The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Columbia Edition

 

Nine threes, two suspensions, one ejection. Those three pieces of information are all you need to know about Penn’s loss to Columbia on Friday night. Here’s our Good, Bad and the Ugly from the loss.

Good: The Lions, specifically, all of them

Alex Rosenberg wasn’t great against Penn down in Philadelphia, but tonight, he was on fire. And the difference was like night and day. In that first game, Columbia suffered an embarrassing loss, but tonight, the Lions strutted their way to victory on Rosenberg’s back.

He went 3-for-5 from downtown for nine of his 22 points. And he wasn’t the only one draining threes.

The team on the night went 12-for-25 from beyond the arc, while Penn shot a poor 2-for-13.

Bad: Darien Nelson-Henry and Henry Brooks’ sitting out

DNH and Brooks have a history of suspensions — both were a part of a group that sat out the entirety of Penn’s game against Delaware for violating Penn’s drug policy — and coach Jerome Allen had to discipline the two yet again.

Brooks and Nelson-Henry sat out the first 10 minutes of the contest. Allen was mum on the reason for taking disciplinary action, saying that he wanted to keep the situation in house.

And on any given night, having those two players sit while 6-foot-4 Dau Jok played the four would be the most ugly thing to come out of a game.

But when punches are thrown, suspensions move down the list of hot topics.

Ugly: Tony Hicks’ haymaker

After a defensive foul was called on Hicks at midcourt, players from both teams got into a tussle, which ended with two technicals, one punch landed by Hicks and one ejection.

While the referees went over the video tape, Hicks sat at the bench, his head hidden underneath his jersey.

Once the refs saw that a punch was indeed thrown, Hicks was ejected, subsequently walking out of the arena with his eyes to the floor.

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