Basketball Issue 2015

BASKETBALL SUPPLEMENT 2015

>> After every Penn basketball practice, the coaching staff awards this lunchbox to the day's hardest worker. Now, after an offseason full of change, both the men's and women's teams will need to adopt a workmanlike attitude to capture Ivy League titles.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Bright future

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Close to the vest

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Ivy contenders

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Rookie roundup

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A deep backcourt

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Full circle

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Senior spotlight

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Prowess in the post

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O captain, my captain

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A new type of R&B

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Bright future ahead for hoops teams RILEY STEELE

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hen Jerome Allen’s tenure with Penn basketball ended in March, more than a few people were disappointed by the move.

Beyond Allen’s status as a legend after his playing days with the Red and Blue, as well as his outstanding character as an individual, many viewed the 2014-15 season as the beginning of a bright future for the Quakers.

Sure, the win-loss record may have told a different story, but the output on the court — at least, at times — demonstrated that Penn had the talent to, sometime soon, be a competitive force in the Ivy League.

Sam Jones stroking threes.

Mike Auger lighting up the Palestra more than once with his dunks. Antonio Woods with performances that should have garnered him Ivy Rookie of the Year honors.

Although the Red and Blue endured a seven-game losing streak in Ancient Eight play and finished with a single-digit win total for the third consecutive season, the squad competed. The problem was that most efforts weren’t consistent: Guys who played well in the first game of a weekend doubleheader would go scoreless the next night. Mental mistakes consistently reared their ugly heads.

So, at the end of yet another nightmareish season that saw the team finish tied for seventh in the Ivy League, despite all the potential, change was deemed a necessity. Allen is gone. Steve Donahue is in. Welcome to the new Penn basketball.

Entering 2015-16, the Quakers are once again saddled with an enormous amount of young talent. In addition to Woods,

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Auger, Jones and Darnell Foreman, the sophomores are joined by five supremely skilled freshmen, including presumptive starter Jake Silpe. It’s hard to find another team in the Ancient Eight with this many underclassmen who can — and are expected to — contribute this season.

In that regard, it almost seems as if the men’s basketball team has taken a page out of Penn women’s basketball’s playbook: Recruit well. Develop young talent. Compete with the best in the conference. Make the postseason.

Over the past seven seasons, Mike McLaughlin has brought the women’s program on par with its male counterparts, demonstrating that is isn’t only the men who can be responsible for hanging banners from the rafters of the Palestra.

As such, this supplement is no longer only dedicated to the men’s basketball program. Particularly over the past three years, seasons in which the Quakers have played in the NCAA Tournament, WNIT and WBI in the postseason, the women’s basketball team has demonstrated that it deserves the attention and respect previously reserved for the men’s basketball and football squads.

In no way is that meant as a slight to Donahue’s players and staff. If anything, the first-year coach — who served as an assistant at Penn from 1990 to 2000 — could learn a few things from McLaughlin and company. After all, the fastest coach to 400 wins in NCAA history did just earn himself a multi-year contract extension over the summer.

Nonetheless, this season, neither one of the Palestra’s tenants are projected to bring home Ivy titles. That isn’t unexpected.

The men haven’t had a winning season since 2011-12. The women have to compete with a nationally-ranked Princeton squad that won its first 31 games

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a year ago.

But especially on the men’s side, the race for the conference championship is wide open. Harvard lost its three best players from a year ago. Yale lost its starting point guard. Columbia is ... well, Columbia. It’s reasonable to hope for, at the very least, a finish in the top-half of the standings come March.

It’s not as easy to make such a fluid case for McLaughlin’s team.

After all, while Princeton did lose the unanimous Ivy Player of the Year selection to graduation, it does return four starters, each of whom would be the best player on any other Ivy team not named Penn.

But it’s impossible to rule out the Quakers, at least right now.

They still have Sydney Stipanovich and Michelle Nwokedi, not to mention a talented backcourt.

Plus, 2014 wasn’t too long ago, and that year’s title-winning team demonstrated that nothing was impossible.

Either way, maybe this isn’t the year when the Palestra reaches a complete Nirvana state and both squads win Ivy titles before raising banners next fall. But for the first time in a long time, both have the ability to do so at the same time. No matter what, both will be competitive and both will give fans a reason to hope for the future.

McLaughlin and Penn women’s basketball has shown us the formula can work: Recruit well.

Commit to excellence. Results will follow.

And thanks to consecutive strong recruiting classes and an excellent young core, Donahue and company are well on their way to doing the same. The future is indeed bright.

RILEY STEELE is a College senior from Dorado, P.R., and is senior sports editor at The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at steele@thedp.com.

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Vest in show: basketball, tech and training TRACKING ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE Part 4 of 4 New GPSports vests enable smarter practices LAINE HIGGINS Sports Editor

Coach Steve Donahue is not the only new fixture at the Palestra these days for Penn men’s basketball.

Since the dawn of the official 2015-16 season, the Quakers have welcomed another newcomer into their practices, this one a little more technologically advanced than the new man at the helm. Starting in early October, the team has been wearing GPS vests made by GPSport under their practice jerseys.

“The GPS monitors really themselves aren’t anything new.

They’ve been in the sports performance industry for a while,” said Eric Laudano, Penn’s associate athletic director for sports performance and head athletic trainer. “They are new to Penn and new to Penn basketball.”

At first glance, it might seem confusing why an athletic team would be using the same technology that us directionally challenged folk use when driving. But the GPS element of the

vests, which closely resemble a slimmed down and cropped Kevlar vest, is quite straightforward.

