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NittanyCentral is home for the latest Penn State Football, Penn State Wrestling, Penn State Basketball news, updates, and analysis of the Penn State Nittany Lions

NittanyCentral is home for the latest Penn State Football, Penn State Wrestling, Penn State Basketball news, updates, and analysis of the Penn State Nittany Lions

The latest news, insight, and analysis of Penn State Football, Penn State Wrestling, and Penn State Basketball, including schedules, game results, analysis of breaking news, rumors, speculation, and recruiting coverage of future Penn State Nittany Lions

NittanyCentral is home to the latest Penn State Nittany Lions news, updates, insight, and analysis, including in-depth coverage of Penn State Football, Penn State Wrestling, Penn State Basketball, and much more

Penn State Football: 2 Nittany Lions Named Top-10 NFL Draft Prospects by CBS Sports

Penn State Football, James Franklin, Chop Robinson

With the 2023 college football season and the Senior Bowl firmly behind 2024 NFL draft prospects, all eyes have turned to the NFL combine and individual school pro days. Penn State Football figures to play a starring role in this year’s draft. Ahead of these two pivotal events in the draft process, however, two former … Read more

Penn State Football Offensive Tackle Position Battle Could Prove Critical in 2024

Penn State Football, Drew Allar,

One of the biggest question marks for Penn State Football heading into 2024 is offensive tackle, where the Nittany Lions lose two starting tackles with 5.5 years of combined starting experience. On the left side, Penn State loses projected top 10 pick Olu Fashanu, who has arguably been the best offensive tackle in the country … Read more

Penn State Wrestling Survives Season’s Toughest Test, Takes Down Nebraska 22-13 | FULL RESULTS

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No. 1 Penn State Wrestling holds on to defeat the No. 4 Nebraska Cornhuskers 22-13 in the final Big Ten regular season dual meet. For the first time all year, a team actually tested the Nittany Lions. But look, everyone knew Nebraska would be a tough out and there’s no such thing as a “cakewalk” … Read more

Penn State Wrestling: Matchups, How to watch, and Prediction for Nittany Lions vs Nebraska dual meet

Penn State Wrestling

No. 1 Penn State Wrestling is back in the cozy confines of Rec Hall to host their final big test of the regular season against Nebraska. Even though the Nittany Lions have traveled to both Ann Arbor and Iowa City, this home dual against the Cornhuskers may represent their toughest challenge to date. But then … Read more

Penn State Football: Previewing Competitive Tight End Position Battle

Penn State Football

Tight end is the first position in the position battle series so far (see running back and wide receiver) where Penn State Football is looking to replace the production of a player headed off to the 2024 NFL draft. After four years in Happy Valley where Penn State fans saw Theo Johnson catch 77 passes … Read more

Penn State Basketball: Did Tom Izzo Expose a Fatal Flaw?

Penn State Basketball, Kanye Clary

It’s no secret that Tom Izzo is one of the best coaches in perhaps the history of college basketball.  And as his Spartans beat the Nittany Lions for the second time this week, the Michigan State basketball team completely neutralized one of Penn State‘s greatest strengths. Known for his havoc defense at VCU, Nittany Lions Head … Read more

Is Paterno Field a Real Possibility for Penn State Football?

Penn State Football

Reports surfaced Thursday that Paterno Field, or another version of honoring former Penn State Football head coach Joe Paterno, is actually being discussed at the highest levels within the University. While it’s been well documented that the alumni voted trustees are passionately in favor of honoring the Paterno Family, the last word from the University … Read more

5 Penn State Football Things We Want to See in EA Sports College Football 25

Penn State Football, Beaver Stadium

After a 10-year hiatus due to a Name, Image, and Likeness lawsuit that ended the iconic game’s run in 2014, EA Sports officially announced Thursday that the game will be back this year, with a full reveal in May and a release of the game in the “summer,” to the joy of Penn State Football … Read more

Penn State Wrestling: Match Grades, Best Match, and MVP from this past weekend

Penn State Wrestling

No. 1 Penn State Wrestling was firing on all cylinders this past weekend in dual meet action against both Iowa and Rutgers. The Nittany Lions started off by clobbering No. 3 Iowa 29-6 in Iowa City, and then they electrified the Bryce Jordan Center crowd with a 35-3 beatdown of No. 14 Rutgers. And while … Read more

Penn State Football All-Big Ten Defender Making Surprising Position Change

Penn State Football

After two All-Big Ten seasons at linebacker, Abdul Carter is moving to defensive end for the 2024 season, according to the latest Penn State Football roster update. In 2022, Carter earned freshman All-American status after posting 56 tackles, 6.5 sacks, two forced fumbles, and four pass deflections. He followed that up in his sophomore season … Read more

Spartans Whip Penn State Basketball, Again | What Went Wrong

Penn State Basketball, Mike Rhoades

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — For the second time in six weeks, the Michigan State Spartans crushed Penn State Basketball, this time by the score of 80-72 at the Bryce Jordan Center where the final score was much closer than the game was played. While there’s no shame in losing at the Breslin Center, the 92-61 … Read more

Penn State State Wrestling: Beu Bartlett Takes Home B1G Wrestler of Week Honors

Penn State Wrestling

Penn State Wrestling will need to purchase a massive mantle if they want to display all of the hardware from its wrestlers this season. This past weekend 141 pounder, Beau Bartlett, blasted No. 2 Real Woods in the Nittany Lions‘ away dual meet against Iowa and he kept my blood pressure sky-high when he just … Read more

Drew Allar Named Top-10 Returning QB By Pro Football Focus

Drew Allar, Penn State Football

While the 2024 NFL draft is still over a month away and college teams have yet to begin spring practice with their 2024 rosters, Pro Football Focus is wasting no time ranking the quarterbacks returning to college in 2024, which puts Drew Allar into focus. In a self-proclaimed “controversial” ranking, PFF ranks Penn State’s signal … Read more

Penn State Wrestling: Matchups, How to watch, Prediction for Nittany Lions vs Rutgers dual meet

Penn state Wrestling, Greg Kerkvliet

No. 1 Penn State Wrestling roars into action later this evening as they host No. 14 Rutgers in the annual Bryce Jordan Center dual meet. However this BJC dual meet will be vastly different from all of the ones going back to 2013. And for several reasons. One of the biggest reasons is that the … Read more

What Penn State Football Over/Under Means for College Football Playoff Hopes

Penn State Football, James Franklin

FanDuel has set the over/under for Penn State Football in 2024, with the same win total as 2023, 9.5 wins. Penn State enters the new look Big Ten with a tougher schedule than 2023 on paper, facing new Big Ten entrants UCLA, Washington, and USC, along with opening the season on the road against West … Read more

No. 1 Penn State Wrestling Dismantles No. 3 Iowa 29-6 | FULL RESULTS

Penn State Wrestling

No. 1 Penn State Wrestling shook off some early losses to throttle No .3 Iowa 29-6 on the road. With the win, Nittany Lions head coach Cael Sanderson notched his 200th dual meet victory while at Penn State, and is one of 12 active Division I coaches to accomplish this feat at the same school. … Read more

Penn State Wrestling: How to Buy Tickets for No. 1 Nittany Lions vs. Rutgers at Bryce Jordan Center

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Penn State Wrestling hosts No. 14 Rutgers this Monday evening at the Bryce Jordan Center for the first ever Nittany Lions Wrestling “Blackout.” The wrestling action is slated to start at 7:00pm EST and along with the “Blackout” (fans wear black), Penn State will don the old-school pink and black singlets. Dual meets at the … Read more