On Oct. 5th, Penn released a statement announcing Kendall Grasela, former starting point guard for Penn women's basketball, as an assistant coach.  

After a year-long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ivy League basketball is back this fall, as the Quakers look to make their first trip to March Madness since 2018. Here’s how the Ancient Eight teams stack up heading into the 2021-2022 season. 

For the past 17 years, Rich Kahn has been the voice of the Quakers, announcing play-by-play calls at just about every home game for the Red and Blue.

Shortly after NIL legislation passed, Padilla partnered with Homecourt Edge Basketball, the trainer that she has worked with for the past decade. In collaboration with Padilla, HCE debuted the first piece in the HCExKP merch collection.

After reading this list, expect to be a little more fluent in Quaker jargon — from the program’s storied past to its ever-changing present.  

As the Quaker women's basketball team prepares for their first season since COVID-19 hit, they welcome on a whole new crop of recruits to bolster the roster.

Despite Penn's lack of on-court presence, the school is well represented amongst the Bucks' front office, which includes two Penn alums and one significant Penn donor.

After a year in which the Quakers saw no playing time, they prepare to board on a group of recruits that include three frontcourt players and two backcourt players.

Kovacikova, who has experience playing for Slovakia at the international level, will suit up as a point guard for the team. She comes in as the second youngest player for Slovakia at just 22 years old.

In 1967, the East Division Finals between the Sixers and Celtics began at the Palestra with the Sixers' typical arena occupied for the night. Decades later, the Sixers would also hold some open practices at the the Palestra.

In all likelihood, the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference Memphis Grizzlies will fall short of a ring this year, but the team’s 2020-21 campaign embodies the motto “Progress is perfection.” 

In Taylor Jenkins' second year as head coach of the Grizzlies, he has led the team to an impressive feat, given the roster's apparent youth and lack of experience. 

While it didn't end as abruptly as last year's season, this year's athletics season was marred by cancellations and a lack of play. For many of Penn's graduating seniors, this meant that they had no traditional senior night. In honor of these soon-to-be graduates, here's a look at some of the seniors from winter sports that impacted their respective programs the most.

Almost seven years after his first start for Penn in his freshman year, Jones is now a video coordinator for the Houston Rockets.

In 1954, Penn president Dr. Gaylord Probasco Harnwell – the namesake of Harnwell College House – announced the formation of a new method of intercollegiate basketball competition. Rather than playing in a conference, five Philadelphia-area schools would play a round-robin series of games for a city championship. 

The Quakers have gone as the Ivy League representative to the NCAA Tournament five times in program history, all since 2000.

In 1973, Massimino leveraged his time under Daly to become the head coach at Villanova, where he went on to win a national championship in 1985 after leading the eighth-seeded Wildcats to a number of upsets.