Sometimes it's hard to know which Penn team will show up: the one that beat Villanova and Temple at home by 14 and 25 respectively (and USC in CA by 38) or the one that lost to St. Joe's last week on their home court by 18.
Penn is the class of the Ivy and a good shooting (46% from the field including 40% from the arc), good rebounding team whose biggest downfall is sometimes thinking they're better than they are.
Penn depends heavily on the 3; the Quakers rank in the top 10 in the nation in number of shots sunk from the arc per game.
Last week, St. Joe's stopped Penn's 3 which stopped Penn.
Penn is highly motivated to defend their Philly Big Five title; they're currently 2-1 in Big Five play and need a win tonite vs LaSalle to put them in position to win their second consecutive.
Penn is an experienced team; mostly seniors while LaSalle's starting five are all freshmen and sophomores. LaSalle can shoot and they're going to be a real power in the ATL 10, but they're a year or two away.
After last week's embarassment by St. Joe's in front of their home crowd, Penn will take it out on LaSalle tonite. LaSalle doesn't have the D to stop Penn's high-scoring (for the Ivy anyway) O and Penn is motivated to keep the Big Five title vs their ATL 10 and Big East local rivals.
I think Penn will play with the same chip on their shoulder that Manhattan played with last nite, only LaSalle doesn't have the talent of Seton Hall to keep this one close.
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Penn is the class of the Ivy and a good shooting (46% from the field including 40% from the arc), good rebounding team whose biggest downfall is sometimes thinking they're better than they are.
Penn depends heavily on the 3; the Quakers rank in the top 10 in the nation in number of shots sunk from the arc per game.
Last week, St. Joe's stopped Penn's 3 which stopped Penn.
Penn is highly motivated to defend their Philly Big Five title; they're currently 2-1 in Big Five play and need a win tonite vs LaSalle to put them in position to win their second consecutive.
Penn is an experienced team; mostly seniors while LaSalle's starting five are all freshmen and sophomores. LaSalle can shoot and they're going to be a real power in the ATL 10, but they're a year or two away.
After last week's embarassment by St. Joe's in front of their home crowd, Penn will take it out on LaSalle tonite. LaSalle doesn't have the D to stop Penn's high-scoring (for the Ivy anyway) O and Penn is motivated to keep the Big Five title vs their ATL 10 and Big East local rivals.
I think Penn will play with the same chip on their shoulder that Manhattan played with last nite, only LaSalle doesn't have the talent of Seton Hall to keep this one close.
gl
