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-season finish in seven years.

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 assistant.

Fran McCaffery's official homecoming began on Thursday morning after he was named as the head coach at Penn, his alma mater. McCaffery, 65, played for the Quakers from 1979-82 and served as an assistant coach for the program for one season after graduating from Penn's Wharton School.