David Adewumi and his running mate Sri Pisupati decided not to attend the first of the two UPUA Presidential Debates on Monday night held in Alumni Hall. The other three tickets (Bard-Lennartz, Salters-Quinn and Grimes-Wentz) were present for the event.
Adewumi, who ran for the presidency last year, is thought to not be attending because of a meeting he already scheduled for his initiative, ONEPSU, which will be taking place in Thomas Building at 9:00 p.m. He did not inform the UPUA Elections Committee of his absence until right before the debate which is why his spot was left empty as the debate started. Adewumi and Prisupati later released a blog post and tweets explaining their absence.
It took ten years for Penn State ten years to make their way back into the NCAA Tournament. It took less than a second for them to head back home again. Juan Fernandez's off-balance jumper over Tim Frazier with .4 seconds left lifted the seventh-seeded Temple Owls over Penn State 66-64 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament West regional.
Editors Dan Vecellio and Devon Edwards are in today to Cover-It-Live. Feel free to interact as we share our thoughts during today's second round NCAA Tournament game between the Penn State Nittany Lions and Temple Owls.
It's the day that Penn State basketball fans have been waiting for for a decade: the Nittany Lions return to the NCAA Tournament. The boys in Blue and White take on the Temple Owls, the same team that beat them in Atlanta in the 2001 Sweet Sixteen in their last appearance. The sports minds here at Onward State have differing opinions on how tomorrow's game will shake out. Find out what Dan and Devon think after the jump.
Temple comes into the tournament having won 12 of its last 14 games. The two losses were to a #1-ranked Duke team and to eventual Atlantic-10 tournament champion Richmond in their semifinals this past Saturday. During the regular season, they have beaten fellow tourney-members Georgia, Richmond and Georgetown while losing single-digits games to Texas A&M and Villanova. This team has definitely played more competition than what many people are giving them credit for. Read on after the jump for more on the Owls.
Penn State is in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in a decade as they were selected as a 10-seed in the NCAA West region on Sunday evening. The Nittany Lions will take on the seventh-seeded Temple Owls in Tuscon, Arizona on Thursday at 2:10 PM.