Penguins have had no luck in first two weeks of the season

Sometime no luck is better than the luck of the Youngstown State men’s basketball team.

The Penguins are struggling along with a 1-4 record, but if they had any kind of luck instead of bad luck, they probably would be 4-1.

Tuesday they lost to Robert Morris in the final seconds on a turn around jump shot from the far left side of the court.

Saturday night almost everybody in Beeghly Center saw the ball roll out of bounds with 1.3 seconds remaining against St. Francis, Pa., with YSU trailing 66-65. Everybody except the three officials, that is. When television replays didn’t produce any conclusive evidence the game was over.

Now nobody is saying that with 1.3 seconds left and the ball under the YSU basket that the Penguins would have won the game, but they should have least had the opportunity.

Still, if the Penguins are ever going to be as good as coach Jerry Slocum expects them to be they’ve got to learn how to play hard for a full 40 minutes.

Read Pete Mollica’s column in Monday’s Vindicator.