OPENING TIP
* Lafayette finishes up its three-game homestand, welcoming Fairleigh Dickinson on Sunday afternoon. The Leopards are coming off an impressive victory over Penn on Tuesday, while the Knights are still in search of their first win against a D-I opponent.
* Sunday's game marks Lafayette men's basketball's annual Athlete Ally game. Athlete Ally is a club on campus that teaches and informs athletes about the LGBT community as a way to end homophobia and transphobia in athletics.
* Lafayette's offense has been tough to stop through five games this season as the Leopards lead the Patriot League in scoring with 73.6 points per game to go with league-bests in field-goal percentage (50.7) and three-point field-goal percentage (43.0). 
* Junior Justin Jaworski has gone 53 straight games with a three-pointer dating back to his freshman season p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 9.5px AntennaCond} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 9.5px AntennaCond; min-height: 10.0px}

LAST TIME OUT
Lafayette was clicking in all areas of the floor on Tuesday evening at Kirby Sports Center, shooting 54.2 percent from the field with 17 assists and just five turnovers to knock off Penn for the first time since the 2014-15 season by an 86-75 final.

Penn, picked second in the Ivy League Preseason Poll and coming off a win over SEC opponent Alabama on the road earlier this month, couldn't stay with a potent Lafayette attack, putting a season-best 86 points on the board. The Leopards moved back above the .500 mark at 3-2 on the year, while Penn fell back to 2-2 this season.

Junior Justin Jaworski hit 4-of-6 from beyond the arc to lead five Leopards in double-figure scoring for the first time this season. Jaworski finished with 20 points and tied a career-high with six assists, while adding a career-best three steals in the victory.

Sophomore Isaac Suffren had the best offensive showing of his career with 19 points on 7-of-11 from the field and 4-of-4 from the foul line. Classmate Tyrone Perry added a career-high 12 points, hitting three of his four shot attempts, while seniors Myles Cherry and Lukas Jarrett added 13 and 10 points, respectively.

After allowing 39 points on 53.3 percent from the field to the Quakers in the first half, the Leopards locked down in the second, holding Penn to a 38.7 percent mark overall and just 5-of-19 from three-point range (26.3%) in the second 20 minutes. Devon Goodman led the visitors with 15 points, but committed five turnovers, while AJ Brodeur was just two assists shy of a triple-double with 14 points, 10 rebounds and eight helpers.

The win for the Maroon and White marked the third this year over an Ivy League opponent in four scheduled matchups, heading to Cornell for the final interleague battle on Dec. 7. The three wins against Ivy foes is a first for the program since the 2007-08 campaign and Lafayette hasn't beaten four Ivy programs in the same season since 2000-01.

THE SKINNY ON THE KNIGHTS
Fairleigh Dickinson enters Sunday's contest looking for its first win against a Division I opponent this season, defeating D-III FDU-Florham in its season opener before three straight defeats on the road at Depaul (70-59), Fordham (53-50) and Army (81-65). The Knights are in the midst of a five-game road swing that takes them to South Bend, Ind. to battle Notre Dame following Sunday's tilt with the Leopards. FDU is led by Greg Herenda in his seventh season in Teaneck, carrying an 82-111 record with the Knights.

Jahlil Jenkins leads three double-figure scorers for an offensive unit that averages 68.8 points per outing. Jenkins puts up 15.3 points per night, followed by 14.0 per outing from Elyjiah Williams and 12.8 per game from Kaleb Bishop. Bishop paces a strong FDU side on the glass with 9.0 rebounds per contest as the Knights out-rebound their opponents by just shy of four boards per game.

LAST MEETING
Lafayette could have easily let it slip away on Nov. 25, 2018 in Teaneck, New Jersey, trailing for the majority of the game and by a 62-52 score with 10:10 remaining. Instead, the Leopards rattled off 15 straight points to take a 67-62 advantage and carried that run to an 80-76 victory in the last meeting with Fairleigh Dickinson.

Lukas Jarrett scored four points during the deciding spurt, netting a career-high 17 points on the day to accompany a game-high 26 from Alex Petrie. Classmate Justin Jaworski was the other Leopard in double figures with 11 points as Lafayette executed well on the offensive end to the tune of 54.2 percent from the floor (32-of-59).

The Maroon and White limited turnovers with just eight on the day, adding 14 assists with four coming from Petrie, tying a career-high. Myles Cherry paced the Leopards on the glass with five boards, one of seven Lafayette players with three or more rebounds.

PICKING (ON) THE IVIES
With its wins over Columbia, Princeton and Penn this season, Lafayette has knocked off three of the top-six teams in the Ivy League Preseason Poll. Penn was picked second behind Harvard, including two first-place votes, while Princeton was picked to earn a spot in Ivy Madness at fourth and Columbia was predicted ahead of Cornell and Dartmouth in the sixth spot. Cornell is the final Ivy test, set for Dec. 7 in Ithaca, N.Y.

The win over Penn secured the first winning record against Ivy League opponents for the Maroon and White since going 2-1 against Penn (W, 83-77), Princeton (W, 83-66) and Yale (L, 82-60) in the 2014-15 campaign. The Columbia win in the 2019-20 season opener was the first victory for the Leopards on the Ivy circuit since a 92-86 win over Penn in 2015 and the win at Princeton was the first for the Leopards on the road in the series with the Tigers since the 2007-08 campaign p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 9.5px AntennaCond}

THE SOPHOMORE JUMP
Sophomores Tyrone Perry, Isaac Suffren and Sean Good have all shown significant improvement from their freshman to sophomore campaigns, each seeing more than 11 minutes per game through five games this season. Perry and Suffren both registered career-highs in scoring against Penn with 12 and 19 points, respectively, while Good leads the Leopards in blocks and is second in the Patriot League with 11 this season. Perry and Good have started all five games for the Maroon and White, with Suffren providing 17.0 minutes per contest off the bench.