We grabbed a table at D.P. Dough, the only drunk eatery that came up positive on both the "warmth" and "greasiness" scales, and awaited everyone's shivering arrival. Welp, arrive they did. And they did not disappoint.
Penn State advanced to the Sweet 16 for the 10th straight year by beating Binghamton and Bowling Green over the weekend.
In the Nittany Lion Open, Penn State had 5 of its wrestlers win in their weight class, while 18 wrestlers placed out of the 30 that wrestled. Andrew Alton, Matt Brown, Ed Ruth, David Taylor, and Quentin Wright all came in first.
The second visiting athlete in as many weeks has turned to Twitter to take out their frustrations about competing at Penn State. By now, you've probably heard about the story of Stephanie McCaffrey, the Boston College Women's Soccer player who made Sandusky scandal jokes on Twitter that ultimately led to her suspension from the team and the deletion of her Twitter account. Earlier today, Hofstra University wrestler Russell James expressed similar sentiments, sending out these Tweets before his match at the Nittany Lion Open wrestling tournament.
The journey began on August 17th in Charlottesville, Virginia. This afternoon, three and a half months later, a dramatic season will come to an end across the country in San Diego, California as the Penn State Women's Soccer team looks to capture its first ever national championship, facing the North Carolina Tar Heels.
Penn State Men's Hockey faced off against the top-ranked, undefeated Arizona State Sun Devils club hockey team this weekend in an exhibition series, splitting the series as each team won a game.