INDIANAPOLIS -- At Big Ten tournament time, it's one and you're done, as the players and coaches like to say.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Her team was up by six against a Michigan team that would not give up and Purdue guard/forward Katie Gearlds hit a three-pointer. Forty-five seconds later, she hit another. Twenty-three seconds after that, she hit a third. 17 seconds after that, she grabbed a defensive rebound and got the ball to forward Erin Lawless, who put in a lay-up.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Home to the Indiana Pacers, the Indianapolis Colts and the NCAA Hall of Champions, Indianapolis, Ind., has also, for nine of the past 10 years, been home to the Big Ten women's basketball championship tournament. But with the contract with Indianapolis and Conseco Fieldhouse due to expire after the 2005 Big Ten Tournament, that could soon change.

"About the same, about the same," is how Penn State men's gymnastics coach Randy Jepson compared his team's two most recent meets against Stanford and Army.

Penn State gymnast Kelly Streicher finished senior night at Rec Hall on Saturday with a handful of honors, but the Penn State women's gymnastics team was unable to send Streicher out with a win.

Fifteen games in 10 days may seem overwhelming to most teams, but it was just what the Penn State softball team needed to get its season rolling.

On her way to defending her national title, sophomore Katarzyna Trzopek shot down the sophomore slump, overcame an ankle injury and won 40 of 43 bouts this season.

For 43 minutes and 43 seconds of the 60 minutes in the Penn State men's lacrosse team's first Eastern College Athletic Conference match of the year on Saturday, the Nittany Lions led No. 6 Georgetown.

Penn State women's lacrosse coach Suzanne Isidor gave Jamie Donahue a high five as she walked to the sideline.

It was close. But in the end it was a team that Penn State had beaten earlier that did it in.

An early season test last week resulted in a "C" for outcome, but an "A" for effort, for the Penn State baseball club.

Any momentum from the women's tennis team's three-match winning streak melted away in the Florida sun over spring break, as the team dropped two matches against ranked opponents last week.

The No. 70 Penn State men's tennis team was victim to the golden rule on Sunday, as the Ohio State Buckeyes did unto it what it had done unto everyone else.

You know the old saying -- practice makes perfect.

Every athlete's career comes to a point where he or she must decide just how important it is to win. Without ever experiencing it, the desire begins to overwhelm and frustrate the athlete.

The Penn State tennis club overcame a foreign surface to finish 14th at the Daytona Cup among 34 teams during spring break.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Oh, how quickly things can change.

A year ago at the Big Ten Wrestling Championships in Madison, Wis., Penn State regained its place as a national power with an inspired performance.

Surely it had to be a blessing for Ed DeChellis.

The Penn State women's track team capped off its season to remember in the backwoods of Arkansas. The competition at the NCAA Indoor Championships wasn't just the Judds and the Joads and the Clintons in Fayetteville, but the cream of the collegiate track and field crop.

Sometimes history repeats itself.

For years, Penn State baseball coach Joe Hindelang and coaches in the Northeast have fought for a common starting date for collegiate baseball. Teams like the Nittany Lions can't see their first game action until weeks after schools in warmer climates have begun their seasons.

AMES, Iowa -- Penn State Icers coach Joe Battista signaled for a timeout.

She strolled into the room wearing her Lady Lions sweatshirt and warm-up pants like it was any other press conference, except this time junior guard Tanisha Wright was sporting a slightly different look.

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All over campus students are hooked into headphones, packing MP3s, iPods, Discmans and CDs. The genres of music vary with individual taste and so do the reasons for tuning in -- or tuning out.