Men’s Basketball Announces 2022-23 Non-Conference Schedule
In addition to hosting and playing in the inaugural Cathedral Classic presented by Sheraton University City—which includes games against 2022 NCAA Tournament participants Colgate and Delaware among three contests over the Thanksgiving weekend—the Quakers will play five other non-conference games at The Palestra to go with their seven home Ivy League matchups after the New Year.
Penn will play all five other Division 1 Philadelphia schools this season including home games against Big 5 rivals Saint Joseph’s, La Salle and Temple. The Quakers will travel to Villanova on December 7 for its only Big 5 road game, and on November 15 they will make the shortest road trip in NCAA Division 1 when they travel the half mile from The Palestra to the Daskalakis Athletic Center (DAC) to take on Drexel.
Ticket information for the 2022-23 season is expected to be announced next week.
The Penn Men’s Basketball 2022-23 non-conference schedule…
at Iona (Monday, Nov. 7)
2021-22: 25-8, 17-3 MAAC (1st), 89 NET
*This will be the fifth meeting between the two programs, but the first true regular-season game; the previous four took place at neutral-site tournaments
*Penn is 3-1 all-time against the Gaels, starting with a 73-69 win in the preliminary round of the 1979 NCAA Tournament that jump-started the Quakers’ Final Four run
*This will be Penn’s first game against a current MAAC program since a 76-74 overtime loss to Monmouth on New Year’s Eve 2018
*Iona’s head coach is 2013 Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Rick Pitino
at Missouri (Friday, Nov. 11)
2021-22: 12-21, 5-13 SEC (12th), 151 NET
*This will be the first meeting between the Quakers and the Tigers in men’s basketball
*This also will be just Penn’s second game in the Show-Me State, the first coming on December 2, 1995 when the Quakers fell at Saint Louis, 58-51
*Penn is 7-18 all-time against current SEC programs including a loss at Arkansas last year; prior to that, the Quakers opened the 2019-20 season with a win at Alabama
TOWSON (Sunday, Nov. 13)
2021-22: 25-9, 15-3 CAA (t-1st), 71 NET
*This will be the fifth meeting all-time between the Quakers and the Tigers whose series is tied, 2-2
*These teams met last year at Towson, the Tigers rolling to a 76-61 victory at the SECU Arena
*The teams also met recently at the 2017 Gulf Coast Showcase, Towson winning 79-71 in Estero, Fla.
*Penn won the first two games in this series, taking both ends of a home-and-home series that was played in the 1995-96 and 1996-97 seasons
at Drexel (Tuesday, Nov. 15)
2021-22: 15-14, 10-8 CAA (t-4th), 154 NET
*This will be the 27th time Penn and Drexel battle for 33rd Street bragging rights but the first since the 2016-17 season
*The Quakers lead the overall series, 16-10, but the Dragons lead 10-9 since 1988 when the series was renewed after a 60-year hiatus
*Penn’s 75-67 win on December 28, 2016 snapped a six-game losing streak in the series
*The game pits Coach Donahue against Zach Spiker, Drexel’s head coach who was his longtime assistant coach at Cornell
at West Virginia (Friday, Nov. 18)
2021-22: 16-17, 4-14 Big 12 (10th), 73 NET
*This will be just the third game between the Quakers and the Mountaineers and the first in more than 40 years; the series is tied 1-1
*The only other regular-season meeting took place 100 years ago, as Penn hosted WVU at Weightman Gym on February 7, 1922 and rolled them, 36-9
*West Virginia exacted its revenge nearly 60 years later in Morgantown, gaining a 67-64 win in the first round of the 1981 NIT
at Lafayette (Tuesday, Nov. 22)
2021-22: 10-20, 7-11 Patriot League (7th), 319 NET
*One of Penn’s most consistent non-conference matchups, the Quakers and the Leopards have met every year but two since the 1985-86 season
