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At the College Basketball Roundtable each week, we ask each member of the coverage staff for his opinion about a topic in the sport. We have two questions this week – one Saturday (Who will win the SEC West?) and one today.Today's question: There are three seconds to play, and you're trailing by two. Who do you want taking the potential winning 3-pointer for you next season? ...Steve Megargee's

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By Jeff RiceAs the Nittany Lions take their positions to begin the pickup game, the skinny kid saunters through the bodies, his eyes taking in everything. He cracks a joke, and one of the bigger guys laughs. Then the game starts, somebody throws him the ball, and — BAM! — Tim Frazier is already down the floor, leaving only a jetstream behind him.Penn State’s freshman point guard is poised to give

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... [Bo] Ryan didn't have a Wisconsin player on the squad, but he did have four players who will go against him next season. He said he told them that they all improved during the tournament and 'will likely kick my rear end next season.'At the top of that list is Penn State's Talor Battle. He wasn't expected to beat out Arizona's Nic Wise to make the team, but he did and led the Americans in

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Billy Oliver had the best seat in the house when it came to Penn State men's basketball last season. Now the former Chatham High standout is hoping to exercise more than his eyes for the Nittany Lions.A pair of concussions less than two weeks apart last October forced the former Cougars standout to be redshirted his freshman year of college. However, the year on the bench has given him some

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Jermaine Marshall is learning patience. He doesn’t have any other options.Penn State’s freshman guard missed his entire senior season at Red Land High School after sustaining a serious preseason knee injury. When he got to campus a few weeks ago, his long-awaited return to the courtlasted exactly one pickup session — he was diagnosed with mononucleosis and restricted to dribbling, shooting and

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The State College boys’ basketball team spent this past weekend at Susquehanna University. The Little Lions drilled and played against more than 30 varsity teams from the region. Coach Drew Frank walked away from the camp pleased. Ho-hum.Taran Buie, meantime, spent his week playing alongside basketball’s next superstars and drilling with LeBron James. All the while, the next high school all-star

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By Jeff RiceYou could say Penn State's basketball veterans use the summer pickup games to stay in shape, to stave off boredom or to try a new move or two.What they’re really doing, though, is sizing up and building up the new guys.“We’re just trying to pick apart what they’re doing good, what they’re doing wrong,” junior forward Andrew Jones said.Four Nittany Lion freshmen are being gently but

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The first few weeks on campus can be overwhelming for a college freshman — new people, new surroundings, new routines.But Bill Edwards has always been familiar with the unfamiliar.“It’s another adjustment,” said Penn State’s freshman forward, who turned 18 last week. “But I’m kind of used to it.”Edwards, one of four new faces in the Nittany Lions’ summer pickup games, split his childhood between

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AKRON, Ohio — Teenage summers can be a blur, but for Taran Buie, this one seems to be flying by at a particularly blinding pace.Since wrapping up his junior year at Bishop Maginn High School in Albany, N.Y., Buie has led his Albany City Rocks AAU team in the vaunted Rumble in the Bronx tournament; traveled to Dallas to compete in the Nike Deron Williams Skills Academy as one of the top 20 point

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Katz recovering a bit in PennStateHoops.com's eyes:"If the U.S. is going to win this tournament, it might need another game from [Talor] Battle like the one he had against the Serbs. He was 7-of-12 from the field, 3-of-6 on 3s and scored 17 points in 22 minutes. Battle wasn't the first choice to make the squad a few weeks ago at the trials in Colorado Springs. The expectation prior to the event

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Seven home games and three games in Charleston Classic highlight non-conference scheduleJuly 6, 2009UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., July 6, 2009 - Nittany Lion coach Ed DeChellis announced a 12-game non-conference slate and one exhibition game that will begin the 2009 Big Ten Coach of the Year's seventh season at the Penn State helm and the 114th season of Nittany Lion basketball.The Nittany Lions will

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Talor Battle was just a toddler growing up in Albany, N.Y., when he sat with his mother, Denise Murphy, and watched her favorite team, the Steelers, play the Oilers in the NFL playoffs on New Year's Eve 1989. During the broadcast, an NBC announcer mentioned that quarterback Bubby Brister had given his mother a black-and-gold Cadillac for Christmas. 'Talor had been a huge baby, about 11 pounds [at

