Smith who did the trick. Back in '99, Romanczuk went 0-for-3 and Owens didn't attempt a field goal, although he went 3-for-6 from the line in the loss to Florida.

The event: The same pair of Quakers players (Jaaber and Mark Zoller) reached double figures in three straight Touranament games.
The last time: Jerome Allen and Matt Maloney (4 straight games from 1993-95)
The details: Maloney and Allen combined for 53 points in Penn's OT loss to Alabama in 1995.

The event: No Ivy hockey team made the NCAA hockey tournament.
The last time: 2001, back before the field expanded from 12 to 16.
The details: Down year for the usually powerful Ancient Six. Since '01, Cornell and Harvard have each made it, with both making the field the last two years.

The event: Two players have combined for more than two-thirds of Penn's points in a Tournament game (Jaaber and Zoller 35/52)
The last time: Onyekwe and Andy Toole in 2003
The details: Ugonna's 30 and Toole's 14 were just over two-thirds of the Quakers' 63 against Oklahoma State.

The event: Eight Penn players scored in an NCAA Tournament game.
The last time: 2002 against Cal
The details: For the last time more than eight got their names in the points column, go all the way back to the consolation game loss to DePaul at the 1979 Final Four in Salt Lake City when nine did it.

The event: No team from the Northeast (and I make the rules on this one) made the Sweet 16.
The last time: 1986
The details: I don't count Washington (Georgetown) or Pittsburgh as the Northeast. Actually 1986 is the only time other time in the 69 tournaments that this has happened. That is, unless you're counting 1986 sweetheart Navy as being in the Northeast. Then it's never happened.