STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Northwestern coach Bill Carmody said his team hadn’t shot as well as it could in losses to Michigan and Minnesota in its past two games before facing Penn State on Thursday night.

It was a different Wildcats team that took the floor in Happy Valley, as Dave Sobolewski scored 18 points and Jared Swopshire added 17 to pace Northwestern in a 70-54 Big Ten Conference victory against cold-shooting Penn State.

“We’ve been practicing hard the past few days and really tried to stress defense,” Carmody said. “We haven’t really been shooting the ball very well and we kind of just tried to ignore it, not put a lot of heat on these guys.”