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2011-12 Penn basketball MEDIA CONTACT: Mike Mahoney OFFICE: 215-898-9232 CELL: 267-278-7795 EMAIL: [email protected] 2011-12 Penn Men’s Basketball Penn Quakers (5-5) Schedule/Results 11/11 at UMBC . 59-45 W vs. UCLA Bruins (2-5) 11/14 TEMPLE # . (ot) 67-73 L 11/17 at Rider (HG). (ot) 78-72 W Dec. 10, 2011 • 4 p.m. • Honda Center (Anaheim, Calif.) 11/19 ROBERT MORRIS (HG). 66-60 W 11/22 WAGNER . .65-71 L Radio: WXPN 88.5 FM - Brian Seltzer (play-by-play), Vince Curran (analyst) 11/25 #17/16 PITT (HG) . .58-78 L TV: Fox Sports West - Joel Meyers (play-by-play), Don MacLean (analyst) 11/26 JAMES MADISON (HG) . .58-60 L GAME #11 11/29 MANHATTAN. 75-72 W 12/3 at Villanova # . .65-73 L Th e Penn men’s basketball team is at the end of a blistering game 12/7 DELAWARE. 69-60 W pace. Th e Quakers head to California to face UCLA for their 11th 12/10 vs. UCLA $. 4 p.m. 12/23 MARIST . 7 p.m. game, offi cially putting them past one-third of their campaign 12/29 at Davidson . 7 p.m. even though the season is not even a month old. After today, a 1/1 at Duke. 5 p.m. 1/4 at Lafayette . 7 p.m. break for exams—the next game is not for almost two full weeks. 1/10 LA SALLE # . 7 p.m. 1/13 at Columbia* . 7 p.m. The Penn-UCLA Series 1/14 at Cornell* . 7 p.m. • The Quakers and the Bruins have met only one other time, on Dec. 14, 1987 at UCLA’s Pauley 1/21 SAINT JOSEPH’S # . 7 p.m. Pavilion. UCLA rolled to a 98-49 win. 1/30 PRINCETON* . .7 p.m. 2/3 at Yale* . 7 p.m. • This is Penn’s first trip to California since the 2004-05 season, when the Quakers played at 2/4 at Brown*. 6 p.m. the University of San Francisco. Like this year’s trip, that was a one-and-done trip, although the 2/10 HARVARD* . .7 p.m. team stopped off to play the University of Illinois-Chicago on the way back to Philadelphia. 2/11 DARTMOUTH*. 7 p.m. 2/17 CORNELL*. 7 p.m. • Penn has made the trip to the Golden State 11 times prior to Saturday’s meeting. Besides, 2/18 COLUMBIA* . .7 p.m. UCLA, the other California schools the Quakers have played are UC-Irvine, UCSB, San Diego 2/24 at Dartmouth* . 7 p.m. State, California, Stanford, USC, Loyola Marymount, St. Mary’s, San Francisco, and Santa Clara. 2/25 at Harvard* . .7 p.m. 3/2 BROWN* . .7 p.m. About UCLA 3/3 YALE* . 7 p.m. The Bruins (2-5) have struggled out of the gate, and most recently lost to Texas 69-59. Their 3/6 at Princeton*. 7:30 p.m. wins have come against Chaminade and Pepperdine, and two of their losses have come to ranked (HG) = Philly Hoop Group Classic game $ = at Honda Center (Anaheim, Calif.) Kansas and Michigan squads. Lazeric Jones is UCLA’s leading scorer, averaging 11.4 points per # = Philadelphia Big 5 game game, while Travis Wear (10.4) and Jerime Anderson (10.2) also have double-figure averages. * = Ivy League game Wear—a UNC transfer along with his brother, David—leads UCLA in rebounding (5.4 rpg). 2011-12 Penn Men’s Basketball Roster (*=probable starter) # Name Cl. Pos. Ht. Wt. PPG RPG MPG High School/Hometown 0 Miles Cartwright* So. G 6-3 175 11.2 3.2 36.0 Loyola/Van Nuys, Calif. 1 Zack Rosen* Sr. G 6-1 170 22.1 3.4 39.3 St. Benedict’s Prep/Colonia, N.J. 4 Tyler Bernardini* Sr. G 6-6 210 12.9 5.9 32.3 Francis Parker/Carlsbad, Calif. 34 Rob Belcore* Sr. F 6-6 225 5.6 4.6 29.7 Loyola Academy/Lake Forest, Ill. 12 Fran Dougherty* So. C 6-8 225 3.9 4.0 16.7 Archbishop Wood/New Britain, Pa. 33 Mike Howlett Sr. C 6-9 220 3.3 3.3 15.1 New Hampton School/Amesbury, Mass. 11 Marin Kukoc So. F 6-7 185 3.1 1.8 12.5 Highland Park/Highland Park, Ill. 3 Henry Brooks Fr. F 6-8 215 3.1 2.1 10.3 Miller Grove/Fairburn, Ga. 22 Steve Rennard So. G 6-2 175 6.0 0.0 25.0 St. Joseph/Hazlet, N.J. 21 Cameron Gunter So. C 6-8 205 1.6 0.6 5.6 Ridley/Morton, Pa. 15 Camryn Crocker Fr. G 6-3 170 0.4 0.9 9.9 Los Alamitos/Cypress, Calif. 