Penn State University announced on Thursday that Pat Chambers has agreed to a two year contract extension that will retain Chambers as the head coach of the basketball program through the 2018-19 season.
Chambers coached Penn State to a 18-16 season with prominent wins late in the season during the Big Ten tournament. Penn State secured wins over Nebraska and Iowa before falling to Purdue in the third round of the tournament. The team ended with a 4-14 conference record, finishing 12th in the Big Ten standings.
Chambers is 56-75 in his career at Penn State and has brought in some of the best recruiting classes the school has seen in some time. D.J. Newbill and Geno Thorpe are two of the top players that Chambers has added into the program in his short time as head coach.
The 2014-15 campaign started off strong with a 12-1 non-conference record but the team failed to prove competitive in conference play. Their only wins came against Rutgers, Nebraska, and Minnesota twice. However, Penn State lost by seven or less points on ten different occasions. If a few of those games would have gone the other way, this season would be a very different story.
Penn State is right on the edge of being a consistently competitive team in the Big Ten, and now Chambers will have two more seasons to make his team a force to be reckoned with in the conference.
