Game 22: Brown - The Good, Bad & the Ugly

THE GOOD: Penn's three-point shooting

There was a lot of good to around for the Quakers against the Bears, but the Red and Blue kept throwing dagger after dagger from downtown that ultimately put this one in the bag for most of the second half. Penn shot 60 percent from beyond the arc, while limiting the Bears to an atrocious 2-for-18 from downtown.

Junior Miles Cartwright, who broke his career high in points with 28 (previously 27), did so predominantly with the three ball. He went 9-for-13 from the field, including 5-for-6 from three.

THE BAD: Brown's stamina

There was an eerie feeling on press row, right around 6:40, when Brown came out to warm up. And after watching the second half unfold as it did, with Penn outscoring the Bears, 45-23, the DP's resident ghostbuster has determined the cause. Brown came with just nine players, and two of them only played a total of six minutes. Thus, Brown ran essentially a seven-man rotation the entire night. While this worked out fine in the first half, Penn was eventually able to crank the tempo up and run the few bodies that the Bears had out of the Palestra and back into the snowstorm from whence they came.

THE UGLY: Rafael Maia's foul shot form

Now, I know that big men have a lot of trouble shooting foul shots. Some of the best centers of all time have carried atrocious FT percentages on their backs and walked proudly in spite of that. But Rafael Maia's foul shot was so linear, had so little touch on it, that I was amazed that he was able to go 6-for-8 from the line.

In fact, maybe this shouldn't have been the ugly after all, since essentially, by shooting line drives for foul shots, he's just making his life that much more difficult. But he's succeeding anyway. I'd tip my hat to you, Rafael Maia, but there are no hats on press row.