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After working as an assistant coach at five schools, the former Penn number two will officially begin his first stint as a D-I head coach at Hartford on Oct. 15.
In the past, players voted for their captains, but this year coach Jerome Allen handpicked junior Zack Rosen, one of two captains last year, and seniors Jack Eggleston and Conor Turley.
It isn’t often that an entire conference sees a significant overhaul in its coaching staff during the offseason, but that is exactly what has happened in the Ivies this year.
While a national network typically airs one edition of the historic rivalry each season, this year ESPNU will televise Harvard vs. Princeton on Feb. 4.
The Penn men’s basketball team will take on Army in the first game of a doubleheader, with Duke and Butler squaring off in the nightcap — a rematch of last year’s national championship
Six members of the current Quakers team spent Sunday, Monday and Wednesday nights participating in the opening games of the Delaware County Pro-Am Men’s Basketball Summer League, which runs through July on those three days.
Survival of the fittest. Darwin may not have known much about Penn Basketball when he used the term in 1869, but that phenomenon may be an apt way to describe the Quakers’ ballooning 2010-11 roster.
As the seconds ticked down during the Penn basketball team’s fifteenth loss of this past season, to Harvard February 6, little-used freshman Brian Fitzpatrick sat on the bench wondering why he had spent the entire game riding the pine yet again.