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Wrestling Wreport: Penn State Wins a Share of Big Ten Regular Season Title
Thanks to a weekend sweep of No. 7 Nebraska on Friday night and Michigan at Rec Hall on Sunday, the Penn State Wrestling team earned the inaugural Big Ten regular season dual meet title. Unfortunately, thanks to a win over Nebraska Sunday, Minnesota earned a share of that title with Penn State....
Wrestling Wreport: Penn State Closes Out Big Ten Duals
Penn State will travel to Nebraska tonight at 8 p.m. and then return home to Rec Hall to welcome the Michigan Wolverines Sunday at 2 p.m. Both teams are ranked - NU is 7th and UM is 12th - so it will be a tough test for the Lions. It’s a big weekend for PSU because these are the last two...
Wrestling Wreport: Penn State Destroys Ohio State 34-9
The Big Ten Wrestling championships start in just over a monthbut Penn State is in peak form right now. A week after dismantling Iowa 22-12, the Lions beat Ohio State 34-9 winning 8 of the 10 bouts. It was thorough domination, in its eight victories, Penn State did not give up a single takedown. I...
Wrestling Wreport: Penn State takes on OSU
After a tough match against a top-5 opponent in Iowa, Penn State welcomes another top-5 opponent in the No. 5 Ohio State Buckeyes to Rec Hall Sunday for a 2 p.m. Big Ten dual. Penn State and Ohio State are similar in that they both beat Iowa bad. Ohio State won 21-9 a week ago and Penn State won...
Wrestling Wreport: Penn State lumbers to a victory over MSU
It’s not often that you consider a 36-6 whitewash victory as somewhat disappointing. Penn State out-wrestled Michigan State by a margin of 25-5 in takedowns and the only points they gave up were a fluke disqualification. If not for those 6 points Penn State would have shut out Sparty, but...
Wrestling Wreport: Penn State takes on #10 Lehigh and West Virginia
The last time we saw our heroes in a dual setting they were getting thoroughly beat by Minnesota. Since then the Penn State Wrestling team bounced back and crowned six champions in the annual Penn State open last weekend. Cael Sanderson takes his team on the road for the first time this season...
Wrestling Wreport: PSU Gopher’ed by Minnesota
That sound you heard Sunday afternoon was the sound of Penn State wrestling fans’ souls being sucked out of Rec Hall. Ed Ruth brought the crowd to a frenzy with a pin of Minnesota's Alec Ortiz at the 2:28 mark of his match at 174 and tied the score at 14. With crowd favorite Quentin Wright,...
Wrestling Wreport: Minnesota Preview
The Minnesota Golden Gophers come to town Sunday for a noon dual. It's a huge early season test for the Wrestling team as a whole and a litmus test for some of Penn State's young wrestlers. Why the Big Ten scheduled such a big match up of wrestling powerhouses so early in the season is beyond me...
Nitt Picks Isn't Talking Football...Okay, Maybe A Little Bit
It's not football, but it's football's kissing cousin rugby, and the Penn State women play it pretty well. So well in fact, they won yet another National Championship with a dominating 24-7 victory over Stanford in the final. 2010 National Champions Winning is nice and all, but earning the...
Nitts Picks Is Peaking At The Wrong Time
Exercise in apathy. For those of you worried about a fierce Northwestern crowd: [T]his 4:30 pm et start time, which was cemented at the beginning of the season has been the home treat of the schedule. This summer, fans dreamed of NU being 7-0 or a "realistic worse case scenario" of entering 6-2....
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