1919–20 Penn Quakers men's basketball team explained

Sport:	Basketball
Year:	1919–20
Prev Year:	1918–19
Next Year:	1920–21
Team:	Penn Quakers
Conference:	Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League
Short Conf:	EIBL
Record:	21–1
Conf Record:	10–0
Hc Year:	6th
Champion:	EIBL champions Helms Foundation national champions Premo-Porretta national champions

The 1919–20 Penn Quakers men's basketball team represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 1919–20 NCAA men's basketball season in the United States. The head coach was Lon Jourdet, coaching in his sixth season with the Quakers. The team finished the season with a 21–1 record^[1] and was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.^[2] ^[3]

Penn defeated the University of Chicago two games to zero in a best-of-three tournament at the end of the season to determine the national champion.^[4] Senior Hubert Peck was named a consensus All-American for the second time in his career (he was also selected in 1918).

Schedule and results

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Notes and References

Web site: 2014 . Pennsylvania Quakers season-by-season results . May 19, 2014 . sports-reference.com . Sports Reference LLC.
Web site: 2004 . NCAA Division I Men's Basketball – NCAA Division I Champions . May 19, 2014 . Rauzulu's Street.
Book: ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game . ESPN Books . 2009 . 978-0-345-51392-2 . ESPN . New York, NY . 535.
Web site: 2008 . 2008–09 Penn Quakers Men's Basketball Media Guide . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140519185632/http://www.pennathletics.com//pdf4/352745.pdf . 2014-05-19 . May 19, 2014 . Yearly Results (p. 121) . University of Pennsylvania . PDF.