This road trip is one the Penn State men's basketball team is glad to have come to an end.

After going 1-3 away from home, Nittany Lions (12-6, 2-5 Big Ten) head coach Jerry Dunn returned for his weekly press conference yesterday.

Dunn, who was knocked to the floor by a cheerleader prior to Saturday's loss to Wisconsin, said he was not harmed in the innocent but was surprised by what had happened.

"I guess she was trying to do one more back flip or something," Dunn said. "In all my years of coaching that has never happened to me before."

Despite the fall, Dunn and the rest of the Penn State men's basketball team are glad to be back home for a while.

"Yes those road games are grueling," Penn State forward Edu Egekeze said. "You take the comfort of home for granted when you go on the road. Their ruthless out there."

Rough Road

Like most road trips for any team in the Big Ten this season, it was not an easy one for the Lions.

Penn State managed to go 1-3 away from Happy Valley. Its only claim to a victory was against Yale in a non-conference game that took place last Tuesday night.

In two of the three conference games, Penn State went into halftime down by as much as 18 points. Although they've had better opening halves in their last two ball games, the Lions have had a hard time playing defense on the road.

And against some of the better teams like Illinois, it tends to spell trouble for a team like Penn State.

When the Lions have played poor defense, their offense tends to be failing as well. In three losses Penn State has not shot more than 30 percent in the first half in each of the three losses.

"In some games we not getting the looks we need and in other games are defense isn't playing as strong as it has," Dunn said.

Brotherly Feud

In Saturday's loss to Wisconsin Joe Crispin and Jon Crispin were pulled from the game for fighting amongst themselves. Jon was apparently angry with Joe for taking a three point shot that he missed instead of passing it to him when he was open.

Throughout the season, the two have shown signs of brotherly love by pushing each other when one as missed a shot or the other might have made a bad pass. But it was the first time that both were pulled from the game because of this.

While Dunn was not concerned about what happened and has not addressed the two about what took place, he did say he does not want this to be a problem for his team.

"Their brothers and I'm sure they can work things out amongst the two of them," he said.

"I just don't want it to be a distraction for the whole team and I rather have them figure it out for themselves."

Shooting woes for Joe

Joe Crispin has hit a wall in his last three Big Ten games. After scorching his competition earlier this season, Crispin has been unable to get back on track. He has been averaging just 12 points in his last three Big Ten games, nine points under his average.

Although no one seems to be concerned about this, Crispin has said he just wants to get back to having fun playing again.

"Sometimes you've just got to go back to having fun again and forget about what has happened," Crispin said.