2025-26 PSU MBB Thread

[PSUForever]

My point is that in spite of how bad we are we have a couple of young players we can build from. I want to keep Juric & Mingo. I would also like Dillione & Rice to return. Maybe Stewart.

IIRC we started this year with only 2 or 3 players, neither with proven experience. It's a lot more difficult to rebuild when you have to start from scratch.

With your logic a team would never fire a coach. Every horrible team is going to have a couple young players who have potential. The guys you mention are not good enough. That is the problem. If they were we wouldn't be where we are. Mingo, I will give you is a solid player and B10 worthy starter. He is gone but you can't not fire Rhoades for fear of Mingo leaving. He is not irreplaceable and you can't hold the program hostage like that.

We need a full reset. I don't expect to make the tournament next year but we need a coach who can keep a roster, develop players, instill a defensive toughness mindset and build the program. Can we get a coach who can coach the team up so they look like they have a pulse for crying out loud!?

By the way, those players you mention, you actually think Rhoades can develop them and they will be significantly better next year? Nope. The team has not improved. Right there that is a a huge red flag.

The expectations for this program should be to make the Dance every few years maybe once every three to start with or once every five. Not sure but I can tell you we can do better then finish dead last in the conference every season. This program has hit rock bottom and it is time for a coaching change. The horrendous product being put out there is an embarrassment to the university.

 

[PSUForever]

Washington should be investigated for throwing the game last week, and I’m only half kidding. How in the hell did they ever lose to this team at home?

Bizarre that PSU won that game. We probably win that game 1 out of 20 times.

 

[PSUForever]

They definitely suck. I just disagree with people who think we can fire Rhoades, lose our entire roster, hire a new coach, and be competitive by picking up a dozen new players in the portal.

P.S. They would have to do it with minimal NIL money. A lot of schools are giving 12% of NIL money to MBB. PSU is closer to 9% because they allocate more to football and wrestling.

The solution is not sit there and do nothing. C'mon. It is not working with Rhoades. We may not be competitive at all next year but get a guy who can set a vision and instill a culture. We are going nowhere fast with Rhoades. Obvious that a change needs to be made.

As for NIL. Yep, Rhoades needs to figure that out but we can do it. Other schools do it so we can. No excuses.

Just saw where Rutgers shot 57%. They have only shot over 50% one time this season. Oregon shot 51% from 3 point range when we played them. Is this some weird coincidence? No. We have a pathetic defense. Defense is all about hustle, grit and toughness. That starts with the culture from the coach. We will never win with below average talent and no defensive effort. Time to clean house.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[PSUFTG]

P.S. They would have to do it with minimal NIL money. A lot of schools are giving 12% of NIL money to MBB. PSU is closer to 9% because they allocate more to football and wrestling.

What makes you say that?

How much of what you are referring to as "NIL money" is being paid to Men's Basketball players?

 

[PSUFTG]

The solution is not sit there and do nothing. C'mon. It is not working with Rhoades. We may not be competitive at all next year but get a guy who can set a vision and instill a culture. We are going nowhere fast with Rhoades. Obvious that a change needs to be made.

As for NIL. Yep, Rhoades needs to figure that out but we can do it. Other schools do it so we can. No excuses.

Just saw where Rutgers shot 57%. They have only shot over 50% one time this season. Oregon shot 51% from 3 point range when we played them. Is this some weird coincidence? No. We have a pathetic defense. Defense is all about hustle, grit and toughness. That starts with the culture from the coach. We will never win with below average talent and no defensive effort. Time to clean house.

Setting aside whether one thinks Rhoades is a good, mediocre, or poor coach (opinions may vary, of course):

As of now, Mike Rhoades' buyout is $9 million (it does drop, IIRC, by roughly $3 million per year)

Just 3 years ago, the PSU AD signed Rhoades to a long-term contract - at a huge overpay from his salary at VCU (or for any "mid-major" coach)

To date, obviously, it hasn't worked out - either on the court or on the balance sheet.

