Penn has hired Fran McCaffery as its men's basketball coach, two weeks after he was fired at Iowa in a season where the Hawkeyes won their fewest games and had their lowest Big Ten regular-season finish in seven years.

Less than two weeks after his dismissal at Iowa following 15 years there, it looks like McCaffery will become the head coach at his Penn alma mater

Iowa fired head men's basketball coach Fran McCaffery on Friday after a disappointing 17-16 (7-13 Big Ten) season. The Hawkeyes nearly missed the Big Ten Tournament altogether, but sneaked in as the No.

Fran McCaffery is coming home. Penn announced Thursday it has named the Philadelphia native and 1982 Wharton School graduate as the 20th head coach in the more than 120-year history of the men’s basketball program.

The longtime basketball coach at Iowa was hired by The University of Pennsylvania, his alma matter, on Thursday. McCaffery was fired by Iowa after 15 seasons on March 14 while Penn fired Steve Donahue earlier this month after the Quakers went 8-19 in his ninth season on the job.

Fired by Iowa on March 14, former Siena coach Fran McCaffery was named Thursday as head coach at Penn of the Ivy League,