Pennington basketball continues to enhance its longstanding tradition of recruiting highly competitive players who have donned the black and red on the courts. The basketball program has won seven Prep B state championships in recent years. Following the great coaching by alumnus Chandler Fraser Pauls '11 over the past several seasons, alumnus Fred Falchi '79 takes the helm in 2025-26 and will continue to grow Pennington’s basketball program. In recent seasons, the basketball program transitioned into the NJISAA Prep A State Tournament and the Mid-Atlantic Prep League (MAPL). Pennington’s basketball program won the 2023-24 Mercer County Tournament with a win over Hopewell! In 2008, the team won the Mercer County Tournament championship and followed that up in 2009 with a second consecutive MCT title. Basketball at Pennington antedates what we now call “the old gym,” built in the second decade of the twentieth century; today the team plays in Sparks Memorial Gymnasium, one of the finest courts in the area. Over the many years of the program, traditions have developed, including participation in holiday tournaments. Recently, Pennington has won holiday tournaments, including the Solebury Holiday Tournament and Hopewell Holiday/Molinelli Classic Tournament. Teams have won back-to-back-to-back Prep B State Championships in 2013, 2014, and 2015, defeating PDS, MKA, and Morristown Beard. Most recently, the program made the jump up from NJISAA B classification to A. In the past four seasons, Pennington has sent team members to play at the college level at schools such as Babson College, Elizabethtown College, Keiser University, Millersville University, Monmouth University, Post University, and The College of New Jersey, among others.