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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- As soon as he joined his team for a shootaround earlier Friday, Albany coach Will Brown grew worried.His players were wandering the Bryce Jordan Center hardwood with their phones out, cameras snapping and videos rolling as they took in the sights and sounds of Penn States cavernous arena.A few hours later, Browns apprehension over whether his team was prepared to open the season against a Power 5 team had faded with its 87-81 win over the Nittany Lions.They call these games bye games or guarantee games or money games, the big boy is supposed to beat the little boy, Brown said. We didnt come here just to play in a nice arena and get some money out of it and all that stuff. We were here to win.They did so convincingly against the Nittany Lions who welcomed six new faces in the lineup and had one of its expected top-contributors out with an injury.Joe Cremo scored 22 points, Dallas Ennema had 20 points and David Nichols added 19 to lead Albany.Shep Garner made three free throws with 17 seconds left to pull Penn State to 82-79 but Cremo, Ennema and Marqueese Grayson combined to hit five free throws to ice the season opener for both teams.The Great Danes dominated the first half, leading 41-25 at halftime. They fended off Penn States late rally by controlling the glass and playing opportunistic offense.Albany pulled down 43 rebounds to Penn States 26 and scored 20 points off of fast breaks.Garner scored 17 of Penn States final 19 points and finished with 20. His teams unbalanced scoring pace wasnt what Penn State coach Patrick Chambers had in mind when he said Penn State would try to score 80 points per game, something they did just three times in regulation last season.We came all the way back but we cant wait to come all the way back in the second half, Chambers said. Weve got to understand that you have to play hard from the tip.BALANCED SCORING, AGAINThe Great Danes got contributions up and down the lineup all last season with Evan Singletary, Peter Hooley and Ray Sanders all averaging just over 12 points per game. Cremo also averaged double figures with 10.5 points per game last season and got plenty of help in the opener.A GLIMPSE OF WATKINSThe long awaited debut of big man Mike Watkins was a promising one for Penn State. The power forward was ruled ineligible by the NCAA last season and was a physical force in his first game, providing Penn States few highlights around the rim.The Philadelphia native scored the games opening basket on a nice turnaround jumper and chipped in three blocks and two rebounds in the opening three minutes. He finished with seven rebounds, five blocks and 10 points on 5-of-7 shooting.BANKS ON THE MENDA hamstring injury kept versatile forward Payton Banks out of Penn States exhibition against Lock Haven a week ago and he was rusty off the bench, going 1-for-5 in just nine first-half minutes before heating up and finishing with 14 points.Banks said he felt 100 percent before, during and after the game.BIG PICTUREAlbany: The Great Danes won nine of their last 12 games last season, but suffered back-to-back losses in the America East and CBI tournaments. They snapped that losing skid with a convincing win in which they led in nearly every statistical category.Penn State: With six new faces in the lineup, its going to take much longer for Patrick Chambers to find what pieces fit where. Hell continue to bring players off the bench to spread minutes around and mix veterans with newcomers to build chemistry. Guard Josh Reaves absence due to a lower leg injury could make the first part of that tougher with fewer players on the bench.UP NEXTAlbany plays at Cincinnati on Monday.Penn State hosts Duquesne on Sunday. Basket Femme Air Max 90 Pas Cher . -- Matt Ryan needed one of the best games of his career to lead the Falcons and their depleted offence out of their three-game losing streak last week. Fausse Tn Pas Cher . -- Playing time has been limited for Maxim Tissot this season, so the Montreal Impact defender made the most of his first scoring opportunity on Saturday. http://www.outletairmaxpascher.fr/fausse-vapormax-noir.html . 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RENTON, Wash. -- The Seattle Seahawks and coach Pete Carroll have agreed on a contract extension, keeping the oldest head coach in the NFL locked up beyond the 2016 season.Team owner Paul Allen tweeted confirmation of Carrolls deal on Tuesday.The move with the 64-year-old Carroll came just two days after the team locked up general manager John Schneider to a contract extension.Both Carrolls and Schneiders current deals were set to expire after the 2016 season, but the tandem pairing that has brought the Seahawks unrivaled success in their franchise history will be teamed together for another few seasons.Carroll is 60-36 in the regular season since becoming Seattles head coach in 2010. Hes taken the Seahawks to the playoffs in five of six seasons, including two Super Bowl appearances and the only title in franchise history.Carrolls deal was first reported by ESPN and said the extension goes through the 2019 season.Whenever asked during the offseason about his contract situation, Carroll would shrug off the question saying Im good.But the lack of an extension fueled speculation that Carroll may be ready to take on a new role and walk away from being a head coach, no matter how often he indicated he was set on continuing in his position with Seattle.Everything is great. Im under contract, Carroll said at the conclusion of minicamp in June.Carrolls somewhat unconventional coaching methods have been proven successful in his third stint as an NFL head coach.Givven the autonomy over player personnel in concert with Schneider, the Seahawks are on a run of success never before seen in the Pacific Northwest with four straight playoff appearances that included the Super Bowl title after the 2013 season and a return trip to the Super Bowl a year later that came up 1-yard short of a possible repeat.ddddddddddddSeattle had five 10-win seasons in franchise history before Carroll arrived, and has reached double-digit victories in each of the past four seasons.Carroll has constructed a team based around a core that includes the likes of Russell Wilson, Richard Sherman, Earl Thomas, Bobby Wagner and Doug Baldwin to name a few, and supplemented with talent around that targeted group.The Seahawks have been competitive in nearly every game since the beginning of the 2012 season, never losing by more than 10 points since the middle of the 2011 season -- regular and postseason combined.And not surprising considering his background, Carrolls defenses have been among the elite of the NFL despite going through three defensive coordinators in the past four seasons.The Seahawks have been the best scoring defense in the NFL each of the past four seasons, becoming the first team since the Cleveland Browns in the mid-1950s to accomplish that feat.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '