Although Penn State fell to Purdue 70-59 in its final game of the season following a Big Ten first-round win two days previously, the improvements in play the team began that week bled through to the summer months.
In a time when students usually take classes to lighten their load in the upcoming semester, the Nittany Lions were hard at work in the gym trying to fix what went wrong in the previous season — building off what they started in the first week of March.
“[The practices] allowed us to get going a little early,” coach Coquese Washington said.