It was long and included more than 70 foul shots between two teams. But it was a win for the Penn State men's basketball team as it defeated the Penn Quakers Saturday 84-74.

"It was ridiculous," Penn State senior guard Joe Crispin said. "I like it when I'm on the line at least. But it had to be boring to watch."

The Nittany Lions (3-1) headed into Saturday's game with Penn (0-4) after suffering their first loss of the season to North Carolina State on Thursday.

Much like Thursday's contest, Crispin was off his game and had a hard time finding his shot.

Though he finished with 21 points, the Pitman, N.J., favorite son went 4 for 17 from the field.

Despite Crispin's struggles, forward Gyasi Cline-Heard and guard Titus Ivory picked up the pace for the Lions.

Cline-Heard gave Penn State a presence inside that has yet to find a place in the starting lineup this season.

Cline-Heard poured in 17 points and grabbed 16 rebounds and blocked five shots.

"Gyasi is not going to hurt you by knocking down a 15 footer, but he's a scrappy guy that goes in there and gets a tough rebound," Penn head coach Fran Dunphy said. "He's not pretty by any means he picks up the garbage and puts it back and that's the type of guy you need."

For the most part of the first half, the team exchanged baskets and fouls until Penn State went on a 7-0 run that made the game 39-32 with three minutes remaining.

But the Quakers kept it close with sharp shooting from guard Lamar Plummer.

Plummer, who dropped a team-high 20 points, had no problem causing havoc as he knocked down a pair of baskets before halftime to slice the Lions lead to 46-41.

In the second half, Plummer continued to hit key shots but could not stop the man he was covering. Ivory hit a trio of big shots down the stretch to give Penn State the lead for good.

One of those big shots came with under two minutes left on the clock. There Ivory took the ball down the lane and dropped a hard layup over Koko Archibong, who fouled Ivory when he was going up.

The basket and the foul were the eventual back breaker for the Quakers.

Ivory finished with 25 points, matching his career high from Thursday's game against the Wolfpack.

Both teams had 59 personal fouls between the two teams and Penn State connected on 40 of the 48 attempts it had from the charity stripe.

"If we can get to the line, we really have to take advantage of it," Penn State head coach Jerry Dunn said.