Tony Carr averaged 21.3 points per game and shot 46 percent from the field on the way to his first Player Of The Week award as a Nittany Lion.
A strong week of play earned the NCAA Tournament hopefuls six votes in this week's AP Poll entering the final week of the regular season.
Tony Carr finished the game with 19 points, but the Nittany Lions didn't quite have enough to take down the sixth-ranked Boilermakers in West Lafayette.
In its entirety, the dual lasted one hour and two minutes.
The last NCAA Tournament appearance for any Penn State basketball team was a Maggie Lucas-led Lady Lions fresh off of its third consecutive Big Ten championship.
Check out all the sights and sounds from this year's event.