“If it’s true that contagious winning salves any wounds, so it is that habitual losing opens them. In that respect, the Penn State men’s basketball team is not a healthy unit.
“Rifts exist just below the surface that could blow the team completely apart if the losses mount next season as they did in this one. And that’s why coach Ed DeChellis and his staff know it’s imperative they find a way to stanch the bleeding if their six-year plan to redirect the program is to gain any momentum.
“So far, there is none. The Nittany Lions head to Chicago today for the start of the Big Ten tournament tomorrow on an 11-game spiral and lugging records of 7-22 overall and 1-15 in the league. In the last 14 years, only three other Big Ten teams have finished with one or zero league wins…”