McCaffery’s return to his alma mater happened rather quickly. He spoke with people he knew at Penn about the opening shortly after he was fired on March 14 after 15 years as the head coach at Iowa.

Ivy League schools do not hire coaches like Fran McCaffery. In the history of the Ancient Eight, Penn men’s basketball’s recent appointment of the 1982 Wharton graduate is relatively unprecedented.

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 ...

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-se… ...

"I am excited and honored to return to my alma mater and the city of Philadelphia to lead the Penn men's basketball program," former Hawkeyes coach Fran McCaffery said.

Penn is hiring former Iowa coach Fran McCaffery as its next basketball coach, the school announced Thursday. McCaffery, 65, graduated from Penn in 1982 and began his coaching career there as an ...