KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Penn State’s college wrestling dynasty will always be compared with Iowa’s historic runs under coach Dan Gable. But the longer the Nittany Lions dominate, the more they replace the Hawkeyes at the top of many record lists. The Nittany Lions rewrote a couple of records ...
By Andy Stine astine@altoonamirror.com Penn State wrestling coach Cael Sanderson has never wanted to talk about whether the 2023-24 edition of the Nittany Lions was his best team in his storied career. The evidence is certainly there to support that it might be the best team in NCAA wrestling history. For starters, the Lions broke the NCAA Championships record for team points with 172.5 points, beating the 1997 Iowa Hawkeyes’ record of 170 points. They also beat second place Cornell by a total of 100 points. You read that right. A 3-digit number. One hundred. In other words, ...
By Andy Elder For the Mirror KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As much history as the Penn State wrestling team has made, it set a new standard Saturday after the second day of the 2024 NCAA Div. I Wrestling Championships at the T-Mobile Center. Penn State has already set a team record for points in an NCAA championship with 148, bettering the previous mark of 146.5 in 2017, clinching its 11th championship in the past 13 years and the 12th in program history. Penn State still has a mathematical chance of breaking the all-time scoring mark of 170 that Iowa set in 1997. Six Nittany Lions will ...
By Andy Elder For the Mirror KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Penn State wrestling team shrugged off two early losses and did what it has usually done under head coach Cael Sanderson on the first day of the 2024 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships on Thursday at the T-Mobile Center — ...
From Mirror reports UNIVERSITY PARK — The Penn State women’s basketball team, the No. 1 seed, picked up an 84-80 overtime win over George Mason in the Jordan Cent Thursday night in the Women’s Basketball Invitational Tournament. The Lady Lions (20-12) will host Belmont on Monday night in the second round. Penn State, which led 19-7 early in the first quarter, finished shooting 42 percent from the field and more than doubled George Mason up in the paint by a 50-24 clip. This was the Lady Lions first overtime victory since the 2018-2019 season. Redshirt-junior Leilani ...
MINNEAPOLIS — Anthony Leal put back a missed jumper by Malik Reneau with seven seconds left to give short-handed and sixth-seeded Indiana to a 61-59 win over No. 11 seed Penn State in the second round of the Big Ten Conference Tournament on Thursday night. Indiana was without guard Trey Galloway, who injured his knee during pregame warmups before Sunday’s regular-season finale with Michigan State. The Hoosiers advance to face third-seeded Nebraska in the quarterfinals today. The Cornhuskers received a double bye in the tournament, the first ever in program history. The Cornhuskers ...
