Penn Quakers men's basketball

Penn Quakers
Penn Quakers
	2024–25 Penn Quakers men's basketball team
University	University of Pennsylvania
Head coach	Steve Donahue (9th season)
Conference	Ivy League
Location	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Arena	The Palestra ; (capacity: 8,722)
Nickname	Quakers
Student section	Red & Blue Crew
Colors	Red and blue;
Uniforms
Home	Away ;
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, 1978, 1979
NCAA tournament round of 32
	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, 2018
Conference tournament champions
	2018
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, 2018

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.

Penn senior Ibby Jaaber holds the net, which he cut from the rim, after Penn defeated Yale 86–68 on March 2, 2007, at The Palestra (which win clinched the 2006–07 Ivy League championship and Penn's 25th Ivy crown).

Prior to the formation of the Ivy League in 1956 Penn was a member of the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League (EIBL) from 1903 through 1955. Penn won 13 EIBL 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.^[2]

Penn has appeared in one Final Four, in 1979. Penn and Princeton are tied for the most Ivy League regular season championships with 26 each.^[3] Their main Ivy League rivalry is with Princeton, whom they used to always play as the last regular season game. Combining the EIL and Ivy Championships Penn leads with 39 championships; Princeton 32; Columbia 14; Yale 13; Dartmouth 12; Cornell 8; Harvard 6; and Brown 1.

The last NCAA tournament victory for the Quakers came on March 17, 1994, at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. The No. 11 Quakers defeated the No. 6 Nebraska Cornhuskers, 90–80, in the first round. The Quakers then fell in the second round to No. 3 Florida on March 19 as the Gators prevailed, 70–58.

^ "Elements of the Penn Logo". Branding.Web-Resources.UPenn.edu. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
^ ESPN, ed. (2009). ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game. New York, NY: ESPN Books. p. 535. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.
^ "2011–12 Ivy League Men's Basketball: Week 2 • November 14, 2011" (PDF). IvyLeagueSports.com. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 12, 2012. Retrieved 2011-11-14.

[1] "Elements of the Penn Logo". Branding.Web-Resources.UPenn.edu. Retrieved November 14, 2022.

[2] ESPN, ed. (2009). ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game. New York, NY: ESPN Books. p. 535. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.

[3] "2011–12 Ivy League Men's Basketball: Week 2 • November 14, 2011" (PDF). IvyLeagueSports.com. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 12, 2012. Retrieved 2011-11-14.

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