Brown 66, Penn 61 FINAL

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Final: Brown 66, Penn 61

In-game updates can be found after the jump.

The game is finally over. Penn made it interesting in the final minute, but didn't have enough left in the end to change the final outcome. The Quakers drop to 3-3 in the league, while Brown improves to 5-2. The Bears are likely the only Ancient Eight team left in the field who could challenge Cornell for the title. Speaking of the Red, they squeaked by Harvard on the road, 72-71, on some last-minute fireworks.

10.8, 2nd half: 65-61, Brown

Kach made just one of three, uncharacteristic of him. Friske to the line for two on the foul by Schreiber.

12.8, 2nd half: 65-60, Brown

Kach will go to the line for three shots after being fouled on the long-range attempt by McAndrew.

19.6, 2nd half: 64-60, Brown

Bernardini has just fouled out. McAndrew will go to the line for two on the foul.

0:21.0, 2nd half: 64-60, Brown

Penn is fighting to the end here. After Friske made one of two for the Bears, Grandieri rebounded a missed Gaines three and hit a three of his own. Brown to inbound the ball.

0:43.8, 2nd half: 63-57, Brown

I may have spoken too soon, but we'll see. After Sullivan missed both of his free throws, Harrison Gaines hit a three for Penn to cut the lead to six. Brown will have the ball after this timeout.

1:16, 2nd half: 62-54, Brown

It looks like the game is just about over. Gaines threw it away on offense, and then Brian Grandieri was whistled for an intentional foul on Skrelja, who fell to the floor visibly shaken up. It looks like his knee. While Brown's big man was being attended to, Huffman nearly got into it with a crowd of Penn players at midcourt.

1:33, 2nd half: 60-54, Brown

Kevin Egee has just fouled out of the game, as he intentionally committed his last foul on McAndrew in order to send the Brown senior to the line. They're in the double bonus, so he'll get two.

2:06, 2nd half: 58-52, Brown

Glen Miller calls a 30-second timeout as Penn finally breaks the scoring drought for both teams on a Brian Grandieri bucket down low. The Quakers are down just 6, but time is definitely of the essence. They come out in a full-court press to try and speed the Bears up.

3:44, 2nd half: 58-50, Brown

The Quakers have held the Bears on several straight possessions, but have been unable to take advantage on offense to shave down the margin. Kevin Egee, with his four fouls, came back on during the last 30-second timeout, but missed his first shot attempt, a short jumper along the baseline. Grandieri has cooled off as well, missing his past two attempts with Mullery playing some nice defense on the crafty senior down low. Time is running out for the Quakers to take advantage of their shored up defense.

5:23, 2nd half: 58-50, Brown

Brian Grandieri is playing possibly better than he has all season. In addition to hitting a three, he has been on with several of his jump shots near the rim and layups inside. But still Penn is having trouble closing the gap.

7:31, 2nd half: 58-48, Brown

Penn has picked up its game a little, but the 50/50 things have not gone their way. They are staying in it with some hot shooting from three-point range, as both Grandieri and Cohen have drained long-range shots.

Things have started to get a little testy -- Bernardini was whistled for a foul when he appeared to jab his man, McAndrew, while the two were jostling for position down low. He had to be restrained by Eggleston after play was stopped, but no technicals were assessed.

Egee remains on the bench with four fouls. Penn's defense has stepped up a bit, probably due to Kach's presence on the court. On one play, Penn actually got two blocks on the same shot (not technically), the first time I have ever seen something like that. As the shot clock wound down, Grandieri got a hand on Huffman's deep three-point attempt, which ended up short. Brown's Mullery tried to tip the airball in, but Schreiber was there to emphatically deny that shot, as well.

11:56, 2nd half: 53-42, Brown

Tyler Bernardini hit his second three-point attempt of the game on the rare occasion that he found some space on the perimeter. But Huffman responded on the other end with a three of his own, pretty much uncontested after Penn had defended decently well for the entire shot clock. That defense was the exception instead of the norm, as they have consistently given up penetration and easy layups to Brown, which is consequently shooting at a very high percentage from the field.

I'm pretty sure that Penn has more turnovers this half than the Bears have missed shots. If you were wondering, that's not a recipe for success.

15:10, 2nd half: 45-35, Brown

Things have gone from bad to worse for the Red and Blue -- Kevin Egee just picked up his fourth personal foul, and will likely have to slow up a little. That comes as unfortunate news, since it's been his hustle and tenacity that have benefited the Quakers thus far.

16:04, 2nd half: 43-33, Brown

This half has begun almost the same way that the first half did, with Glen Miller preempting the first media timeout with one of his own. The Quakers can't stop anything on defense, and the Brown zone is forcing them into awkward shots late in the shot clock on the other end. Eggelston made a couple bonehead plays early on and got subbed out immediately in favor of Gaines. Egee seems like he has picked up where he left off, hitting his only field-goal attempt of the half thus far, a short jumper off a nice fake.

