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HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) Freshman Roman Siulepa scored a season-high 28 points and Pittsburgh<\/a> cruised to an 80-46 victory over Penn State<\/a> on Sunday at Giant Center.<\/p>\n Siupela made 10 of 16 shots, including 5 of 6 from 3-point range, for the Panthers (7-6) in the first matchup between the teams since 2017.<\/p>\n Omari Witherspoon had 15 points off the bench for Pittsburgh on 5-for-7 shooting with three 3-pointers. Damarco Minor totaled 11 points and seven assists.<\/p>\n Freddie Dilione V had 23 points – on 10-for-17 shooting – and six rebounds to pace the Nittany Lions (8-4).<\/p>\n Siulepa hit two 3-pointers and scored eight in the first 8:45 to help Pittsburgh jump out to a 21-9 lead. He began a 10-0 run with a 3-pointer and capped it with layup.<\/p>\n Minor sank a stepback 3-pointer with 17 seconds left and the Panthers doubled up Penn State 40-20 at the break. Dilione had 13 points to account for 65% of the Nittany Lions’ offense, and Kayden Mingo scored five of his nine points. The pair combined to make 7 of 13 shots, while their teammates went 0 for 14.<\/p>\n Penn State held Pittsburgh to one point through the first 5:27 of the second half and trimmed its deficit to 42-30 on Mingo’s layup.<\/p>\n Brandin Cummings answered with a jumper and two free throws to ignite a 25-9 run. Siupela scored 15 in the spurt, capping it with a three-point play for a 67-39 advantage as the Panthers pulled away.<\/p>\n Penn State: Hosts North Carolina Central on Dec. 29.<\/p>\n Pittsburgh: At Miami in ACC play on Dec. 30.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. AP college football: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-football<\/p>\n \n Copyright 2025 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) Freshman Roman Siulepa scored a season-high 28 points and Pittsburgh cruised to an 80-46 victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10150,20879,73,75,74,17935],"class_list":["post-67019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-college-basketball","tag-penn-state-nittany-lions","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-panthers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}