{"id":138741,"date":"2015-03-24T23:22:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T03:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/?p=138741"},"modified":"2015-03-24T23:22:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T03:22:27","slug":"city-of-basketball-love-2014-15-division-i-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/city-of-basketball-love-2014-15-division-i-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Basketball Love 2014-15  Division I Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City of Basketball Love:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Player of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>D.J. Newbill\u2013Sr., Penn State<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Newbill\u2019s story is remarkable and well-documented. Once scorned by Buzz Williams and Marquette, he scrambled to find a school late in the recruiting process and played his freshman year at Southern Miss. Following his freshman season, the Philly product was homesick and decided to transfer and commit to\u00a0Pat Chambers\u00a0and Penn State. Before donning the blue-and-white, Newbill\u2019s mother passed away and never had the chance to see him play for the Nittany Lions, as beautifully\u00a0shown in BTN\u2019s The Journey.<\/p>\n<p>And after two very good seasons to begin his PSU career, Newbill\u2019s senior year was flat out remarkable.\u00a0Despite a career 44-55 record in Happy Valley and only three years in the uniform, Newbill leaves Penn State as arguably the greatest Nittany Lion of all-time&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/cityofbasketballlove.com\/2015\/03\/2014-15-cobl-division-i-awards\/\">2014-15 CoBL Division I Awards | City of Basketball Love<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of Basketball Love: Player of the Year D.J. Newbill\u2013Sr., Penn State Newbill\u2019s story is remarkable and well-documented. Once scorned by Buzz Williams and Marquette, he scrambled to find a school late in the recruiting process and played his freshman year at Southern Miss. Following his freshman season, the Philly product was homesick and decided &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/city-of-basketball-love-2014-15-division-i-awards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City of Basketball Love 2014-15  Division I Awards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>City of Basketball Love 2014-15 Division I Awards - PennStateHoops.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/city-of-basketball-love-2014-15-division-i-awards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"City of Basketball Love 2014-15 Division I Awards - PennStateHoops.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"City of Basketball Love: Player of the Year D.J. 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