UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The 13th-ranked Penn State men's basketball team (18-5, 8-4) travels to Purdue (14-10, 7-6) for a Tuesday, Feb. 11 game at Mackey Arena. This is the only regular-season meeting between the Nittany Lions and the Boilermakers after playing twice in each of the last three years.
Tipoff is at 6:30 p.m. ET and Kevin Kugler and Shon Morris will have the call for the Big Ten Network.
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PURDUE
Coach: Matt Painter (Purdue, 1994)
at Purdue: 335-169 (15th season)
Career Record: 360-174 (16th season)
2019-20 Record: 14-10, 7-6 Big Ten
Top Scorer
#50 Trevion Williams, So., F – 11.9 ppg
Top Rebounder
#50 Trevion Williams, So., F – 7.3 rpg
Top Assists Leader
#2 Eric Hunter Jr., So., G – 2.9 apg
PENN STATE NITTANY LIONS
Coach: Patrick Chambers (Philadelphia, 1994)
Penn State Record: 145-145 (Ninth season)
Career Record: 187-173 (11th season)
2019-20 Record: 18-5, 8-4 Big Ten
Top Scorer
#11 Lamar Stevens, Sr., F – 17.6 ppg
Top Rebounder
#24 Mike Watkins, Sr., F – 7.9 rpg
Top Assists Leaders
#0 Myreon Jones, So., G – 3.0 apg
#5 Jamari Wheeler, Jr., G – 2.95 apg
STARTING 5
Honors continue to roll in for forward Lamar Stevens during his stellar senior campaign. Stevens was named the Citizen Watch Naismith Trophy National Player of the Week and the Lute Olson Award National Player of the Week on Monday. The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, product led Penn State to a 2-0 record last week with a career-high 33 points vs. Minnesota and team-high 24 points at No. 16 Michigan State.
For the second time this season and for his career, preseason All-Big Ten pick Lamar Stevens was selected as the Big Ten Conference Player of the Week Monday.
There are only two seasons in Penn State's Big Ten era, 2019-20 and 1995-96 the other, when the Nittany Lions have had a winning record after 12 conference games.
Penn State is the only team in the Big Ten this season with a winning record on the road (4-3).
Comparing the previous eight seasons at the 23-game mark, Penn State's current 77.1 points per game average is its highest in the Chambers era.
SERIES VS. PURDUE
Penn State's last win in the series against Purdue came on Feb. 2, 2014 (79-68). The Nittany Lions have only two wins at Purdue, both coming in the month of February, a 69-61 win on Feb. 18, 2006, and a 78-70 win on Feb. 20, 1999.
Series streak: Purdue, W9
Overall series: Purdue leads 39-12
At West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue leads 22-2
Last game: at Mackey Arena, West Lafayette
Purdue 76, Penn State 64, 2/16/2019
Chambers vs. Purdue: 2-13 (A: 0-7)
B1G WINS
The Nittany Lions' win at Nebraska Feb. 1 added another chapter to Penn State's Big Ten basketball history. The sixth league win for coach Patrick Chambers and the Nittany Lions marked a fifth consecutive season with six or more Big Ten wins – four-straight years was a first-ever accomplishment for the program last season.
Current Streak with 6+ B1G Wins
Season – No.
2019-20 – 8
2018-19 – 7
2017-18 – 9
2016-17 – 6
2015-16 – 7
WHEN PENN STATE IS RANKED...
Penn State is 21-13 when playing as a team ranked in the Associated Press poll, a record which includes a 7-2 mark this season.
KENPOM / NET 2020
Current KenPom.com ratings have the Nittany Lions No. 14 overall. Penn State is 19th in the most recent NCAA NET rating.
BY THE NUMBERS
2 - Penn State has wins in both "second" meetings in Big Ten Conference play.
40 - Junior guard Jamari Wheeler leads the Big Ten with 40 steals and a 1.7 per game average.
45.6 - Over the Nittany Lions' six-game win streak, they are shooting at a 45.6 percent clip from the floor.
75.0 - In seven starts this season, junior forward John Harrar owns a 75.0 field goal percentage (18-24) and went 4-5 (80%) from the field vs. Minnesota.
90 - Lamar Stevens' 33-point outing vs. Minnesota was 90th time a Nittany Lion had scored at least 30 points in a game.
1,728 - Senior forwards Mike Watkins and Lamar Stevens have combined for 1,728 rebounds in their four-year careers at Penn State.
They rank in Penn State's all-time top five in rebounds. Watkins is third with (907), five from the No. 2 spot, and Stevens is fifth (821).
15,261 - Penn State recorded a sellout Saturday vs. Minnesota, its first since March 1, 2011.
STEVENS' CAREER NIGHT GIVES LIONS SIXTH-STRAIGHT WIN
Led by Lamar Stevens' career-high 33 points, Penn State topped Minnesota 83-77 Saturday and won its sixth-straight game in front of a sold-out crowd of 15,261 fans in the Bryce Jordan Center.
Penn State never trailed, but Minnesota connected on all eight of its 3-pointers in the second half to erase the Nittany Lions' double-digit lead. Minnesota got as close as three, 71-68, at the 4:48 mark. A clutch field goal and free throw by Stevens and a trey by Myles Dread pushed Penn State back up by nine, 77-68, with 3:13 to play.
The Golden Gophers chipped away at the 10-point lead in the last minute, but went 2-8 from the field while sending PSU to the line. Penn State made enough free throws in the final 1:13 for the final.
Both teams lit it up in the second half and guard Marcus Carr scored 18 points by the 10-minute mark, getting to his 20-point total, and helping Minnesota trim the lead to single digits.
Izaiah Brockington scored three of the next four baskets for a 67-56 PSU lead with 8:12 left. He finished with 10 points, Curtis Jones Jr. added seven and Watkins four as the Nittany Lions' bench outscored Minnesota 21-7.
Penn State built an early lead, but the Nittany Lions' couldn't capitalize on the Golden Gophers' scoring drought. Minnesota snuck back into the game at 19-14 and 21-16.
Brockington sent the Nittany Lions into the locker room with thunderous fastbreak slam as the Nittany Lions led Minnesota 36-22 at the end of the first half of play.
Minnesota center Daniel Oturu turned in a double-double with 32 points and 16 rebounds to pace the Golden Gophers.