When players wear the vests, the GPS technology is able to keep track of their position on the court at all times during practice, how many miles a player logs during a two-hour stretch of training and a player’s heart rate all the while. These numbers are made available to the coaching staff in real time, making it possible to closely monitor every man on the court and address any concerns of fatigue the instant they may arise.

“As a coach, it really just gives you an opportunity to really just plan your practice and help with the development of guys, because you know instead of guessing that you know what, we went hard yesterday, let’s go easy today,” Donahue said.

Coaches are able to get a sense of a player’s exertion based on the data collected from the GPS vests rather than how rosy their cheeks are after training or how winded they look when walking off the court after practice.

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During practice, sophomore Mike Auger and his teammates wear vests from GPSports underneath their practice jerseys to monitor heart rate, distance travelled and placement on the court.

performance,” Laudano said.

“What that really does is help him assist in similar things in fatigue in practice or levels of fatigue that happen in certain times of the year.”

Indeed, hard numbers allow Donahue and the rest of his staff to write smarter practices during the season — something that is especially crucial during the grueling stretch of consecutive Ivy games on the weekends in January and February.

When it came down to wearing the vests for the first time, the members of the team played with tempered enthusiasm, complaining about the vests fitting uncomfortably. Now, four weeks later, these complaints are absent from the team’s practices at the Palestra and Rockwell Gym. “I think the guys are excited about it,” Donahue said. “Everybody gets excited about it if you feel that we’re trying to make them better and really doing it in a scientific way, not just guessing.”

Given that the team only

started using the technology in early October, the sample size of data is still relatively small.

Additionally, this season marks the first time that Donahue has implemented this kind of sports performance analytics into the training of any team he has coached over the course of his career. Thus, it is just as much a learning process for the coaches as it is for the players.

“I may not be great at figuring it out now, but after another year of it I can really judge exactly what I need to do each day preparing for that weekend’s games,” Donahue said.

Moving forward, Donahue wants to find a use for the data beyond just planning smarter practices. He envisions a way to tap into the competitive spirit of his players and use the data collection as a motivational tool.

“We’re going to have our big screen 60-inch monitor down there [courtside] that [the players] can actually peek over and see where they’re at,” Donahue said. “I want them to say, ‘You

know what, you didn’t reach your target heart rate 70 or 80 percent of the time. So look at your teammates.’”

If this mentality takes with the Red and Blue’s roster, Donahue will be able to instill a layer of accountability into his training regimen. This falls in line nicely with the each of the five core values Donahue picked for his team to embody in his inaugural season at the helm: passion, gratitude, unity, compete and humility.

Whether or not all of these new bells and whistles will translate into more tallies in the win column for the Red and Blue remains to be seen — the first game of the season against Robert Morris still awaits on Friday.

But if Donahue’s optimism about the new technology is any indication of what this season holds for the Quakers, this sports performance technology might be the thing that helps lift Penn basketball from its latest slump.

Harvard

Coach (years): Tommy Amaker (9) Record last year (Ivy finish): 22-8, 11-3 (t-1st) Player to watch: Junior guard Corbin Miller Harvard defeated Yale in an Ivy League playoff at the Palestra in March to punch its ticket to the NCAA Tournament, but its odds of repeating as champion appear slim. Due to graduation, the Crimson lost standout, first team All-Ivy performer Wesley Saunders, who averaged 16.6 points, 6.1 rebounds and 4.3 assists in his senior campaign. To make matters more grim, Harvard will also be without its two All-Ivy second team players after Steve Moundou-Missi graduated and Siyani Chambers tore his ACL earlier this fall. That means the pressure will be on junior guard Corbin Miller and senior guard Agunwa Okolie in 2015-16 after the duo logged 25.2 and 24.8 minutes per game, respectively, in secondary roles last season. Harvard finished fifth last year in scoring with 64.2 points per game, but suffocated opponents on defense with its 57.6 points allowed per game.

Ivy Media Poll predicted finish: 4th

Columbia

Coach (years): Mitch Henderson (5) Record last year (Ivy finish): 16-14, 9-5 (3rd) Player to watch: Senior forward Hans Brase After finishing third last year, Princeton is expected to maintain its position this season, as it sees its top four scorers from 2014-15 return.

Junior guard Spencer Weisz, senior forward Hans Brase, junior forward Steven Cook and sophomore guard Amir Bell were the only Tigers to average more than 20 minutes per contest last season and carried most of the scoring load amongst themselves, all averaging between 8.8 and 11.6 points per game. Weisz and Cook earned second team All-Ivy honors last year, and Brase’s 7.5 rebounds per game ranked third in the Ancient Eight. Princeton’s 46.3 percent shooting percentage and 37.7 percent three-point percentage were both tops in the Ancient Eight, and the Tigers’ 68.9 points per game paced the Ivies. However, on defense, Princeton allowed 65.7 points per game, better than only Penn and Brown.

Ivy Media Poll predicted finish: 3rd

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Coach (years): Kyle Smith (6) Record last year (Ivy finish): 13-15, 5-9 (5th) Player to watch: Senior guard Maodo Lo After a fifth-place finish last season, Columbia is expected to rebound thanks to the returns of seniors Alex Rosenberg and Grant Mullins from injuries that kept them out in 2014-15. In 2013-14, Rosenberg led the Lions with 16 points per game and Mullins contributed an average of 11.7 per game as well. The duo aims to continue where it left off with guard Maodo Lo, a unanimous first team All-Ivy selection in his junior year who paced the Ancient Eight with 18.4 points and proved to be one of the most dangerous threats from long distance. He also led the conference in three-point makes and attempts at three and seven per game, respectively, possessing the third-best rate at 43.1 percent. Last season, the Lions averaged the fourth-most points among the Ivies and allowed the fourth-fewest points. Interestingly enough, Columbia tied with Harvard for fewest turnovers lost (11.6), but finished last in takeaways forced (10.3).

