Penn State coach Ed DeChellis disappeared not long after the Nittany Lions wrapped an impressive 27-11 season by beating Baylor in the NIT championship game April 2.
The architect of the winningest single season in school history stayed secluded with his family and politely rejected most requests to publicly talk about this past season’s magical run.
It was a time for DeChellis to silently savor some scintillating success. When he finally re-emerged this week, there was a river of memories racing through his mind.
‘I’ve always tried to remember where I came from. I’m a small-town, Western Pennsylvania guy,’ DeChellis, a Monaca native, said with a humble sense of pride. …