M. Hoops replaces Adler with former Penn guard
Former Penn guard Matt Langel will be the new unpaid assistant coach with the men's basketball team. He will also be the school's junior varsity basketball coach.
Langel played for the Quakers from 1996-2000, when he shared the backcourt with 1999-2000 Ivy Player of the Year Michael Jordan.
Jordan and Langel, along with then-freshman Ugonna Onyekwe, took Penn to the 2000 NCAA Tournament. In Langel's final game with the Quakers, he scored 11 points in a 68-58 loss to Illinois.
He averaged 11 points and 3.8 assists per game in his four years at Penn.
His 1,191 career points rank him 21st among the school's all-time leading scorers. His 201 career three-pointers rank him second in the history of the program.
Langel is also second all-time in three-pointers per game (8), second in three-point percentage in a season (50 percent in 1997-98) and sixth in three-pointers in a season (70 in 1999-2000).
Last year, Langel played with the Nijmegen Eiffel Towers, a professional basketball team in the Netherlands.
Langel replaces Harris Adler as the unpaid assistant. Adler left Penn earlier this month to become the director of basketball operations at La Salle.
-- David Burrick M. Hoops finally unveils schedule for 2004-05
Penn became the last Ivy League school to release its men's basketball schedule yesterday.
The Quakers are slated to take on four teams that played in the 2004 NCAA Tournament -- Wisconsin, Illinois-Chicago, Saint Joseph's and Princeton.
Penn will open its season on Nov. 16, when it takes on Quinnipiac at the Palestra as part of the Preseason NIT.
Penn's non-conference opponents are Quinnipiac, Wisconsin, Bucknell, San Francisco, Illinois-Chicago, Rider, Siena and Lafayette.
The Quakers' Big 5 schedule kicks off when they host La Salle on Dec. 4 at the Big 5 Classic.
The team's Ivy League season begins on Jan. 28, with a showdown with Yale at the Palestra.
Penn takes on Princeton at the Palestra on Feb. 8.
-- D.B.
