Kino Lilly Jr Helps Brown Beat Penn, Sweep Weekend
The Brown men’s basketball team (12-10, 4-5) completed a home weekend sweep with a wire-to-wire 82-72 win over Penn (6-16, 2-7) inside the Pizzitola Sports Center on Saturday night.
“I thought it was a terrific win against a team that’s playing really well,” Head Men’s Basketball Coaching Chair Mike Martin ’04 said. “Their physicality, their effort level, their compete level, Penn’s a terrific team the way they’re playing and we earned that win tonight. It wasn’t easy, they challenged us at both ends of the court with their physicality and their execution.”
This was the eighth time in program history the Bears swept Princeton and Penn in a back-to-back scenario, it was the first time since 2010 and the first under Head Men’s Basketball Coaching Chair Mike Martin ’04.
Kino Lilly Jr. led the Bears with 23 points on 7-14 shooting and 5-8 from three-point range, the senior also had three rebounds and five assists. Landon Lewis chipped in with 20 points, seven rebounds, and five blocks. Five blocks for Lewis matched a career-high. The two combined to shoot 14-25 from the floor and combined to shoot 9-12 in the second half.
Brown outscored Penn 40-20 in the paint while also holding a 13-2 advantage in fast break points.
As a team, the Bears shot 56.6 percent from the floor including 62.5 percent in the second half. Brown also shot 50.0 percent in the second half. The Bears also turned the ball over just eight times, it was the second consecutive game Brown turned the ball over fewer than 10 times.
The Quakers cut the Bears’ lead to just one on two separate occasions in the second half but were unable to take a lead.
Along with Lilly Jr. and Lewis, Alexander Lesburt Jr., Malcolm Wrisby-Jefferson, and Lyndel Erold all scored in double figures. The Bears also had 16 assists on 30 made field goals.
Brown will conclude its four-game homestand when they welcome Columbia (Feb. 21) and Cornell (Feb. 22) to the Pizzitola Sports Center.
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