{"id":457,"date":"2005-02-20T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-20T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/post-gazettes-collier-psu-basketball-stuck-in-winters-of-despair\/"},"modified":"2005-02-20T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-20T10:29:00","slug":"post-gazettes-collier-psu-basketball-stuck-in-winters-of-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/post-gazettes-collier-psu-basketball-stuck-in-winters-of-despair\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Gazette’s Collier: PSU basketball stuck in winters of despair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Collier: PSU basketball stuck in winters of despair<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Winter has enforced its typically brutal lockdown at Penn State, where the biting cold, the slush-gray sky and the hardened faces of overworked students headed to the day’s first classes all reflect the grim presumption that spring’s just about an eon away.<\/p>\n

“It is not yet 9 a.m., but Ed DeChellis already has been in his office for hours. He was there well after 1 a.m. the night before as well, going over tape of the Penn State-Illinois game, in which the No. 1 team so overmatched DeChellis’ Nittany Lions that the crowd at the Bryce Jordan Center seemed as interested in a courtside wing-eating contest as in the fact that Penn State’s players couldn’t get close enough to Illinois’ ultra-quick athletes to even apply any defensive principles.<\/p>\n

“In one startling sequence, Dee Brown, the spectacular Illinois point guard, took a long defensive rebound near the top of the circle and started up court into a den of Lions. Brown was 1 on 3 and he beat all three to the hoop.<\/p>\n

“DeChellis grew up in Monaca, never figuring he would end up as one of those guys who was always trying to answer The Question.<\/p>\n

“The Question seems ageless now, not that it predates the chicken-egg conundrum, but long enough to make the if-a-tree-falls-in-the-forest thing look almost fresh. The Question — why isn’t Penn State any good at basketball? — has walked this campus like a specter for generations. …”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Collier: PSU basketball stuck in winters of despair: “UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Winter has enforced its typically brutal lockdown at Penn State, where the biting cold, the slush-gray sky and the hardened faces of overworked students headed to the day’s first classes all reflect the grim presumption that spring’s just about an eon away. “It … <\/p>\n

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