And now that same AD is - if he were to cut Rhoades loose - asking for ANOTHER $9 million to erase the board, and likely even more $ to "try again"?

At some point, one would think, there would be an adult in the room who would stand up and say "No"
And if such a move were deemed to be inevitable, one might expect the AD to be shown the door at the same time.
Time will tell, but I expect there would be a lot of friction in the way of PSU firing Rhoades.... very little of it having to do with how many games they win.

 

[BCS PSU]

Setting aside whether one thinks Rhoades is a good, mediocre, or poor coach (opinions may vary, of course):

As of now, Mike Rhoades' buyout is $9 million (it does drop, IIRC, by roughly $3 million per year)

Just 3 years ago, the PSU AD signed Rhoades to a long-term contract - at a huge overpay from his salary at VCU (or for any "mid-major" coach)

To date, obviously, it hasn't worked out - either on the court or on the balance sheet.

And now that same AD is - if he were to cut Rhoades loose - asking for ANOTHER $9 million to erase the board, and likely even more $ to "try again"?

At some point, one would think, there would be an adult in the room who would stand up and say "No"
And if such a move were deemed to be inevitable, one might expect the AD to be shown the door at the same time.
Time will tell, but I expect there would be a lot of friction in the way of PSU firing Rhoades.... very little of it having to do with how many games they win.

This has been an overall poor athletic year for PSU when the 2024-2025 one was so great in many ways. Most of the teams either have underachieved or been downright bad. Kraft definitely needs to improve the results that most of the teams have produced this year.

 

[bdgan]

With your logic a team would never fire a coach. Every horrible team is going to have a couple young players who have potential. The guys you mention are not good enough. That is the problem. If they were we wouldn't be where we are. Mingo, I will give you is a solid player and B10 worthy starter. He is gone but you can't not fire Rhoades for fear of Mingo leaving. He is not irreplaceable and you can't hold the program hostage like that.

We need a full reset. I don't expect to make the tournament next year but we need a coach who can keep a roster, develop players, instill a defensive toughness mindset and build the program. Can we get a coach who can coach the team up so they look like they have a pulse for crying out loud!?

By the way, those players you mention, you actually think Rhoades can develop them and they will be significantly better next year? Nope. The team has not improved. Right there that is a a huge red flag.

The expectations for this program should be to make the Dance every few years maybe once every three to start with or once every five. Not sure but I can tell you we can do better then finish dead last in the conference every season. This program has hit rock bottom and it is time for a coaching change. The horrendous product being put out there is an embarrassment to the university.

I didn’t say we should never fire a coach. Rhoades came in with a competitive team year 1. He started out great last year but the wheels fell off after Baldwin and Puff got hurt. This year was going to be bad because it was a complete rebuild especially after losing Konan (who woulda thunk). I didn’t expect it to be this bad but Rhoades had 1.5 pretty good years followed by 1.5 really bad years. I'm inclined to give him one more year to see if we can retain 4 or 5 key players and add a couple of critical pieces.

How many complete resets do we need? What makes you think the next one will be successful?

The PSU job is tough and I think it got a lot worse with NIL. PSU has to allocate a higher percentage of NIL to football if they want to hang with OSU, OR, USC, MICH who have more $$$ to work with. Then we give a lot more to wrestling than other schools. That makes it tough for MBB.

Can PSU still pick up players like Konan from Northern Illinois, Baldwin from VCU, or Pickett from Sienna like we did before NIL?

 

[BCS PSU]

The solution is not sit there and do nothing. C'mon. It is not working with Rhoades. We may not be competitive at all next year but get a guy who can set a vision and instill a culture. We are going nowhere fast with Rhoades. Obvious that a change needs to be made.

As for NIL. Yep, Rhoades needs to figure that out but we can do it. Other schools do it so we can. No excuses.

