Comfort on road vital to success:
“When the Penn State men’s basketball team takes the court tonight in the Reed Center at Texas A&M;, there will be no cameras, no announcers and no jeering Aggies fans. That’s because the game isn’t until 4 p.m. tomorrow.
“The Nittany Lions (3-1) are leaving Happy Valley early this afternoon in order to establish a comfort level with a road venue, something that was lacking for much of head coach Ed DeChellis’ first two years at the helm. Penn State is 2-20 under DeChellis when playing on the road.
” ‘Until you experience going on the road and playing in a different environment, a different gym, dealing with the crowd, I don’t think there’s a whole lot of talk that I can do to actually prepare them for it,’ DeChellis said. …”