30 Patrick Lucas-Perry Fr. G 5-11 165 0.4 0.4 3.6 Flint Powers/Grand Blanc, Mich. 2 Simeon Esprit Fr. G 6-6 175 0.0 0.0 3.0 Barking Abbey/London, England 20 Dau Jok So. G 6-4 180 0.0 0.0 2.0 Th eodore Roosevelt/Des Moines, Iowa 14 Keelan Cairns Fr. F 6-10 210 - - - St. Malachy’s/Belfast, Ireland 13 Larry Loughery (inj.) Sr. F 6-6 210 - - - Acad. of the New Church/Gwynedd Valley, Pa. 23 Greg Louis (inj.) Fr. F 6-7 215 - - - Dwyer/West Palm Beach, Fla. John R. Rockwell Head Coach: Jerome Allen (Penn ’09), 3rd season* *served as interim head coach for fi nal 21 games of 2009-10 season Assistant Coach: Dan Leibovitz (Penn ’96), 2nd season Assistant Coach: Mike Martin (Brown ‘04), 6th season Assistant Coach: Rudy Wise (Lake Forest ‘03), 2nd season 2011-12 Captain: Zack Rosen 2011-12 Penn Basketball Game Notes Dec. 10, 2011 vs. UCLA (Honda Center) Ivy League Preseason Poll Golden State Homecoming Penn was picked to fi nish fourth in the Ivy Penn’s game at UCLA represents a return to Penn in the 2011 League’s Preseason Media Poll, which came Southern California for three players on the Philly Hoop Group Classic from the votes of two members of each Quaker roster. Fifth-year senior guard Tyler school’s media contingent as well as one Bernardini is from Carlsbad and played his national voter. After going 7-7 last year, the high school ball at Francis Parker where he Quakers received 90 voting points. was the 2007 Coastal South Player of the Year; Harvard, which went 12-2 and tied sophomore guard Miles Cartwright is from Princeton for last year’s Ivy League title, is a Van Nuys and played at Loyola where he was near-unanimous pick to repeat. Th e Crimson the 2009 Mission League MVP; and freshman received 135 voting points and 16 of the 17 guard Camryn Crocker is from Cypress and fi rst-place votes. Yale and Princeton each played his ball at Los Alamitos where he was received 103 voting points and split the pick the Sunset League MVP last year. For the second time, the Penn men’s for second place, although the Bulldogs—who basketball team took part in the Philly went 8-6 last year to fi nish third—received the 2 For 2! Hoop Group Classic. Th e was the lone remaining fi rst-place vote. Senior guard Zack Rosen was named Ivy fi fth year of the NCAA-exempt event, Th ere was a sizable gap between fourth- League Player of the Week each of the fi rst meaning it allows the Quakers to play place Penn and fi fth-place Brown in the poll; two weeks of the 2011-12 season (he shared four games while having it only count as the Bears received 62 points, followed closely the fi rst award with Yale’s Greg Mangano). one in the NCAA’s limitation. As a result, by Cornell (52) and Columbia (50). Dartmouth Th e streak was snapped last Monday, when Penn will play 31 regular-season games was a unanimous pick to fi nish last (17 Harvard’s Keith Wright won the award. this season instead of the usual 28. points). Th is year’s event featured fi ve other 1. Harvard, 135 points (16 fi rst-place votes) teams besides Penn: James Madison, La 2. Yale, 103 (1) Eight Was Enough! Salle, Pitt, Rider, and Robert Morris. All Penn played eight games in November, the Princeton, 103 of the teams played one home and one most in program history. In an informal 4. Penn, 90 road game, and the event culminated survey of the NCAA’s 338 Division I programs, 5. Brown, 62 Th anksgiving weekend with all the teams the Quakers joined a fairly exclusive group in 6. Cornell, 52 descending on Th e Palestra. 7. Columbia, 50 that category. Th e other schools that played at least eight in November: Austin Peay, 8. Dartmouth, 17 Sunday, Nov. 13 Bucknell, Duke, Eastern Kentucky, Navy, at Pitt 86, Rider 78 Minnesota, Penn State, Purdue, San Diego Th ursday, Nov. 17 Th at’s Not All... State, TCU, UT-Martin, Tulane, Tulsa, UNLV, Penn 78, at Rider 72 (ot) A quick scan of some other preseason predictions Wyoming. for the Quakers... Saturday, Nov. 19 at La Salle 92, James Madison 83 • Blue Ribbon has Penn third, behind Harvard National Stats at Penn 66, Robert Morris 60 and Yale, and named senior guard Zack Rosen Th e NCAA released its most recent statistical Tuesday, Nov. 22 to its all-conference team.