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Men's Hoops Rallies, Wins to Open Ivy Play in OT Thriller at Penn
January 10, 2016 | Men's Basketball
| 73 |  (10-4, 1-0) |
Princeton at Penn Jan. 9, 2016 Philadelphia, Pa. • The Palestra |
 (6-8, 0-1) |
71 |
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Add this one to the long, long list of thrillers in the long, long history of the Penn-Princeton series.
Princeton trailed by as many as eight in the first half, rallied to take a nine-point lead early in the second half, trailed by 11 with less than four minutes to go and rallied to force overtime where the Tigers won 73-71 Saturday at The Palestra.
Sophomore Amir Bell had a career-high 28 points in the win while Spencer Weisz and Devin Cannady added 10 apiece. Darien Nelson-Henry led three Quakers in double figures with 17 points.
Princeton fell behind by as many as eight points in the first half and trailed 25-19 with eight minutes to go until halftime before going on a 13-0 run during which Penn, which had shot 62.5 percent from the field to that point, went 0-7 from the field and turned the ball over twice while enduring a scoring drought of 6:21.
Princeton's lead grew as large as seven at 32-25 with two minutes until the half before Penn's Jake Silpe ended his team's drought. Princeton took a 36-29 lead into the break.
The second half, however, was largely Penn's. Princeton led by as many as nine points and was up 43-35 five minutes after halftime before Penn scored 17 of the next 23 points to go up three at 52-49 with less than nine minutes to go.
The Quaker lead stood at 11 with 3:38 to play on a pair of Jackson Donahue free throws, but that's when the Tiger rally began. Princeton went on a 9-0 run over less than two minutes, capped by Weisz splitting from the line to make it 64-62 for the Quakers with 1:42 left in regulation.
Princeton caught the Quakers at 66-66 on a Devin Cannady floater with 20 seconds left, and the Tigers avoided a heartbreaking end when Nelson-Henry's drive to the rim fell to the side at the buzzer, sending it to overtime.
Despite the momentum from the Tiger rally, Princeton fell behind 71-66 on a Donahue 3-pointer with 3:12 to play in overtime, but those points were the last Penn scored. While the Quakers missed their last six field goals after the Donahue triple, Princeton chipped away at the free-throw line, going 7 of 8 from the stripe over that last stretch to seal it and make up for going without a field goal in the extra frame.
The Tigers will have two weeks to focus on first-semester exams before hitting the court again in the annual post-finals Division III game, this year against Bryn Athyn on Jan. 24 at 2 p.m.