Ivy Media Poll predicted finish: 2nd

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Coach (years): James Jones (17) Record last year (Ivy finish): 22-10, 11-3 (t-1st) Player to Watch: Senior forward Justin Sears On the hunt for its first back-to-back Ivy League titles since 1961-63, Yale is looking to build upon two consecutive season above .500. While the Elis will need to replace first team All-Ivy guard Javier Duren, who averaged 14 points (second on team), 5.5 rebounds (second on team) and 3.9 assists (first on team) in his senior season, they retain their best player in senior forward Justin Sears. Last year’s Ivy League Player of the Year and a first team All-Ivy selection, Sears is considered the favorite to win the conference's top honor again, a season after averaging 14.3 points and 7.5 rebounds. In 2014-15, Yale was one of the best-shooting teams in the Ancient Eight, with its clips of 44.4 percent on field goals and 37 percent on three-pointers landing behind only Princeton. The Bulldogs also allowed the second-fewest points in the Ancient Eight — behind only Harvard — due in part to perimeter defense that led opponents to convert only 31 percent of their threes, the lowest total in the Ivy League.

Ivy Media Poll predicted finish: 1st

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Penn welcomes multi-talented rookie class Donahue and Silpe to see minutes right away TOM NOWLAN Associate Sports Editor

It’s no secret: There are some fresh faces at the Palestra.

Of course, the most visible new addition to the Quakers is coach Steve Donahue. Following the departure of Jerome Allen last spring, the former Cornell and Boston College boss has been entrusted with leading the Red and Blue to their first Ivy League title since 2006-2007.

However, largely lost in the sound and fury of the coaching shuffle has been the arrival of this year’s freshman class.

Comprised of guards Jackson Donahue, Jake Silpe and Tyler Hamilton, along with big men Collin McManus and Max Rothschild, the Class of 2019 looks to be one of the most promising in recent Penn basketball memory.

Silpe, a 6-foot-2 guard out of Cherry Hill, N.J., is perhaps the most heralded new man in Red and Blue. A 1,500-point

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Current freshmen Jackson Donahue and Jake Silpe, both guards, could immediately rack up substantial minutes of in-game experience, especially now that senior captain Tony Hicks has elected not to return to the program for the 2015-16 season.

scorer in high school, Silpe was named the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Southern N.J. Player of the Year a season ago. Following the recent departure of Tony Hicks, Silpe looks to get even more

playing time than expected and has emerged as a preseason favorite for the Ivy League Rookie of the Year award.

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looking for open guys,” Silpe said. “I just have to keep us calm on the floor and keep us poised.”

Donahue (Jackson, that is), a 6-foot sharpshooter out of Massachusetts’ Northfield Mount Hermon — also the alma mater of McManus — is another freshman who will likely get significant minutes right away.

The Pawcatuck, Conn., native was undoubtedly the greatest recruiting success of the class, as he turned down offers from perennial Ivy powers Harvard and Yale to come to University City.

“We’ve got a really strong freshman class,” coach Donahue said. “We’ve all known each other for a while now [the five rookies all played against each other extensively in AAU leagues], and this summer we got the chance to really get close.”

Obviously, when a coach leaves a program abruptly, there is bound to be a good deal of instability among committed players, as oftentimes recruits are unwilling and unprepared to play under a new coaching regime. Coach Donahue, however, was amazed that not one recruit from the Class of 2019 decommitted after Allen’s departure.

“I was fortunate to know the [incoming class] a little bit,” the first-year coach said. “I coached Jackson’s brother [at BC.] I’ve known Collin since eighth

grade. … We knew Max’s Prep school well. I knew Tyler Hamilton’s prep school coach for years.

And Jake, I recruited kids on his AAU team. It’s nuts. The basketball world is two blocks long.”

“Now, the guys would come up to me and say, ‘I talked to that guy, that guy, that guy, and I asked about you,’” Donahue added. “I got good reports, thank God.” “And the thing about these kids is that they’re so resilient,” assistant coach Nat Graham said. “As much as it was hard with them with the whole situation with Jerome, they bounced back and they’re looking forward to something new.”

Jackson Donahue, for his part, had no hesitation maintaining his commitment when he heard that Steve, who is of no relation, would be the next Quakers’ boss.

“When he was announced, it was a bit of a relief, in the sense that it was someone I was familiar with,” the guard said. “It would have been great to play for Coach Allen, but it’s just as nice to play for Coach Donahue.”

So, the Palestra this fall will be jam-packed full of new faces — both on the court and on the sidelines.

And while that group has yet to prove anything on the court, they’ve certainly demonstrated one essential trait off of it: They’re awfully committed to Penn basketball.

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Steve Donahue said. “It’s another chance for him to take another growth in his game and part of that’s being a better leader.”

But a new scheme and an increase in Woods’ usage will not be the only changes this year.

A highly-touted recruit from Cherry Hill, N.J., Silpe has caught the coach’s eye throughout the preseason. In turn, Steve Donahue says he expects the freshman to start.

