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PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Ace Baldwin Jr. scored 15 points, D'Marco Dunn added 14 and Penn State defeated Rutgers 61-46 on Wednesday night.
Baldwin added seven assists and five steals for the Nittany Lions (10-11, 4-6 Big Ten). Dunn had seven rebounds and three steals. Qudus Wahab had nine points and 11 rebounds. Penn State shot 38.5% for the game.
Gavin Griffiths had 11 points and Jamichael Davis 10 for Rutgers (10-10, 2-7). The Scarlet Knights shot 34%, made 1 of 17 3-pointers and had 20 turnovers.
Penn State led 44-35 near the 9-minute mark of the second half before Rutgers closed the gap with a layup by Davis and a jumper by Derek Simpson. With 8 minutes left, Penn State went on an 15-5 run in which Puff Johnson scored eight points, including the last six, for a 59-44 lead with 2 minutes to go.
Rutgers led for the first 13 minutes of play, twice by seven points. A 7-0 run by the Nittany Lions led to a 16-15 lead with 6:30 minutes left in the first half. The Nittany Lions went ahead 26-18 with 2 minutes left, but Rutgers scored the last six points on a layup by Griffiths and four free throws by Simpson. Penn State led 26-24 at the break.
The home loss was just the third this season in 12 games for Rutgers and Penn State picked up its first true road win in Mike Rhoades' first season as coach.
Penn State played without leading scorer Kanye Clary (18.4 ppg) who has been listed as day-to-day after suffering an undisclosed injury late in the second half of last Saturday's loss to Minnesota.
GAME NOTES: Both teams struggled mightily from 3-point range. Penn State hit on just 5-of-23 from behind the arc to go with the Scarlet Knights tough showing from 3-pointland. … Rutgers plays at Michigan and Penn State goes to Indiana, both on Saturday. The Hoosiers are coming off a 74-68 win over Iowa. Indiana is 5-5 in the Big Ten while Penn State is 4-6. … Michigan is in last place in the standings with a 2-8 record, 7-14 overall. … Rutgers is 36-46 now all-time against Penn State after having defeated the Nittany Lions twice last season. … Penn State had not won at Rutgers since 2019. Aundre Hyatt, the Scarlet Knights' top scorer, was held to just five points. … Penn State held Rutgers to 21 points below its scoring average on offense. The Nittany Lions came into the game averaging 76.3 points per-game
PENN ST. (10-11): Hicks 2-7 0-0 6, Wahab 2-7 5-6 9, Baldwin 5-11 4-6 15, Dunn 6-10 0-0 14, Kern 2-4 1-2 5, Brown 0-6 0-1 0, Johnson 1-2 6-6 8, O'Boyle 0-1 0-0 0, Lilley 2-2 0-0 4, Mitchell 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 20-52 16-21 61.
RUTGERS (10-10): Hyatt 1-4 3-5 5, Mag 0-3 0-0 0, Omoruyi 3-5 2-3 8, Simpson 1-7 5-7 7, A.Williams 1-3 1-5 3, Griffiths 5-9 0-0 11, Davis 5-12 0-2 10, Fernandes 0-4 0-0 0, Palmquist 0-1 0-0 0, Woolfolk 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 17-50 11-22 46.
Halftime--Penn St. 26-24. 3-Point Goals_Penn St. 5-23 (Dunn 2-4, Hicks 2-7, Baldwin 1-3, Johnson 0-1, Kern 0-1, O'Boyle 0-1, Brown 0-6), Rutgers 1-17 (Griffiths 1-3, Mag 0-1, Palmquist 0-1, A.Williams 0-1, Fernandes 0-2, Hyatt 0-2, Davis 0-3, Simpson 0-4). Rebounds--Penn St. 38 (Wahab 11), Rutgers 29 (Simpson 8). Assists--Penn St. 11 (Baldwin 7), Rutgers 9 (Simpson, Fernandes 3). Total Fouls--Penn St. 19, Rutgers 17. A--8,000