After a 23-year long drought, Penn State’s men’s basketball team is finally ranked, once again! The Nittany Lions made their debut in this season’s AP Top 25 poll, coming in at No. 23.
This marks the first time since the end of the 1995-96 regular season that the Nittany Lions have appeared in an AP poll, and we will get more into this in an upcoming post very shortly (trust me, you won’t want to miss that one).
Additionally, PSU cracked the Top 20 in the debut of this season’s NET rankings, coming in at 18th. For those of you who are unfamiliar, the NET replaced the RPI last year as the main metric the NCAA selection committee uses to seed teams and decide which at-large teams on the bubble get in or have their bubble burst.