Just saw where Rutgers shot 57%. They have only shot over 50% one time this season. Oregon shot 51% from 3 point range when we played them. Is this some weird coincidence? No. We have a pathetic defense. Defense is all about hustle, grit and toughness. That starts with the culture from the coach. We will never win with below average talent and no defensive effort. Time to clean house.

Like I said, this is his third season as the head coach. He inherited a program that was somewhat competitive and just had come off of a Big 10 Championship Game appearance and won an NCAA Tournament game. In the three seasons that he has been head coach, this program totally has collapsed and become arguably the worst Power 4 program in the country. He can't keep a roster together from one season to another and can't recruit even the players the last two head coaches were able to recruit. He also has done a terrible job of coaching the actual talent that he has, especially last season, and his teams have been awful fundamentally and defensively. Other than, he's done a great job.

 

[bdgan]

The solution is not sit there and do nothing. C'mon. It is not working with Rhoades. We may not be competitive at all next year but get a guy who can set a vision and instill a culture. We are going nowhere fast with Rhoades. Obvious that a change needs to be made.

As for NIL. Yep, Rhoades needs to figure that out but we can do it. Other schools do it so we can. No excuses.

Just saw where Rutgers shot 57%. They have only shot over 50% one time this season. Oregon shot 51% from 3 point range when we played them. Is this some weird coincidence? No. We have a pathetic defense. Defense is all about hustle, grit and toughness. That starts with the culture from the coach. We will never win with below average talent and no defensive effort. Time to clean house.

I agree with your second paragraph. It's one thing to be outmatched. It's another thing to be outworked. This team hasn't shown enough toughness or intensity on defense.

 

[bdgan]

What makes you say that?

How much of what you are referring to as "NIL money" is being paid to Men's Basketball players?

It's what I've read. Total NIL was $18.5m. Football got $13.4m, MBB got $3 million, wrestlinggot $1.5m.

 

[bdgan]

Like I said, this is his third season as the head coach. He inherited a program that was somewhat competitive and just had come off of a Big 10 Championship Game appearance and won an NCAA Tournament game. In the three seasons that he has been head coach, this program totally has collapsed and become arguably the worst Power 4 program in the country. He can't keep a roster together from one season to another and can't recruit even the players the last two head coaches were able to recruit. He also has done a terrible job of coaching the actual talent that he has, especially last season, and his teams have been awful fundamentally and defensively. Other than, he's done a great job.

There was no roster to keep together from last year. Baldwin, Kern, and Hicks were seniors and Konan went to the NBA.

Stewart & Rice returned. Do you think the problem was not getting Puff to stay?

The better criticism would be that he should have recruited better. Mingo will probably be good but IMO he hasn't been as good as his ratings. Juric is also a promising freshman.

 

[Parkland Fan]

My point is that in spite of how bad we are we have a couple of young players we can build from. I want to keep Juric & Mingo. I would also like Dillione & Rice to return. Maybe Stewart.

IIRC we started this year with only 2 or 3 players, neither with proven experience. It's a lot more difficult to rebuild when you have to start from scratch.

Dillone, Rice and Stewart are decent offensive players, but they are liabilities on defense. Or is it the defensive system they are playing?

 

[PSUFTG]

The solution is not sit there and do nothing. C'mon. It is not working with Rhoades. We may not be competitive at all next year but get a guy who can set a vision and instill a culture. We are going nowhere fast with Rhoades. Obvious that a change needs to be made.

As for NIL. Yep, Rhoades needs to figure that out but we can do it. Other schools do it so we can. No excuses.

Just saw where Rutgers shot 57%. They have only shot over 50% one time this season. Oregon shot 51% from 3 point range when we played them. Is this some weird coincidence? No. We have a pathetic defense. Defense is all about hustle, grit and toughness. That starts with the culture from the coach. We will never win with below average talent and no defensive effort. Time to clean house.

X

 

[PSUFTG]

It's what I've read. Total NIL was $18.5m. Football got $13.4m, MBB got $3 million, wrestlinggot $1.5m.

