Ben Jones

It wasn’t that long ago Andrew Funk looked in the mirror and was ready to be done with basketball. It was a bittersweet moment, but there was also a release and a relief to be found here as well. The stress, the long days, the tired nights, it might all be over soon. Because there…

The fluid nature and enormity of college basketball makes the question “what does Penn State need to do to make the NCAA Tournament?” one of those curiosities that is better answered after the fact. If the Nittany Lions go dancing then the answer apparently is “that” and if they don’t, the answer is “a bit…

While Penn State men’s basketball certainly has bigger fish to fry, the Nittany Lions are set to break a bit of program history – likely as soon as Thursday – en route to trying to chase down an NCAA Tournament bid in the final weeks of the season. The record in the question, the program’s…

MINNEAPOLIS- At 7-9 in Big Ten play and 16-11 overall, the postseason fate of Penn State men’s basketball still very much remains up in the air. The Nittany Lions find themselves teetering on the edge of the discussion, each game swinging the pendulum towards or away from an NCAA Tournament berth. Time will tell how…

In sportswriting the implied purpose of a game story, the immediate journalistic response to a game ending, is that you will talk about the game. But sometimes the game isn’t what there is to talk about. Sometimes the athletes and their play is far more interesting than a summation of what happened and when. Because…