The Penn Quakers (14-7, 7-0) maintained their undefeated Ivy mark and upped their League lead to two games with a 55-46 victory at second-place Princeton (13-9, 5-2) on Tuesday night.
A 360-degree slam dunk by Penn forward Ugonna Onyekwe with a few seconds remaining gave closure to a game that had been closely contested throughout.
Princeton jumped in front with an early 12-6 lead, but the Quakers responded with a 14-0 run and led 25-18 at halftime.
The Tigers got as close as 40-38 with 5:55 left in the game when their star of the game, Mason Rocca, hit a pair of free throws. But the Quakers pulled away from there, netting the game's final seven points.
Penn point guard Michael Jordan led the offensive charge for the Quakers with 14 points. Onyekwe chipped in 12 and led the team with six rebounds.
The Tigers suffered from woeful shooting while Penn hit half of its shots from the floor.
Princeton's leading scorer, the injured senior forward Rocca, racked up 16 points while shooting a mere 25 percent from the field. He did haul down a game-high 14 rebounds, almost singlehandedly keeping the Tigers in the game.
Chris Young, Princeton's star center who scored 30 points on 10-of-11 shooting in last Saturday's win over Harvard, also caught the missing bug and only hit three of his 10 attempts from the floor.
Princeton's other scoring threats, guards Ahmed El-Nokali and Spencer Gloger, scored six combined points -- all of which came from El-Nokali -- though the pair played 65 minutes of game time.
After the game, Rocca told the media he didn't think it was likely Penn would lose in the Ivy League.
The win gives the Quakers a two-game lead and a clear advantage in its bid to repeat as Ancient Eight champion. Last season, Penn's only loss in the conference came at the hands of the same Tigers, 50-49, in a wild game at the Palestra in Philadelphia.
The Quakers and Tigers will take turns hosting Cornell and Columbia this weekend.
