2026-27 Men's Basketball
Roster
#23 Ethan Roberts Men's Basketball Roster
Guard/Forward
Height
6-5
Weight
190
Class
Graduate
Eligibility
Senior
Hometown
Arlington Heights, IL
Last Team
Penn / Drake / Army
CAREER NUMBERS
- Averages 15.0 ppg across three seasons (two at Penn, one at Army), totaling 1,217 career points
- Has shot 43.5 percent from the field – shot over 40 percent all three seasons
- Has knocked down 158 career threes, converting 39.2 percent from beyond the arc
- A career 81.9 percent from the stripe, recording 271 made free throws
CAREER HONORS
- 2025-26 Second-team All-Ivy
- 2025-26 Second-team All-Big 5
- 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)
- 2024 Cathedral Classic Invitational All-Tournament Team
AT PENN
AS A SENIOR (2025-26):
- Second-team All-Ivy
- Second-team All-Big 5
- Played in 23 of Penn’s 30 games, missing seven due to injury.
- Helped lead the Quakers to an 18-12 record, an Ivy Tournament Title and NCAA Tournament appearance
- Led Penn in overall scoring average (16.9 ppg) and free-throw percentage (.799)
- Scored in double figures 19 times in his 23 appearances
- Team-high eight 20-point games
- 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 Ivy League and 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).
AS A JUNIOR (2024-25):
- NABC Honors Court
- 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)
AT DRAKE
AS A SOPHOMORE (2023-24):
- Redshirted after suffering a preseason injury
AT ARMY
AS A FRESHMAN (2022-23):
- 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)
- 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)
PREP CAREER
- 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