You mean Wood?

Please defend their stars.

Great pass from Max to A.J. on baseline, and he blows the layup.

Sloppy play right now. Another turnover.

Bell misses a three, but no one boxes out Stephens and he gets the rebound tip at the buzzer.

Good Betley positional D against the bigger Mich forces a travel.

So they take the foul away. Good use of replay.

Betley goes out--so I'm guessing this is where Henderson will double down low.

Silpe comes in, fails to box out, fouls Much on rebound.

Love that Foreman could score 21 and still not violate Colin's Law.

I assume Jeff will attack my exuberance, but what a great team win. Love the way the core 6 in the rotation plays offense together. Just pretty to watch, and fun to see how we play smart and exploit matchups. It’s really a pick your poison situation.

After the first game I questioned our decision to reduce Betley’s Motion in the second half and feed AJ. Having now seen it twice, I’ll happily concede I was wrong. Princeton apparently watched the Yale game and the first half and figured there was no need to double AJ. Seems like he just played possum until they let him isolate. And then he scored over and over, just like when people played him straight up last year.

On defense, our starters are versatile and play great team Defense. All of the starters had one of Princeton’s Big Three at some point. Obviously Foreman was the star tonight, guarding Cannady all game. The one possession Foreman sat, Cannady immediately hit a 3. So back came Darnell. He allowed one bucket in 37 minutes against a guy who is a big time scorer this year. While scoring 21 himself.

The Rosen years, you knew darn well who was going to be the hero. This season, as noted, it's more team oriented AND you never know from game to game who the hero will be. Much more satisfying.

I couldn't help but look at the IL press release this week on the POW, ROW and the Honor Roll. There was only one Penn player (Wood, not normally a starter) and despite the gaudy stats of many of the other players listed, Penn was the only team that actually went 2-0 on the week.

The talent level is pretty close.

That team did not have any big men who could make the kind of moves we saw from AJ yesterday. Trice, Moore and Krug were all nice players without any of AJ's inside game. You put AJ on that team and they might have made the Final Four

Before we have a Big Man Controversy, I'll just note that AJ was only able to completely dominate the game when Max was out of the game and Princeton was beside itself trying to cover both Wood and Betley outside. Max has brought a lot to the table, but the next time I see AJ standing on the 3 point line wondering whether he should shoot, I will scream.

That bull of a player on Florida would have given AJ plenty of problems.

While praising them he also cautioned that Penn's big men wouldn't be able to body up Power 5 conference bigs the way they did against Princeton

I brought up Allen-Maloney simply in the context of certain qualities that were fun to watch. I in no way suggested that the current squad is their equal overall and apologize if anyone was left with that impression.

Penn 2 Pt Shooting
For the season 52%; In conference 52%
Last night: 66% (21-32; 6-16 1st half & 15-16! 2nd half)

Ignoring the part about single digits, the Allen-Maloney team went 14-0 THREE STRAIGHT YEARS.