UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State athletes continue to make better progress toward graduation in comparison with the nation's Division I institutions, according to data released by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

UNIVERSITY PARK — After the completion of all NCAA winter championships, Penn State has moved into third place in the Division I U.S. Sports Academy Directors' Cup standings.

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So what will members of the Penn State men’s volleyball team remember most about this past weekend?

The same passing combination that thrilled so many Penn State football fans and brought the Nittany Lions a national championship in 1982 hooked up again recently.

Shortly after the respective fields for last season’s NCAA Tournament and NIT had been selected last March, The Gazelle Group, a sports representation and consultation company that runs several early-season tournaments, did an informal survey of 16 teams left on the outside of both bubbles.

INDIANAPOLIS — The slate may have been swept clean for the Penn State women’s basketball team heading into the Big Ten Tournament, but once Thursday’s opening round game was played the story remained the same.

SAN ANTONIO — They were, as they almost always have been these last few years at Penn State, the question marks on a team that thought it had answers almost everywhere else.

SAN ANTONIO — Texas A&M quarterback Stephen McGee plans to do two things after the Aggies wrap up their 2007 season by playing Penn State in Saturday’s Alamo Bowl.

SAN ANTONIO — The statistics, as Texas A&M offensive coordinator Les Koenning quickly pointed out Thursday, are heavily in favor of Penn State.

UNIVERSITY PARK — A win on Senior Day, for obvious reasons, means a lot to each group of Penn State seniors. It’s the last time they will ride to the stadium in the blue buses, the last time they will run through the tunnel and the last time they will play before 100-some-odd thousand home fans.

UNIVERSITY PARK — On good days, Purdue convinces 65,000 fans to enter Ross Ade Stadium. So, naturally, coach Joe Tiller entered Saturday concerned whether his team could handle the rigors of playing before more than 108,000 at Beaver Stadium.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State's slumbering offense woke up against Iowa.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Joe Paterno sat before the microphones and tape recorders and fought to keep the frown from his face. He had wondered during this past week, and possibly for the whole season, what sort of mettle his Penn State team possessed, and he had figured Saturday’s visit to Michigan Stadium would provide some answers.

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Nittany Lions have ‘to keep heads up’

Big Ten’s “best” teams stink up Big House

After a sluggish start, a couple lucky bounces propelled No. 12 Penn State to another win.