This four-game losing streak, filled with swish after swish for opposing shooters, has consumed Penn State head coach Ed DeChellis.

All day, watching hours of game tape, even allowing thoughts on how to improve the men's basketball team seep into dinner with his family, DeChellis has been confounded by the absolutely lights-out shooting -- more than 51 percent -- of his opponents during this stretch of the Big Ten schedule.

"There's no breaks. You can't catch your breath," DeChellis said. "That's what these leagues are."

His job as head coach consumes every waking minute of his life. DeChellis can only hope that Iowa guard Adam Haluska isn't the next shooter ready to play out of his mind against the Nittany Lions (10-8, 1-4 Big Ten) as they face the Hawkeyes (10-9, 2-3 Big Ten) at 8 tonight in Iowa City.

"[Haluska]'s made some big shots, he made some big shots against us last year," DeChellis said. "There are good players every team we play. That's just the league."

Haluska scored 40 points in two games against Penn State last season. A growing trend suggests even more points for the senior guard.

He is averaging about 20 points per game this season, as well, but in every game of this streak the opponent's field goal percentage has as a tendency to increase -- and so does the margin of defeat.

First, it was the tandem of Purdue's David Teague and Carl Landry that pushed the Boilermakers to 44 percent shooting and a four-point win at home. Then it was Indiana's Roderick Wilmont and his seven three-pointers that pushed the Hoosiers to a 45 percent field goal percentage in a 10-point victory at the Bryce Jordan Center.

After Michigan's 20-point win on 48 percent shooting, Michigan State set a new level of embarrassment for Penn State. Spartans head coach Tom Izzo would call his team's best performance this season: 68 percent shooting for a 27-point obliteration of the Lions.

Iowa, like Penn State, has struggled to contain opponents' hot shooting. The Hawkeyes are coming off of a 19-point loss to Ohio State where the Buckeyes connected on 58 percent of their shots.

They are focusing on, as most teams do, on Penn State's wing tandem of Geary Claxton and Danny Morrissey. During the last two games, Morrissey, the Lions' third-leading scorer, has averaged a modest 6.5 points per game.

"You've got Morrissey who's shooting the ball at a high level," Alford said. "It's a very, very dangerous team. We've got to make sure we get better here in the next couple days."

DeChellis saw some things that he had never seen on tape at the Michigan State game, including Spartan center Goran Suton hitting shots from just inside the arc. Guard Travis Walton was hitting threes from a couple feet outside of the NBA line.

He can only hope trends don't continue. Penn State has yet to win a game on the road this season.

"Stuff happens, but you have to make your own breaks," DeChellis said. "You can't say, 'Whoa, I hope somebody doesn't shoot well tonight, or 'Whoa, I hope someone doesn't play well tonight.' You got to make your own destiny, whatever you want to call it."