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Talor Battle spent the past year beating up on opposing Big Ten point guards and, more recently, his little brother in one on one.Who's got next?The rest of the world.Battle took a break from training this month at his old high school gym at Bishop Maginn and at Siena to try out for USA Basketball's World University Games team at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado

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12-member U.S. Team will compete in Belgrade, Serbia July 2-11June 18, 2009UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; June 18, 2009 - Nittany Lion point-guard Talor Battle (Albany, N.Y.) was among 12 players to earn on a spot on the 2009 USA Basketball Men's World University Games Team following three days of trials at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Col.'I am just very happy for Talor and for

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Welcome to SportsNation! On Monday, Penn State men's basketball coach Ed DeChellis stops by to chat.DeChellis led Penn State to a historic season for the school capturing its first basketball national championship by winning the NIT. In the process, the Nittany Lions won a school record 27 games while equaling a school record 21 wins in the regular season.Send your questions now and join

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Pat Boland is currently doing a live broadcast on ESPN 1450 WMAJ from the Bryce Jordan Center before tonight's Coach vs Cancer reception. He's currently interviewing Tom Hovasse and has already had Joe Crispin, Freddie Barnes, and Pete Lisicky on. ... Mark Brennan has joined and is co hosting with Pat. They expect to have Jarrett Stephens, Geary Claxton, Glenn Sekunda, Brian Allen, and Ed

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It's hard to believe this is the 46th year New York recruiting expert Tom Konchalski has put out his annual pre-summer Eastern Survey for the top 200 rising senior and prep school prospects in the East.Here's a look at the players Konchalski selected as elite 5 star prospects:C.J. Aiken, 6-9 power forward, Plymouth-Whitemarsh, Pa. High; [list edited] ... Taran Buie, 6-2 g, Albany, N.Y. Bishop

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PIAA basketball is staying at Penn State's Bryce Jordan Center for the next three seasons. ...

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; May 20, 2009 - Nittany Lion point-guard Talor Battle (Albany, N.Y.) has accepted an invitation to join 15 of the nation's top collegiate players at the 2009 USA Basketball Men's World University Games Team training camp to be held June 16-24 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.Battle, a rising junior who was a first-team All-Big Ten, USBWA and NABC

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BWI: Can you describe your game?[Sasa] Borovnjak: I play a lot in the post because I was 4/5 on my high school team so I have real good skills to post up guys and all.But, if some guy is really stronger than me or taller, I take him outside and I have a quick first step so I can play from outside one on one and take him to the hole or step up and shoot.I got those skills for dribbling and a fast

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BWI: What was it like seeing Penn State succeed this year along with your own accomplishments?Frazier: A lot of people would ask, Why did you choose Penn State? You always get that but as the season went on and Penn State was winning games and won the NIT, everybody was like, Now I know why you chose Penn State. It wasn't really where I had to explain because Penn State and the team and Talor [

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BWI: What is Jermaine [Marshall] like?Coach Scott Slayton: As a player, he's very versatile. He can play a number of different positions. In fact, he's played all five positions for us at some point over the course of his career. He's extremely unselfish. He cares obviously first about team moreso than any kind of individual glory, although he had a lot of accolades passed down to him through

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[Coach Wayne] Jones: Yeah. Tim [Frazier] is by far one of the best all-around guards in this country. Tim has one of the best understandings of the game of any kid I've ever coached. Tim is as quick with and without the basketball as any guard probably in this country. He led us in just about every statistical category that we had this season. He was named the No. 1 player in the state of Texas.

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BWI: Is [Sasa Borovnjak] a kid that's ready to contribute right away or do you think he needs a redshirt year?[Veritas Christian Coach John] Jordan: I think the way he scores with his size he'll be able to contribute right away. I really do and I say that from a standpoint where I just had a 7-2 kid go to Clemson and hardly played this year and he's a top fifty kid. But Bobo wasn't ready. He

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Jamelle Cornley and Geary Claxton recently ascended to fourth and sixth place, respectively, on Penn State’s all-time scoring list with a combination of consistency, athleticism and drive. Being matchup nightmares for opposing defenses didn’t hurt, either.Wednesday, the Nittany Lions signed another player who could leave Big Ten defenses scratching their heads. Bill Edwards Jr., a 6-foot-6, 225

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