Liles: Penguins need to learn how to finish


By Pete Mollica

YOUNGSTOWN — Jack Liles is in his fourth season with the Youngstown State men’s basketball team, and although he has played alongside some talented individual players he’s never had an overall group as talented as the one he’s currently with.

But the Penguins are 1-4.

The 6-foot-7, 240-pound senior from Odenton, Md., said it’s all about learning how to finish games.

And — obviously — by blowing a 23-point second-half lead at Robert Morris and then losing a 66-65 squeaker to St. Francis in the last two games — the Penguins have more learning to do.

Read the story in Tuesday’s Vindicator.