Saturday night a pair of struggling teams did battle at The Barn. Penn State entered the game losers of 5 of their last 6 games, while Minnesota entered the contest riding a 5 game losing streak while being just 1-9 in their last 10 games.
In the battle of struggling teams it was the Golden Gophers who were able to come out on top. Following a 76-70 victory Minnesota improves to 12-10 on the season and are now 3-10 in conference play. As for the Nittany Lions, for the first time this season they find themselves three games under .