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Slippery Rock hires former PSU assistant Kevin Reynolds

Morehead State Athletics via kwout UncleLar Take: All of a sudden it’s in to be a PSU assistant. Two new head coaches in two days with a PSU tour on their resumes.

Lynchburg hires PSU assistant Hilliary Scott

New Lynchburg College basketball coach a familiar face | Lynchburg News Advance via kwout UncleLar Take: Best wishes to Hilliary and his family. I’m particularly pleased that he will get to share the joy of his new position with old friends and family. Good luck H.

Big Ten Conference Academic Progress Rate (APR) Report

The NCAA has released the latest Academic Progress Rate (APR) reports.  Here’s how the Big Ten schools stand in basketball. Illinois – 989 Northwestern – 972 Penn State – 964 Michigan State – 963 Iowa – 944 Wisconsin – 938 Michigan – 927 Minnesota – 910 Ohio State – 909 Indiana – 899 Purdue – [...]

ACC/B10 Challenge foes announced – PSU at Georgia Tech

PSU will travel to Atlanta to take on Georgia Tech in a rematch of the 2007 game won by Tech 77-73. The PSU/GT matchup will be on Wednesday Dec 2nd with the exact times still to be determined by ESPN. This past season the PSU/Va Tech game, won 66-61 by Penn State, was the anchor [...]

Jim Jackson previews the NBA draft

DownloadJackson gives his assessment of Eric Gordon et al.

Against the Odds (Final Four Edition)

My sole prediction in the Elite Eight went down the tubes so I currently sit at 11-8 against the spread. Since the bookies have installed North Carolina as a four point favorite and I have Kansas winning by four, this would be close to the UncleLar Lock of the Tournament. This is the second biggest [...]

Men’s Basketball has 6 Big Ten Academic All Conference selections

Men’s Basketball – Penn State University Official Athletic Site via kwout

Penn State to meet Duke in Philly Classic – NOT

Happy APRIL FOOLS day The announcement has been updated to reflect the April Fool’s joke. Not everyone in the athletic department seemed to share my sense of humor and I was politely asked to retract the announcement, so I’m complying but it was fun while it lasted.

Jeff Rice gets it…

the scheduling hole that PSU has been digging for themselves, that is. He it’s on the problem in his column for the CDT today. Non-conference teams not helping Penn State via kwout Proof that Jeff gets it comes from this part of his article, where he concludes, much as I have in the past, that [...]