Tuesday's game at Ohio State will be broadcasted on ESPN, and every one knows the certain blond-haired sideline reporter who comes with the territory.
Erin Andrews has caught the attention of several Nittany Lion basketball players, who are anxious to get out to Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center to show Andrews and the rest of the country this team belongs smack-dab in the middle of the NCAA tournament chase.
Even freshman Billy Oliver, who just last year was enjoying all the perks of being named Chatham High School's homecoming king, has few tactics of grabbing Andrew's attention.
"I might use it as a pick-up line," Oliver said. "Wear my crown."
Talor Battle and Evan Turner go head-to-head for the upperhand in the Big Ten scoring race. Entering Tuesday's game, Battle averages 17.3 ppg, with Turner netting 17.2 per contest.
Battle won't showboat in front of Andrews, saying it's all business for the Lions in Columbus.
"She does a great job. She's an attractive lady. She's just there doing her job. Obviously we're there for the same reason. We just wanna come play well and come outta there with a win."
About the kind of the answer one would expect from a floor general. But forward Jeff Brooks took, by far, the best approach to getting Andrews to take notice -- pray.
"I'll pray for a fastbreak or something so i can get a little good time after the game or something," Brooks said. "We'll see what happens though. She is a beautiful lady. She's very attractive. I hope she don't catch my eye too much."
On another note, last week we brought ya'll a video of 2009 Lion commit Tim Frazier dunking over an opponent in a recent high school game.
Naturally, that Youtube clip made the rounds among Frazier's future teammates. Oliver and Battle said Frazier put on a little jam fest with some of the guys when he came up for his official visit.
"It was sweet," Battle said of the video. "It was a real nice dunk. He caught the pass and jumped over the dude. He's real athletic, but we already knew that."
Brooks said he never got posterized like that in his life and vowed to never let it happen to avoid nation-wide embarrassment.
"I laughed a couple times," Brooks said. "It was a spectacular play. For him to get a tech after it was pretty funny cause when you chill with him he's a pretty quiet kid until you get to know him. For him to have a play like that, it was crazy."
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