Halftime stats:

One could consider this a good thing or a bad thing, but Penn has been pretty balanced on offense. In total eight different players have made a field goal, but aside from Egee, no one has made more than one. Egee leads the Quakers with 13 points on 5-of-7 shooting and 2-of-3 from downtown. Overall, Penn shot a respectable 42.9% from from the floor, well above their season average. The Bears hold the edge on the boards, though, 18-13.

Damon Huffman leads Brown, and all scorers, with 14 on 6-for-10 shooting.

Halftime: 30-29, Brown

The Kevin Egee and Aron Cohen show, which made its debut earlier this week against Princeton, is back for an encore. For the past five minutes or so, Egee has singlehandedly willed Penn back into it, hitting threes, an and-1 fastbreak layup, and getting it done on defense as well with a big block and an offensive foul drawn. When Miller subbed him out in favor of Cohen with about a minute left, the crowd rewarded him for his efforts with a nice ovation. Cohen also responded, hitting a three-pointer to bring the Quakers to the one-point margin they are now looking at.

Bernardini, in his first game back after that concussion, has yet to make his presence felt. He knocked down an early three-pointer, but that's all. It seems that Brown's 2-3 zone has keeping him under wraps pretty well on the perimeter.

Several notable calls (and no-calls) have been going Penn's way, and Bears coach Craig Robinson spent most of the first half pestering the referees. The most recent call I can think of was on a three-pointer by Huffman, where he clearly got fouled, but the ref swallowed his whistle. On the ensuing fastbreak, Gaines found Egee up ahead for his aforementioned old-fashioned three-point play, which he converted at the line.

Stats will follow in a bit.

3:24, 1st half: 27-20, Brown

Penn has managed a little swing in its favor, and the student section is starting to make its voice heard. They've done it with a tightening of the defense, particularly Egee on the perimeter forcing turnovers and Schreiber down low guarding the post. Mike Kach also drew two straight offensive fouls on Brown's Sullivan.

On offense, Penn is taking what it can get here and there, and has failed to entirely take advantage of Brown's drought. Gaines drained a shot reminiscent of his performance at Cornell, a nice pull up just inside the arc. After missing two more, he found Egee on a nice baseline cut for another deuce.

7:39, 1st half: 27-16, Brown

Neither Penn's offense nor its defense looks particularly good right now. Brown is still lighting it up from the floor, and guards like Huffman and Williams are penetrating at will. On the other end of the floor, the offense is struggling to find good looks for Penn shooters, who need all the help they can get in their uphill battle for nylon. Kevin Egee has had a nice stretch, with a driving floater of a layup that went down, as well as a quick three-pointer he popped with his defender sagging off of him.

10:41, 1st half: 19-11, Brown

Remy Cofield continues to assert his influence on this game. He has come up with another nice steal on defense, and just forced Brown's McAndrew to burn a timeout when he couldn't find a target for his inbound pass on the baseline.

11:52, 1st half: 19-9, Brown

A very sloppily played game thus far. When Brown isn't turning it over by passing it away and walking, they are draining whatever they fire up.

The enigma that is Aron Cohen has again reared its head in this one. On his first offensive possession after entering the game, he made a beautiful pass to Grandieri under the basket for a layup. On the very next possession, he tried a similar pass and ended up firing it directly into the chest of a Brown defender. Then, on defense, he fouled Williams on a three-point attempt that the Brown guard drained anyway, then went to the line to convert for a three-point play.

Remy Cofield has replaced Schreiber, and looks like he might be limping. It didn't seem to affect him on one possession, though, where he came up with the steal and converted the fast-break layup.

15:54, 1st half: 12-2, Brown

The Brown seniors, who have not won at the Palestra for their entire careers, like what they're seeing -- especially Damon Huffman, who has knocked down two threes, a jumper from the corner and a layup off a steal in the fullcourt press. Glen Miller called a timeout after the latter in order to slow down the Bears, who have streaked out of the gate.

Penn's only points have come from Andreas Schreiber, who had a tough offensive board and putback in the lane. Harrison Gaines has already come in off the bench to replace Kevin Egee, who didn't particularly do anything of note while he was on the court.

Ilario Huober here in the Palestra. We're minutes from tipoff, and fans are predictably still shuffling in. A reassuring name came up during the announcement of Penn's starting lineup: Tyler Bernardini. Let's see the impact he has on the game tonight after missing the past three with a concussion. Here are the rest of the starters:

Penn: Andreas Schreiber, Jack Eggleston, Brian Grandieri, Kevin Egee, Tyler Bernardini

Brown: Peter Sullivan, Matt Mullery, Mark McAndrew, Damon Huffman, Chris Skrelja