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June 17, 2009

Now here’s a good game for Pitt to be playing at Madison Square Garden for the Jimmy V Classic.

Just confirmed – through a source – that Pittsburgh will play Indiana on Tues., Dec. 8 at Madison Square Garden.

Indiana will be young, but loaded with talent. It should be a tough game for Pitt. Definitely a marquee game. Something, apparently Pitt really wanted for this game.

Pitt was approached about playing Boston College in the Jimmy V Classic in December in New York but the Panthers decided against the matchup. Pitt athletic director Steve Pederson said he wanted more of a national game. But there was another reason for his decision against the opponent. Pederson was concerned that there were stories written in Boston during the East Regional that it was Boston College — a former Big East school now in the ACC — hosting onetime Big East rivals. Pederson said he didn’t want that to be the story again in December.

Burn!

Pederson denies that there is any actual ban by Pitt or the Big East in playing BC — but at the same time it seems clear that Pitt is in no rush to bother with the Eagles.

Pederson said the Panthers and Eagles will likely inevitably play. He said if there were no other opponents he wouldn’t be against playing the Eagles.

That sounds like a real eagerness. On the one hand, it was nice to own the Eagles and to have a chance to remind them of that would be nice. On the other, I’m all for not playing BC and keeping them to have to either pay to bring in the cupcakes or spend more on their travel budget to go further away for games.





this game could be a lot of fun. two very young, very talented teams. also a strong out of conference game (so the media won’t have that to bitch about come march). im liking the story line with crean too. the only problem: we really had trouble against marquette while he was there. hope we can figure his team out this time.

Comment by Jon 06.17.09 @ 9:05 am

This game should be interesting. I don’t think this version of the Panthers would have had as much trouble with Crean’s Marquette teams. The problem in the past is that we had slow guards defensively. The current group of guards is unproven offensively, but none of them will be slow on the defensive end. The slowest guard on the roster is Ashton Gibbs and he is already a better defender than Levance was.

Comment by Omar 06.17.09 @ 11:21 am

No Big East school should ever schedule BC again. They made their bed, now let them sleep in it!

Comment by HbgFrank 06.17.09 @ 12:38 pm

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