Yes.

And what is $3 million out of $18.5 million?

"...A lot of schools are giving 12% of NIL money to MBB. PSU is closer to 9% because they allocate more to football and wrestling..."

A lot more than the 9% you stated (a bit over 16%, actually)
And a lot more even than the 12% you stated that other programs were allocating to Men's BB.

FWIW: I think there are several challenging factors vav PSU's competitiveness in Men's BB.... but that ain't one of them.

 

[Efejle]

Indiana did it in football and for generations IU football was the doppelganger for Penn State basketball: It can be done. No excuses. Making excuses for this coach is the kind of thinking that keeps us here.

Find the coach that wins. Irrelevant if it is D1, D2 or D3. Hire him. That's how it is done. It sure as hell isn't getting done by BDgan making 271 excuses for why he should stay.

 

[Bison13]

As someone who has coached HS basketball for 25 years in MD, I can tell you that not one single kid in the DMV has PSU anywhere in their top 10 schools, or at least the good ones dont. Josh Reaves was the last 'good' one 10 years ago. Dread was solid but thats not a top guy. They are not going to get guys from down here outside of a couple random ones without "straight cash homey". To these kids PSU is like playing d3 in antarctica and your price to go to PSU is always higher than it is to go to MD or anywhere else just because it's PSU. Almost completely the opposite as football.

They need to have a permanent recruiter in Philly/NJ and then if they continue to go with Euros they need to get the good ones, not the B tier guys.

Rhoades used to recruit athletes and play pressure D to get easy looks from his D. Now he went for some soft offensive guys like Stewart and Rice who can shoot when WIDE open but cant get by anyone or play a lick of D. Funk was so good because not only was he a better shooter than these two but he could get to the basket and get fouled as well as play defense.

He needs to get back to getting athletes and playing a defensive first, mucked up game style or go with 5 shooters and hope to make enough 3's to cancel out bad D. Either way it cant be whatever is going on now. It's the worst power 5 defense in the country

 

[bdgan]

Yes.

And what is $3 million out of $18.5 million?

"...A lot of schools are giving 12% of NIL money to MBB. PSU is closer to 9% because they allocate more to football and wrestling..."

A lot more than the 9% you stated (a bit over 16%, actually)
And a lot more even than the 12% you stated that other programs were allocating to Men's BB.

FWIW: I think there are several challenging factors vav PSU's competitiveness in Men's BB.... but that ain't one of them.

I probably wasn't clear. The $18.4 million I was talking about is revenue sharing. I'm pretty sure that's different than money that comes from donor sponsored NIL money either directly or through Happy Valley United.

I think money is definitely one of PSU's problems. I keep hearing people say that PSU has the money. Their financial report shows that all sports combined are about breakeven. Football makes a lot and basketball makes a little. The rest are losers. If PSU were to give more to basketball they would have to give less to other sports or else impose a student athletic fee to cover the shortfall. After spending $700 million on the stadium and more on the coaching fiasco I don't think they want to cut back on football. They also don't want to lose a good thing they have with wrestling.

More money for basketball would have to come from private donors and I'm pretty sure we're not close to some other schools in that area. I read that Michigan is spending $8.8 million.

 

[bdgan]

Indiana did it in football and for generations IU football was the doppelganger for Penn State basketball: It can be done. No excuses. Making excuses for this coach is the kind of thinking that keeps us here.

Find the coach that wins. Irrelevant if it is D1, D2 or D3. Hire him. That's how it is done. It sure as hell isn't getting done by BDgan making 271 excuses for why he should stay.

Rhoades isn't my relative and I'm not making excuses for him other than this year's team is one of the youngest ever.

I just question your strategy of firing coaches until one of them wins. I don't think it's that simple.

