Penn hired Fran McCaffery as its men’s basketball coach on Thursday, two weeks after he was fired at Iowa in a season where the Hawkeyes won their fewest games and had their lowest Big Ten regular-season finish in seven years.

Following the departure from Iowa, Fran McCaffery was not out of the coaching world long. Basketball analyst Jeff Goodman is reporting that McCaffery is already on the cusp of his new head coaching role. Goodman reports that Fran McCaffery is expected to be hired by Penn as their new head coach.

Penn is hiring former Iowa coach Fran McCaffery as its next basketball coach, the school announced Thursday. McCaffery, 65, graduated from Penn in 1982 and began his coaching career there as an assistant.