Lions need better formula to do ‘battle’ next season
UNIVERSITY PARK — Presuming Penn State hasn’t won four straight games in the Big Ten tournament and etched its name into the NCAA bracket by this time next Monday, and the NIT doesn’t grant a special exception to the sub-.500 Nittany Lions for past performance, whaddya say we look ahead at the 2010-11 season? The good news is everybody will be back. The bad news is everybody will be back. Penn State capped its regular season Saturday at the Jordan Center with a 64-60 loss to No. 7 Purdue, which clinched the Big Ten regular season championship with its best player, the injured Robbie Hummel, in street clothes. The Lions will limp into the conference tourney Thursday lugging an 11-19 overall record that includes a 3-15 league mark. Saturday was a microcosm of the season in that the Lions fell behind big early, staged a rally that woke up the BJC movie theater, er, crowd, and then lost.
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UNIVERSITY PARK — Brian Siegrist, Penn State’s assistant director of athletic communications, apologized for the tardiness of the postgame statistics package.
“A little problem with the copier,” Siegrist said.
JoePa setting sights on 90
Some recent news items in sports worthy of comment while revving my snowblower’s engine for the Daytona 500:
ITEM: JoePa has no plans to go.
This, of course, isn’t really news.
Flashing forward: Once spurned by St. Francis, Lombardi thriving at IUP
The IUP men’s basketball team is 18-2 and ranked No. 6 in the country among Division II teams.
Its coach is Joe Lombardi, who was Jim Baron’s right-hand man when St. Francis had one of its best two-year runs since the Maurice Stokes era.
Storm delays delivery
The snowstorm that dumped upwards of two feet on much of the region has delayed Mirror delivery as many of the sideroads have not been plowed.
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