PHILADELPHIA — The Penn Quakers are set to hire former Iowa coach Fran McCaffery as the program’s new head basketball coach, according to a report from Matt Norlander of CBS Sports.

News of McCaffery’s imminent hiring was first reported by college basketball reporter Sam Federman.

McCaffery, who is a Penn alum, lands the Ivy League job just weeks removed from his dismissal from Iowa, where he coached the Hawkeyes for 15 seasons. The 65-year-old is the winningest coach in school history, but was in the midst of a program downturn over four consecutive seasons that culminated with Iowa missing the NCAA tournament each of the last two seasons.

McCaffery went 297-207 at Iowa with seven NCAA tournament appearances. It likely would have been eight had the 2020 NCAA tournament not been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

McCaffery will take over for Steve Donahue, who was fired after going 8-19 this season in his ninth year on the job.

Iowa’s men were 10th in the Big Ten in average paid attendance this season, at 9,161 per game, though actual crowds appeared significantly less. That’s an 8 percent drop from last season and 26 percent drop from 2022-23.

McCaffery was head coach at Lehigh, UNC Greensboro and Siena before former Iowa athletic director Gary Barta hired him in 2010. He led the Hawkeyes to eight 20-win seasons and won a game in four of seven NCAA Tournament appearances from 2012-23.