Baylor and Penn State set meaningful, perhaps watershed, records during this National Invitation Tournament.
The Bears’ seniors, who began their college careers prohibited from playing nonconference games because they joined a program reeling from scandal, still managed to win more games than any other class in Baylor history thanks to this postseason run.
Likewise, the Nittany Lions set a program record by winning for the 26th time this season in the N.I.T. semifinals.
Yet only one of these teams could finish a historic season with a victory. Penn State took that honor by beating Baylor, 69-63, in the N.I.T. final Thursday night at Madison Square Garden…