Blue White Illustrated

FOOTBALL 5-2, 2-1 SEPTEMBER 5 L at Temple...................................................27-10 12 W BUFFALO....................................................27-14 19 W RUTGERS.....................................................28-3 26 W SAN DIEGO STATE.......................................37-21 OCTOBER 3 W ARMY.........................................................20-14 10 W INDIANA.......................................................29-7 17 L at Ohio State..............................................38-10 24 Mar yland at M&T Bank Stadium.......... 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) 31 ILLINOIS................................................................ TBA NOVEMBER 7 at Northwestern.....................................................TBA 21 MICHIGAN............................................................. TBA 28 at Michigan State...................................................TBA WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL 17-2, 6-2 AUGUST 28-29 PENN STATE CLASSIC 28 W BUFFALO................................................ 3-0 29 W STONY BROOK........................................3-0 W VILLANOVA............................................. 3-0 SEPTEMBER 4-5 BIG TEN/PAC-12 CHALLENGE 4 W COLORADO............................................. 3-0 5 W STANFORD..............................................3-0 11-12 Golden Dome Invitational at Notre Dame 11 W Eastern Kentucky.................................... 3-0 12 W Mississippi State.................................... 3-0 W at Notre Dame........................................ 3-0 18-19 South Florida Invitational at Tampa 18 W Auburn................................................... 3-0 19 W St. John's...............................................3-0 19 W South Florida.......................................... 3-0 23 W WISCONSIN....................................................3-0 26 W MINNESOTA................................................... 3-2 OCTOBER 2 L NEBRASKA.....................................................3-2 3 W IOWA............................................................. 3-0 9 W at Illinois........................................................3-1 10 L at Northwestern............................................. 3-2 16 W INDIANA.........................................................3-0 17 W PURDUE.........................................................3-0 21 at Michigan 24 at Michigan State...............................................7 p.m. 28 at Ohio State........................................ 5 p.m. (ESPNU) 30 OHIO STATE....................................................... 7 p.m. NOVEMBER 5 at Mar yland....................................................... 7 p.m. 6 at Rutgers......................................................... 7 p.m. 11 at Iowa............................................................. 8 p.m. 14 at Minnesota..................................................... 8 p.m. 18 MICHIGAN......................................................... 7 p.m. 21 MARYLAND........................................................ 7 p.m. 25 NORTHWESTERN................................................7 p.m. 28 at Nebraska.......................................................8 p.m. T H E M A I N E V E N T MEN'S BASKETBALL VMI @ PENN STATE 1 P . M . | N O V . 1 4 | B R Y C E J O R D A N C E N T E R | B T N P L U S The Keydets, who are set to visit the BJC to open the 2015-16 season, may be unfa- miliar to Penn State fans, but their coach certainly isn't. In April, VMI named Dan Earl its new head basketball coach. Earl, of course, is a former Penn State point guard who also served for six seasons as an assistant coach at his alma mater under Ed DeChellis. During Earl's time as a player at Penn State, the Nittany Lions went 48-13 at home. They haven't had a run like that in quite a while, and this year's team has some rebuilding to do as it looks to defend its home court and maybe move up in the Big Ten standings a7er a disappointing 13th-place 6nish last season. The Lions must replace D.J. Newbill, the All-Conference guard who managed to become the fourth- leading scorer in school history in only three seasons of action. But every new sea- sons begins with optimism, and guard Shep Garner and forward Brandon Taylor 6gure to pose some challenges for Earl in his 6rst game as a head coach. – M.H. ALL SPORTS PSU athletes surpass 5,000 service hours Penn State's approximately 800 student-athletes performed more than 5,300 hours of community serv- ice in 2014-15, the university an- nounced recently. The total number of hours created an average of nearly seven hours of service for each stu- dent-athlete this past year. "I've been so impressed with the service and servant's hearts that our student-athletes and programs have," athletic director Sandy Barbour said in a prepared statement. "There are so many quality ways in which our stu- dent-athletes engage with the com- munity and serve as mentors. It's such a great environment and lesson for our student-athletes." Five Penn State teams completed an average of more than 15 community service hours per student-athlete. The women's gymnastics team head- lined the list with 35.33 community service hours per student. The women's golf team completed 26.27 hours per student, and the women's basketball squad completed 20.67 hours per student. The football (15.51) and wrestling (15.07) squads also completed more than 15 hours of community service per student-ath- lete this past year. Each February, Penn State Athletics plays an integral part in THON, the largest student-run philanthropy in the world. Since 1977, THON has raised more than $127 million for the Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital. Several student-athletes annually participate in the dance marathon and well over 100 are involved with the Student- Athlete Hour and pep rally, in addi- tion to teams hosting THON outreach events, such as the Penn State Football THON Explorers pro- gram, in which more than 50 THON children and their families tour the Lasch Football Building. ■ SCORECARD

• Cover