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2025-26 Men's Basketball Roster

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23 Ethan Roberts

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Arlington Heights, Ill.
  • Highschool John Hersey

Biography

Career Honors
*2025-26: Second-team All-Ivy
*One-time Ivy League Player of the Week (12/2/24)
*Two-time Philadelphia Big 5 Player of the Week (11/24/25; 1/12/26)
*USBWA Team of the Week (11/24/25)
*CollegeInsider.com Lou Henson Award POTW (11/24/25)
*All-tournament at 2024 Cathedral Classic Invitational

2025-26: (Game-by-Game in PDF) Played in 23 of Penn's 30 games, missing seven due to injury ... Second-team All-Ivy ... Led Penn in overall scoring average (16.9 ppg) and free-throw percentage (.799) ... Scored in double figures 19 times in his 23 appearances, including a team-high eight 20-point games, and led the Quakers in scoring 10 times and in rebounding twice ... AMONG IVY PLAYERS (all): 4th in points per game (16.9), 6th in FT percentage (.799), 8th in 3FG percentage (.404), 13th in 3FG per game (1.7), 13th in steals per game (1.0) ... AMONG IVY PLAYERS (conference): 6th in FT pct (.810), 8th in scoring (16.2 ppg), 8th in 3FG pct (.383), 11th in 3FG per game (1.6) ... Scored 30 points in both of Penn's Big 5 pod games, with 31 vs. Saint Joseph's (11/17) and 30 at Drexel (11/21) ... added a team-leading eight boards, his season high, against the Dragons ... For his efforts, he was named Big 5 Player of the Week, USBWA Team of the Week, and CollegeInsider.com Lou Henson Award POTW ... Also named Big 5 Player of the Week after dropping 28 points in an Ivy win over Brown (1/10), adding four rebounds and five assists ... Went for a combined 52 points at Dartmouth and Harvard, scoring 25 against the Big Green (1/17) and 27 against the Crimson (1/19) and grabbing four boards in both contests ... Scored 21 points in a win over Harvard (2/28), with 17 of them coming after halftime; added four rebounds, three assists and two steals ... Scored 21 points in a win over Columbia, with 16 of them coming in the game's final 5:08 and 12 coming in the final 2:42 ... After missing previous four games to injury, led Penn with 19 points and had four assists in Ivy League opener at Princeton (1/5) ... Finished with 19 points, five assists and four rebounds at American (11/9) ... Scored a team-leading 18 points in Penn's regular-season finale, a win at Brown (3/6) ... Went for 17 points, tied for team-high honors with six rebounds, and dished out five assists in an Ivy win at Cornell (1/31) ... Led Penn with 16 points in the Cathedral Classic final against Hofstra (11/30).

2024-25: (Game-by-Game in PDF) Started all 25 games in which he played, missing two due to illness or injury … Led Penn in scoring average (16.8 ppg) and 3FG made (59) and averaged 5.6 rebounds per game … Also had 52 assists and 22 steals … In Ivy play, averaged 16.9 ppg and 5.3 rpg and had 22 assists, 13 steals and hit 36 treys … Led Penn in scoring a team-high 11 times and in rebounding eight times … AMONG IVY LEAGUE PLAYERS (all): Fourth in FT percentage (.821), sixth in points per game (16.8), seventh in 3FG per game (2.4), 11th in rebounds per game (5.6), 12th in 3FG percentage (.371) … AMONG IVY PLAYERS (conference): Fourth in 3FG per game (2.8) and FT percentage (.844), sixth in points per game (16.9), eighth in 3FG percentage (.379), 14th in rebounds per game (5.3), t-14th in steals per game (1.0) … Finished the season with a team-high 23 double-figure scoring games (including each of the last 20), a team-leading nine games of at least 20 points, and five double-doubles … Started his 20-game streak of double-digit games with a collegiate-high 33 points in Cathedral Classic Invitational vs. Navy (11/29) … Followed that up with a double-double (23 pts/10 rbs) in a CCI win over Maine and 20 vs. Elon to earn all-tournament honors … Dropped 29 points—going 6-10 on 3FG—and added five rebounds, three steals and two assists vs. Brown (1/31), then went for 26 and three boards in the return matchup with the Bears (2/15) … Surpassed the 20-point mark in consecutive games, with 26 vs. Cornell (1/18) and 21 in a win at Harvard (1/20) … Finished with 20 points, eight rebounds and five assists in a win over Rider (12/20) … Collected a double-double (15 pts/11 rbs) in Ivy win over Dartmouth at The Palestra (2/21) … Stuffed the stat sheet with 10 points, 10 rebounds, five assists and two steals at George Mason (12/22) … His other double-double came when he recorded 15 points and 10 rebounds in an Ivy win over Columbia (1/25), adding five assists … In his Penn debut, scored 15 points including the winning foul shots in Penn’s season-opening win at NJIT (11/4) … Followed that up with a double-double (23 pts/10 rbs) in a win over UMES (11/7) ... NABC Honors Court.
 
2023-24 (at Drake): Redshirted after suffering a preseason injury.
 
2022-23 (at Army): Played in all 33 games for the Black Knights, making 31 starts which tied for third on the team … Patriot League Rookie of the Year … Patriot League All-Freshman Team … finished second on the team in both scoring (12.4 ppg) and rebounding (4.4 rpg) … Also second on the team in three-point shooting, knocking down 59 treys and shooting 40.7 percent from beyond the arc … Drained at least three treys in eight games … Also had 40 assists and 19 steals on the season … Finished the season with 18 double-figure scoring games including a 30-point outing and three other games over 20 points … Had two double-doubles, with 16 pts/10 rbs in a league game against Boston University (2/22) and with 17 pts/10 rbs against Merchant Marine (11/30) … Scored 32 points in 32 minutes at Buckell (2/4), going 6-of-8 from distance … Had 22 points, four rebounds and four assists—tied for his season/career high—in his third collegiate game, at Siena (11/16) … Scored 23 points, going a perfect 5-of-5 beyond the arc, in a two-point PL win over Lehigh (12/30) … Dropped 20 in a league win at American (1/11) … Flirted with a double-double (19 pts, 8 rbs) against Manhattan (11/26), the start of a four-game double-digit stretch of games … Had four 17-point games: Bucknell (1/18), at American (1/25), and then back-to-back games against Loyola Maryland (2/8) and Navy (2/11) … Also had three steals against the AU Eagles, a season high he matched in the next game against Holy Cross (1/28).
 
High School: Letter winner and team captain at John Hersey under head coach Austin Scott … Averaged 20.3 PPG … All-state, all-conference, all-area recognitions … Chicago Sun-Times All-State Team.
 
Personal: Has an older sister who played lacrosse at Fresno State … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.
 
Why Penn? “It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that encompasses my ambitions perfectly as a person. I feel that Penn will yield the best version of myself.”

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Historical Player Information

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    2024-25Junior

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    6'5" 195 lbs
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    2025-26Senior

    G/F
    6'5" 190 lbs
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