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<p class="maintitle"><span class="Fid_16"> Penn State shocks No. 6
Hawks </span></p>
<p class="abody"><span style="font-weight:bold;"> By Scott
Dochterman,</span><span class="Fid_11"> The Gazette</span><span
class="Fid_7"> UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Inexplicable things seem
to happen at Penn State.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_7"> Less than two weeks after
stopping then-Big Ten coleader Indiana, the Nittany Lions did
the same thing to Iowa last night in a 79-75 win at Bryce Jordan
Center. The teams played just two weeks ago in Iowa City, and
the No. 6 Hawkeyes bludgeoned Penn State, 73-49. Well, this
encounter was quite different.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_7"> 'You can't just show up to
play,' said Iowa guard Peter Jok, who scored a game-high 28
points. 'You've got to play your game every time you</span><span
class="Fid_7"> play. We knew they were ready for us tonight.
They made 3s, and they had a great game.' The Nittany Lions
(1313, 4-9 Big Ten) missed 19 of 20 3-point attempts in Iowa
City. Wednesday, they drilled seven of 14 in the first half
alone. Penn State sank just 30.4 percent from the field at
Carver-Hawkeye Arena. At University Park, Penn State players hit
46.4 percent of their shots and nearly 56 percent in the first
half.</span></p>
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<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_18"> Penn State guard Shep Garner
shoots the ball against the defense of Iowa guard Anthony
Clemmons during the first half Wednesday at the Bryce Jordan
Center in University Park, Pa.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_17"> USA Today Sports</span></p>
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<hr><span class="Fid_4"><span class="Fid_7">After a promising start,
the game quickly slipped into a quagmire for the </span>Hawkeyes
(20-6, 11-3 Big Ten). The Nittany Lions scored on seven of eight
possessions - including five 3-pointers over that span - to slice
a sevenpoint deficit into a sevenpoint lead. Four different Penn
State shooters connected on 3-pointers during the run.</span>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_4"> Perimeter shooting caused the
most damage early. Iowa led 12-4 early, then Penn State guard
Shep Garner hit consecutive 3-pointers to bring the Nittany
Lions within 12-10. After Iowa took a 22-15 lead, Garner again
nailed back-to-back 3s.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_4"> Iowa struggled to rotate on
defense on several of the 3-pointers, which left Garner and his
teammates wide open in the corner.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_4"> 'We obviously wanted to do a
better job on Garner than we did,' Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery
said. 'To his credit, he made four, three of them on ball
screens. We needed to be up and on him, we were not. So that got
him going.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_4"> 'Our rotations were not as
good as they needed to be. To their credit, they moved the ball
and got it to open people. If you give them 10 3s and they moved
the ball. They shot it with confidence, executed ... that's
going to open everything up.' 'They hit us with stuff we pretty
much expected,' Iowa guard Anthony Clemmons said. 'But we didn't
counter off what they were doing quick enough. Garner got hot
and we tried to adjust to him, then (Brandon) Taylor got hot and
we tried to adjust to him.'</span><span class="Fid_4"> Adding to
the problem, Iowa's offense failed to compensate at the other
end. The Hawkeyes missed their final seven shots of the half and
scored only six from the free-throw line in the final 7:31. The
second half was more of the same.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_4"> Iowa looked out of rhythm
offensively for the second consecutive game. Penn State's
physical defense sent the Hawkeyes to the line 35 times but made
only 25. Penn State, conversely, knocked down 17 of 22 free
throws. At one seven-minute period in the second half, Iowa
scored just one basket.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_4"> 'It came easy early,'
McCaffery said. 'We were up 8-0. Then we didn't move the ball as
well as we should have or could have. I don't think we turned it
over that much in the first half. I thought we got good shots.
We got really good shots, we didn't make them.' Facing a
nine-point deficit with 1:20 left, Iowa's perimeter shooters got
into a better flow. Iowa sank four 3-point</span><span
class="Fid_4"> ers, but it was too little, too late. After Jok
hit back-to-back 3-pointers to cut Iowa's deficit to three
points, Penn State's Brandon Taylor connected on one of two free
throws with 7 seconds left to ice the game.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_4"> 'They were just in an attack
mode from start to finish, and we were never able to adjust to
how they were coming at</span><span class="Fid_4"> us,' Clemmons
said.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_4"> The Hawkeyes remain tied atop
the Big Ten standings but don't play again until next Wednes</span><span
class="Fid_4"> day when they entertain Wisconsin.</span></p>
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<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_19"> Iowa guard Mike Gesell loses
control of the ball as Penn State guard Isaiah Washington
defends during the second half last night. The Nittany Lions
won, 79-75, in University Park, Pa.</span></p>
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<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_19"> Penn State forward Donovon
Jack shoots the ball between Iowa forwards Nicholas Baer (left)
and Dom Uhl (right) during the first half last night at the
Bryce Jordan Center.</span></p>
<p class="abody"><span class="Fid_18"> USA Today Sports photos</span></p>
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