FightOnState.com: Penn State Has No Answer:
“Iowa hit Penn State with an early haymaker at the BJC Saturday. The struggling Lions failed to respond and were blown out again.
“Say this much for Penn State basketball coach Ed DeChellis: He knows the game.
“Prior to facing Iowa at the Jordan Center Saturday, DeChellis told his team (and the media) about two keys to stopping the Hawkeyes. The first was using strong transition defense to encumber Iowa’s fastbreak. The second was keeping a hand in the respective faces of Hawk deadeyes Jeff Horner and Adam Haluska.
“He couldn’t have been more right. Because in pounding the Nittany Lions 78-56 on a forgettable PSU Senior Day, Iowa churned out 22 points on breaks, 16 of them when the game was decided in the first half. Horner and Haluska, meanwhile, got open looks at will, combining to make 17 of 29 shots (6 of 12 3-pointers) for 41 points.
“‘We identified what we needed to do,’ DeChellis said. ‘We talked about that for a couple days, and we couldn’t get it done. … We really didn’t execute the things that we talked about [that] we needed to execute, and that’s the most disappointing thing to me.’ …”