Ugly game last night. Chalk it up to Georgetown simply being better than us or it “just wasn’t our night” or whatever you want. I’m not here to tell you what to believe in that respect and I don’t want this to turn into a game that makes us hang our heads and completely forget about beating Marquette and Louisville.
The offense wasn’t there on many different levels.
The 42 points were the fewest points scored in a Big East championship game and were the fewest for a Pitt team since the Panthers scored 30 against Temple on Jan. 15, 1969. The 23-point margin of defeat was the most since Pitt lost to St. John’s by 24 in 2000.
The most notable was Gray, however.
Here’s all you need to know about the Big East championship game Saturday night:
Roy Hibbert had more dunks than Aaron Gray had points.
Kind of hard to place the entirety of blame on him though. It’s also too bad this was one of the games where Roy Hibbert came to play. He’s been a nonfactor more times than Hoya fans would have liked this year but last night he came to play.
Life goes on though towards the NCAA Tournament. When it comes to seeding, to me it’s always been match ups and location over actual seed number. We obviously will want to play our first round games in either Buffalo or Columbus (I’ve heard the athletic department wants to go to Buffalo rather than Columbus). We also want to play against teams who our strengths match up well against — once again, if it means we drop a seed line to play teams we can beat easier in the first and second rounds then I’m all for it.
If you like to listen to Joe Lunardi, he has Pitt at a #3 seed (in Buffalo). There’s no way we’ll move any higher and I can’t see us moving lower unless the Committee takes the Pitt hate to an extreme level.
The next time this team shows up in a big game will be the first.
Why can’t knight lay into these headcases? I think 90% of our kids problems are between the ears. On the *average* day, our D isn’t as tough as it used to be, but our O is better. Problem is, we can’t seem to have average days. We have way up or way down, sometimes by the half.
This is all mental. Its not atheletes, strategy, anything else. Its all mental.
Florida, Georgetown, Kansas, Memphis,
North Carolina, Ohio State, UCLA, Wisconsin
in some order.
From Pitt’s perspective, it doesn’t matter which are #1 and which are #2 seeds. With the possible exception of Memphis, I can’t see Pitt being seeded ahead of any of them.
The only reason that Pitt is very likely to be a #3 seed is that there aren’t four strong competitors to Pitt after those top eight teams.
The possible competitors for #3 seeds are Oregon, Texas A&M, Maryland, Southern Illinois, and Texas. and (possibly) Washington State.
Maryland and Texas A&M both lost in the first round of their conference tournaments, so it seems much less likely than before that either of them would be seeded #3 ahead of Pitt.
So #4 seed is possible, but #3 seems much more likely.
I agree with your analysis and a Texas loss to Kansas will solidify our #3. Root for Kansas.
Rk School W-L RPI SOS Rk SOS Conf Conf W-L
1 Ohio St. 29-3 0.6664 18 0.5783 Big10 17-1
2 UCLA 25-5 0.6623 8 0.5947 Pac10 15-4
3 North Carolina 28-6 0.6603 4 0.6034 Acc 14-5
4 Wisconsin 29-4 0.6525 36 0.5667 Big10 15-3
5 Pittsburgh 27-7 0.6492 6 0.6012 Bige 14-5
6 Southern Ill. 26-6 0.6441 31 0.5700 Mvc 17-4
7 Florida 29-5 0.6431 40 0.5658 Sec 16-3
8 Memphis 30-3 0.6380 75 0.5433 Cusa 19-0
9 Georgetown 26-6 0.6368 13 0.5825 Bige 16-3
10 UNLV 27-6 0.6353 39 0.5665 Mwest 15-4
Last time I checked, top 5 RPI gets the selection comittee’s attention. Probably a top 3 seed at worst.
The rest of the team, minus Kendall and Young, didn’t play spectacular either, but Gray was the biggest culprit. I hope he regroups and makes up for the performance in the NCAA’s.
Let’s go Pitt! We should be a #3 seed.