 

[PSUForever]

Setting aside whether one thinks Rhoades is a good, mediocre, or poor coach (opinions may vary, of course):

As of now, Mike Rhoades' buyout is $9 million (it does drop, IIRC, by roughly $3 million per year)

Just 3 years ago, the PSU AD signed Rhoades to a long-term contract - at a huge overpay from his salary at VCU (or for any "mid-major" coach)

To date, obviously, it hasn't worked out - either on the court or on the balance sheet.

And now that same AD is - if he were to cut Rhoades loose - asking for ANOTHER $9 million to erase the board, and likely even more $ to "try again"?

At some point, one would think, there would be an adult in the room who would stand up and say "No"
And if such a move were deemed to be inevitable, one might expect the AD to be shown the door at the same time.
Time will tell, but I expect there would be a lot of friction in the way of PSU firing Rhoades.... very little of it having to do with how many games they win.

Yes, there are financial ramifications. Kraft made a bad hire. He is lucky that this isn't football or he would certainly be canned. And by the way, if Campbell does not work out he certainly will be.

The other way you can go is just let it play out with Rhoades and hope things get better. They won't get materially better but I will admit there could he some marginal improvement. For example, maybe we are something like 6-14 or 5-15 next year in B10 play and escape the first round of the Big Ten tournament.

Back to the financials, these high profile sports are a big business. Businesses have failures that cost money. Think of companies that invest in new products or new platforms and it doesn't work. This is similar. We can't just make the decisions based on it is going to cost a lot of money so we don't do anything.

Probably what could happen is Rhoades goes on some kind of "performance improvement plan". Maybe that is one year or perhaps two but the goal would be obviously for the on court performance to improve but also it widdles down this buyout. If that is the route chosen then no one following Penn State hoops should realistically expect any significant improvements versus what we have already seen with Rhoades. If Kraft advocates to fire Rhoades and gets shut down then he should tell the board he doesn't want to hear any whining about how bad the hoops team is from said BOT. They made a decision now live with it.

 

[PSUForever]

There was no roster to keep together from last year. Baldwin, Kern, and Hicks were seniors and Konan went to the NBA.

Stewart & Rice returned. Do you think the problem was not getting Puff to stay?

The better criticism would be that he should have recruited better. Mingo will probably be good but IMO he hasn't been as good as his ratings. Juric is also a promising freshman.

It's on him to better manage the roster. You simply cannot be this bad. Everything about the program stinks to high heaven...recruiting, roster management, on-court performance, actual X and Os, player development, intensity, leadership, focus, motivation, attendance.

 

[PSUForever]

Rhoades isn't my relative and I'm not making excuses for him other than this year's team is one of the youngest ever.

I just question your strategy of firing coaches until one of them wins. I don't think it's that simple.

That's the game. These are not tenured professors. Also these coaches are some of the highest paid state employees. Rhoades is probably top 5 in the state for salary. You have to move on and try again.

We do need to make a commitment and be willing to invest. Also, I will say it again like a broken record. Get a coach who sets a vision and culture of hard nosed, tough basketball built on suffocating defense. Not a guy who says that but one who has a proven track record of his teams playing like that. Think how UVA did it or Wisconsin. Recruit players who fit this and for the love of God recruit a couple of shooters even if they are not that athletic and can't get to the hole but at least get guys who when sets are run for them can drill a 3 at about a 40% or high 30% clip.

 

[rigi19040]

Indiana did it in football and for generations IU football was the doppelganger for Penn State basketball: It can be done. No excuses. Making excuses for this coach is the kind of thinking that keeps us here.

Find the coach that wins. Irrelevant if it is D1, D2 or D3. Hire him. That's how it is done. It sure as hell isn't getting done by BDgan making 271 excuses for why he should stay.

Sounds like a piece of cake. Indiana found the one coach out of the hundreds of Tom Allens who was able to turn it around. PSU with the lowest budget in the B10 should have no problem plucking that needle out of a haystack.

Can you give us your short list? No excuses.

