PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Penn scored 13 unanswered points to start the second half en route to an 87-55 win over Columbia in the Palestra.

Columbia dropped to 7-8, 0-2 Ivy, while Penn improved to 8-5, 2-0 Ivy.

Ibrahim Jaaber scored 14 of his 18 points in the first half, and Mark Zoller was 8-of-9 from the floor for 21 points to lead the Quakers.

Justin Armstrong led the Lions with 16 points, Ben Nwachukwu and John Baumann finished with eight and nine points respectively. The game was tight with a little more than three minutes left in the first half. Kashif Sweet knocked down a layup, and extended a six-point Lion run that made the score just 27-22 in Penn's favor.

However, on Penn's ensuing possession Jaaber drained a three-pointer, and then Zoller rebounded a missed trey by Eric Osmundson and later converted a three of his own on the possession. Danley and Osmundson then scored layups before the break, and the teams went into the locker room with the Quakers' lead suddenly 15.

John Baumann missed a layup to start the second half, and Osmundson countered with a trey at the other end. He would hit two of them in the run, and Columbia needed nearly six minutes in the half before Armstrong hit a pair of free throws. In all, the Lions' scoring drought bridged the halves and covered a span of 9:09.

The lead did not dip below 30 points for the final 13 minutes of the game and both teams went deep into their benches with more than 10 minutes on the clock.

The Lions return to action on Saturday when they travel to Ithaca for a 2 p.m. match up with Cornell.