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Historic time for Nittany Lions

From Mirror reports For the first time in a long time, the Penn State men’s basketball team had something to celebrate on draft night in the National Basketball Association. Guard Jalen Pickett (2nd round, 32nd pick, Denver Nuggets) and wing Seth Lundy (2nd round, 46th pick, Atlanta Hawks) were selected in the 2023 draft Thursday night. Pickett and Lundy’s selections mark the first time in program history that two Nittany Lions were selected in the same NBA Draft. The Nittany Lion pair are the 14th and 15th NBA Draft picks from Penn State. Pickett and Lundy are the first Penn ...

Lady Lions learn their Big Ten slate

From Mirror reports UNIVERSITY PARK — The Penn State women’s basketball team learned the home and road designations for its 18 Big Ten Conference games this season earlier this week. Dates, television network assignments and tipoff times for all Big Ten contests will be announced later this year. The Lady Lions will compete against five double-play opponents in conference competition with one game apiece scheduled on each team’s home campus. Penn State will challenge Minnesota and Purdue in a pair of regular-season games for the second straight season. Penn State will play ...

PSU’s Pickett and Lundy drafted in second round

With the second pick in the second round late Thursday night, Penn State point guard Jalen Pickett was selected by the Denver Nuggets, the recent NBA champions. Denver traded up earlier this week with the Indiana Pacers to acquire the 32nd pick. The general manager of the Nuggets is Calvin Booth, who played for Penn State in the late 1990s. Teammate Seth Lundy was taken by the Atlanta Hawks with the 46th pick. It is the first time ever in program history that the Nittany Lions have had two players picked in one draft.

USC, UCLA both get Michigan in first year

The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Southern California and UCLA will both face Michigan during their first season as members of the Big Ten Conference in 2024. The conference announced the opponents for the 2024 and ‘25 football seasons Thursday afternoon. Next year will be the first season with 16 teams and no divisional format as the top two teams will qualify for the conference championship game. USC and UCLA both announced last year that they were leaving the Pac-12 Conference to join the Big Ten. Big Ten teams will continue to play nine conference games. Under the flex ...

Ex-PSU tailback relishing new role with new team

By Steve Reed The Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Miles Sanders relishes the idea of becoming an every down back for the Carolina Panthers this season, a role he didn’t always have with the NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles or in the Super Bowl. Sanders joined the Panthers as a free agent this offseason, signing a four-year, $25 million contract to help Carolina offset the loss of Christian McCaffrey, who was traded last season. “I’m in a great mood every day,” Sanders said this week at OTAs. “I’m loving who I’m practicing with and who I’m going to war with. ...

No decision on QB spot just yet

By Andy Stine astine@altoonamirror.com UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State football coach James Franklin isn’t ready to name a starter between Drew Allar or Beau Pribula for Week 1 against West Virginia right now. There’s a good chance a decision won’t be announced until we see one of the quarterbacks run on the field on that Saturday night of Labor Day weekend. But nobody was in a hurry to talk about Pribula on Thursday inside Holuba Hall. There might be an assumed starting quarterback with Allar amongst PSU fans, but Franklin insists there needs to be a competition. “A lot ...