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Penn State to Play Clemson…in Basketball

By Evan Smith

Penn State Nittany Lions guard Myles Dread (2) guards Purdue Boilermakers forward Mason Gillis (0) during the Big Ten tournament on Friday, March. 11, 2022, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Purdue Boilermakers defeated the Penn State Nittany Lions, 69-61.Ncaa Basketball Big10 Men S Tourney Purdue At Penn State Nittany Lions
Penn State Nittany Lions guard Myles Dread (2) guards Purdue Boilermakers forward Mason Gillis (0) during the Big Ten tournament on Friday, March. 11, 2022, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Purdue Boilermakers defeated the Penn State Nittany Lions, 69-61.Ncaa Basketball Big10 Men S Tourney Purdue At Penn State Nittany Lions /
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Penn State Basketball will travel to Clemson to take on the Tigers in the annual B1G-ACC Challenge on Tuesday November 29th. You can basically guarantee this will be telecast on ESPN U at either 7:00 pm or 9:15 pm.

In what would be a good football game, Penn State Basketball takes its surprisingly good challenge record in the challenge on the road to South Carolina.  Penn State is 11-10 in the challenge overall, with a three-game winning streak ending last year after a loss at home to Miami (Florida).

The Big Ten has won the last three iterations of this challenge but the ACC leads 12-8-3 overall (mostly because they won the first ten).  Clemson will give Penn State an opportunity to pick up a win on the road, which was incredibly rare last year (note: they won one road game all of last year).  Clemson was 17-16 overall last year, 8-12 in the ACC, and fell in the 2nd round of the ACC Tournament in overtime to Virginia Tech.

Penn State has faced off with Clemson once before in the B1G-ACC Challenge, a 96-88 loss in the Bryce Jordan Center back in 2005.  The Nittany Lions roster seems to be finalized for the 2022-2023 season after John Harrar, Greg Lee, Jalanni White, and Jaheam Cornwall graduated and Jevonnie Scott decided not to return to the program.  Penn State will welcome their second-highest ranked recruiting class of all time along with transfer portal players Cam Wynter, Andrew Funk, and Michael Henn.

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