Centre Daily Times | 01/06/2005 | PSU HOOPS: Spartans capitalize on PSU turnovers, beat Lions 84-58:
“It took a while for Michigan State to scrape the ice off the windshield and get the engine warm on a sleety Wednesday evening. Once it did, things got chilly for Penn State in a hurry.
“Trailing early in the first half, the No. 20 Spartans (9-2, 1-0 Big Ten) used a 17-2 run to put the Nittany Lions (6-8, 0-1) on ice, then pulled away in the second half in an 84-58 win in the conference opener for both teams at the Bryce Jordan Center.
“Penn State, which lost for the sixth time in seven games, led 16-13 at the 14-minute mark of the first half before the Spartans shook away the cobwebs from a week-long layoff and started slicing up the Nittany Lion defense. Michigan State led by 10 at the half and Penn State, which committed 13 of its 20 turnovers in the second half, would get no closer.
” ‘They got 33 points off our turnovers and there’s the game,’ Penn State men’s basketball coach Ed DeChellis said. ‘We just can’t continue to turn the basketball over, and we continue to do it every night.’ …”