Well, another close game before hand. I wouldn’t object to another OT.
I’m curious to see how Pitt will adjust to Louisville this second time around.
9:45: Well, whatever the original plan was, it just got altered with Gray out early with 2 fouls.
10:20: Gray on the bench for all but 3 minutes. No 3s hit. And Pitt is right in this game.
10:26: Bad gamble by Dixon to put Gray in for the final minute. Pitt couldn’t do anything on offense to make it worthwhile and then Gray had to essentially stand far from the basket on defense to avoid any more fouls.
Totally disrupted Pitt’s spacing on defense. It ended up costing 6 more points. Up to that point, Pitt wasn’t in bad shape considering the situation.
Now Pitt down 37-26 at the half.
I’m not saying Pitt should be relying on the 3, but they have to knock some down. 0-6 is not promising.
10:44: To: Antonio Graves
Re: hitting some 3s.
Thank you for those first two.
37-32 Louisville in less than a minute into the second half.
10:53: Seems Antonio Graves found his stroke. Thankfully.
Can’t believe they called Gray for that foul.
11:04: More consistency from the refs, as Padgett keeps getting away with wrapping and yanking players. When did Cook get his nose bloodied?
11:22: Well, this has just gotten ugly. Has anyone scored in the last couple minutes? Gray has missed 3 straigh FTs. Still 52-51 Pitt, 3:29 left.
11:37: 65-59 PITT WINS!!!
WHOOO-Hoo!!!!!!!!!
11:39: Here’s the added bonus. What are the odds of seeing Burr and Higgins again tomorrow?
12:06: Some postgame thoughts. Gray had 8 points and 0 rebounds in 14 mintues, and Pitt won. Yeah, I saw that coming.
Graves found his stroke and his confidence in the second half. 23 points, 2 blocks, 4 assists and a steal.
Mike Cook had 13 points and 8 rebounds along with 2 steals.
Pitt only had 6 turnovers in the game. A second straight low turnover game against teams that got Pitt to fumble the ball away.
17 assists on 20 baskets.
20-31 on FTs. It could be better, but it has been worse.
It wasn’t that Pitt wasn’t getting whistles. It was the sheer unpredictability of what would be called that gets on the nerves.
Big thanks to Louisville for panicking early in the second half, launching shots without any real plan. Forcing your coach to burn all but one of your timeouts in the first 5 minutes.
Really, I don’t know what happened to Louisville in the second half. They seemed to panic the minute Pitt sank a 3. May not have been Pitino’s best halftime speech.
I wonder how many guys have taken shots from behind the pro line so far in this tourney.
Why did they put Gray out at the end there if he was just going to stand around? Was his mere presence supposed to have an impact?
Pitt sleepwalking on D, watching the NY kids from Louisville put on a show.
Fields totally out of control on O…
11 point deficit is big trouble.
How is it we win 80%+ of our games, but less than 50% with these two assholes? HOW DO THEY STILL REF?
Fields is fading away too much on his shot. Levance, get to the hoop.
Seriously, is there some sort of appeals process or referee tribunal that Pitt can complain, too. Those stats on our record when these two jokers call the game are sick.
Louisville..check
Georgetown…..
Pitt-Georgetown III. That’s how it should be!
2 down…
I sure hope the retarded ref tour doesn’t continue tomorrow…let’s just have an ol fashion big east beat down tomorrow.
Higgins is an idiot…and a Jag Off
I will never say a bad word again about Graves..
He saved our Asses tonite. ditto Kendel
Coach Dixon (and I use the word coach with the greatest respect)had his best game ever. Anyone can coach when all is going well. He kicked ass at halftime according to post game..about time.
Last but not least “We had em all the way”
Hail to Pitt!!
wow
If they were just consistent, instead of every time you hear a whistle, having no idea what the call is: out of bounds, O foul, D foul, travel, etc…. Just call it CONSISTENTLY. Or the muggings that are no calls, and then 2 seconds later a little chippy foul is called.
Why isn’t there a review at the end of the year of their performance, and then let some of them go.
I know for the BET all the BE teams get to subimit ballots as to who they want to ref the games - i’m willing to bet the CUSA teams love them, and the real BE teams hate them.
inside-and Louisville had to foul at the end. Thought a lot of the calls on Gray were questionable–my favorite call was when the announcer observed “Padgett just threw Kendall to the floor-amazing no foul was called!”.What a great 2nd half by Pitt–Antonio Graves was the MAN tonight–really completely turned the game around with back to back 3’s. Kendall made some huge plays at the end–and how about clutch foul shooting at the end. I have a good feeling about the Georgetown game–actually think we match up better with them then with Louisville. No question we are not the most talented team in the country–but most times, play hard, and with a lot of heart. Big factor tonight for Pitt was 8 assists, 6 turnovers-again, really shut off the transition game of Louisville in the 2nd half. I am really proud of this team–if they make their shots like they did in the 2nd half–they can play with anyone.
I’m looking forward to another BE championship game.
A little known stat: 100% of the time the team with more points at the end wins.