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2025-26 Men's Basketball Roster

Ethan Young
Michael Nance
Michael Nance
Don Felice

35 Niklas Polonowski

  • Height 6-6
  • Weight 210
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown La Grange, Ill.
  • Highschool Lyons Township

Biography

2024-25: (Game-by-Game in PDF) Played in 24 games and made three starts … Averaged 4.3 points and 1.6 rebounds per game, knocked down 24 three-pointers, and added 10 assists… In Ivy play, averaged 4.5 ppg and 2.1 rpg … Hit double figures three times on the season … Scored 14 points in a win over Rider (12/20) and followed up two days later with 10 points at George Mason (12/22) … Dropped 11 points with a trio of treys and a 2-2 day at the foul line in an Ivy win over Columbia (1/25) … Hit for nine points in three straight Ivy League games, against Princeton (2/7), at Yale (2/14) and at Brown (2/15) … Scored two points and grabbed six rebounds vs. Harvard (2/22).
 
2023-24: (Game-by-Game in PDF) Played in 18 games as a freshman … Scored 77 points (4.3 ppg), pulled down 15 rebounds, dished out five assists … Knocked down 23 three-point shots out of his 26 made field goals … Only double-figure scoring game came against FDU-Florham (12/6) when he dropped 16 on 5-of-6 field goals (4-of-4 3FG) … Added three assists and a steal in the win over the Devils … Had back-to-back nine-point games, at Auburn (1/2) and in Ivy-opening win against Dartmouth (1/6), adding three rebounds against the Tigers … Recorded eight points and two rebounds against Harvard (1/20) … Scored six points in four road games: at Houston (12/30), at Cornell (1/15), at Columbia (1/27), and at Brown (2/2) … Had three points, four rebounds and an assist in his collegiate debut, against John Jay (11/6).
 
Summer of 2023: Played for Denmark at the U18 European Championship, averaging 8.1 points, 4.0 rebounds and 1.3 assists as the Danes took 13th place out of 16 teams … Led Denmark with 19 points in its Round of 16 loss to eventual tournament champion (and tourney host) Serbia … Had 10 points in a win over Finland in the consolation round.
 
High School: Lettered twice in basketball, served as captain senior year under head coach Tom Sloan … Helped Lyons Township to 52-12 record across the two seasons and a pair of Illinois High School Association (IHSA) 4A Regional championships … Team also won championships at Thanksgiving Tournament (2022, 2023) and the Burlington MLK Classic (2022, 2023) … Holds program records for three-pointers in a game (7), season (91), and career (162) … Team MVP as a senior when he averaged 16.5 points, six rebounds, 3.5 assists and two blocks per game … As a junior, led LT in three-pointers and blocked shots … As a senior, named second-team 4A all-state by the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association (IBCA) and honorable mention all-state by the Associated Press (AP) … First-team all-area by Suburban Life as a senior … Two-time West Suburban All-Conference … Two-time Jack Tosh Holiday Classic All Tournament … Two-time Burlington MLK Classic All Tournament … LT Thanksgiving All-Tournament as a senior … Also played for Breakaway Basketball since 2019, winning three NY2LA Tournaments and a UA Rise regular-season championship … Honor Roll all four years … High Honors Graduate … Lyons Township Honor Medal.
 
Personal: Father played college basketball at Michigan State—captaining the Spartans in 1996-97—then played professionally in Ireland and Germany … Had an uncle who played college basketball at Marquette … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.
 
Why Penn? “Penn’s equilibrium between basketball and academics is what stood out to me in the first place. My father had the same college recruiting process when he was my age. He told me when I was at the right college, I would just feel it. When I stepped on campus at Penn, I had that feeling right away. The coaches, team, professors, and everything at Penn felt like something I want to be a part of. The family atmosphere had me eager to call Penn home for the next four years.”

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Historical Player Information

  • 35

    2023-24Freshman

    G/F
    6'6" 210 lbs
    35
  • 35

    2024-25Sophomore

    G/F
    6'6" 210 lbs
    35
  • 35

    2025-26Junior

    G/F
    6'6" 210 lbs
    35