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Penn State Nittany Lions wrestling rolls to 78th straight win

UNIVERSITY PARK — The Penn State wrestling team’s first Big Ten Conference match of the 2025-26 season against Rutgers ended much like the other conference matches have under coach Cael Sanderson. The top-ranked Nittany Lions displayed sheer dominance in a shutout, and they set another record. Penn State recorded eight bonus-point victories, including three falls, and blasted the 19th-ranked Scarlet Knights, 46-0, before a sellout crowd of 6,457 fans at Rec Hall. “I thought they looked really good,” Sanderson said. “It’s been a few weeks since we wrestled. Rutgers is ...

Penn State women’s basketball remains winless in Big Ten with loss to Illinois

UNIVERSITY PARK — The Penn State women’s basketball team suffered its sixth-straight loss, 92-76, to Illinois at the Bryce Jordan Center Sunday afternoon. The game marked the final scheduled game for the Lady Lions at the BJC in the 2025-26 season. The Lady Lions fell to 7-10 overall and 0-6 in Big Ten play, while the Fighting Illini improved to 14-3 and 4-2. Three Lady Lions finished the game in double figures, including redshirt junior center Gracie Merkle, who finished with a team-high 24 points. Sophomore guard Kiyomi McMiller added 19 points, while also tying her career-high ...

PSU takes No. 2 Michigan down to the wire in defeat

UNIVERSITY PARK — L.J. Cason scored 14 points and No. 2 Michigan held on to beat Penn State 74-72 on Tuesday night. Nimari Burnett and Trey McKenney had 12 points each and Yaxel Lendeborg added 10 for the Wolverines (14-0, 4-0 Big Ten), off to their best start since opening the 2018-19 ...

Smith caps season

NEW YORK — Terry Smith is ready to, as he said, “pass the torch.” He will always savor his seven games as Penn State’s interim coach, and now he’ll go back to being associate head coach, this time to Matt Campbell. “Me personally, it’s very rewarding that I know and understand ...

RB Quinton Martin rushes into 2026

NEW YORK — Penn State running back Quinton Martin Jr. is in the same boat as many other Nittany Lions. He isn’t quite sure what’s next, and his future could look a lot different as early as later this week when the transfer portal opens on Friday, Jan. 2. After 2024, when he played in six games as a true freshman, Martin did not see his first carry of the season until Saturday’s Pinstripe Bowl. With the absences of Kaytron Allen and Nicholas Singleton, Martin made the most of his audition, perhaps to both his current team and others, in a 22-10 win over Clemson at Yankee ...

Highs & Lows — Clemson

NEW YORK -— Following are the highlights and lowlights from Penn State’s 22-10 victory over Clemson on Saturday in the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium: Play of the game: Trebor Pena scored a 73-yard touchdown with 12:51 left to give the Nittany Lions a 15-3 lead. Pena ran the final 56 yards after shedding two Clemson tacklers. Offensive player of the game: Ethan Grunkemeyer completed 23-of-34 for 262 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions. He was 11-of-14 for 192 yards and two TDs in the second half. Defensive player of the game: Dani Dennis-Sutton made four tackles, ...