FightOnState.com: Sorry State:
“Penn State’s stranglehold on 11th-place in the Big Ten is as safe as ever. The Nittany Lions rolled over against sad-sack Purdue in West Lafayette Wednesday night, falling 77-50 and taking a major step toward securing their fourth straight last-place showing in the league.
“The Boilermakers entered the game at 1-8 in the Big Ten, while PSU, rested after a bye, was 1-7. They were 11th and 10th in the conference, respectively. Since this is the only regular-season meeting between the two, the game was fairly billed as a battle for the basement.
“In that respect, Ed DeChellis’s team won in a knockout.
“‘It was a game they had to have and a game we had to have,’ the coach told the Penn State Radio Network. ‘At the end of the day, they wanted it more and were playing to win. We were playing to play.’ …”