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T H E M A I N E V E N T WRESTLING PENN STATE @ IOWA 9 P . M . | J A N . 2 0 | C A R V E R - H A W K E Y E A R E N A | B T N The Nittany Lions are the kind of team that is built to win tournaments; their dual meet success is just icing on the cake. In Cael Sanderson's seven full seasons as head coach, the Lions have won 6ve Big Ten tournament titles, and they've followed up those triumphs with 6ve NCAA championships. But they've only had one unde- feated dual meet season during that span, evidence of where the program's priorities lie. Even so, when the opponent is Iowa, the competitive format doesn't really mat- ter. You know it's going to be an event worth watching. As of this writing, the Hawkeyes were ranked second behind Oklahoma State in the InterMat dual meet poll, while the Nittany Lions were fourth, trailing the Cowboys and Hawkeyes, as well as No. 3 Missouri. Last March, a8er watching Iowa 6nish 68h at nationals, 42 points behind Penn State, coach Tom Brands said his team was "a long ways away" from the Nittany Lions' perch. Brands was talking speci6cally about the Lions' abil- ity to score bonus points, a trait that pays o7 big in the postseason. He's looking to close that gap, and although we'll have to wait until March to see just how successful he's been, we'll get an enticing glimpse of where these two great rivals stand in rela- tion to each other when they meet in Iowa City next month. – M.H. SCORECARD ball Bowl Subdivision), while men's basketball was at 100 (76 percent na- tionally) and women's basketball at 92 (87 percent nationally). Seventeen of Penn State's 25 varsity teams (the men's and women's track and field/cross country teams are combined in the survey) earned a Graduation Success Rate at or above the national average of 84 percent, with a total of 22 PSU squads at 80 percent or higher. (The NCAA data does not include the men's and women's hockey teams, which be- came varsity sports during the 2012- 13 academic year.) In addition to releasing each insti- tution's overall four-year Gradua- tion Success Rate, the NCAA also released the federal graduation rates for students and student-athletes as it has for the past 26 years. The four-year federal graduation rate average for University Park student- athletes was 78 percent, No. 3 among Big Ten institutions, and significantly above the 66 percent Division I average. The four-year average for University Park students was 86 percent, exceeding the 65 percent rate for all students nation- wide by 21 points. This is the 26th annual release of institutional graduation rates since national right-to-know legislation was passed in 1990. In 2005 the NCAA Division I Committee on Ac- ademic Performance implemented the initial release of the team GSR data. The GSR is the NCAA's more in- clusive calculation of academic suc- cess among scholarship student-athletes. The NCAA rate is more accurate than the federally mandated methodology because it includes incoming transfers and students enrolling in the spring se- mester who receive athletic aid and graduate, and deletes from the cal- culation student-athletes who leave an institution and were academically eligible to compete. The federal rate does neither. ■ FOOTBALL 11-2, 8-1 SEPTEMBER 3 W KENT STATE............................................... 33-13 10 L at Pitt........................................................ 42-39 17 W TEMPLE..................................................... 34-27 24 L at Michigan................................................ 49-10 OCTOBER 1 W MINNESOTA........................................ 29-26 (OT) 8 W MARYLAND................................................ 38-14 22 W OHIO STATE................................................24-21 29 W at Purdue...................................................62-24 NOVEMBER 5 W IOWA......................................................... 41-14 12 W at Indiana.................................................. 45-31 19 W at Rutgers....................................................39-0 26 W MICHIGAN STATE........................................ 45-12 DECEMBER 3 Big Ten Championship Game at Indianapolis W Wisconsin.................................................. 38-31 JANUARY 2 Rose Bowl at Pasadena, Calif. Southern California................................. 5 p.m. (ESPN) WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL 24-10, 13-6 AUGUST 26 W WEST VIRGINIA...............................................3-0 27 W GEORGIA SOUTHERN...................................... 3-0 L NORTH CAROLINA...........................................3-2 SEPTEMBER 3-4 Big Ten/Pac-12 Challenge at Colorado 3 L Colorado.................................................3-2 4 L Stanford................................................. 3-0 9-10 at Syracuse Classic 9 W Siena..................................................... 3-0 10 W Hofstra...................................................3-1 W at Syracuse............................................ 3-0 16-17 PENN STATE INVITATIONAL 16 W RHODE ISLAND....................................... 3-0 17 W HOWARD................................................ 3-0 W CLEMSON...............................................3-0 21 W at Rutgers......................................................3-0 25 W at Northwestern............................................. 3-0 30 W MICHIGAN STATE............................................ 3-0 OCTOBER 1 W MICHIGAN......................................................3-0 5 W MINNESOTA................................................... 3-2 8 W RUTGERS.......................................................3-0

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