The Penn State men’s basketball team fell to its sixth straight loss with a defeat at the hands of Minnesota, 65-60, in a game that wasn’t even televised in the State College area until late in the fourth quarter.

The Nittany Lions (10-10, 1-6 Big Ten) have now lost all six of their road games this season. Penn State has only won one game in 14 meetings in Minneapolis, and under head coach Ed DeChellis, the Lions are now 5-33 on the road.

Geary Claxton scored 20 points on 5-for-16 shooting from the field, adding 12 rebounds, each team highs and what would be Claxton’s fifth double-double of his career. Jamelle Cornley added 14 points and six boards.

As a team, Penn State shot less than 36 percent from the field and converted 9-of-25 in the paint.

Minnesota (8-13, 2-5 Big Ten) connected on 47 percent of its shots, while converting 10-of-24 three-point attempts. Golden Gopher guard Lawrence McKenzie hit 5-of-10 from beyond the arc for a team-high 19 points.

Prior to the game, Minnesota was hitting at a 33 percent clip on three-point attempts.

“We got a lot of open shots and we don’t normally see a lot of those,” McKenzie said after the game to ESPN.

Penn State held a 25-19 lead midway through the first half, but the margin quickly disintegrated as the Gophers went into the intermission up on the Lions, 35-33. Minnesota maintained a lead throughout the second half, bringing the margin to as many as 10 points.

The closest Penn State would come was within one, 53-52, with 4:43 remaining, but McKenzie would hit another three, pushing the margin back to four, 56-52. Penn State was down 65-57 before Claxton hit a last-second three.

Penn State will be out of action until next Saturday, when the Lions return for a two-game home stand and face Purdue at noon in the Bryce Jordan Center.