Penn State basketball season is getting closer and closer, with both the men's and women's opening scrimmage just 9 days away. To celebrate the beginning of both seasons, Penn State will welcome acclaimed Detroit rapper Big Sean to perform tonight at the annual Hoops Madness at historic Rec Hall, the longtime home of Penn State basketball prior to the arrival of the Bryce Jordan Center.
ESPN released its Week 9 Power Rankings today, and Penn State finally jumped in as the twenty-fourth ranked team. Every Penn Stater knows this is a huge accomplishment for a team that has gone through so much adversity for the past year, and it is about time people starts noticing how much we deserve this.
It was a good sports weekend for Penn State in places other than just Iowa City. Several programs won, and the women's soccer team clinched its fifteenth consecutive regular season conference championship. A review of all the teams in action can be found below.
The Penn State Women's Volleyball Team (20-1, 10-0 Big Ten) defeated the Michigan Wolverines in Ann Arbor over the weekend (25-19, 25-18, 21-25, 22-25, 15-10), extending their winning streak to a season-high 14 games.
The Penn State Men's Hockey team is an even 2-2-0 after their second weekend of Division 1 play. The Nittany Lions played two away games this weekend, traveling to New York to face both the the Buffalo State Bengals and the Rochester Institute of Technology Tigers.
Guy Gadowsky, the head of the Penn State Nittany Lions Division 1 hockey team, wants his team to know that goals, statistics, and saves -- in other words, the stat sheet -- is not what's most important to him. Instead, Gadowsky believes that hard work is what makes a good hockey team, and he is using a symbolic gesture in the form of a hard hat to pass that message on to his players.