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Penn (2-1) at Navy (2-4)
Saturday, November 26, 2016 | 2:00 PM (ET)
Annapolis, Md. | Alumni Hall (5,710)
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The Navy men's basketball team (2-4) is looking for a second straight win when it hosts Penn (2-1) on Saturday at 2:00 PM in Alumni Hall. Navy and Penn will be meeting for the 84th time on the hardwood. Dave McHugh and Michael Heary will have the free live video call on the Patriot League Network and live statistics will be available. There will be no radio broadcast on Saturday.

Midshipmen Storylines
• Navy is coming off a 78-66 win over UMBC on Wednesday.
• Five different players scored in double figures against the Retrievers and Navy used a 14-0 first-half run to pull away in the game.
• Sophomore guard Ryan Pearson scored a team-high 15 points against UMBC.
• Junior Bryce Dulin tallied a season-high 14 points with seven rebounds and four assists.
• Sophomore forward George Kiernan made all three of his 3-point attempts for 14 points.
• Senior guard Zach Fong scored 11 points with three 3-pointers.
• Junior Tom Lacey posted 10 points, eight rebounds and five assists.
• Navy made a season-best 11 3-pointers against UMBC (11-of-19; 58 percent).
• Navy 62 percent in the first half against UMBC and 56 percent in the game.
• Kiernan is shooting 67 percent on 3-pointers this season (8-of-12) and is averaging 11.0 points over Navy's last three games.
• Dulin and Pearson combined to score 29 points as Navy's starting guards, replacing Shawn Anderson and Tim Abruzzo in the lineup.
• With Lacey and Fong scoring in double figures against UMBC, Navy has now had 10 different players score in double figures in its first six games of the 2016-17 season.
• Anderson has scored in double figures in the last 12 games he has played in.
• Anderson is averaging a team-high 13.0 points. Abruzzo is averaging 10.7 points, but has missed the last three games with an injury.
• Sophomore point guard Hasan Abdullah is tied for third on the team in scoring at 8.7 points per game and leads the team with 3.0 assists per game.
• Abdullah ranks first in the Patriot League at 2.3 steals per game.
• Abdullah ranks 11th in the NCAA in total steals (14).
• Navy is leading the Patriot League in scoring defense (66.3), rebounding defense (27.5) and rebounding margin (+5.7).

Penn Storylines
• Penn defeated Central Connecticut State by 22 points (87-65) on Tuesday in its last outing.
• The Quakers made 14 3-pointers in the game (14-of-31) against the Blue Devils.
• Junior guard Caleb Wood made seven 3-pointers in the game for 25 points.
• Senior Matt Howard scored 21 points and made three 3-pointers and was 8-of-9 from the field.
• Freshman forward AJ Brodeur leads Penn in scoring at 15.0 points per game, Howard is second at 14.3 and Wood is third at 13.3.
• Brodeur leads the team with 7.7 rebounds per game, while Howard is averaging 7.3.
• Penn opened the season with a 67-50 win over Robert Morris and then fell at Miami (Fla.), 74-62.
• Brodeur tallied 23 points and 11 rebounds in his career debut against Robert Morris.
• Starting guard Matt MacDonald is the nephew of Michael Heary, a 1998 Naval Academy graduate and current analyst on the Navy Basketball Radio Network.
• Steve Donahue is in his second season as Penn's head coach.

Series History vs. Penn
• Penn leads the all-time series against Navy, 58-25.
• Navy defeated Penn, 65-59, on Dec. 2 of last season at The Palestra in Philadelphia.
• Navy and Penn have met 83 times in program history. Navy has only played Army (125) and American (84) more times than Penn.

Looking Ahead
• Navy will next travel to South Carolina for a pair of games next week.
• The Mids will play at College of Charleston on Thursday and then will play at Furman in Greenville, S.C. on Saturday.

Navy Makes 11 3-Pointers in Win over UMBC
• Navy made a season-high 11 3-pointers in its win over UMBC on Nov. 23.
• Navy was 11-of-19 in the game for a 58 percent night.
• The 11 3-pointers were the most scored in a game by Navy since the Mids made 11 vs. Bucknell in the 2013-14 season.
• Zach Fong and George Kiernan each made three 3-pointers, Hasan Abdullah and Ryan Pearson each made two and Bryce Dulin made one.

Navy has had 10 Players Score Double Figures
• Ten different players have scored in double figures for Navy through the first six games of the season.
• Hasan Abdullah, Shawn Anderson, Ryan Pearson and James Hemphill scored in double figures against Ohio State in the season opener.
• Tim Abruzzo and Nourse Fox joined the club against Washington College.
• George Kiernan became the seventh Mid to score in double figures against High Point and Bryce Dulin became the eighth when he scored in double figures against UNCG.
• Senior Zach Fong and junior Tom Lacey made it 10 players in double figures when they were two of five players to score at least 10 points in Navy's win over UMBC.

Promotions
• Bring Your "A" Game - K-12 students who show an "A" on a graded assignment at the Alumni Hall Ticket Office on

Parking / Shuttle Information
All fans attending the game are encouraged to park at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. Fans can enter Gate 5 off Taylor Ave. and pay $5 for parking. The shuttle is free and the pick up and drop off spot is in front of the Blue Angel plane. The shuttle will run from one hour before the start of the game to one hour after the game concludes. Fans ages 18 and over need photo ID to enter the Academy. Parking at the stadium is the best option for fans attending the game. Due to Naval Academy security restrictions, the general public can not drive their vehicles on to the Yard. The pedestrian entries at Gate 1, Gate 3 and Gate 8, will be open.