As several inches of snow fell outside the Bryce Jordan Center Saturday, nobody was surprised to hear Aaron Johnson talk about the weather.

But after the Penn State men's basketball team's 65-62 victory against Northwestern, it wasn't the snow that had Johnson talking up a storm. The forward could only sit back and admire the work of freshmen Mike Walker and Danny Morrissey, whose sharpshooting led the Nittany Lions (7-11, 1-4 Big Ten) to their first Big Ten win of the season.

"I call them the 'Let It Rain Brothers' because they be letting it rain all day," Johnson said. "They were cashing in."

The duo combined for nearly half of the Lions' total scoring with 31 points and gave the team a much-needed boost of enthusiasm.

Walker went 5-for-9 from 3-point range, a career high for the freshman. But no basket was more important than his NBA-range bomb with 13 seconds left to give the Lions a five-point lead.

"That was one of the biggest shots I've ever hit," he said. "I looked up at the shot clock, and I think there was six or seven seconds left and I figured, I might as well just make something with what I had right there."

Morrissey, the other young gun, tied a career high with 16 points, going 4-for-6 with the long ball.

"For us to be successful, our freshmen have to score points," Penn State coach Ed DeChellis said. "Obviously those two guys tonight, I thought they did a great job. They made big 3's, and that was very, very critical for the success we had here."

Aside from helping the team get only its second win in its last 10 games, the two ended a scoring drought that lasted nearly two months. It was Morrissey's first double-digit performance since Dec. 3 and Walker's first since Dec. 11.

"I'm going to have droughts, I've had a drought the couple last games," Walker said. "I was just as confident shooting in those games as I was [Saturday]. Some days the ball just falls, and [Saturday] it fell."

While the two said they didn't let their struggles get to them, they only worked harder to break their slump. Both spent extra time working on their shots whenever they could -- even if it meant setting their alarms a little earlier.

"Danny and Mike, if they have a bad shooting game, they go to the gym, like early in the morning, and shoot like 500 jump shots," Johnson said. "You can't teach that, that's just a will to win."