Pennsylvania Quakers

No Division I team covered the spread more often in 2025-26 than the Quakers, who covered 20 of 28 lined games. Twenty of their 27 priced totals also went under, and our Penn predictions above start from both.

Twenty covers in 28

Penn went 18-11 and covered 71.4% of its lined games, alone at the top of 365 teams. The rate held everywhere: 9 of 13 at home, 9 of 13 away, 13 of 18 as underdogs and 7 of 10 as favorites. Two of the eight misses were the season’s biggest numbers, 81-106 at Providence getting 19.5 and 63-90 at Villanova getting 18.5; another was a 60-77 home loss to Hofstra in November.

The last stretch was the strongest. From February through the Ivy League final the Quakers covered eight of nine, finishing with 62-60 over Harvard getting 3.5 and 88-84 over Yale getting 9.5, the title game.

Thirteen unders in a row

From 17 January to the Ivy semifinal on 14 March, all 13 Penn games went under. Only two teams in Division I finished with a higher under rate than Penn’s 20 in 27. The Yale final, 88-84 against a total of 144.5, was the first over since 10 January.

Backing Penn to win

A unit on Penn in each of 27 priced games made 8.48, a total only 24 teams beat. March alone made 6.4, 4.0 of it from the Yale final at +400. Cornell supplied 3.99 more: two Penn wins, both as underdogs, 91-81 at +275 and 82-76 at +124.

Harvard was met three times and covered against all three times. Illinois beat Penn in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

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