# List of Penn Quakers men's basketball head coaches

The Penn Quakers men's basketball program is a college basketball team that represents the University of Pennsylvania. The team plays at the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). They compete in the Ivy League of the NCAA, where they have been since 1897. They play their home games at Palestra in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, named after palaestra, the ancient Greek wrestling school.
The men's team has had 19 official head coaches in its history. The team has played in 2,831 games over 116 seasons of collegiate play from the 1896–97 season to the 2016–17 season (excluding 1897 to 1901, when the Quakers did not play due to low attendance and lack of interest), compiling a record of 1742–1088–1 (.615).
For the first five years they played, the team had no coach. Russell Smith became the first head coach for the team in 1905. In Smith's four seasons as head coach, the team went 74–22–0 (.771), the best winning record out of any of the coaches in team history. The team made their first NCAA tournament appearance in 1953, under Howard Dallmar. 17 years later, Dick Harter was the next coach to bring the team to an NCAA Tournament bid. Under coaches Chuck Daly (1971–1977) and Bob Weinhauer (1977–1982), the team made nine tournament bids in 11 years, including an appearance in the Final Four. Fran Dunphy (1989–2006) compiled the most conference and overall wins as head coach with 310 wins and 191 wins, respectively. He also has the most NCAA Tournament appearances out of any head coach (10), but in nine of those appearances, the team was knocked out in the first round. As of 2017, Steve Donahue is the current head coach for the team. In his two seasons as head coach, he has compiled a record of 24–32–0 (.429).

## List of coaches

| | | Overall | Overall | Conference | Conference | |
| Name | Years | Won–Lost | Pct. | Won–Lost | Pct. | Note |
| No coach | 1897; 1902–05 | 33–28–2 | .540 | 7–11 | .389 | |
| R. B. Smith | 1905–09 | 73–22 | .768 | 23–5 | .821 | 2× EIL Champs |
| Charles "Kid" Keinath | 1909–12 | 36–25 | .590 | 11–7 | .611 | |
| Arthur Kiefaber | 1912–14 | 10–24 | .294 | 5–13 | .278 | |
| Lon Jourdet | 1914–20; 1930–43 | 227–143 | .614 | 105–86 | .550 | 6× EIL Champs |
| Edward McNichol | 1920–30 | 186–63 | .747 | 62–40 | .608 | 3× EIL Champs |
| Donald Kellett | 1943–48 | 46–31 | .597 | 23–15 | .605 | 1945 EIL Champs |
| Robert Dougherty | 1945–46 | 7–10 | .412 | 4–4 | .500 | |
| Howard Dallmar | 1948–54 | 105–51 | .673 | 48–26 | .649 | 1953 EIL Champs |
| Ray Stanley | 1954–56 | 31–19 | .620 | 19–10 | .655 | 1955 Ivy League Champs |
| Jack McCloskey | 1956–66 | 146–105 | .582 | 87–53 | .621 | 1966 Ivy League Champs, 1× Big 5 Champs |
| Dick Harter | 1966–71 | 88–44 | .667 | 49–21 | .700 | 2× Ivy League Champs, 2× Big 5 Champs |
| Chuck Daly | 1971–77 | 125–38 | .767 | 74–10 | .881 | 4× Ivy League Champs, 4× Big 5 Champs |
| Bob Weinhauer | 1977–82 | 99–45 | .688 | 62–9 | .873 | 5× Ivy League Champs, 2× Big 5 Champs |
| Craig Littlepage | 1982–85 | 40–39 | .506 | 28–14 | .667 | 1985 Ivy League Champs |
| Tom Schneider | 1985–89 | 51–54 | .486 | 36–20 | .643 | 1987 Ivy League Champs |
| Fran Dunphy | 1989–06 | 310–163 | .655 | 191–49 | .796 | 10× Ivy League Champs, 3× Big 5 Champs |
| Glen Miller | 2006–09 | 45–52 | .412 | 27–15 | .643 | 2007 Ivy League Champs |
| Jerome Allen | 2009–2015 | 65–104 | .384 | 38–46 | .452 | |
| Steve Donahue | 2015–present | 123–109 | .503 | 59–56 | .513 | 2018 Ivy League Champs, 2019 Big 5 Champs |
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