Like Jay-Z, I’ve officially come back from retirement* to marvel at Penn State’s meaningless** exhibition game against the preseason No. 13 West Virginia Mountaineers. The Nittany Lions started out strong, commanding a 12-point halftime lead, then answering every Mountaineer run in the second half with one of their own. The game ended on a Josh Reaves tipped shot to close out an exciting, back and forth affair that did not feel like an exhibition.
This varies by the kind of exhibition, but both teams played their starters the entire game in this one. It was readily apparent that neither team wanted to lose this game, and every guy on the floor was playing this like a mid-to-late November game instead of an early exhibition.