Here's a question: You're a Big Ten basketball team coming off a 30 point loss to open your season, what do you do in your next game to save your credibility?

Well, if you happen to be unlucky enough to be Penn State, you get shredded by an Ivy League team, giving up 62 points in the process, and score a paltry 37 in response.

That's right, Penn State scored 37 points. Do not adjust your newspapers. The Lions turned in their worst performance in over 15 years Saturday night in their 62-37 loss to the Quakers front of 6,047 fans at Philadelphia's venerated Palestra and, similar to last Monday's debacle against North Carolina, the bright spots were few and hard to find.

"Our troubles on offense were a combination of good defensive pressure by Penn and too many quick shots by us," Penn State assistant Christian Appleman said. "We're just too impatient on offense. We don't make the crucial extra pass."

Penn (1-0) on the other hand did make the extra pass. The Quakers are a tough, experienced, battle hardened team that went to the NCAA tournament last season with the same lineup that took on Penn State (0-2).

"They have five guys that can pass, dribble, rebound and shoot," Appleman said. "That makes it tough."

Despite being a heavy underdog, the Lions kept things relatively close at the start, trailing 25-19 at halftime. But as time went on, the Quakers, led by Ugonna Onyekwe's 15 points, began to pull away.

The Lions pulled to within 41-33 in the second half, but Penn responded by ripping off an 11-2 run to put the game away.

"We came out and played with fire, but in the second half we were very frustrated," Appleman said. "We have to overcome that. It comes down to toughness."

One of the few bright spots for the Lions was the play of sophomore big man Jan Jagla. After struggling mightily in the loss to North Carolina, Jagla turned things around on Saturday putting in 16 points to go along with 11 rebounds.

A disturbing trend for Penn State continued on Saturday. Against North Carolina, the Lions were an ice cold 3-23 from behind the three-point line. Against Penn, they somehow shot worse, racking up an ugly 0-14 mark. For a team that relies on the three as much as Penn State does, that has to be a major concern for head coach Jerry Dunn.

Despite the plethora of bad signs, the season is still young and Appleman feels this train wreck can be cleaned up.

"We're confident that this group will continue to improve and in the long run be okay," he said.

At least their next game is against Yale on Dec 1. Penn State could never lose two straight to Yale. Right?