Centre Daily Times | 11/30/2005 | Tigers’ defense bottles up Nittany Lions:
“UNIVERSITY PARK — Good defense — the five-man, trapping, every-possession variety — has a way of disrupting everything you’re doing or would like to do.
“You get out of your sets. You fire passes hard with one hand, try to get shots off instead of shooting them at the basket. Your intensity is there, but the execution is just a sliver off.
“And it gets to you. Frustration seeps in. The hard passes become soft and sloppy. Next thing you know, a five-point deficit has become 15, then 20.
“That was Tuesday night for Penn State, which found it could do little against a hungry Clemson defense during a 96-88 loss to the Tigers in the Bryce Jordan Center in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. …”