*Penn leads the series, 44-10, including an 85-57 romp last November at The Palestra
*That said, the Quakers are just 2-5 in their last seven trips to Easton dating back to 2007, including an 86-75 loss the last time they visited Kirby Field House in 2019
*Lafayette’s first-year head coach is former Penn standout Mike Jordan, who played when Coach Donahue was an assistant for the Quakers; in May, Jordan was inducted into the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame as a member of Class XII
SAINT JOSEPH’S (Wednesday, Nov. 30)
2021-22: 11-19, 5-13 Atlantic 10 (t-12th), 182 NET
*Arguably Penn’s most even Big 5 rivalry in recent years, the Quakers are 5-6 against the Hawks over the last 11 seasons
*Penn has played Saint Joseph’s 89 times total, more than any other non-Ivy League program (SJU leads the series, 52-37)
*The Hawks have won the last two meetings, 78-71 last year at Hagan Arena on Hawk Hill (just Penn’s third trip to Hagan) and 87-81 two years ago at The Palestra
LA SALLE (Saturday, Dec. 3)
2021-22: 11-19, 5-13 Atlantic 10 (t-12th), 225 NET
*Penn leads this Big 5 series, 42-32, but the Explorers escaped the Gola Arena last year with a 76-74 victory
*Prior to that, the Quakers had won two in a row and four of the last five matchups
*Penn has won two of the last three games played at The Palestra, La Salle’s win in that span coming 75-71 in double overtime on November 13, 2017
*The game pits Coach Donahue against Fran Dunphy, La Salle’s head coach who was the longtime Penn and Temple head coach and had Donahue on his Penn staff for a decade
at Villanova (Wednesday, Dec. 7)
2021-22: 30-8, 16-4 Big East (2nd), NCAA Final Four, 6 NET
*The Wildcats lead the overall series, 49-19, and have won 17 of the last 18 meetings
*Penn’s only win in that stretch—a 78-75 victory at The Palestra on December 11, 2018—snapped Villanova’s 25-game win streak against Big 5 opponents; the Wildcats have not lost a Big 5 game since then
*Villanova advanced to the Final Four last year before losing to eventual national champion Kansas, 81-65
*The Wildcats’ first-year head coach is Kyle Neptune
TEMPLE (Saturday, Dec. 10)
2021-22: 17-12, 10-7 AAC (4th), 111 NET
*The Owls lead the series, 49-21, including an 81-72 victory last year at the Liacouras Center
*Prior to that, Penn won the last two meetings (77-70 in 2018-19, 66-59 in 2019-20)
*Prior to those wins, Temple had won 11 in a row and 14 of 15 in this Big 5 rivalry
WILKES (Wednesday, Dec. 28)
2021-22: 8-17, 5-11 MAC (7th Freedom Division)
*This will be the first meeting between the Quakers and the Colonels in men’s basketball
*Based in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Wilkes is an NCAA Division 3 program that competes in the Middle Atlantic Conference’s Freedom Division
*This will be Penn’s fifth game against a non-Division 1 opponent in the Donahue era, the others coming against Ursinus, PSU-Brandywine, Stockton and Widener
at Hartford (Monday, Jan. 23)
2021-22: 12-20, 9-9 America East (t-5th), 282 NET
*This will actually be the second meeting between the teams in the 2022-23 season; the Quakers will host the Hawks as part of the Cathedral Class presented by Sheraton University City
*This will complete a two-game road trip in the Nutmeg State, as the Quakers will play at Yale on Saturday, Jan. 21
*The teams played a home-and-home in 1985, the games taking place exactly 10 months apart across two seasons (1984-85, 1985-86)
*Penn won both matchups, 59-57 in West Hartford on January 26, 1985 and 70-66 at The Palestra on November 26, 1985
*Hartford’s current head coach is John Gallagher, who was a Penn assistant coach in the late 2000s and was briefly on Coach Donahue’s staff at Boston College
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