When visiting teams leave the Bryce Jordan Center, they sometimes leave lost and found items for Penn State women's basketball coach Rene Portland.

Most items are of little value to Portland, but pleasant surprises can be found rummaging through the opponent's locker room after games. Playbooks, packets of paper guide lining how to defeat the Lady Lions on a given day, are found lying around for the coach to take a look-see.

"Sometimes other teams leave them in our locker room," Portland said, laughing. "Sometimes one of their players will forget it. It's very nice to take a look and see what they say about our kids."

Portland said this probably occurs after one out of every two or three home games. So when the Penn State women's basketball team (10-12, 4-7 Big Ten) goes on the road to play Indiana (12-10, 6-5) at 7 p.m. tonight, will the Lady Lions know the Hoosiers' plan of attack?

It is a possibility. The last time Indiana played Penn State was at the Jordan Center, when the Hoosiers managed to "steal on the road," as Portland describes it, with a 54-50 win on New Year's Day. Whether the Lady Lions were able to take a little bit back may never be known.

What is for sure is that Portland still thinks she has a good understanding of how to attack Indiana the second time around. It starts with the guard.

During the Purdue game, Portland noticed that sophomore Adrienne Squire wasn't getting consistently open, as the Boilermakers quickly grasped the Penn State offense.

Squire was shut down for two points on Sunday. Sophomore Kamela Gissendanner was held to four points in the second half. Portland was then asked if she had thought about using four guards in the 72-61 loss to Purdue.

"I was trying to get three guards on the court, no less the four guards," Portland said.

If the Hoosiers were paying any attention to that game, they might try and exploit that matchup. Indiana guards Cyndi Valentin and Jenny DeMuth average a combined 31.3 points per game in the backcourt.

It's not like Portland didn't already know that. Freshman guards Brianne O'Rourke and Mashea Williams will be asked to "initiate contact upcourt." Portland's hope is that the other players will feed off of that.

But Portland believes Squire will have ample motivation to perform today, if she wants to go home to Indiana with respect any time soon. Penn State is winless vs. Squire's home state, with two losses to the Boilermakers and one to the Hoosiers.

"That's what we say to them all the time, 'Kids, that's where you have to go home for the summer, so you have to protect your own people,' " Portland said. "Adrienne doesn't need to stay here all summer. We have to at least get her a few days home."

Whether that is accomplished with some information retrieved from across enemy lines is one for the conspiracy theorists to decide.