The Quakers outrebounded the taller Crimson, 45-30, and grabbed 15 offensive boards. Penn's two starting guards, Frazier and Gilliams, pulled down 17 rebounds between them.
"We did a pretty good job on the boards down the stretch and didn't allow any second shots," Penn Coach Tom Schneider said.
Harvard's press was effective for most of the game, but dry shooting spells at the end of each half kept the Crimson out of the press in crucial points of the contest.
"As long as we press them, we play our style of basketball," Phillips said. "Penn did a good job bringing the ball up the court, but we got some big plays and we played well in the press. We didn't lose because of that."
THE NOTEBOOK: Gielen finished with 23 points, raising his career total to 988... Center Fred Schernecker, also playing the best basketball of his career, played 30 minutes and tallied a career-high 19 points on 7-for-12 shooting.
Ivy League Men's Basketball Standings Penn 4-0 Princston 3-1 Dartmouth 4-2 Yale 4-2 Harvard 3-3 Columbia 2-4 Cornell 5-1 Brown 1-5