Stop when you’ve heard this one earlier than.
Penn State, enjoying at house, battled tooth and nail with a possible NCAA match crew earlier than lastly faltering within the remaining minutes.
Well, it occurred once more on Wednesday night time on the BJC with UCLA leaving city with a 71-60 win that also has the Nittany Lions (9-8, 0-6 B1G) looking for their first convention win.
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After trailing on the half, Penn State opened with some life within the second half and took a 49-47 lead with lower than 12 minutes to go because of a Dominick Stewart 3-pointer.
But issues would go from dangerous to worse as UCLA would retake the lead and in the end shut out one other disappointing loss for the Lions, who will now head to Maryland on Saturday.
In the “more bad news” division, Freddie Dilione IV, who was improbable within the latest slim loss to Purdue, performed simply eight minutes as a result of an ankle harm. Penn State is already down freshman level guard Kayden Mingo.
Stewart had 16 factors to steer the Lions, whereas Eli Rice (14) and Josh Reed (12) additionally made it to double figures. But, Penn State was simply 4-of-22 from 3-point vary and so they had been crushed on the boards (-11 rebounding) on the night time.
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UCLA was led by Trent Perry, who completed with 30 factors and made 4 3-pointers and was an ideal 12-of-12 on the foul line. The Bruins made 10 3-pointers for the sport with Tyler Bilodeau additionally making 4 on his technique to 21 factors.