Of course, there is no shortage of capable players right behind Silpe and Woods, as Foreman brings 16 starts worth of experience to the table in his second go-around.

“It’s always competition, especially with Jake,” Foreman said. “We all just compete. The best player will play.”

On top of what the collection of guards bring to the table in Steve Donahue’s new offensive scheme, the backcourt’s defensive assignments will also have an important impact on the Quakers’ success this season.

Foreman explained that keeping opponents in front of each player is one of the defense’s key points, something that will be essential if Penn is to contain potent opposing backcourts, such as Columbia’s.

“Essentially, I don’t want to give up a layup, I don’t want to give up a three and I don’t want to foul,” Steve Donahue added. “And with that, I want to limit the team to one shot. So every drill we have is based off accomplishing those things.”

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Sophomore guard antonio woods will shoulder a greater burden for Penn as he looks to build off a strong freshman year.

A final adjustment to the Red and Blue’s scheme in 2015-16 will be the role of junior Matt Howard.

While he is listed as a guard on Penn Athletics’ website, Steve Donahue envisions using him slightly differently.

“I think the strength of Matt Howard is [that] he’s very versatile.

He’s a tough person to guard in our offense if he’s guarded by a four man,” he said. “He’s got the ability to shoot the three. He takes bigger guys off the dribble. I think at this point in his career, he’s strong enough,

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athletic enough and tough enough to guard a four.”

One thing is for certain: This team will resemble the squad former coach Jerome Allen marched on to the floor in personnel only. The strategic changes implemented by Steve Donahue and his assistants will be obvious when Penn steps on to the court for the first time on Friday against Robert Morris.

So, led by their backcourt, will the Quakers indeed prove they are the most talented team in the Ivy League? Only time will tell.

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Guard Antonio Woods was going to be relied upon heavily by Penn basketball in his upcoming sophomore campaign. But when the news of Tony Hicks’ departure from the team broke, that burden grew tenfold.

Despite the setback to the team’s overall depth, Woods isn’t shy about his expectations for his team heading into the 2015-16 season.

“We have a very high ceiling,” he said “I feel like we have a lot of young talent, a lot of raw talent.

“I honestly feel like we are the most talented team in the league, and I feel like we’re going to prove that this year.”

Woods — who averaged 8.4 points per game overall and 9.4 in Ivy play last season — will have the ball in his hands more than his freshman campaign, one where he was a contender for Ivy League Rookie of the Year. Now, at least at the beginning of the season, he will be looked upon to become the chief playmaker in the Quakers’ offense.

Woods will be joined by a deep crew in the backcourt. Fellow sophomore Darnell Foreman, senior Jamal Lewis — who sat out last season for health reasons — and freshmen Jake

Silpe and Jackson Donahue will all compete for minutes.

Their play will be the focal point of first-year coach Steve Donahue’s new gameplan, one that emphasizes a passing, cutting and motion offense. For the unit, skill, quickness and decision-making will be the key points of success.

Thus far, Foreman has had high praise for Donahue’s system.

“It gives you more responsibility,” the Camden, N.J., native stated.

“Reading the right play, making the smart play — not always the fantastic play [but] the easy play. It definitely helps you with your I.Q. You look at the floor a little bit differently.”

Woods also appears excited at how his game will elevate this season because of the new offensive scheme.

“It’s helping me move better without the ball,” he noted. “I remember I would have a problem standing still a lot on the offensive end if I didn’t have the ball in my hands. So he’s trying to help me be a better off-ball player.”

Steve Donahue expects Woods to step up without the ball in his hands as well. Without Hicks, who was named a captain before he left the team, the void for a leader in the backcourt appears to be Woods’ to fill.

“I think all of us have to take more of a leadership role. But I expect Antonio to do the majority of that,”

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not take to the court in Red and Blue this season.

Donahue may have come home, but it doesn’t seem like the place was kept particularly clean while he was away.

Family Matters So how would Donahue endeavor to re-establish stability amidst all of this tumult? By embracing the very thing that he was seemingly forced to leave back in New England: family.

“Our team motto – whanau – it means family,” senior guard Jamal Lewis said. “Looking after your brother.”

And Donahue hasn’t just talked the talk, he’s lived it. He’s a family man through and through.

“I remember a few times at Cornell, his kids coming up to him while he was engaged [during games] and tapping him on the shoulder,” Graham said. “And he turned around and completely changed, and was a dad for two seconds.”

Although he was unable to bring

Hitting the Ground Running When Jerome Allen was hired to coach Penn in 2009, the expectations were clear. As a former member of the program, he had been hired to bring the program back to the successes of its glory days, when he was tearing up the league in the Quakers’ backcourt.

Needless to say, he did not live up to these expectations.

In many respects, the situation that Donahue faces is similar. He too has returned to Penn with the expectations that he will turn the program around and, just maybe, get it back to where it was when he first walked the sidelines of the Palestra as an assistant.

But unlike Allen when he was first hired, Donahue has been through this before. He’s dealt with success — both its trappings and its spoils — and he’s dealt with disappointment. The expectations are nothing new to him.

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Allen was relieved of his duties last March, Donahue jumped at the opportunity.

“I had a seven-hour interview with [Athletic Director Grace Calhoun],” he said. “I think she figured out that, one, I understand what’s at stake here.

“I probably explained it to her more than she told me.”

Calhoun would eventually decide to bring Donahue on as the program’s new head coach, making the announcement less than two weeks after Allen’s departure. After 25 years, Donahue’s career has finally led him back to where he started.

