Ohio State vies for its second win against Penn State, which has won four of its last six games since losing to the Buckeyes.
Micah Shrewsberry’s first Penn State team is 8-6 on the year so far and .500 in Big Ten play. The Nittany Lions, at home on Dec. 5, but have rattled off four wins in six games since then. Penn State’s two losses during that stretch are nothing to scoff at, with one being a road defeat to current No. 10 Michigan State and the other just a seven-point loss to then-No. 3 Purdue.
Penn State has three wins over Big Ten teams in that stretch, with victories over Indiana, Northwestern and Rutgers all coming since the start of 2022. The Nittany Lions’ Jan. 2 win over the Hoosiers is particularly eyebrow-raising for the Buckeyes, who were blown out by Trayce Jackson-Davis and company just 10 days ago.
"They're gonna fight you for everything," Ohio State assistant coach Ryan Pedon said Saturday. "I think they have a real chip on their shoulder, they play like they're trying to prove something, like they're a bunch of underdogs. I think that's the mentality that their coach is forming." Ohio State has suffered two defeats in a week-and-a-half, and will try to bounce back from the Wisconsin loss with its second win this season against a Penn State team it is favored to handle at home.Ohio State is coming off its worst collective 3-point shooting performance in three years. The Buckeyes knocked down just three of their 19 attempts against Wisconsin, a 15.8 percent mark that stands as Ohio State’s worst since March 6, 2019.
“Penn State is a totally different team than when we played them in the beginning of the year," Key said."They play faster, they play harder, they have some different pieces. They’re a really good team coming in on Sunday to beat us, so we just got to be ready.”No team in the Big Ten has scored fewer points per game than Penn State. The Nittany Lions have still won more games than they’ve lost this season, as they also have the third-best scoring defense in the Big Ten , but their 67.
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