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Photos of Penn State at Big Ten basketball media day

Photos from Penn State’s day at Big Ten basketball media day in Minneapolis.

Penn State men’s and women’s basketball coaches and players got the chance to talk about the upcoming basketball season this week in Minneapolis at the annual Big Ten media day event. The two-day event’s press conference schedule was brought to a close by men’s head coach [autotag]Micah Shrewsberry[/autotag] and players and coaches throughout the conference broke off into mini-press conference settings.

Penn State women’s coach [autotag]Carolyn Kieger[/autotag] was joined by star players [autotag]Leilani Kapinus[/autotag] and [autotag]Makenna Marisa[/autotag]. The men’s team was represented by Shrewsberry, [autotag]Seth Lundy[/autotag], and [autotag]Jalen Pickett[/autotag].

Here are the best photos of Penn State’s representatives in attendance at Big Ten basketball media day.

Former Nittany Lion Tanisha Wright named WNBA Coach of the Year

The WNBA’s head coach of the year, Tanisha Wright, makes Penn State family proud.

The Atlanta Dream were at the bottom of the WNBA but they have started to crawl out of the basement of the league as it gains momentum. The best part? They are doing so with the help of their head coach and Penn State women’s basketball alum Tanisha Wright.

Wright played at Penn State from 2001 to 2005 and now she has made WNBA history in his first year coaching. She was voted the WNBA coach of the year and becomes the first former WNBA player to win the award in the process.

Wright led Atlanta to a fifth-place finish in her first season with the team. The Dream’s 14-22 record was nearly double their win total from the year before when they won just 8 games. Wright also coached Rhyne Howard who was the leagues first overall pick this past season. Under Wright’s coaching she would play well enough to earn an All-Star selection as a rookie.

As for her career at Penn State, Wright as mentioned played at the school from 2001-2005. She earned three Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year awards and helped drive the team to the NCAA Tournament all four years she was on the team. Wright even was able to lead the Lady Lions to an Elite Eight appearance in 2004.

Tanisha Wright would enter the 2005 WNBA draft and be selected 12th overall by the Seattle Storm. She went on to play ten seasons with the Storm, with stops in New York and Minnesota with the Liberty and Lynx along the way.

Ironically despite the rise, the Dream will hold the third overall pick in the draft. She will ne absorbing more talent in the coming months so she could hopefully lead the Dream to more wins and success in the coming years.

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Penn State women’s basketball matchup set for ACC/Big Ten Challenge

Penn State women’s basketball has its matchup for the ACC/Big Ten Challenge confirmed.

The pieces are starting to come together for the Penn State women’s basketball schedule for the upcoming season. On Monday, the Big Ten revealed the pairings for this year’s ACC/Big Ten Women’s Basketball Challenge. Penn State will play host to Virginia in this year’s women’s basketball challenge.

Penn State will host Virginia on Wednesday, Nov. 30 at the Bryce Jordan Center. An exact tip time will be confirmed later but the game will air on either the Big Ten Network, B1G+, or one of ESPN’s networks.

This will mark the first meeting between the two schools in women’s basketball since March 12, 1996, a first-round NCAA tournament victory by the No. 8 seed Lady Lions in Louisiana. This year’s matchup in the ACC/Big Ten Women’s Basketball Challenge will be the eighth all-time meeting between Penn State and Virginia in women’s basketball.

Here is the full slate of games to be played in this year’s ACC/Big Ten Women’s Basketball Challenge…

This is the first non-conference game confirmed for the Lady Lions. Penn State will host Indiana, Northwestern, Ohio State, and Wisconsin in Big Ten play this season and they will visit Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, and Nebraska. Penn State will play home-and-home series with Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota, Purdue, and Rutgers. The Big Ten schedule will be announced at a later time.

The Lady Lions are coming off an 11-18 season under head coach Carolyn Kieger. Kieger is entering her fourth season at the helm of the program for the 2022-23 season.

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Former Penn State women’s basketball coach lands new Big Ten gig

Former Penn State women’s basketball coach hired by Big Ten school to lead program

Former Penn State women’s basketball head coach Coquese Washington is heading back to the Big Ten as a head coach. Rutgers officially announced on Monday it has hired the former Penn State head coach to serve as the program’s new head coach of the women’s basketball program.

Washington was the successor of former Penn State head coach Rene Portland following Portland’s controversial resignation amid controversy for her alleged discrimination of lesbian players in 2007. Washington took on the Penn State head coaching job as her first professional head coaching opportunity, and she held the job for 12 seasons when Penn State chose to not bring her back after the 2019 season. Prior to coming to Penn State, Washington was an assistant coach for her alma mater, Notre Dame. After moving on from Penn State, Washington spent one season as an assistant head coach for Oklahoma and returned to Notre Dame in 2020 for two more seasons back in South Bend as an assistant.

Washington earned multiple Big Ten coach of the year honors during her time at Penn State (2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14) and took the Lady Lions to four NCAA women’s basketball tournaments and three trips to the women’s NIT. Penn State advanced to the Sweet 16 in 2012 and 2014 and combined for a record of 76-20 during that three-year run.

At Rutgers, Washington will replace the legendary Vivian Stringer, a 2009 inductee to the Basketball Hall of Fame who has coached teams to four Final Four appearances (one with Iowa and three more with Rutgers), three Big East titles (Rutgers), and 10 regular season or conference tournament Big Ten championships (between Iowa and Rutgers) during the regular season.

