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Penn State 71 Notre Dame 63 NCAA Tournament Mar. 13, 1954 Iowa City, Iowa The Nittany Lions ended Notre Dame’s 18-game winning streak and advanced to the NCAA Final Four. Jesse Arnelle (22), Jack Sherry (14), Jim Blocker (13) and Ed Haag (12) led Penn State in scoring.
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▲ Coach Ed DeChellis celebrates with seniors Jamelle Cornley and Danny Morrissey following the Lions 2009 NIT Championship victory over Baylor.
NCAA Tournament Mar. 12, 1954 Iowa City, Iowa Jesse Arnelle collected 24 points and 14 rebounds as Penn State defeated eighthranked LSU and Bob Pettit in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Penn State 66 Illinois 65 Feb. 4, 2006 Champaign, Ill.
▲ North Carolina native Titus Ivory joined Joe Crispin and Gyasi Cline-Heard in scoring 21 points each in Penn State’s 82-74 victory over No. 5 North Carolina in the 2001 NCAA Tournament second round.
Penn State 74 UCLA 69 NCAA Tournament Mar. 15, 1991 Syracuse, N.Y.
Penn State 82 North Carolina 74 NCAA Tournament Mar. 18, 2001 New Orleans, La. Penn State’s senior trio of Gyasi ClineHeard, Joe Crispin and Titus Ivory willed Penn State past No. 5-ranked and second-seeded North Carolina 82-74 in front of an excited Superdome crowd in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The win moved Penn State into its first-ever modern day (expanded field) Sweet 16 appearance. Ivory, a North Carolina native, Crispin and Cline-Heard each scorded 21 points in the win.
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▲ Deron Hayes scored 16 points in Penn State’s 74-69 win over No. 16 UCLA in the 1991 NCAA Tournament.
Bruce Parkhill’s squad rallied from a fourpoint halftime deficit to upset No. 16 UCLA in the first round and give Penn State its first NCAA tournament win since 1955. James Barnes scored 19 points and Deron Hayes added 16.
Penn State 65 Michigan State 63 Big Ten Tournament Mar. 9, 2001 Chicago, Ill. Joe Crispin’s thrilling off-balance trey with little time left capped a stunning 22 point performance and gave Penn State an upset win over No. 2 Michigan State in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals. It also marked the highest ranked team that Penn State had ever beaten.
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▲ Calvin Booth had 17 points in the first game in the Bryce Jordan Center in 1996.
Penn State 69 Baylor 63 National Invitation Tournament April 2, 2009 New York City, N.Y. With 36 bus loads of fans shaking the floor of Madison Square Garden and legendary football coach Joe Paterno cheering behind the bench, Jamelle Cornley posted 18 points and seven rebounds to lead Penn State back from a 29-25 halftime deficit to the program’s first-ever national tournament title.
Penn State 72 Michigan State 68 Feb. 1, 2009 East Lansing, Mich. Trailing by as many as 13 in the first half, Penn State rode a stellar 29-point performance from sophomore Talor Battle to down the ninth-ranked Spartans, an eventual Final Four team, and earn the program’s first-ever win in East Lansing, Mich.
In the first big win of coach Ed DeChellis’ tenure, Travis Parker scored 21 points, including the game winner with 8.5 seconds to play, and Geary Claxton added 20 as Penn State defeated No. 6-ranked Illinois 66-65 in a sold-out Assembly Hall for the biggest road upset in program history. The Illini’s Rich McBride had a potential game winning three-pointer waved off, having come just after the buzzer, ending the Illini’s 33-game homecourt winning streak, then the longest in the nation. Penn State recovered after an early 13-0 deficit and Mike Walker hit all three of his three-pointers in the last 8:10 to spark the Lions.
Penn State 73 Kentucky 68 Nov. 25, 2000 Lexington, Ky. Penn State’s Crispin brothers, senior Joe and sophomore Jon, put on a memorable show as the Nittany Lions, making their first-ever appearance in Kentucky’s Rupp Arena, stunned nationally-ranked Kentucky 73-68. The PSU win marked only the second time in Rupp history that UK had lost a home opener and broke Kentucky’s 20-game home win streak. Joe Crispin hit 11 of 26 shots, including seven treys, for 31 points while Jon Crispin nailed a stunning nine of 12 field goals, including six treys, for a career high 26 points. The brother duo combined for 57 of PSU’s 73 points.