But for a man making the transition to take over at a place that he knew like the back of his hand, Donahue has already faced his fair share of adversity here at Penn.

Unwilling to uproot their current living situation back in New England, Donahue was forced to leave his wife and children back in New England and move to Philadelphia alone. Meanwhile, his team, already in a state of flux, took another major hit recently when senior captain Tony Hicks — Penn’s leading scorer last year — decided that he would

his wife and children with him to Philadelphia — at least for this first season — he has nonetheless maintained his close family ties in a surprising way: by moving back in with his mother.

When he goes home after a long day of work, he sleeps in the same room where he slept while living with his mother in his younger days.

There’s no question that for Donahue, family comes first. And he has tried to bring this philosophy with him every day to the Palestra, with his second family, as it were.

With any family, there’s going to be a certain element of tough love, and Donahue has not shied away from using this with the Red and Blue. To hear him tell it, from the beginning, one of his major objectives has been to bring accountability back to the program.

“When I got here, I think there were certain accountability issues at times,” he said. “I addressed it. ...

And since that early time, we haven’t had one sidestep with this group.”

All of which is well and good, but it leaves one question unanswered: How is it going to translate to the court?

thus far, his influence is palpable.

Tellingly, none of the program’s incoming freshmen recruits de-committed over the offseason, despite the coaching change.

And it’s easy to see why buy-in for the new coach might be high, given the amount of intensity and enthusiasm he brings with him to practice every day.

“There was a loose ball by the bench, and he was literally like this,” said Graham, who then emphatically hit the deck, full body spread out on the ground. “He was on the floor and just screaming and stuff. The energy every day never wanes.”

Harvard’s recent string of success in the Ancient Eight is undeniable.

Nonetheless, Donahue and Penn basketball at large should know better than anyone else just how quickly an Ivy power can be overtaken.

Moving forward, the Ivy League, much like that loose ball, is up for grabs. Donahue’s mission is simple: Go out and win it to restore the program’s past greatness.

Because in order for his career to truly come full circle, Penn basketball as a whole will need to do the same.

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A lot has changed since Steve Donahue last coached for Penn basketball.

Back then, the Red and Blue were a perennial power within the Ivy League, led by the inimitable Fran Dunphy. However, Donahue left a winning situation to pursue greater opportunities in his own career before Dunphy did the same seven years later.

And with them, Penn’s winning ways eventually left as well. The Quakers have not eclipsed 10 wins in any of the past three years. Last season, they finished dead last in the Ancient Eight, showing every sign of a program in shambles, in desperate need of new blood.

Change is in the air, though, and that new blood has come in the form of a familiar face — Donahue himself. Now, as head coach of Penn basketball, he will be tasked with bringing the storied program back to its stature when he first came up with it 25 years ago.

But how did we end up here — and more specifically, how did Donahue end up here? Well, let’s start at the beginning.

Humble Beginnings 25 years ago, when Steve Donahue first joined the ranks of Penn’s coaching staff, he was not the man that he is today.

In fact, as a 20-something year old brand new to Division I coaching, he was the low man on the totem pole. Coaching wasn’t even his sole gig.

“Not only was he an assistant here, he also had a full-time job at the time selling paint,” said Nat Graham, who has played for Donahue at Penn and coached under him at Cornell and Boston College. “The whale mural over the Schuylkill — he sold the paint for that.”

But what Donahue lacked in tact and experience at the time was more than made up for in professional support and tutelage from no less than Fran Dunphy, the most successful and legendary coach in the history of the program.

“You had a guy that really understood this place,” Donahue said.

“And it wasn’t the same after he left.”

were able to accomplish at Cornell and why,” Graham said. “But also what we didn’t do right — and what he didn’t do right — at BC.” Following his firing, Donahue took a year off from coaching to regroup. Then, the Cathedral of College Basketball opened its doors.

Coming Home Objectively speaking, Penn basketball was bad last year. But that didn’t stop Donahue from taking an interest in the program.

As he himself puts it, “There’s only one Big 5.”

He even got to view the program from a unique perspective: as a college basketball analyst for ESPN and Fox. And to hear him tell it, despite their evident shortcomings, Donahue liked what he was seeing.

“My first observation, I did the Temple game last year, and I thought [the Quakers] were pretty talented,” he said. “But you could see it in their expressions that they were beat up.”

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Dunphy had only been named head coach a year prior to hiring Donahue, but he wasted no time establishing himself. And in doing so, he gave Donahue room to develop as a coach.

“He was the guy that [the players] kind of went to with whatever issues 18 year olds have,” Graham said.

“So it started there.”

In Donahue and Dunphy’s time together at Penn, the team was a force, compiling an overall record of 182-91 and amassing six Ivy League titles in only 10 years.

Unsurprisingly, opportunity came knocking for the up-and-coming coaching prospect, and Donahue ultimately left the friendly confines of the Palestra for the head coaching job at Cornell in 2000. But in the 15 years to follow, Donahue would not forget his fondness for the Red and Blue, even if he temporarily dropped the “Blue” from his wardrobe.

Growing Up Donahue inherited a Cornell program with almost nothing going for it, and he was not able to turn it around overnight. Far from it.

In his first four seasons with the Big Red, Donahue failed to lead his team into the top half of the Ivy League. He knew that if he wanted to achieve the kind of success he did at Penn, he’d have some growing up to do.

And grow up he did, adopting a more measured coaching style as he gained experience and perspective.

