YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown State women’s basketball program will be without head coach John Barnes for the foreseeable future. Barnes is taking a leave of absence to focus on “personal family matters,” per a release from YSU. Associate head coach John Nicolais will serve as acting ...
Youngstown State’s demons at the UNI-Dome will continue to haunt it for yet another season. Despite a second-half rally to retake the lead after trailing at halftime, the Penguins couldn’t contain Northern Iowa’s passing attack. Coming off a career-best performance two weeks ago, ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State’s off week served as a transitional bridge from nonconference play to the start of the Missouri Valley Football Conference slate, and now the Penguins kick off seven straight games in the toughest conference in the FCS. It all starts Saturday at 2 p.m. ...
BEAVER TOWNSHIP — Fresh off its 48-28 victory over Robert Morris this past weekend, head coach Doug Phillips’ Youngstown State team will take a 2-1 mark into Missouri Valley Football Conference play, which begins this week when the Penguins travel to Northern Iowa to take on the Panthers. The next eight weeks will determine if the Penguins are worthy of a playoff bid, a void on the program’s resume since the 2016 campaign. “We cannot allow ourselves to have other people control our outcomes. Each and every day we have control of how hard we play, the attitude in which we play ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The quest for a dominant performance from start to finish will continue, but Youngstown State concluded its nonconference slate in convincing fashion nonetheless. After Robert Morris took a 1-point lead early in the second quarter, the Penguins woke up and rattled off 35 ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Doug Phillips remains a process-driven coach. Following Week 1’s win over Valparaiso, the fourth-year coach said Youngstown State’s focus remained inward as it prepared for its annual Power 5 “buy game” against Ohio State. Now, coming off a 35-7 loss to the vaunted ...
