The Quakers’ other starters combined to shoot 17-for-21, led by center Adam Chubb’s perfect 7-for-7 night and Mark Zoller’s 5-for-6 outing.

In fact, take away Eric Osmundson’s 0-for-5 performance and Eric Heil’s miss on his only shot, a three, and Penn’s worst shooting performance was starter Charlie Copp’s 1-for-2—and both of those came on threes.

After Copp, it was Ibby Jaaber’s 5-for-9, and he was 2-for-2 from three.

Then you get to Tim Begley’s 4-for-6 and Schiffner.

In all, the Quakers shot 66.1 percent (37-for-56) from the floor overall and 66.7 percent (14-for-21) from behind the three-point line, both season highs. And that was after they “cooled down” with a 57.7-percent performance (15-for-26) in the second half (7-for-11, 63.6 percent from three) after shooting a scorching 22-for-30 (73.3 percent) in the first half, 7-for-10 (70.0 percent) from beyond the arc.

“Our offense ran pretty smoothly,” Schiffner said. “I felt good shooting it. I think everybody else felt pretty good shooting it, but we were getting good shots and some nights, not all of them are going to fall. Tonight, a lot of them fell.”

“They just couldn’t miss,” junior shooting guard Kevin Rogus said. “It was absolutely ridiculous.”

Penn had separate runs of nine, 11, 13 and 18 consecutive points and finished with 42 points on 21 shots from three-point land as it moved the ball quickly, keeping the Harvard players scrambling to chase it.

“We couldn’t slow the ball down from going inside-outside-extra,” Sullivan said, referring to the Quakers’ ability to move the ball into the low post and back out to the perimeter and then make the extra pass. “So many of those threes just came with extra passing, with ball movement and we just didn’t do a good job catching up to the ball movement.”

“For some reason, every time we were on defense, we were just running around crazy, trying to find the open man,” Rogus said. “They’d always find him. He’d always hit it.”

Coaches and players, of course, will tell you they never look ahead and instead take one game at a time.

But it would be difficult to blame Schiffner and his teammates if they are licking their chops thinking about the rematch at Lavietes Pavilion on March 6.

After all, the last time the teams met before Friday night—Feb. 21, 2003 at Lavietes Pavilion—Schiffner shot 7-for-10 from three-point range as Penn tied a school record by hitting 16 threes in an 82-66 win.

—Staff writer Alan G. Ginsberg can be reached at aginsber@fas.harvard.edu.