We interrupt your opening week of Penn State football talk with some very important hoops news: In case you missed it yesterday, the Nittany Lion basketball team announced in a very creative social media post, that names will be returning to the back of their players’ jerseys for the first time in nearly 20 years.
Back on the back#WeAre pic.twitter.com/7V8ZA91d7l
— Penn State Men’s Basketball (@PennStateMBB) August 31, 2023
For a period of about ten years, from the mid-1990’s to the mid-2000’s, PSU players rocked names on the back of their jerseys, a practice that appeared to begin towards the end of the Bruce Parkhill era all the way though Jerry Dunn’s tenure, and the first couple of seasons with Ed DeChellis running the show.