For more on the former Penn State head coach’s next job, follow the ongoing coverage from our friends at Rutgers Wire.

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Lady Lions go one-and-done in women’s Big Ten Basketball Tournament

Penn State closed out its 2021-22 season with a blowout loss to Rutgers in the Big Ten women’s basketball tournament.

Penn State’s time in the women’s Big Ten basketball tournament ended just as soon as it started. Penn State came up short in a first-round matchup against Rutgers on Wednesday afternoon in Indianapolis, losing 75-50. Penn State’s season concludes with a record of 11-18 overall, and 5-13 in the Big Ten.

Penn State trailed by six points at halftime but Rutgers pulled ahead by a wide margin in the third quarter by outscoring Penn State 23-11. Rutgers put the game well out of reach with a big 11-2 run to start the fourth quarter, by which time the damage had been done.

Leilani Kapinus recorded a double-double in the losing effort and Makenna Marisa added 15 points to finish off her impressive season.

Penn State’s season may have ended with a thud against Rutgers, but it does so with an improved win total from the previous season. And for the second straight season, Penn State improved its win total under head coach Carolyn Kieger. Penn State won just seven games in Kieger’s first season since being hired away from Marquette. Each of the past two seasons has tacked on two more wins to the season record.

Those small steps forward may be difficult to respect given the current state of the program overall. Losing by 25 points to the 13-seed in the Big Ten tournament is truly a tough pill to swallow, but we will see what comes next for the program in 2022-23. Kieger’s track record suggests Penn State could be due for a major step forward soon. Kieger won 9 and 12 games in her first two seasons as head coach at Marquette before winning at least 24 games in each of the following three seasons, with back-to-back second-round appearances in the NCAA tournament.

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Big Ten women’s basketball tournament set to tip. Here’s the bracket

Penn State will play in the first game of the 2022 Big Ten women’s basketball tournament. Here’s the full brcket.

It seems the glory years of Penn State women’s basketball are fading more and more each season, but the Lady Lions will embark on a quest for a conference championship on Wednesday afternoon as they play in a first-round matchup of the 2022 Big Ten women’s basketball tournament. The conference tournament will get underway in Indianapolis on Wednesday with a pair of first-round matchups.

Penn State will play in the opening game of the tournament, as the Lady Lions will take on Rutgers in a 12 vs 13 matchup. Wisconsin will face Illinois in the second game of the day with the winner advancing to face Nebraska on Thursday. The winner of the Penn State-Rutgers game will meet Indiana on Thursday.

The Ohio State Buckeyes own the No. 1 seed in the Big Ten tournament. Iowa, Michigan, and Maryland own the second through fourth seeds in that order. All four top seeds won’t have to play a game until Friday. So for Penn State, the journey to shocking the Big Ten will be a long one.

Here is the full bracket for this year’s women’s tournament.

You can catch all of the action during Penn State’s first-round matchup with Rutgers on Wednesday afternoon. Here’s how to watch.

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How to follow Penn State Lady Lions vs Rutgers in Big Ten tournament

Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament: Penn State and Rutgers meet in a conference tournament game for the first time since 1990. How to watch…

Conference championship week is here around the world of college basketball, and the Big Ten is starting things off with its women’s tournament on Wednesday in Indianapolis. Penn State will be a part of the opening day of the Big Ten tournament with a matchup against Rutgers in the first round.

Penn State (11-17, 5-13 Big Ten) comes into the Big Ten tournament with the No. 12 seed, and Rutgers (10-19, 3-14 Big Ten) enters with the No. 13 seed. A second-round matchup with No. 5-seed Indiana awaits the winner of this one.

This will be the first conference tournament meeting between the two schools since meeting in the Atlantic-10 semifinals in 1990. My, how times have changed. With All-Big Ten First Team Makenna Marisa leading the way, Penn State should be feeling pretty good about this chance of advancing to Thursday to face the Hoosiers.

Here’s how you can catch all of the action in the first-round matchup of the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament.

Basic Info

When: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. ET.

Where: Gainbridge Fieldhouse (Indianapolis, IN)

How to watch/listen

Broadcast: Big Ten Network

Online: FOX Sports Live

Live Stream: fuboTV (try it free)

Radio: Find a local Penn State radio affiliate near you

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Penn State women’s basketball’s Anna Camden speaks about NIL

Penn State’s Anna Camden spoke about new NIL laws in Pennsylvania during a visit from Governor Wolf

The landscape of NCAA sports has changed with name, image, and likeness laws being passed in multiple states, and the NCAA granting every student-athletes the right to capitalize on NIL. The NCAA’s official stance chance was officially changed on the issue shortly after Pennsylvania signed into law its NLI rights, and just hours before July 1 brought upon the dawn of a new era.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf visited Penn State this week to talk about the NIL bill that was signed for college athletes to get compensated for their name, image and likeness while still competing. Penn State women’s basketball player Anna Camden spoke during his visit spoke about the new NIL era.

Camden thanked Governor Wolf for coming to State College to talk about NIL in the state of Pennsylvania.

During the 2020-21 season, Anna Camden averaged 7.8 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 24.3 minutes while starting 23 of 24 games. She is among the many Penn State student-athletes to begin taking advantage of NIL opportunities by setting up an account on the personal video messaging platform Cameo.

The Penn State women’s basketball team will look to build off their 9-15 season that they had during the 2020-21 season.

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