The Penn State men\u2019s basketball team is looking to rebound after missing the Big Ten Tournament last season. The Lion\u2019s finished with only 6 league wins and have almost a whole new roster.<\/p>\n
Mahanoy City native Mike Rhoades is in his third season as Penn Stats head coach and he has reached out all over the world to fill out this season\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
There are only three players who return and 8 transfers on the team including 4 players who have international experience.<\/p>\n
Mike Rhoades Penn State Coach( Mahanoy Area) says \u201cEvery team is different. Every team. You know, last year, you know, because we had some guys are returning all that stuff. I said if we if we don’t have injuries, we have a chance to have a really good year. And, I wish I would have never said that.<\/p>\n
So it didn’t happen. But you know, we didn’t have enough depth to to be a consistent winner in the Big Ten, we just didn’t. I think we’ve addressed that, but we’re just young. Yeah. You know, two things, the urgency to get better all the time and then shock the world. So I really don’t care what anyone else says or other people talk about.<\/p>\n
They’re not with us every day, they’re not sweating and bleeding with our team every day. So they don’t know what we’re capable of doing. I just really like this group, we’re going to have some tough days where we learn a lot about ourselves. And going to have some other days I think we surprise a lot of people, but, urgency to get better and the belief we have is pretty awesome.<\/p>\n
Penn State opens the season , November 3rd by hosting Fairfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Penn State men\u2019s basketball team is looking to rebound after missing the Big Ten Tournament last season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,24319,70940,30497,8667,398,400,401,8392,4694,71959,99,6641],"class_list":["post-245094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-big-ten","tag-fairfield","tag-mens-basketball","tag-mike-rhoades","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-penn-state","tag-roster","tag-season-opener","tag-sports","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}