PHILADELPHIA – The Ivy League is pleased to announce the fourth annual 16-member class of Legends of Ivy League Basketball. These Legends embody the unrivaled experience afforded Ivy League student-athletes and have left a lasting impact on their respective basketball programs, universities and chosen professions.
 
This year's class includes five Ivy League Rookies of the Year, four Ivy League Players or Defensive Players of the Year, and ten 1,000-point scorers. It also features an Olympian, the sitting governor of Massachusetts, and the current president of Colby-Sawyer College. On the court and in the classroom, this year's class combined for 30 All-Ivy honors (19 first team, 16 second team) and four Academic All-Ivy nods.
 
Each Ivy League institution is represented by one male and one female honoree, as selected by their institution's athletic department.
 
"The members of the 2022 Legends of Ivy League Basketball class exemplify the unrivaled experience that our student-athletes receive," said the Ivy League's Executive Director, Robin Harris. "These distinguished individuals have accomplished much—on the court, in the classroom and in life—and we look forward to celebrating them at Ivy Madness in March."

Each legend will be formally honored at the 2022 Ivy League Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments from March 11-13 at the Lavietes Pavilion in Cambridge, Mass. A variety of ticket offerings are on sale now via IvyMadness.com.

2022 Ivy League Legends List
Brown: Mike Waitkus (M), Martina Jerant (W)
Columbia: John Baumann, Jr. (M), Helen Doyle Yeager (W)
Cornell: Jeff Foote (M), Karen Force (W)
Dartmouth: Walter Palmer (M), Sue Stuebner (W)
Harvard: Charlie Baker (M), Catherine Crisera Kelley (W)
Penn: Bruce Lefkowitz (M), Jewel Clark (W)
Princeton: Brian Taylor (M), Ellen DeVoe (W)
Yale: Steve Leondia (M), Mary Kalich (W)
 
Meet Penn's Legends…
 
BRUCE LEFKOWITZ
An absolute beast on the playing floor during his days wearing the Red and Blue, Bruce Lefkowitz is still the standard by which many of today's players are measured by longtime fans of Penn basketball. A dominating frontcourt presence throughout the mid-1980s, "Lefko" finished his career with 1,443 points, which at the time of his graduation placed him fifth on Penn's all-time scoring chart and still has him 12th all-time within the program. His career field-goal percentage was 58.7, which to this day remains second all-time at Penn—a stat enhanced by the fact that he took more shots than any of the top six listed in that category. Lefkowitz still remains the all-time leader in free throws made (469) and attempted (666), and he is eighth all-time with 766 career rebounds.
 
Lefkowitz was first-team All-Ivy as a senior, second-team All-Ivy as a junior, and All-Ivy honorable mention as a sophomore. He was second-team All-Big 5 as a senior. Penn won a pair of the Ivy League titles during Lefkowitz's career, in 1984-85 and his senior year of 1986-87 (he was a captain of that team). The Quakers went 10-4 both of those seasons. His junior year, the Red and Blue went 9-5 in league play and tied for second place.
 
JEWEL CLARK
The 2003-04 Ivy League and Philadelphia Big 5 Player of the Year, Jewel Clark was just the second player in program history to be named three-time first-team All-Ivy and first-team All-Big 5. A member of Penn's first two Ivy League title teams, she graduated second on Penn's all-time scoring list (1,743 points), third in career rebounds (933), and fourth in career steals (204). At the time of her induction, Clark still held program records for free throws made in a game (16 vs. Drexel in 2002) and in a career (475) while ranking third in career points scored and fourth in career steals (204).
 
Clark was third on the team in points per game as a freshman, helping guide the Quakers to their first ever Ivy League championship in 2001 while Penn won a school-record 21-straight games that year. Clark again guided the Quakers to the NCAA Tournament as a senior, as Penn went 11-3 in Ivy play behind Clark's 554 points scored that season.