Penn State Sports Magazine
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F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 3 41 W W W . B L U E W H I T E O N L I N E . C O M E xplaining Penn State's offensive possibilities ahead of the 2022-23 season, head coach Micah Shrews- berry pointed to a marked change. His Nittany Lions had been among the low- est-scoring outfits in college basketball in his debut season, but recent additions would upend that dynamic, he thought. Shrewsberry's reasoning was simple. Penn State had brought in prolific scor- ers Camren Wynter and Andrew Funk through the transfer portal, adding them to a roster that already included three experienced, dynamic offensive players in super senior guards Jalen Pickett and Myles Dread, and senior forward Seth Lundy. In combination, the results could be electric. "I was making the point in practice last week, so I went back and looked up stats. Cam Wynter scored 1,600 points in his career [at Drexel]. Andrew Funk scored 1,200 [at Bucknell]," Shrewsberry said. "I don't care where you're playing, if you score 1,600 points, that's doing something. You score 1,200 points, that's doing something. "And now you add those two guys to Jalen Pickett. You've got three dudes who are scoring like that. Seth Lundy is close to 1,000. When you have four different guys on your team who are 1,000-point scorers at one time, you've got some dudes that can put the ball in the bucket." Shrewsberry's intuition has, to date, proven accurate. Pouring in points at a clip unrecognizable from a season ago, the Nittany Lions have worked to com- plement their stout defensive founda- tion with improved scoring output. Eight games into the Big Ten sched- ule, Penn State's average of 74.6 points per game ranked sixth in the conference. It was a dramatic turnaround from the MEN'S BASKETBALL A CAST OF THOUSANDS Penn State's offensive surge is fueled by a quintet of 1,000-point scorers, veteran forward Seth Lundy being only the latest NAT E BAU E R | NAT E . B AU E R @ O N 3 . C O M Now in his fourth season at Penn State, Lundy ranked second on the team in scoring at 13.7 points per game through 18 games and also was one of the team's most effective defenders. PHOTO BY DANIEL ALTHOUSE