IU Basketball in PA

For most of my time in graduate school I had season tickets for IU men's basketball. After we got married, Billie was also able to have season tickets for our last year in Bloomington. Since moving to Pennsylvania, though, we've had to settle for watching games on TV. On Sunday, January 8th we were able to go to a game in person because IU was playing at Penn State. We decided to go on Saturday to spend some time in State College and avoid driving five hours in one day just to see a basketball game. Here are some pictures from our trip:

We could see the football stadium from our hotel room window

Joe Paterno's house

Ready for the game (we'll pretend this picture wasn't taken when we stopped to eat on the way home)

Bryce Jordan Center

Pre-game warm ups

A rabid dog was on hand to scare unsuspecting children

The pre-game huddle

Tom Crean, looking relaxed, as usual

Ready for the tip-off

...and then the game happened...

Final score: Penn State 82, Indiana 88 - it was nice that they won but if they could have won more decisively the game would have been less stressful

Shaking hands after the game