“I thought coaching was one thing, and it’s totally another,” Donahue said. “I was way out of control, and my emotions were to the point that it was detrimental to my coaching.”

And with it came the success he was looking for. In his last three years with the program, Cornell won three consecutive Ivy titles, including an unbelievable Sweet 16 run in the 2010 NCAA Tournament.

But, once again, Donahue spent little time resting on his laurels, leaving Ithaca for an ACC coaching job at Boston College. However, for the first time in his career, things didn’t work out the way he had planned.

In his four years before being fired, Donahue finished 22 games under .500 and failed to make March Madness even once. As always, he has not shied away from his relative failures.

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After a year off, transfer preps for starting role Chambers returns to court as team captain RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor

On March 7, 2014, then-sophomore Kasey Chambers took the floor in the second round of the MAAC Tournament with her Monmouth women’s basketball teammates. She played 10 minutes, taking one shot in the Hawks’ season-ending 71-56 loss.

That would be the last time she played a game for Monmouth.

Four days later, Penn women’s basketball won its first Ivy League title in over a decade, stunning Princeton to clinch a berth in the NCAA Tournament.

Since then, the two have been a match made in heaven. At the conclusion of the 2013-14 season, Chambers — a 5-foot-7 point guard from Belmar, N.J. — elected to transfer to Penn, bringing with her a work ethic that continues to inspire her teammates as the Quakers prepare to open the 2015-16 season on Friday.

Due to NCAA rules, the senior with two years of eligibility remaining was forced to sit out last year. She could only practice with the team and was unable to travel to road

contests. However, despite the layoff from the game she loves, Chambers is ready to get back to playing competitively for the first time in 20 months.

“Sitting out for a year was definitely very challenging just because I love the sport so much,” Chambers said. “And to take that away for a year and not be able to play in any games, it’s so hard.

“But coming back this year, my teammates were so good at supporting me and making the transition easy. I’m ready.”

In two seasons with the Hawks, Chambers played in 63 games, starting nine. She scored in double digits four times throughout her sophomore season, including a game against Rider in which she notched a career-high 14 points.

But beyond her impact in games at Monmouth, it is what Chambers has done behind the scenes since arriving at Penn — especially when she was ineligible to play — that has helped her win over both her fellow teammates and coaches.

“She came to practice every day, and she worked harder than anyone,” Chambers’ backcourt mate sophomore Anna Ross said. “She couldn’t even travel.

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anyone no matter the circumstances. She showed that last year, and she continues to show that this year.

“She’s been a leader from the beginning, even though she wasn’t playing.”

Heading into last season, the Quakers were fresh off that Ivy title and NCAA Tournament appearance. While a handful of important veterans, including 2013-14 Ivy League Player of the Year Alyssa Baron, had graduated, the team still returned four core seniors, including starters Kathleen Roche and Kara Bonenberger.

This time around, at least in comparison to the past two seasons, there is undeniably a dearth of senior leadership surrounding Mike McLaughlin’s program. Luckily for the team, since she joined the team, Chambers has led by example, establishing herself as a player worth emulating for her younger teammates.

“Coming in my freshman year, she was so helpful,” Ross said.

“But she offered her experience to me, and that helped so much freshman year when you come in and you’re scared and intimidated. But she talked me through

it and she was amazing.”

Because of Chambers’ work ethic and ability to connect with her teammates in spite of her lack of on-court action, her teammates named her a captain for the upcoming season, along with junior Sydney Stipanovich and seniors Keiera Ray and Brooklyn Juday.

“It was such an honor. I choked up,” she said. “I hope that throughout this season, I can help the team in the best way I can. That’s what they voted me into the position for.”

“She’s always in the gym trying to get better,” Ross added. “And you want to be able to learn something from your captains and learning how to get better is something I learned from Kasey.”

But Chambers’ skill set goes beyond what she does in practice and how she has impacted her teammates both on and off the court. Whereas Ross and sophomore guard Beth Brzozowski were expected to be able to score from the point guard position in 2014-15, the transfer is able to run the offense and command the floor with her speed and evenhandedness.

“I think she’s really going to

give us something we haven’t had since [former guard] Megan [McCullough] left,” McLaughlin said. “She plays at a little bit of a different speed, she gets up and down the court quickly with the basketball, she plays at a high pace, she’s a fearless defender.

“She understands the pace of the game. I don’t think she gets down on herself when things go bad. She’s going to be an uplifting person for us and we’re going to rely on her heavily.”

Relying on Chambers heavily will begin on Friday, as Penn is set to take on No. 14 Duke at the Palestra. In that game, the veteran will take the court for the first time in nearly two years as the Red and Blue’s starting point guard, with Ross set to move to the two-guard position while Brzozowski comes off the bench.

“I think all three of us, we all have the same goal: We want to work, we want to play together and find our chemistry out on the court together,” Chambers said.

“Coming in this year, it’s very clear that we are ready to go, and we’re all excited for the start of the season.”

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In college athletics, change is inevitable.

After graduating the team’s two best shooters, Penn women’s basketball’s offense now runs through the post. Between two-time reigning Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year Sydney Stipanovich and reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year Michelle Nwokedi, the Quakers are talent-heavy in the front court.

And this season, it will show in the team’s game plan.

“We have two of the best post kids in the league, everything needs to go through them,” coach Mike McLaughlin said of the team’s offense. “It’s centered around Sydney and Michelle right now.”

