The quality of play from Penn State has gotten viciously low here at the end of an extremely difficult season. The Nittany Lions have lost five of the last six games and enter the Big Ten Tournament coming off a 32-point loss to Ohio State at home and a 12-point loss to Rutgers on the road. Northwestern has better top-end players, beat Penn State by 21 points earlier this year and has been more consistently competitive than the Nittany Lions over the last three weeks. It’s a big number for a Tuesday night game between two of the four lowest-seeded teams in the league, but I’m expecting a locked-in performance for senior Nick Martinelli and the Wildcats playing in Chicago.