 

[yboby]

As someone who has coached HS basketball for 25 years in MD, I can tell you that not one single kid in the DMV has PSU anywhere in their top 10 schools, or at least the good ones dont. Josh Reaves was the last 'good' one 10 years ago. Dread was solid but thats not a top guy. They are not going to get guys from down here outside of a couple random ones without "straight cash homey". To these kids PSU is like playing d3 in antarctica and your price to go to PSU is always higher than it is to go to MD or anywhere else just because it's PSU. Almost completely the opposite as football.

They need to have a permanent recruiter in Philly/NJ and then if they continue to go with Euros they need to get the good ones, not the B tier guys.

Rhoades used to recruit athletes and play pressure D to get easy looks from his D. Now he went for some soft offensive guys like Stewart and Rice who can shoot when WIDE open but cant get by anyone or play a lick of D. Funk was so good because not only was he a better shooter than these two but he could get to the basket and get fouled as well as play defense.

He needs to get back to getting athletes and playing a defensive first, mucked up game style or go with 5 shooters and hope to make enough 3's to cancel out bad D. Either way it cant be whatever is going on now. It's the worst power 5 defense in the country

Curious what you think about Crispin as an "offensive coordinator." Although D is by far the weakest part of this team, I have not been impressed by anything done on offense. A lot of dribbling and staring and not much player and ball movement. Reminds me very much of the Chambers era. The only offense that seemed to know what is was doing was Shrewsberry's.

 

[Bison13]

Curious what you think about Crispin as an "offensive coordinator." Although D is by far the weakest part of this team, I have not been impressed by anything done on offense. A lot of dribbling and staring and not much player and ball movement. Reminds me very much of the Chambers era. The only offense that seemed to know what is was doing was Shrewsberry's.

Agree 100%. Shrewsberry has been the best coach at Penn State that I can remember. Parkhill was good, done was terrible but got lucky with one sweet 16 run, DeChellis was the best XO guy out of the group but terrible recruiter. Chambers was the best recruiter and definitely a rah rah guy, but he was the worst of xo guys and was just plain awful with regard to time management.

I don’t think Crispin’s doing much with the offense, but I also think that he’s probably still the best basketball player in the gym when they have practice. Mingo and Reed have improved their outside shooting a little bit from the beginning of the season and Dilione has a good midrange so all three of those guys have improved as offensive players from what I can see. The other guards, not so much. Rice and Stewart can only hit threes when they are wide open off of a kick out from a post player or ball reversal, neither one of them can shoot off the dribble. I really don’t see anything creative on offense either. You can’t run any kind of four or five out offense, hoping to get switches when only one of your players can consistently beat anyone off the dribble.

 

[Parkland Fan]

Agree 100%. Shrewsberry has been the best coach at Penn State that I can remember. Parkhill was good, done was terrible but got lucky with one sweet 16 run, DeChellis was the best XO guy out of the group but terrible recruiter. Chambers was the best recruiter and definitely a rah rah guy, but he was the worst of xo guys and was just plain awful with regard to time management.

I don’t think Crispin’s doing much with the offense, but I also think that he’s probably still the best basketball player in the gym when they have practice. Mingo and Reed have improved their outside shooting a little bit from the beginning of the season and Dilione has a good midrange so all three of those guys have improved as offensive players from what I can see. The other guards, not so much. Rice and Stewart can only hit threes when they are wide open off of a kick out from a post player or ball reversal, neither one of them can shoot off the dribble. I really don’t see anything creative on offense either. You can’t run any kind of four or five out offense, hoping to get switches when only one of your players can consistently beat anyone off the dribble.

18 point underdog at Nebraska today. I think the Huskers cover.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[bdgan]

Early vs Nebby

Sanford has three 3s. Need to defend Nebby's best shooter. Nebby is 5-8 from 3 pt range. PSU is 0-2 (2 were airballs).

Nebby also getting offensive rebounds.

 

[WyomingPA]

While waiting for the snow storm I decided to watch the game. Interesting stat the announcer made. Penn St is the worst team in Power 4 conferences against defending both 2-point and 3-point shots from a percentange made metric. That is truly unbelievable.
An embarrassment is an understatement.