The departures of Seniors Renee Busch and Kathleen Roche will be felt most from beyond the arc. The pair combined to shoot 42.1 percent from three on 209 attempts in 2014-15. With a newfound lack of depth on the wing, McLaughlin and his staff will be relying on two of the best front court players in the Ivy League more than ever.

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Junior syndey stipanovich and sophomore Michelle Nwokedi followed similar paths at Penn, coming off the bench during the beginning of their respective freshman years and ending the season with rookie honors.

her junior season with Penn, is healthier than ever, having now fully recovered from a back injury that limited her last season.

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Named one of the team’s three captains this season, the squad’s leading scorer from last season will again be looked on as the offensive focal point.

“I definitely have big shoes to fill, but it’s an honor that my teammates and coaches elected me as captain. I’m excited,” Stipanovich said. “The leadership that we had last year, they taught us how to lead, and we’re trying to transition that over to this year.”

While they don’t play an identical brand of basketball in any way, Nwokedi followed Stipanovich’s freshman path last season, beginning the year coming off the bench before eventually claiming a starting role in early February.

The Missouri City, Texas, native thrived, scoring 13.5 points and

9.7 rebounds per game over the course of 11 starts.

Now, without the tough transition into college basketball looming over the season, the sophomore feels more comfortable and ready to build on a successful rookie campaign.

“Michelle is picking up where she finished last year,” McLaughlin said. “I think she sees the game differently, and she sees a bigger role. Her conditioning has greatly improved.”

One of the hallmarks of the Quakers in their recent turnaround under McLaughlin has been an incredibly tenacious defense. When Penn won the Ivy League in 2014, it was led by a defense that allowed just 56.7 points per game, nearly six points better

than the next best defense in the conference. Last season was more of the same, as the team allowed just 53.5 points per game.

As a team still searching for the next dominant wing scorer after Alyssa Baron’s graduation, the defensive identity has buoyed a team that can struggle to score at times. Stipanovich and Nwokedi have been the centerpiece of that defense, forcing teams into taking difficult shots and setting numerous blocked shot records in the process.

Stipanovich is on pace to break the Penn record for career blocks early this season and already holds the two seasons with the most blocks in Penn history, while Nwokedi finished with the fourth-most blocks in a season last year.

In addition to the top end talent of Nwokedi and Stipanovich, McLaughlin anticipates that freshman Princess Aghayere will be a key part of the front court rotation. The Reston, Va., native averaged 17.9 points and 12.7 rebounds per game as a senior at South Lakes High School. “[Princess is] very instinctive, she can go get the ball.

She’s playing on pure instincts,” McLaughlin said.

“She’s trying to learn the college game and play at the same time so everything to her is very new. She’s going to rebound and she’s going to score the ball; she’s pretty skilled.”

While Aghayere may not end up taking on the same starting roles that Stipanovich and Nwokedi did as freshmen, she’ll play an important role filling in at forward.

Penn is transitioning right now from a team that, just a few years ago, had one of the best shot creators in the league to one that centers around the post. Whether the Quakers are able to improve on their 21-9 record remains to be seen, but one thing is clear, this team won’t look like last year’s squad.

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“I asked her to help the freshman class get acclimated and help them in every way possible, and that’s what she’s been doing.

She’s doing it with great honor.

She’s at practice every day, she’s in the weight room every day with the team. She’s been a great role model.”

“I was honored that the team still wanted me to be a leader, even though I couldn’t do it on the court,” Ray said. “I know that the team knows that I’ll be there for them, and that’s why I’m still here. Because I love them to death.”

Make no mistake, Ray is not simply being taken along for the ride. The life of a Penn athlete is demanding. Whether one is starting every game or sitting on the sidelines, being a student-athlete is a huge time commitment at a school where the life of a student can be stressful enough on its own. In staying with the team, Ray is making a major sacrifice, one that is not lost on McLaughlin.

“At Penn, there’s so much for her to do, and basketball takes up a big portion of everyone’s

day,” the coach said. “For Keiera to show the honor that she has, to stay in the program when there’s other things around campus that she could be doing, it shows the kind of character she has, and hopefully it shows the type of program that we run, that her impact could be felt off the court. I’m so happy that she’s made this decision to stay in the program, because many people would just walk away.”

Ultimately, McLaughlin is excited for what the future holds in store for his resilient captain, even if that future will not unfold on the hardwood floor of the Palestra.

“She’s still getting a great education, she’s getting a great experience. She’s going to get the entire Penn experience that an athlete gets, and it’s going to impact her for the rest of her life. That’s what we have to remember.

“She’s going to make a difference with this group,” he continued. “She’s impacting our program, and more importantly for her, she gets the full impact of the Penn experience until the last day she’s here.”

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last season, which is, unfortunately, 98 more than she’ll play this year. Ray burst onto the scene as a freshman in 2012-13, earning several rookie honors and being named honorable mention All-Ivy. It certainly looked as if, come November 2015, Penn would be preparing to celebrate the accolade-filled career of a terrific player. But Ray’s career was derailed by knee injuries — she played just 11 games as a sophomore and nine as a junior.

As she entered her senior year at Penn, Ray made the toughest call an athlete can make.

“At the beginning of the school year, I sat down with the coaches, with my parents, with my teammates, with the doctors.

And I made the best decision for me. The best decision was to stop playing so that it would not affect my life in the future.”

But that didn’t stop the team from naming her a captain.

“My aim and her aim is for to her have great value and impact us continuously until she graduates. And I think she can do that,” McLaughlin said. “She’s a great leader in the locker room

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This season, Penn women’s basketball captains have some big shoes to fill — and some unorthodox ways to go about filling them.

