By Jeff Rapp
After this upcoming basketball season, if Trey Burke wants to play with his buddies Jared Sullinger and J.D. Weatherspoon he’ll have to do it in a pickup game or when Penn State comes westward to play Ohio State.
A 6-foot, 171-pound junior point guard at Columbus (Ohio) Northland, Burke eventually will join his high school teammates in the Big Ten but not at OSU; he’s committed to the Nittany Lions.
Burke gave PSU head coach Ed DeChellis the good news Wednesday night during what DeChellis thought was a standard, once-a-week phone conversation with the rising recruit.
“At first it was a normal phone call,” Burke told Nittany Network. “He asked me about our conditioning and then he asked how my parents were doing. I said they were real happy and he said, ‘Why are they so happy?’ and I said, ‘Because I’m coming to Penn State.’ He said, ‘You just made my night.’ He wasn’t expecting that.” …