Junior setter Abby Detering earned her second conference honors of the season Tuesday after leading the Nittany Lions to a pair of victories last weekend.
"They are Michigan -- but they're different," Gadowsky said. "Last year their offense was just unbelievably explosive. They're still Michigan so it can still be that way but if you look at the success they've had this season...they're doing it with defense."
See the football team and its new Big Ten East Champions hardware before it heads to Indianapolis for the Big Ten Championship at tonight's basketball game against Georgia Tech.
The White Out was hard to top, but the win over the Michigan State marked the coalescence of Penn State's success this season.
The World Cup run for the rest of the Nittany Lions ended Tuesday morning in the 2-1 United States loss to Korea DPR.
Larry King thinks there's "no doubt" Penn State Football belongs in the top-four if it beats Wisconsin on Saturday.