Somewhere back in 2009, I was engaged in a discussion about Penn State athletics somewhere on the web. The question that was posed, and that demands revisiting, was this: what would happen next - Penn State winning a third national championship in football or Penn State’s men’s basketball team winning a Big Ten championship (regular season or tournament)?
After all, it was a great time to have such a conversation. Penn State was coming off a Big Ten title in football. Meanwhile, the basketball team had claimed an NIT title and had a young core led by Talor Battle returning.