Eggleston approaches 1000th point
Barring some unforeseen event, senior captain Jack Eggleston will score his 1000th career point for the Quakers tonight against Delaware.
"It's something I've thought a lot about," he said. "Obviously we're more focused on our team goals this year, and it is what it is. It doesn't matter how many points we score against Delaware. As long as we win, I'm going to be happy."
Since scoring 12 points against Villanova two weeks ago, Eggleston has sat at 995 points for his career, poised on the edge of joining an elite club of Quakers, which up to tonight includes just 34 players.
"If by some chance it does happen, it's going to put me in a group that I would not have been if it weren't for our situation the past few years," he said. "If I had been around when Coach Allen was here and they had three NBA players on the team, my number would probably be in the double digits, not four digits. It's humbling.
And for the ever-humble Eggleston, there is a great chance he enters the 1000-point club tonight. He enters the game averaging 14.5 points per game this year, and has averaged 10.5 per game in his Penn career.
Other notables for Penn-Delaware: Jerome Allen on Delaware leading scorer Jawan Carter: "He'll be one of the focal points in terms of our scouting report, as far as us limiting his ability to be effective."
Miles Cartwright on coming out of finals week: "It has been tough, but I think we've done pretty well dealing with it."
On the Delaware game: "I think it's huge. Just to step away from the Delaware game, I think the stretch is huge. Everybody's excited for this five game stretch, because in a sense it kind of makes or breaks our season. Five road games, for a relatively young team going into Ivy play, it's a huge stretch so we just want to get wins and if we do we should be fine"
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