Game 23 - at Yale: The Good, Bad and Ugly

The Quakers finished off season sweeps of Brown and Yale, and swept an Ivy road weekend for just the second time since 2007. Penn is now back above .500 in the Ivy League at 5-4 and has already equaled last season's Ivy win total. That's the good from the whole weekend, but here's your breakdown of the 60-58 victory over Yale last night.

The Good: While Zack Rosen's game-winner with 2.3 seconds left was the play of the game, Mike Howlett's performance was the most encouraging takeaway. Howlett took advantage of his first start of the season after a very good effort off the bench Friday night against Brown. He wasn't as active on the boards as you might expect, but his three blocks — especially the one that set up Rosen's moment — were huge for the Quakers. And that's not counting various other shots he altered with his presence down low, not to mention his 11 points. Needless to say, his resurgence was timed perfectly with the absence of Conor Turley and Cam Gunter due to illness.

The Bad: Penn could have won this game much more easily than it did, but went 0-for-6 from three in the second half and shot just 2-11 from long range in the game. The Quakers led by as many as 17 in the first half and held an eight-point edge at halftime, but just like the night before against Brown, they let Yale back in the game with a 14-4 run to start the second half, which included two of those Penn misses from three. For a team that has relied pretty heavily on the three this season, you can't expect to win many games on the road with that kind of a shooting night.

The Ugly: With 1:25 to go in a tie game, Rosen nearly cost Penn the 'W' with an untimely and uncharacteristic turnover. Jack Eggleston was cutting from the block to the corner and Rosen threw a pass way behind him that sailed, as Rosen joked after, "into the Yale band." But, Mike Howlett came up huge defensively and Rosen redeemed himself on their last possession.