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

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

during the

1919–20 NCAA men's basketball season The 1919–20 NCAA men's basketball season began in December 1919, progressed through the regular season, and concluded in March 1920. Season headlines * Penn of the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League met Chicago of the Big Ten Conferen ...

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 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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