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To listen to oft-injured fifth-year seniors Darren Smith and Andreas Schreiber tell it, staying in peak condition won’t be a concern this year. Coach Jerome Allen says their returns should manifest themselves in more ways than just on-court production.
Marin Kukoc doesn’t quite stack up to the stature of his father, three-time NBA champion Toni Kukoc, but he brings to Penn much of what Toni brought the Bulls: size and versatility.
Greg Louis, a 6-foot-6 power forward out of William T. Dwyer High School in south Florida, told The Daily Pennsylvanian Tuesday that he would be coming to Penn for his college career.
This year, without reserving a spot beforehand, any student can show up to The Line by 9 p.m. tonight and guarantee season tickets in the student section. But that wasn't the only change.
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.