PHILADELPHIA – The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) has announced its 2017-18 Major Awards and All-ECAC teams in Division 1 men's basketball, and the University of Pennsylvania was well-represented as the program's John R. Rockwell Head Coach of Men's Basketball, Steve Donahue, was named the ECAC Coach of the Year while sophomore AJ Brodeur earned second-team All-ECAC recognition.
 
Donahue oversaw a stunning turnaround in his third year at Penn. After going 11-17 his first year and 13-15 his second year, the Quakers went 24-9 this past season. Only six teams in program history have had more wins in a season, the most recent being the 2001-02 team which won 25 games.
 
Penn also tied for its first Ivy League title since 2006-07 with a 12-2 regular-season record, after going 5-9 and then 6-8 in Ivy play in Donahue's first two years. The Red and Blue punctuated the season with wins over Yale and co-champion Harvard to win the second Ivy League Tournament and clinch the Ancient Eight's NCAA Tournament bid. A 16 seed, Penn fell to top-seeded Kansas in the NCAA first round, 76-60, in Wichita, Kan.
 
Donahue also was named the Ivy League and NABC District 13 Coach of the Year. During the season, he became the seventh coach in Ivy League history to reach 100 conference wins, becoming the first to do it with two different programs (78 wins at Cornell, 23 at Penn). Overall, Donahue has 248 career wins.
 
Also an NABC All-District and unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection, Brodeur finished the season averaging 13.1 points and 7.2 rebounds per game, numbers that jumped to 14.8 and 7.6 in Ivy play. In conference play, he finished the year second among Ivy players in rebounding, tenth in scoring, tied for second in steals per game, third in blocked shots per game, and fourth in field-goal percentage. The Ivy League Tournament's Most Outstanding Player, Brodeur finished with 22 double-figure scoring games including four with at least 20 points, and he had five double-doubles—including both Ivy League Tournament games—and six games with more than 10 rebounds.