UNIVERSITY PARK — The Penn State men’s basketball team makes its return to the City of Brotherly Love on Nov. 15 to take part in the Basketball on Broad Autumn Invitational doubleheader inside Xfinity Mobile Arena. Penn State will face La Salle, while Syracuse and Drexel will also compete in the college basketball doubleheader inside the home of the Philadelphia 76ers.

Tickets are on sale now via Ticketmaster. Tipoff time and television broadcast designation will be announced at a later date.

Penn State and La Salle will meet for the sixth time in program history and the first time since 2013. The Nittany Lions won the most recent meeting, 79-72, on Nov. 19, 2013, in Happy Valley.

The Nittany Lions will play at Xfinity Mobile Arena for the second-straight year, after taking down Drexel 75-64 on Dec. 21, 2024, in the then-named Wells Fargo Center.

Penn State vs. La Salle will be the first of two games for the Nittany Lions against in-state foes inside professional arenas within the state. As previously announced, Penn State will face Pitt on Dec. 21 inside the GIANT Center in Hershey.

Pitt hosts nine

PITTSBURGH — Pitt men’s basketball will play nine regular season non-conference home games, including marquee matchups against Ohio State (Nov. 28) and Texas A&M (Dec. 2), as announced this week. The Panthers open the season with three games at the Petersen Events Center before traveling to West Virginia (Nov. 13) for the 2025-26 edition of the Backyard Brawl.

Pitt plays six of its eight November games at the Petersen Events Center beginning with the season opener Nov. 3 against Youngstown State. Additional home games in the opening month of the season include Longwood (Nov. 7), Eastern Michigan (Nov. 10), Bucknell (Nov. 17), Quinnipiac (Nov. 23), and Ohio State (Nov. 28).

The Panthers play four power conference road games as part of their non-conference slate. In addition to the Backyard Brawl, Pitt will face UCF (Nov. 20) in a neutral site game in Daytona Beach as part of the Legends Classic before returning to Pennsylvania to play at Villanova (Dec. 13).

WNBA fan arrested

NEW YORK — An Ohio man has been arrested for the throwing of a sex toy at a WNBA game in New York.

It’s the latest development in a string of disturbances where similar toys were tossed at WNBA games across the country, resulting in at least three arrests. New York police told The Associated Press that Charles Burgess from Dayton, Ohio, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly throwing an object at the Dallas Wings vs. New York Liberty game on Aug. 5.

The object hit a 12-year-old girl and Burgess was charged with two counts of assault. Burgess’ lawyer said his client surrendered himself and pleaded not guilty.

Record broken

NEW YORK — With 2 ¢ weeks left in the WNBA’s regular season, the league has already broken its single-season attendance record.

League officials announced Thursday that the league’s 13 teams have drawn more than 2.5 million fans in 226 games this season. The previous mark of 2.43 million was set in 2002 when the league had 16 teams. It took the WNBA 256 games to reach the milestone in 2002.

The popularity explosion in women’s basketball has fueled this record-setting season. It started with the college rivalry between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, carried over into their rookie seasons and has continued with the arrival of Paige Bueckers this year.