Penn State tops Grand Canyon 85-76 in HoF Tip-Off Tournament

The Penn State coach, also a top candidate for Big Ten Coach of the Year, wants the Nittany Lions focused on Saturday night’s opponent, Rutgers, and nothing else.

Joshua Braun made 5 of 10 3-pointers and led Grand Canyon (0-2) with 25 points. If Ohio State beats MI and Penn State wins out, it’ll be the Nittany Lions playing in the Big Ten title game – something that seemed far-fetched following a 2-2 start.

Coaching: Penn State – James Franklin has gotten himself off the hot seat.

He may never be able to forget about the drop at Pitt, and if that loss ultimately keeps Penn State from a CFP berth, Lion fans will never forget it either. They’ve been shut out three times and scored seven points twice during the skid and regressed completely following two close games against Minnesota and Indiana. The Nittany Lions’ 28 kills were nine fewer than their previous season low, while Penn State’s.065 attack percentage was nearly.100 points worse than its previous low (.164). Barkley leads the Big Ten with 1,113 yards rushing. “Kelly put up a good ball for Foecke and I to be successful on the outside, so it’s all to Kelly”.

From that point the set was all Nebraska.

Offensive tackle Paris Palmer is the eighth Penn State player to sustain a season-ending injury. With the team out of timeouts, the Nittany Lions were subbing players in and out to have some shot of slowing the momentum, but it was not to be as the Huskers took the set on a 7-1 run, 25-17.

Prior to arriving at Penn State, Franklin had helped coach, among many others, four of the more talented wide receivers who’ve played in the National Football League in recent years.

“I could justify putting Ohio State over Penn State”, Finebaum said.

At his weekly press conference Tuesday, Penn State’s third-year head coach practically labled the true freshman guard from Lake-Lehman a game-time decision, but he added that the game time, being an 8 p.m. kickoff from High Point Solutions Stadium, could work in favor of McGovern, who left the game early in the fourth quarter after a hard collision while blocking on a third down pass play. “It really helped on Saturday that I made that catch on the flea-flicker just to spark our offense in the fourth quarter to get us the lead back”.

Ohio State is No. 2 in the latest CFB Playoff rankings.

Penn State: Ryan Bates.

The season took a huge turn for the Nittany Lions when the calendar switched to October.

The remainder of the set was nearly all Nebraska, as Penn State couldn’t seem to find a way to go on a run. Hunter struck for a pair of kills to make it 18-14 and force Penn State’s final timeout. Briana Holman had eight kills on.615 hitting. However, Nebraska notched the next two to take an early 3-1 lead. After the timeout, Malloy tallied a kill from the left side to even the score at 22-22. Defensively, Penn State has all of their stars back healthy, namely linebackers Jason Cabinda and Brandon Bell. The Nittany Lions needed another timeout after NU’s lead ballooned to 20-10. Nebraska held Lee – who had 23 kills against NU on November 4 – to six kills and seven errors on 31 swings. Annika Albrecht added 10 digs and two aces, including one on match point.

To win a set like that, and a match like that, would have been insane either way, Albrecht said, but it was fun to deliver the winning ace. Both outside hitters were in the double digits. Amber Rolfzen hit.500.

That illustrates Penn State’s quick-strike approach with its growing squadron of impressive receivers.