Centre Daily Times: Nittany Lions take on Spartans

Centre Daily Times | 03/05/2005 | Nittany Lions take on Spartans:

“Two months later, those four points still haunt Ed DeChellis.

“Penn State’s men’s basketball coach can’t forget Turner Battle’s buzzer-beater that gave Buffalo a two-point win in the Bryce Jordan Center on Dec. 21, or the 17-point lead his Nittany Lions squandered 12 days later in another two-point home loss to Texas A&M.;

“He wonders if this season might have played out differently had a couple shots gone the other way in either game, if his young team had entered the Big Ten slate 8-5 instead of 6-7.

“‘It’s my job to get them to recover,’ DeChellis said Thursday, ‘and I don’t think we ever really recovered the way we needed to.’ …”