{"id":307051,"date":"2025-11-25T05:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/307051\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T05:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:25:09","slug":"mens-basketball-heads-to-penn-state-for-tuesday-night-visit-on-nbcsn-and-peacock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/307051\/","title":{"rendered":"Men’s Basketball Heads to Penn State for Tuesday Night Visit on NBCSN and Peacock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston University (3-3) at Penn State (5-1)

\nDate & Time:\u00a0Tuesday, Nov. 25 | 7 p.m.
\nVenue:\u00a0Bryce Jordan Center | State College, Pa.
\nX:\u00a0@BUGameDay<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0@TerrierMBB<\/a><\/p>\n

BOSTON \u2013 Continuing the season-high four-game road trip, the Boston University men’s basketball team will visit Penn State Tuesday night with the tip slated for 7 p.m. on both the NBC Sports Network and the Peacock streaming service.<\/p>\n

Both programs most recently participated in a doubleheader at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut with the Terriers edging Harvard, 75-74, and the Nittany Lions falling to Providence, 77-65. The contest will mark BU’s second\u00a0against the Big Ten conference this season following an earlier 76-52 loss at Northwestern, which was preceded by a previous one-point win, a 76-75 overtime victory at Northeastern.<\/p>\n

TERRIER TIDBITS
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\n\tBU will be seeking its first Power 4 win since posting a 78-70 victory at South Carolina for the program’s first-ever SEC win during the 2019-20 campaign. The Terriers last defeated a Big Ten member in 2009 at the Puerto Rico Tip-Off with a 71-67 victory over Indiana.
\n\tFreshman Chance Gladden<\/a> led BU in scoring last week by recording 14 points in a 54-49 loss at Columbia and then tallying 20 points with the help of a game-winning layup at five seconds against the Crimson. He became the fourth\u00a0Terrier to\u00a0reached 20+ points in a game this season and is currently third on the team averaging 12.3 ppg alongside a team-high 4.0 apg.
\n\tThrough six contests, sophomore Ben Defty<\/a> with the help of a double-double at Columbia last Tuesday leads BU in points (13.8 ppg), rebounds (6.7 rpg) and\u00a0blocks (1.8 bpg) while shooting 66.0 percent from the field.
\n\tBoth junior Michael McNair<\/a> (13.0 ppg) and freshman Sam Hughes<\/a> (11.0 ppg) are also averaging double figures in points by shooting a combined 33-for-71 (.465) in 3-point territory with McNair owning a team-high 12 steals.
\n\tSeeking their first back-to-back wins of the season, the Terriers average 70.2 ppg and 46.2 FG% while holding opponents to 74.5 ppg and 48.3 percent <\/p>\n

SCOUTING PENN STATE<\/p>\n


\n\tFollowing last season’s 16-15 (6-14 Big 10) performance, the 5-1 Nittany Lions opened on a five-game win streak and suffered their first loss of the year against Providence.
\n\tPSU held off Harvard, 84-80, at home back on Nov. 19 following victories vs. Navy (80-71) and Fairfield (76-68). The team\u00a0also won at New Haven (87-43) and against La Salle (83-69).\u00a0
\n\tThree Nittany Lions are averaging double figures in points with 6-foot-3 guard Kayden Mingo leading the away at 14.5 ppg with 4.0 apg.
\n\tBoth 6-foot-5 guard Freddie Dilione (14.0 ppg), a Tennessee transfer, and fellow 6-foot-5 guard Melih Tunca (13.8 ppg) are close by in points.
\n\tAs a team, PSU is averaging 79.2 ppg and 49.0 FG% while holding opponents to 68.0 ppg and 44.3 FG%. <\/p>\n

SERIES HISTORY<\/p>\n


\n\tPSU and BU will meet for the first time in 42 seasons with the Terriers leading the all-time series, 2-1.
\n\tAfter PSU earned a 67-64 home win during the 1955-56 campaign, BU swept the home-and-away series with a 96-88 road win in 1982-83 under future NBA head coach Rick Pitino and 73-67 home win in 1983-84 under future NBA head coach John Kuester. <\/p>\n

LOOKING AHEAD<\/p>\n


\n\tBU will wrap up the road\u00a0trip by visiting Northern Kentucky on Saturday (Nov. 29)\u00a0at 1 p.m.
\n\tThe teams\u00a0will meet for the first time ever with the Terriers seeking their first victory against the Horizon League since posting a 71-55 win at Youngstown State during the 2024-25 campaign. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston University (3-3) at Penn State (5-1) Date & Time:\u00a0Tuesday, Nov. 25 | 7 p.m. Venue:\u00a0Bryce Jordan Center…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-307051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}