Centre Daily Times | 12/06/2004 | Loss to Hoyas sticks with PSU:
“It was the sort of loss that eats at you, even if you weren’t a part of it.
“A detached retina kept Aaron Johnson out of Penn State’s 2003-04 season-opener against Georgetown, but the Nittany Lions’ burly forward felt the pain of the 79-78 defeat all the same.
” ‘That loss really hurt us,’ said a now-healthy Johnson, who will lead Penn State against the Hoyas at 7:30 tonight in the MCI Center, ‘because it was an emotional loss. You’d rather lose by 10 than one any day … Losing by 10, you just got flat-out beat, but we lost by one at the buzzer, and it was demoralizing.’
“In their first game under coach Ed DeChellis, the Nittany Lions watched a nine-point halftime lead disappear. With Penn State up one in the final seconds, since-departed guard Brandon Cameron went after a loose ball on an inbound play and was whistled for a foul on Georgetown’s Ashanti Cook, who hit both free throws with 1.1 seconds remaining to win the game….”