Last yea r, coach Mike McLaughlin’s captains were the team’s four seniors and four of its best players. Kara Bonenberger, Kathleen Roche, Renee Busch and Katy Allen broke team records and enemy hearts during their Penn tenure, compiling a program-best 74 wins, winning the first Big 5 title in program history, and leading Penn to its first three postseason wins.

Roche and Bonenberger led the team offensively, with the latter eclipsing the 1,000-point mark on her career. Busch and Allen were key members of the team’s second unit and earned several starts along the way.

In 2014-15, the four thencaptains played 934, 803, 545 and 403 minutes. During that period, the four Quakers who have since inherited the captaincy logged 807, 98, 51 and zero.

That first number belongs to Sydney Stipanovich, who established herself as the star of the team while earning the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year award and becoming a unanimous first team All-Ivy selection last year. The lone junior to be named a captain this season, Stipanovich is the youngest of the bunch despite having the most on-court experience as a member of the Red and Blue.

“Sydney clearly is our best

basketball player,” McLaughlin said. “As a coach, I want to see Sydney continue to grow as a person and become a bigger leader. I think she’s going to impact us on the court more than anyone, and this is the right step for her in terms of her maturity as a player and as a student-athlete at Penn.”

The zero came from Kasey Chambers, a transfer from Monmouth who sat out the entire season due to NCAA transfer rules. But the 5-foot-7 guard is now eligible and expected to play major minutes.

“She’s got tremendous love and passion for the game, and her work ethic is second to none,” McLaughlin said. “She reminds me of Renee Busch — she has that level of work ethic, which is about as high as you can get as an athlete.”

The other two captains may not make as much of an impact in the box score, but are nonetheless also crucial pieces of this team. Brooklyn Juday missed 11 games due to injury and played sparingly when healthy, seeing only 51 minutes of playing time last season. But she is, by all accounts, the heart and soul of the team, making her as easy a choice for captain as the dominant Stipanovich.

“Brooklyn is the ultimate program player,” McLaughlin said. “She continues to work and mature, she’s a tremendous student, she’s totally invested in the Penn basketball program. This is a really deserving honor for her. She’s going to lead by her maturity. She’s a very positive person, and every team needs that trait.”

“I see my role as an energy spark for the team. It’s something I really take pride in,” Juday said.

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Sophomores now shoulder backcourt burden Ross and Brzozowksi fill shoes of Roche and Bush NICK BUCHTA Sports Reporter

There’s a new era of R&B in the Penn women’s basketball backcourt.

After Penn women’s basketball lost Kathleen Roche and Renee Busch to graduation last spring, Anna Ross and Beth Brzozowski are positioned to fill the void that opened at the close of last season.

Although the two sophomores largely split time at the point guard position last year, both will see slightly different roles, as Ross steps into the two and Brzozowski takes over as the first player off the bench at the point.

But it will be no small task for Ross and Brzozowski to

replace the departed seniors.

Busch was a spark off the Quakers’ bench, and coach Mike McLaughlin could count on her to come into a game and stop the bleeding if the Red and Blue were struggling or keep the pedal on the gas if momentum was on their side. In Roche, the Red and Blue lost the sixthbest three-point shooter in program history and last year’s second-leading scorer.

Fortunately, Penn has a duo ready to replace them in Ross and Brzozowski. Although the former was flexed into a handful of minutes off the ball during her freshman year, this season will mark a more solid transition for her into a scoring role.

“Playing the two is much different than the one, so I had to just think about what I was going to do differently this year,” Ross said. “I had

to change my mindset a little and then work on what I felt was going to work better as a two instead of a one. Because last year I played the one, you know, I split it with Beth the whole year, but the two is very different — it’s a different mindset, a different mentality.”

In Brzozowski, McLaughlin has an almost perfect fit when it comes to replacing Busch off the pine. The sophomore can come in for long stretches of the game, giving the Quakers depth at the point while allowing senior Kasey Chambers to ease into her starting role at the one.

“I’ll come off the bench pretty rested, and it’ll be a great opportunity to let Kasey kind of wind down, get a break,” Brzozowski said. “Even when we play together, when it’s Anna, Kasey and I on the court, I think it adds something to our

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offense.”

Largely, the only part of the backcourt that has changed is its faces. Not only will the duo function similarly to the way Roche and Busch did a year ago; they’ve also established an off-the-court relationship that mirrors last year’s seniors.

“I think it’s exactly like the seniors last year who left,” Ross said. “We just know each other, we connect off the court and on the court and I think our connection off the court definitely translates on the court.”

For the Red and Blue backcourt, it is a lot easier to mirror their predecessors when they have already been around the environment that fostered the 2015 graduates’ success in the first place.

“I think that’s really what people don’t see, [what’s] behind the scenes,” McLaughlin said. “Here, they came

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over Kathleen and [graduated senior] Katy Allen were here, Megan McCullough and Kristen Kody — who graduated the year before them — were at practice the other day. And they ended up speaking to our group, and I think that’s powerful.”

“I got the chance to watch Kath all throughout last year so she’s another person that I’m trying to model my game after because she had an amazing season last year,” Ross explained. “She was the strong two, so any way I can model my game after her, it’s going to be great this year, and it will show.”

So while that rhythmic sound fans will hear in the Palestra as the Quakers take the ball up the court this season might come from different R&B musicians, the tune will sound just the same.

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