UNIVERSITY PARK — The Penn State men’s basketball team will travel to Dayton on Sunday, Oct. 19 for a charity exhibition game in support of adolescent and young adult mental health and suicide prevention.

The charity exhibition game, in partnership with CareSource, will tip off at 2 p.m. All net proceeds from ticket sales will benefit Jay’s Light, the Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation, and mental health initiatives for University of Dayton students. Further events and programming leading up to the game will be announced in the fall.

Penn State is set to make its first appearance at the UD Arena since the 1997-98 season when the Nittany Lions and Flyers played in the NIT.

SFU women hire assistant

LORETTO — Saint Francis women’s basketball head coach Chynna Bozeman has announced the hiring of Raphael McNeill as an assistant coach to her coaching staff.

McNeill comes to Loretto after two years at Riverdale Baptist High School. Last season, he served as the varsity women’s basketball head coach, leading the team to a 24-11 record and ranking in the Top 10 in the state of Maryland. Additionally, two players from that team received NCAA Division I scholarship offers, while two others earned NCAA Division II offers. For the 2023-24 season, McNeill served as the associate head coach of the Riverdale Baptist varsity boys team and as the head coach of the junior varsity team.

Before his time at Riverdale Baptist, McNeill spent eight seasons as the associate head coach for the men’s basketball team at Livingstone College. The team won the CIAA Tournament title in 2014-15, and McNeill recruited and coached the program’s all-time leading scorer and CIAA Player of the Year, Roger Ray.

He began his coaching career at the NCAA level as an assistant coach at Virginia Union, a CIAA school, during the 2013-14 season. McNeill was an assistant coach at NJCAA Division I Chesapeake College for two years. He coached three All-Region XX players with the Skipjacks.

McNeill got his start in coaching at the high school level in Prince George’s County at Suitland, C.H. Flowers, and Largo.