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NittanyCentral delivers expert analysis from veteran reporters and timely updates on Penn State sports, with in-depth coverage of Nittany Lions Football, Wrestling, Basketball, and more.
Penn State Wrestling hits the mat this Sunday for their first dual meet action of the season as they host inter-state foe Lehigh. The Nittany Lions and Mountain Hawks are no strangers to each other, as this will be their 111th meeting in program history. Penn State Wrestling maintains the all-time series lead with a 73-34-3 overall […]
Top players endorse Penn State Football after their dominant win. Discover why continuity and consistency are crucial for building a strong team.
Get to know Penn State Wrestling’s latest star, Beau Bartlett, who earned the B1G Wrestler of the Week award with his dominant performance at the Black Knight Invite.
Penn State Football in the College Football Playoff discussion. Find out what was said and why one fan thinks they shouldn’t make it.
Penn State Wrestling dominates the 2023 Black Knight Invite with five individual champions. Find out how the trio of Robbie Howard, Gary Steen, and Braedan Davis performed in their bracket.
You know Penn State Wrestling is a well oiled machine of dominance when a highly ranked grappler takes a redshirt and a Junior World Champion takes his place. And with the middle weights in the Nittany Lions‘ roster completely chock-full of super competitive guys, there were a lot of questions about how Cael Sanderson would manage […]
Don’t miss out on the action as Shayne Van Ness dominates the competition in Penn State Wrestling’s first event of the season. Find out how he secured the top spot at 149 pounds.
Penn State Wrestling officially kicked off the 2023-2024 season as they traveled to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to take part in the 2023 Journeymen Collegiate Classic. And let’s just say it wasn’t very pretty for the other teams and their wrestlers. All in all the Nittany Lions sent a total of 20 grapplers (including eight of their […]
A strange thought popped into my head as I was watching Penn State Football drop yet another “Big Game” Saturday, in disappointing fashion to Michigan 24-15. And “disappointing” could be a drastic understatement based on the social media comments and reactions coming out of Nittany Nation. The realization I came to was simply that Nittany […]
Penn State Wrestling recently released its official 2023-2024 roster, so let’s get started in helping everyone to put some faces with some names. And this couldn’t have been any easier of a task for me as Nittany Lions Super Fan Jessi Lillo went through the full roster to come up with some incredibly fun categories. How do […]
Bold predictions for the 2023-2024 Penn State Wrestling season, as the Nittany Lions aim for a third consecutive National Championship.
Even before Cael Sanderson turned Penn State Wrestling into the dominant force that it is today, the Nittany Lions were a force to deal with on the mat. And in this final installment, we are looking at the top Penn State Wrestlers of the early 2000’s. Looking back at our series highlighting the past decades of […]
Find out why Carter Starocci has decided to return to Penn State Wrestling for another season. Learn about his impressive achievements and what this means for the team’s future.
Penn State Wrestling will hit the mats for the 2023-2024 collegiate wrestling season before we know it, and it’s high time for some Big Ten Wrestling Power Rankings. Do you smell that? Well, yes, that is the smell of a grilled cheese sandwich that I burnt. But, I was talking about something different. It’s almost wrestling season, baby!! So with […]
Where does Penn State Football stack up in the Big Ten East as we near the midway point in the 2023 college football season? Following one of the most boring blowouts in college history last week against Northwestern, the Nittany Lions have the week off before hosting UMass on October 14th at 3:30pm. And the […]
Penn State Wrestling is a beast in today’s college wrestling, but there were hints of how good they would become based on the 1990’s. Continuing our on-going series highlighting the past decades of Penn State Wrestling, here are the previous three installments: Top 5 Nittany Lions of the 1950sTop 10 Nittany Lions of the 1960sTop 5 Nittany […]
There are few certainties. Death, taxes, and the New York Jets’ entire season going down the toilet after only four plays. Well, we can now add another item to this list: Cue the meme of a skeleton sitting on a park bench holding a newspaper waiting on Penn State Wrestling to release it’s schedule, each […]
Penn State Wrestling just secured the services of the overall No. 1 recruit in the 2025 class, as Minisink Valley’s PJ Duke pledged his commitment to Cael Sanderson and the Nittany Lions. In other news, water is wet. Duke follows in the footsteps of fellow Minisink Valley teammate Zack Ryder, as they add to the […]
Continuing our on-going series highlighting the past decades of Penn State Wrestling greatness, here are the previous three installments: Top 5 Nittany Lions of the 1950s Top 10 Nittany Lions of the 1960s Top 5 Nittany Lions of the 1970s The Nittany Lions set the benchmark with what they accomplished in the 1950s: 1950s 19 […]
Penn State Wrestling is going for an NCAA three-peat this season and the program is poised to keep their hold on college wrestling. But, that doesn’t mean it’s not a good time for a wrestling mailbag. Because it’s always a good time for some mailbag questions! We asked you Nittany Lions Nation if you had any burning […]
