The 1919–20 Penn Quakers men's basketball team represented the

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during the 1919–20 NCAA men's basketball season in the United States. The head coach was

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, coaching in his sixth season with the Quakers. The team finished the season with a 21–1 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the

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and the

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. Penn defeated the

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two games to zero in a best-of-three tournament at the end of the season to determine the national champion. Senior Hubert Peck was named a consensus All-American for the second time in his career (he was also selected in

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Schedule and results

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References

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