Stop me if you’ve read this one before: A Penn State basketball team digs itself into a deep hole to start the game, gradually climbs all the way back out to the surface, only to end up slipping on a banana peel and tumble all the way back down the hole to their doom.
That’s precisely what happened to the Happy Valley Hoopers, a PSU hoops alumni squad formed for The Basketball Tournament (TBT) as they took on the Nerd Team, a squad that has been around for a couple of years and was formed by a pair of Amherst College grads but features former star players from various Ivy League (and non-Ivy League schools like Notre Dame).