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Penn will add four new recruits, all guards, to its basketball team this year. All were accomplished in high school and a couple have Ivy League familial ties.
Donahue and McLaughlin were among the 16 Ivy League basketball coaches who joined the coalition, committing to five specific action items to combat racial inequalities.
While the NBA icon's final season with the Bulls was being documented for The Last Dance, Penn's Michael Jordan was busy becoming the Quakers' leading scorer of the 1990's.
The NCAA granted Betley an extra year of eligibility after he suffered a right knee injury in the first five minutes of his junior season, forcing him to missed the remainder of the year.
Senior forward AJ Brodeur was named co-Player of the Year and earned first-team All-Ivy recognition, freshman guard Jordan Dingle was named Rookie of the Year, and senior guard Devon Goodman earned honorable mention All-Ivy.
Basketball players, coaches, and fans have taken to the internet to express their disappointment and anger with the League's decision, hoping that collective action may result in a reconsideration from the Ancient Eight's governing body.
The teams knew that there was a possibility that the men's and women's tournaments would be played without spectators. Canceling the tournament altogether, though? No one saw it coming.
While the coronavirus is legitimately concerning, the logical jump from wanting to limit the size of large crowds to an outright cancellation of the tournament is not obvious when there were other options on the table.
With 9:46 left in the game and the Quakers already leading the Lions by 20, Brodeur scored on a layup to give him his 18th point in the game and the 1,829th of his career.
On Friday, Penn men’s basketball was able to repeat its result against Cornell from earlier in the season, winning by a score of 78-64. Here are three of the biggest takeaways.
In their last Ivy Weekend of the season, the Quakers will play Cornell and Columbia at home, hoping to pull off two wins with Ivy Madness on the horizon.