It's finally Dunn.

When the Penn State men's basketball team takes the floor at 12:15 p.m. tomorrow against the Iowa Hawkeyes (16-10, 4-9 Big Ten), it will be Senior Day for the last two scholarship players from the Jerry Dunn era.

Forwards Jason McDougald and Kevin Fellows will start their next-to-last games at the Bryce Jordan Center. Though Penn State will play at home Wednesday at home against Minnesota, the Nittany Lions are sending off their seniors tomorrow to make it easier for the families to attend.

Fellows and McDougald were two of three players who didn't follow the lead of Sharif Chambliss, Brandon Cameron, DeForrest Riley-Smith, etc. and flee Penn State after Dunn resigned after the 2002 season.

"It definitely affects chemistry," Fellows said. "You're bringing in an entirely new group of guys. Everything changes, like your style of play, knowing where each other are on the court. It takes a lot of time to get that stuff back."

Jamaal Tate, a scholarship forward from the Dunn era who is still with the team as an inactive member, will also be honored before the game.

Fellows and McDougald, the two elder statesmen of the Nittany Lions (7-19, 1-12), have patiently sat on the bench and, even with game minutes few and far between, continued to work hard in practice, which has made them an inspiration to teammates and coaches alike.

"I am pretty sure they didn't win as many games as they would like," Penn State assistant coach Kurt Kanaskie said, referring to Penn State's win totals of seven, seven, nine and seven in the last four seasons. "Both have tremendous qualities about them; they are hard working, unselfish guys ... they exemplify what a Penn State student-athlete is all about, and we would love to go out and get them a win [tomorrow]."

The Lions hope to get that win over a Pierre Pierce-less Hawkeye team. Pierce was Iowa's and the Big Ten's leading scorer with a little over 18 points per game. But Pierce was dismissed from the Hawkeyes on Feb. 2 because he "betrayed the trust we placed in him when he was given a second chance two years ago," Iowa coach Steve Alford said in a press release.

The trouble for Pierce began when he allegedly went to the home of a former girlfriend on Jan. 26. Because of those events, Pierce was charged Feb. 2 with intending to commit sexual abuse, burglary and other crimes, police said, and was subsequently dismissed from the basketball team. In the six games since then, the Hawkeyes have gone 1-5, seriously putting a dent in their once-promising NCAA Tournament hopes.

"We've been focusing on the tapes where he's been out," Kanaskie said. "Our guys haven't studied Iowa with Pierce ... so I don't believe that it going to be a problem."

Something that is a problem for Penn State is its shooting. The Lions are last in the Big Ten in shooting, at 40 percent after poor nights against Northwestern (31 percent) and Michigan (40 percent). Penn State's shooting woes might be linked to good scouting by other teams playing them for a second time, so the Lions will get a chance to improve those numbers by playing a team that hasn't seen them yet this season.