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2008–09 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team

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Conference
  
Big Ten Conference

Head coach
  
Ed DeChellis

Assistant coach
  
Lewis Preston

2008–09 record
  
27–11 (10–8 Big Ten)

Assistant coach
  
Kurt Kanaskie

Assistant coach
  
Dan Earl

The 2008–09 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team represented Pennsylvania State University and completed the season by winning the 2009 National Invitation Tournament over the Baylor Bears at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Head Coach, Ed DeChellis, coached his sixth season with the team. The team played its home games in University Park, Pennsylvania at the Bryce Jordan Center, which has a capacity of 15,261, for the twelfth consecutive season. The season marked the team's sixteenth consecutive season as a member of the Big Ten Conference.

Contents

Players

  • Talor Battle
  • Big Ten Player of the Week (Nov. 23)
  • All Big Ten first team point guard
  • Jamelle Cornley
  • Big Ten Player of the Week (Jan. 26)
  • All Big Ten second team forward
  • 2009 NIT MVP

    • Coaches

  • Ed DeChellis
  • Big Ten Coach of the Year

    • References

    2008–09 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team Wikipedia
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