Pennsylvania vs Princeton Prediction 2/7/25 College Basketball Picks Today

The Princeton Tigers and the Penn Quakers meet Friday in college basketball action from the Palestra. Here’s a Pennsylvania vs Princeton Prediction. We will look at this from a betting perspective and determine the best Penn vs Princeton pick.

Princeton Tigers Betting Preview

Overall the Tigers have had a pretty good year so far. That said, they’ve also had a few rough stretches in the record column. Princeton opened with wins over Iona, Duquesne, and Northeastern, then hit a 1-3 run with a lone win over Merrimack. The losses in that time otherwise were versus Loyola Chicago, Wright State, and Texas State. The Tigers would win 10 of their next 11 games though, falling only to Furman alongside wins over Portland, Nazareth College, Saint Joseph’s, Monmouth, Rutgers, Akron, Kean, Harvard, Dartmouth, and Columbia. Following two more losses to Cornell and Yale, the Tigers posted a win over Brown. The result so far has been a 15-6 overall run through the first 21 games of the season for Princeton.

In the Brown matchup over the weekend, the Tigers came out of the break with a dominant 37-23 edge. Princeton kept it up in the second half on a 32-26 run and took the blowout win easily 69-49 in the end. Leading the team in scoring was Xaivian Lee with 16 points, seven boards, and four assists. Blake Peters chipped in with 14 points, three rebounds, and a pair of steals, while Caden Pierce doubled up on 13 points with 10 boards and five assists. Tops off the bench was Jackson Hicke with nine points and six rebounds in 22 minutes of work.

Penn Quakers Betting Preview

Over on the Penn side, they haven’t had a great campaign so far—to put it mildly. The Quakers have only two instances of consecutive wins this year, one of them coming versus NJIT and MD Eastern Shore in the first two outings. A 1-7 run came next with a win over Maine amid losses to Lafayette, Saint Joseph’s, Villanova, Navy, Elon, Drexel, and VCU. Following a win over Rider, the Tigers lost to George Mason, Penn State, Dartmouth, and Cornell before two more wins over Harvard and Columbia. The last two games have both been losses as well (versus Brown and Yale), giving the Quakers a 6-13 run through their first 19 outings so far.

Matched up against Yale on Saturday, the Quakers came out of the locker room with a 48-32 deficit. Penn didn’t end up getting any closer on a 42-29 second half and got blown out 90-61 by the game’s end. Ethan Roberts topped the scorers with 19 points, five rebounds and two assists in 39 minutes of work. The only other team player in double-figures was Sam Brown with 13 points, three rebounds and three assists in 33 minutes. Leading the bench scoring was Niklas Polonowski with five points in nine minutes of action during the defeat.

Why the Penn Quakers will win

• The home team has won three of the last four games between Princeton and Penn.
• Penn has won the first half in four of its last five games against Princeton.

Why the Princeton Tigers will win

• Princeton has won each of its last 11 games against Penn.
• Penn has lost seven of its last eight night games against the Ivy League at Palestra.
• The road team has won the first half in each of the last four games between Princeton and Penn.

Pennsylvania vs Princeton Prediction

I’ll stay with Princeton here. The Tigers didn’t have too many issues dispatching a middling Brown team in their last game, shooting a healthy 46.3 percent from the field and 37.9 percent (11-of-29) from 3-point range. The 36-27 rebounding advantage certainly helped, as did the 12 points off 13 Bears turnovers. Princeton held Brown to just 33.3 percent shooting on the other side as well. The Tigers are on a nice scoring run these days. They’ve hit 68 or more points in 10 straight games—an 8-2 run—and 69 or more in five straight.

As for Penn, there’s not a lot to be positive about. If there’s good news, it’s that the Quakers are scoring fairly well (or they had been before the Yale game), with 70 or more points in five of the last six (a 2-4 run). Still, Penn will have a tough time keeping pace with Princeton if the Tigers get going early.