 During this time, DeChellis recruited Geary Claxton and Jamelle Cornley to PSU.Despite DeChellis' widely critiqued decision to release promising sophomore Milos Bogetic from his scholarship, the 2007–08 Nittany Lions entertained hopes of being a dark-horse contender in the Big Ten and possibly even winning enough games to get into the NCAA Tournament.Those hopes were quickly disintegrated when senior forward Geary Claxton went down with an anterior cruciate ligament injury in January.