UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Old regional rivals Penn State and West Virginia will meet Saturday, Nov. 3 at noon ET for a charity exhibition game at WVU Coliseum. Both programs cancelled preseason exhibition games against other opponents in order to play this charity exhibition game.
The last time Penn State met a Big 12 team was in the 2009 National Invitation Tournament championship game when the Nittany Lions defeated Baylor 69-63 for the title (4/2/2009).
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GAME NOTES: Penn State | West Virginia
MEDIA GUIDE: Penn State | West Virginia
PENN STATE
Coach: Patrick Chambers (Philadelphia, 1994)
Penn State Record: 113-122 (7 years)
Career Record: 155-150 (9 years)
2017-18 Leading Scorer:
Tony Carr, G - 19.7 ppg
2017-18 Leading Rebounder:
#24 Mike Watkins, R-Jr., F - 8.9 rpg
2017-18 Assists Leader:
Tony Carr, G - 4.8 apg
#13 WEST VIRGINIA MOUNTAINEERS
Coach: Bob Huggins (West Virginia, 1977)
WVU Record: 255-130 (11 years)
Career Record: 845-341 (36 years)
2017-18 Record: 26-11, 11-7 Big 12
2017-18 Leading Scorer
Jevon Carter, G - 17.3 ppg
2017-18 Leading Rebounder:
#50 Sagaba Konate, Jr., F - 7.6 rpg
2017-18 Assists Leader:
Jevon Carter, G - 4.7 apg
PENN STATE PROBABLE STARTERS
F -- 11 -- Lamar Stevens – Jr. | 2017-18 ppg: 15.5 | rpg: 5.0
Note: NIT Most Outstanding Player, One of 20 candidates for Erving Award for nation's top small forward
F -- 21 -- John Harrar – So. | 2017-18 ppg: 1.6 | rpg: 2.1
Note: Penn State's NIT rebounding leader at 7.4 rpg in 5 games, career best 12 in final
G – 2 -- Myles Dread -- Fr.
Note: D.C. Gatorade Player of the Year, 1,433 career pts in at Gonzaga College H.S.
G – 5 -- Jamari Wheeler -- So. | 2017-18 ppg: 2.0 | rpg: 1.8
Note: Played all 39 games with 3 starts, set freshman record with 52 steals
G – 23 -- Josh Reaves -- Sr. | 2017-18 ppg: 10.6 | rpg: 5.1
Note: 2016-17 & 2017-18 B1G steals leader, Penn State-best FG% in NIT games (52.6)
OLD RIVALS MEET FOR RELIEF
Penn State men's basketball travels to West Virginia as the two teams will play a charity exhibition game on Saturday, Nov. 3 at WVU Coliseum. All proceeds from the game will benefit American Red Cross hurricane relief efforts.
The United States was affected by two recent and devastating category 4 hurricanes, Florence and Michael, with damage across the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
Prior to landfall, Hurricane Florence was measured at 350 miles wide, 67 miles wider than the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and dropped more than 30 inches of rain in some parts of the state of North Carolina. Hurricane Michael was ranked as the fourth-most powerful storm to hit the U.S. and worst since Hurricane Camille in 1969.
SERIES RECORD
Regional rivals who played every year from 1936-1991, the last meeting between Penn State and West Virginia was on January 31, 1991, when the Nittany Lions took a 66-63 win at WVU Coliesum.
The two teams split their last 10 meetings 5-5, but the Mountaineers held a 3-1 advantage in games in Morgantown. The Mountaineers own a 66-53 overall mark in the series.
KENPOM 2019
The 2019 KenPom rankings place the Nittany Lions at No. 32 overall for their highest preseason start ever and 12th in adjusted defense, best in the Big Ten.
GETTING DEFENSIVE
In preseason previews of the 2018-19 Big Ten Conference field and individual honors, senior guard Josh Reaves rises to the top as the pick for the league's top defensive player. Athlon Sports' superlatives tab Reaves and Lindy's also picks the league's two-time steals leader as its top defender.
THE NUMBERS GAME
With 113 victories in his seven-year tenure at Penn State, coach Patrick Chambers is closing in on the win totals of Ed DeChellis (114, 8 years) and Jerry Dunn (117, 8 years).
20 FOR THE BIG TEN
The Big Ten Conference announced in October 2017 that the league's 14 men's basketball programs would move to a 20-game schedule beginning in 2018-19. The Big Ten will be the first conference to play 20 conference games in the history of Division I basketball with each team playing seven opponents twice and six teams once (three home, three away) in a given season.
Penn State will play Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, Purdue, Rutgers and Wisconsin twice. The Nittany Lions will welcome Indiana, Iowa and Michigan State to the BJC and play road games at Minnesota, Northwestern and Ohio State.
BY THE NUMBERS
5 – The Nittany Lions currently have the second-longest active win streak in the nation behind only Villanova (11).
6 – Penn State was one of only six Division I programs that did not lose a game by more than 12 points. In games decided by 16 points or more, the Nittany Lions were 11-0.
8:59 – Of the 160 minutes in its last four wins, Penn State trailed for less than nine minutes (8:59): Notre Dame (0:00), Marquette (1:00), Mississippi State (:30) and Utah (7:29).
26 – The Nittany Lions' 26-win total in 2017-18 marked their first 20-win season since 2008-09 and the second-highest win total all-time.
29 – Penn State scored 70 or more points 29 times in 2017-18, the most in a single season in program history, breaking the old record by five games (24, 1999-2000).
52 – Thirty-one individual and 21 team records, as well as a 23-year-old Big Ten individual record, were broken during the 2017-18 campaign.
2,915 – The 2017-18 Nittany Lions set the program record for most points scored in a single season, breaking the previous record of 2,572 (35 games, 1999-2000).
