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Butler coming to Palestra to face Penn

    by Daily News staff
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Butler will be coming to the Palestra to face Penn on Monday night in the quarterfinals of the College Basketball Invitational tournament.

Game time is 8 o'clock with coverage on HDNet.

Penn advanced with a 74-63 win over Quinnipiac Wednesday night. Miles Cartwright led all scorers with 23 points. Penn (20-12) also received double-digit efforts from seniors Zack Rosen (16 points) and Rob Belcore (14 points).

Last night in Indianapolis, Chrishawn Hopkins scored 19 points and Andrew Smith had 17 point and seven rebounds to lead Butler to a 75-58 in over Delaware.

In Monday's other quarterfinals, Princeton will travel to Pittsburgh, Wyoming will travel to Washington State and TCU will travel to Oregon State. TCU-Oregon State will air on HDNet after the Penn-Butler game.

Princeton earned a 95-86 win at Evansville on Tuesday.

After the quarterfinals, the teams will be re-bracketed for the semifinals on Wednesday, March 21. The semifinal winners will then advance to the best-of-three Championship Series, which begins on Monday, March 26.