Tyler Bernardini, Penn’s talented junior guard, scored the Quakers’ first 10 points in their season-opening visit to Paterno State’s Bryce Jordan Center last night, but then he hit foul trouble, according to this report in the Daily Pennsylvanian, the Penn student paper. The Quakers kept it close for the first 13 minutes, but it went into the books as a 70-55 loss.

Penn coach Glen Miller (pictured) opened the season with some of the best quotes we might see all year. According to The Inquirer, Miller ripped into Bernardini for his “careless fouls and lack of discipline,” and the coach was only just getting started:

“I just think that he took himself out of the game. What would have happened if he was in the game for 28, 32 minutes — which he should have played — I don’t know. Careless fouls . . . it’s been a problem in practice.”

Like, how did you really feel about it, coach?

Penn made just 37.5 percent from the field, which is going happen against the defending NIT champs. And Talor Battle, the Paternos’ talented junior point guard, had 27 points and 10 boards.

Zack Rosen, Penn’s terrific sophomore point guard, had eight points, seven rebounds and six assists, which is what he does. And The Inquirer story notes that junior Conor Turley “played well” in the middle place of Andreas Schreiber, who also had foul difficulties. Turley finished with eight points and got to the line for 10 attempts, making six, in 22 minutes.

The Quakers (0-1) are back in the area Monday night, and they’ll head out to the Main Line to play Villanova in the season’s first Big 5 game.

Links: Penn loses at Paterno State [Daily Pennsylvanian]
Miller not happy after loss to Paterno State [The Inquirer]
Photo credit: [University of Pennsylvania]