When you have the No. 1 strength of schedule to date according to Kenpom, losses are to be expected. When you lost one of the best players in the history of the program, and one of the best big men to go along with it, you can expect a lot of losses.
That has been the case for this Penn State team, who has seemingly reverted back to its “close, but no cigar” days. The Nittany Lions have played in several close contests this season, with four of its six losses coming by single digits. And, as has been pointed out time after time, five of those six losses were also games where Penn State held a lead at one point in the game or another.