John Harrar returns to lead a contingent of former Penn State basketball players in the $1 million winner-take-all event known as The Basketball Tournament.
Greg Lee led the way for the Penn State Alumni squad. Penn State’s alumni hoops squad lives to play another day, as the Happy Valley Hoopers took down the top-seed in their region the Stars of Storrs, a UConn alumni team in a 94-83 upset win.
It was already Penn State basketball’s most successful appearing in The Basketball Tournament. But the alumni squad known as the Happy Valley Hoopers wanted more, and got it Monday night in Pittsburgh.
After his first season playing professional basketball in Japan, former Penn State basketball standout John Harrar returns to lead a team of Nittany Lions in pursuit of a $1 million purse.
The Penn State Nittany Lions hiring Purdue Boilermakers assistant coach Micah Shrewsberry as new men's basketball head coach apparently couldn't stop the inevitable.