UNIVERSITY PARK — Fans can get an early look at the 2025-26 Penn State men’s basketball team on Sunday, Oct. 26, when the Nittany Lions host Shippensburg in an exhibition game inside the Jordan Center.

Tipoff time for the final tune-up before the regular season begins will be announced at a later date.

The exhibition game will be the second of two exhibition contests for the Nittany Lions, who are also slated to travel to Dayton on Sunday, Oct. 19, for a charity exhibition game in support of adolescent & young adult mental health and suicide prevention.

Shippensburg finished the 2024-25 season at 10-19 overall.

Donahue gets St. Joe’s job

PHILADELPHIA — Saint Joseph’s basketball has promoted Steve Donahue to head coach after Billy Lange decided to take a front office job with the New York Knicks.

Donahue joined the program in May as an associate coach after nine seasons as coach at Penn. He was Ivy League Coach of the Year in 2017-2018, when he led the Quakers to the NCAA Tournament.

He had previously been the coach at Boston College and Cornell. He has a career record of 331-344 and led Cornell to three NCAA Tournament berths.

In six seasons under Lange, St. Joe’s earned consecutive Big 5 Classic titles and a pair of national postseason berths. The 2024-25 Big 5 Coach of the Year led the Hawks to back-to-back 20-win seasons the past two years — a first for the program since 2003-04 and 2004-05.

3 players banned for betting

The NCAA banned three men’s college basketball players for sports betting on Wednesday, saying they had bet on their own games at Fresno State and San Jose State and were able to share thousands of dollars in payouts.

The NCAA Committee on Infractions released findings from an enforcement investigation that concluded Mykell Robinson, Steven Vasquez and Jalen Weaver bet on one another’s games and/or provided information that enabled others to do so during the 2024-25 regular season; two of them manipulated their performances to ensure certain bets were won. The eligibility was permanently revoked.

The NCAA said a sports integrity monitoring service in January notified Fresno State and NCAA enforcement staff that a Nevada sportsbook operator had flagged suspicious prop bets on Robinson. The investigation began a week later. The Associated Press could not immediately locate the former players for comment.