The Penn Quakers men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing the University of Pennsylvania. As the twentieth-winningest men's basketball program of all-time, the team from Penn had its greatest success from 1966 to 2007, a period of over 40 years. Penn plays in the Ivy League in NCAA Division I.
Steve Donahue is an American college basketball coach, currently the head coach of the Penn Quakers men's basketball team. He is the former head coach of Boston College and Cornell.
The Penn Quakers football program is the college football team at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The Penn Quakers have competed in the Ivy League since its inaugural season of 1956, and are a Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Penn's first game was in 1876, and the team has played in 1,413 football games, the most of any school in any division. Penn plays its home games at historic Franklin Field, the oldest football stadium in the nation. All Penn games are broadcast on WNTP or WFIL radio.
Matthew Langel is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head coach for the Colgate Raiders men's basketball team. He previously served as an assistant for the Temple Owls men's basketball team for five seasons under Fran Dunphy.
The Penn–Princeton men's basketball rivalry is an American college basketball rivalry between the Penn Quakers men's basketball team of the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton Tigers men's basketball team of Princeton University. Having been contested every year since 1903, it is the third oldest consecutively played rivalry in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I history. Unlike many notable college basketball rivalries, such as Carolina–Duke, which involves teams that often both get invited to the same NCAA tournaments, Notre Dame–UCLA, which involves geographically remote teams, Illinois–Missouri, which involves non-conference rivals, or Alabama–Auburn, which takes a back seat to the football rivalry, this is a rivalry of geographically close, conference rivals, who compete for a single NCAA invitation and consider the basketball rivalry more important than other sports rivalries between the schools. A head-to-head contest has been the final regularly scheduled game of the Princeton season every year since 1995. Between 1963 and 2007, Princeton or Penn won or shared the Ivy League conference championship every season except 1986 and 1988. The other seasons in which neither team won or shared the Ivy League title are 1957, 1958, 1962, 2008–10, and 2012-2016.
The 2011–12 Penn Quakers men's basketball team represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 2011–12 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Quakers, led by third year head coach Jerome Allen, played their home games at The Palestra and are members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 20–13, 11–3 in Ivy League play to finish in second place. They were invited to the 2012 College Basketball Invitational where they defeated Quinnipiac in first round before falling in the quarterfinals to Butler.
The 2011–12 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team represented Princeton University during the 2011–12 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Tigers, led by first year head coach Mitch Henderson, played their home games at Jadwin Gymnasium and are members of the Ivy League. The team captains were seniors Douglas Davis and Patrick Saunders. They finished the season 20–12, 10–4 in Ivy League play to finish in third place. They were invited to the 2012 College Basketball Invitational where they defeated Evansville in the first round before falling in the quarterfinals to Pittsburgh. The season was highlighted by wins over a ranked Harvard team and the Florida State Seminoles. The team was led by unanimous first team All-Ivy League selection Ian Hummer and second team selection Douglas Davis.
Zack Rosen is an American former basketball player. Rosen, a point guard, played collegiately at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an All-American and Ivy League player of the year.
The 2013–14 Penn Quakers men's basketball team represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Quakers, led by fifth year head coach Jerome Allen, played their home games at The Palestra and are members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 8–20, 5–9 in Ivy League play to finish in a tie for sixth place.
The 2014–15 Penn Quakers men's basketball team represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Quakers, led by sixth year head coach Jerome Allen, played their home games at The Palestra and were members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 9–19, 4–10 in Ivy League play to finish in a tie for seventh place.
The 2015–16 Penn Quakers women's basketball team represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Quakers, led by seventh year head coach Mike McLaughlin, play their home games at the Palestra and were members of the Ivy League. Penn finished the season 24–5, 13–1 to win the Ivy League regular season title to earn an automatic trip to the NCAA women's tournament where they lost in the first round to Washington.
The 2016–17 Penn Quakers men's basketball team represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Quakers, led by second-year head coach Steve Donahue, played their home games at The Palestra and were members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 13–15, 6–8 in Ivy League play to finish in fourth place. They lost in the semifinals of the inaugural Ivy League tournament to Princeton.
The 2017–18 Penn Quakers men's basketball team represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Quakers, led by third-year head coach Steve Donahue, played their home games at The Palestra as members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 24–9, 12–2 in Ivy League play to win a share of the Ivy League regular season championship with Harvard. In the Ivy League tournament, they defeated Yale and Harvard to become Ivy League Tournament champions. They received the Ivy League's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament where they lost in the first round to Kansas.
The 2017–18 Penn Quakers women's basketball team represents the University of Pennsylvania during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Quakers, led by ninth year head coach Mike McLaughlin, play their home games at the Palestra and were members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 22–9, 11–3 to finish in second place. They advanced to the championship game of the Ivy League women's tournament where they lost to Princeton. They received an automatic trip to the Women's National Invitation Tournament where they defeated Albany in the first before losing to St. John's in the second round.
The 2018–19 Penn Quakers men's basketball team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They played their home games at The Palestra in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and were led by fourth-year head coach Steve Donahue. The Quakers finished the season 19–12, 7–7 in Ivy League play to finish in a three-way tie for fourth place. As the No. 4 seed in the Ivy League tournament, they lost in the semifinals to Harvard.
The 2018–19 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Yale University during the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bulldogs, led by 20th-year head coach James Jones, played their home games at John J. Lee Amphitheater of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium in New Haven, Connecticut as members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 22–8 to finish a tie for 1st place. In the Ivy Tournament, they beat Princeton in the semifinals and beating Harvard in the Ivy Championship to win the Ivy League title. They received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament getting a 14th seed before losing to LSU in the first round.
The 1978–79 Penn Quakers men's basketball team was a college basketball team that represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1978–79 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Quakers, coached by Bob Weinhauer, played in the Ivy League and had a 25–7 win–loss record. Penn won the Ivy League regular season championship for the eighth time in 10 years and participated in the 1979 NCAA Division I basketball tournament. There, as the ninth seed in the 10-team East region, the Quakers defeated Iona, number one seed North Carolina, Syracuse, and St. John's to reach the Final Four. In the national semifinals, they lost to a Michigan State team that included Magic Johnson, and an overtime loss in the third-place game against DePaul ended their season. As of 2023, the 1978–79 Quakers are the last Ivy League team to play in the Final Four.
The 2019–20 Penn Quakers men's basketball team represent the University of Pennsylvania in the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Quakers, led by fifth-year head coach Steve Donahue, play their home games at The Palestra in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as members of the Ivy League.
The 2022–23 Penn Quakers men's basketball team represents the University of Pennsylvania in the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Quakers, led by seventh-year head coach Steve Donahue, play their home games at The Palestra in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as members of the Ivy League.
The 2023–24 Penn Quakers men's basketball team represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Quakers, led by eighth-year head coach Steve Donahue, played their home games at The Palestra in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 11–18, 3–11 in Ivy League play to finish in seventh place. They failed to qualify for the Ivy League tournament.
