State College to Piscataway: 4 hours by car. CDT: that’s too far. – Ed.
Centre Daily Times | Nittany Lions use hot shooting to down Knights:
“PISCATAWAY, N.J. – So much for being intimidated.
“Penn State, led by its three true freshmen, pulled off its biggest victory in almost four years Wednesday, defeating Rutgers 83-80 in a hostile Louis Brown Athletic Center.
“Aaron Johnson and Geary Claxton had 17 points apiece, Mike Walker and Travis Parker 15 apiece and Danny Morrissey, filling in for an injured Marlon Smith, had 12. Penn State won for the fourth time in five games and won in an opponent’s gym for the first time in 11 tries.
” ‘Our young kids just did so well,’ Penn State men’s basketball coach Ed DeChellis said. ‘I told the guys, ‘Remember how this feels. This is the feeling we want to have.””