Briefs
Cal women remain No. 9
The California University women’s basketball team remained at No. 9 in the latest Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Top 25 Coaches’ Poll.
The Vulcans, who are 2-0 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference and 7-0 overall, is one of 22 remaining undefeated teams in NCAA Division II. They were idle this week and return to action with road PSAC game at Shippensburg Saturday afternoon.
Schiano returns to coach at Rutgers
After an on-again, off-again courtship, Greg Schiano is back as Rutgers football coach.
Of course, it didn’t go off without a Rutgers-like hitch. There was a glitch with microphones at a public hearing before the deal became official.
The university’s Board of Governors on Tuesday approved an eight-year, $32 million contract to bring back the former Scarlet Knights coach to lead the downtrodden program that has lost 21 straight Big Ten Conference games and won seven others over the last three seasons.
The 53-year-old Schiano will be introduced at a news conference on Wednesday.
Schiano, a New Jersey native, went 68-67 at Rutgers from 2001-11 and turned the Scarlet Knights into consistent winners after years of being one of the worst major college football programs in the country. Success under Schiano helped Rutgers land an invitation to the Big Ten, and it joined the lucrative Power Five conference in 2014.
PSU’s Parsons honored
Penn State sophomore linebacker Micah Parsons won the Butkus-Fitzgerald Linebacker of the Year for the top linebacker in the Big Ten Conference.
Parsons, who is also a finalist for the Butkus Award as the nation’s top linebacker, has 95 tackles, including 11 for a loss, and three sacks for the Nittany Lions.