Lamar Stevens, Penn State and 'The Climb' Cut Short

Patrick Chambers awoke at 5:45 a.m. Friday morning ready to work. He had a million things to go over and didn’t have the luxury to let a single moment go to waste. His Penn State basketball team was going to the NCAA tournament for the first time in his nine years in State College, the sixth time in 60 years and ninth time in program history.

He had barely wiped the sleep from his eyes when it hit him. He was preparing for something that wasn’t going to come. The NCAA had canceled the March Madness tournament Thursday afternoon while Chambers and the Nittany Lions were en route back to Pennsylvania. They had departed Indianapolis with a sliver of hope shortly after the Big Ten tournament was…