Men's Hoops Pulls Away from Penn in Regular-Season Finale

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	Game 30 • Princeton at Penn Philadelphia, Pa. • The Palestra
73	Box Score • Postgame Interview & Highlights	52
(16-14, 9-5)		(9-19, 4-10)

A winning record and a season sweep of Penn were among the honors for Princeton Tuesday night at The Palestra as the Tigers closed the regular season with a 73-52 win over Penn.

The 21-point margin of victory was Princeton's largest-ever at Penn, surpassing 17-point wins in 1939 and 1976. Tuesday's win was the largest Princeton margin of victory in the series at any site since the 1976 home game, when the Tigers beat the Quakers by 24, two short of the largest all-time margin of victory for Princeton in the series, 26, set in 1968.

The Tigers overcame early turnover woes and Penn scoring the game's first eight points, catching the Quakers at 15-15 at the midpoint of the half. Following a Matt Howard dunk that pulled Penn within two at 29-27 with less than three minutes before the half, Princeton scored seven straight points on the way to a 37-31 halftime lead.

Princeton continued the run after the break, going on a 9-0 run to start the half and building a 15-point lead at 46-31 while keeping Penn off the board for the half's first 3:15.

Penn started 0 of 11 from the field in the second half before a Darien Nelson-Henry bucket 11:30 into the half broke the drought. By that time, Princeton was up 57-33 with the Nelson-Henry bucket, and Penn was never closer than 20 after that point while the Tigers were up as many as 27 points in the win.

Stat	FG% (Made-Att.)	3FG% (Made-Att.)	Reb. (Off.-Def.)	Assists	Steals	Blocks	Turnovers (Fewer)
Leader					Tie
Margin	51.1% (23-45) 37.5% (18-48)	50.0% (11-22) 35.7% (5-14)	36 (10-26) 22 (5-17)	15-10	4-4	3-1	16-14

Points	Rebounds	Assists	Steals	Blocks

Brase • 18	Brase • 9	Caruso • 3 Hazel • 3 Bell • 3	Miller • 1 Cook • 1 Young • 1 Bell • 1	Bell • 1 Cook • 1 Brennan • 1
Woods • 8	Auger • 5	Woods • 3 Crocker • 3	Poplawski • 1 Crocker • 1 Louis • 1 S. Jones • 1	Dwyer • 1

Hans Brase's 3-pointer capped Princeton's 9-0 run to start the second half and gave the Tigers a 46-31 lead just more than two minutes into the period.

• Princeton is now 6-2 against Penn under Mitch Henderson.

• All 15 Tigers in uniform saw time, including Princeton's four seniors, Clay Wilson, Ben Hazel, Daniel Edwards and Bobby Garbade.

• Hans Brase has led Princeton in scoring in back-to-back games, including his 23-point performance against Columbia last Saturday.

• Aaron Young hit a field goal to get in the scoring column for the first time since his 15-point game against Rowan on Jan. 25.

• Spencer Weisz's 16 points were his most since Jan. 31, when he scored 16 against Dartmouth.

• Henry Caruso scored 15 points, his most since a 25-point game against Yale on Feb. 14. Caruso had games of 23 and 15 points against Penn this year, two of his seven double-figure games.

• Princeton's +14 rebounding edge was its largest against a Division I opponent since outrebounding Fairleigh Dickinson by 15 on Dec. 7, 2013. It was Princeton's largest margin in an Ivy game since outboarding Dartmouth by 14 on Feb. 15, 2013.

• Princeton's .511 shooting clip marked the 11th time this season the Tigers made at least half their field goal tries. Princeton's .500 average from 3-point range marked the fourth time this season the Tigers have made at least half their threes.

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