Penn Quakers men's basketball
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| University | University of Pennsylvania | ||
| Conference | Ivy League | ||
| Location | Philadelphia, PA | ||
| Head coach | Steve Donahue (2nd year) | ||
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The Palestra (Capacity: 8,722) |
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| Nickname | Quakers | ||
| Student section | Red & Blue Crew | ||
| Colors | Blue and Red |
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| Pre-tournament Premo-Porretta champions | |||
| 1920 | |||
| Pre-tournament Helms champions | |||
| 1920, 1921 | |||
| NCAA Tournament Final Four | |||
| 1979 | |||
| NCAA Tournament Elite Eight | |||
| 1971, 1972, 1979 | |||
| NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen | |||
| 1953, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1979 | |||
| NCAA Tournament second round | |||
| 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1994 | |||
| NCAA Tournament appearances | |||
| 1953, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 | |||
| Conference regular season champions | |||
| 1906, 1908, 1916, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1928, 1929, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1945, 1953, 1966, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 | |||
The Penn Quakers men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing the University of Pennsylvania. As the fifteenth-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.
On March 20, 1897, Penn and Yale played in the first basketball game with five players on a team. Prior to the formation of the Ivy League in 1956 Penn was a member of the Eastern Intercollegiate League (EIL) from 1903 thru 1955. Penn won 13 EIL Regular Season Championships – 1906, 1908, 1916, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1928, 1929, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1945, 1953. Penn was retroactively recognized as the pre-NCAA Tournament national champion for the 1919–20 and 1920–21 seasons by the Helms Athletic Foundation and for the 1919–20 season by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.
Penn has appeared in one Final Four, in 1979. Penn trails only Princeton for the most Ivy League regular season championships with 25. (1966, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007). Princeton has won 26 championships since the 1956-57 season. Penn, however, has won 21 outright championships to Princeton's 18 outright championships. Their main Ivy League rivalry is with Princeton, whom they always play as the last regular season game. Combining the EIL and Ivy Championships Penn leads with 38 championships; Princeton 32; Columbia 14; Yale 13; Dartmouth 12; Cornell 8; Harvard 5; and Brown 1.
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