 

[bdgan]

Nebby leads 38-20 at half

PSU had 11 TOs in first half

3 pt shooting:
Nebraska 7-16 (21 pts)
PSU 1-8 (3 pts)

Positives:
Juric 4 pts, 6 rebounds
Reed 8 pts, 2 rebounds

Negatives:
Mingo 0 pts, 1 assist (0-2 FTs)
Dillione 2 pts, 2 TOs

PSU is clearly outmatched talent wise but Juric and Reed are playing hard. Mingo & Dillione don't seem interested. Dillione only played 9 minutes. Discipline?

Stewart & Tunca play hard but they're simply not good enough IMO). Both are helter skelter on offense and get turned around and lost on defense.

 

[bdgan]

PSU really needs a DJ Newbill or Jalen Pickett type player. Those type of kids used to be available as transfers from smaller schools but now they want $$$.

 

[bdgan]

Back to back plays Tunca just waves while Nebby player blows by him for a layup. Same thing happened a couple of times with Mingo.

 

[WyomingPA]

The gaming industry underestimates how awful this team is. No defense at all, poor shooting and poor coaching. Nebraska at home at -17 was a lock.

 

[Psumatt85]

Setting aside whether one thinks Rhoades is a good, mediocre, or poor coach (opinions may vary, of course):

As of now, Mike Rhoades' buyout is $9 million (it does drop, IIRC, by roughly $3 million per year)

Just 3 years ago, the PSU AD signed Rhoades to a long-term contract - at a huge overpay from his salary at VCU (or for any "mid-major" coach)

To date, obviously, it hasn't worked out - either on the court or on the balance sheet.

And now that same AD is - if he were to cut Rhoades loose - asking for ANOTHER $9 million to erase the board, and likely even more $ to "try again"?

At some point, one would think, there would be an adult in the room who would stand up and say "No"
And if such a move were deemed to be inevitable, one might expect the AD to be shown the door at the same time.
Time will tell, but I expect there would be a lot of friction in the way of PSU firing Rhoades.... very little of it having to do with how many games they win.

How Kraft is still there after how poorly he managed the football hire is beyond me.

 

[Parkland Fan]

While waiting for the snow storm I decided to watch the game. Interesting stat the announcer made. Penn St is the worst team in Power 4 conferences against defending both 2-point and 3-point shots from a percentange made metric. That is truly unbelievable.
An embarrassment is an understatement.

Wrong defensive strategy for the players we have, but it is unbelievable to be last vs both shots.

 

[Parkland Fan]

Nebby leads 38-20 at half

PSU had 11 TOs in first half

3 pt shooting:
Nebraska 7-16 (21 pts)
PSU 1-8 (3 pts)

Positives:
Juric 4 pts, 6 rebounds
Reed 8 pts, 2 rebounds

Negatives:
Mingo 0 pts, 1 assist (0-2 FTs)
Dillione 2 pts, 2 TOs

PSU is clearly outmatched talent wise but Juric and Reed are playing hard. Mingo & Dillione don't seem interested. Dillione only played 9 minutes. Discipline?

Stewart & Tunca play hard but they're simply not good enough IMO). Both are helter skelter on offense and get turned around and lost on defense.

Agree on Stewart and Tunka. Weak on D and turn the ball over too often on O.

 

[Efejle]

How Kraft is still there after how poorly he managed the football hire is beyond me.

Actually he pulled it off: He completely bombed the search and fell into the outhouse with a new suit of clothes when Matt Campbell fell into his lap. He needs to repeat that now in basketball

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[Tom McAndrew]

Penn State men's basketball thumped by No. 9 Nebraska on the road behind Pryce Sanford's career night

The 2026 regular season winds down on the hardwood, and for the Nittany Lions, their quaternary finale, a great way to say fourth contest from closure, with a daunting outlook

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[Tom McAndrew]