You don’t take any game for granted in the Big East. Especially not road games. This team has stunned teams before in the Rosemont Arena. Oliver Purnell employs an uptempo, pressing style that speeds Pitt up, and can get them out of sorts. There’s the risk of a letdown after the emotional Syracuse game. There’s looking ahead to the Big Monday game with ND. There’s oth—
I can’t do it. I’m sure Coach Dixon is all about keeping the team focused. The players know what they have to do. Me, I won’t lie. I’m presuming a win here. Obviously, there is still a liveblog and plenty to watch. I’m just saying, that I really can not conceive a way that Pitt loses this without food poisoning playing a role.
The game starts at 4pm. It airs on ESPN FullCourt, FoxSports Pittsburgh, MASN, MSG, Brighthouse and ESPN3.com.
Hopefully, everyone knows the rules. Moderated chat. Try to keep in clean.
The liveblog is below, but if you need to break it out from the site, Click Here.
No road league game should be overlooked but must admit that I would be shocked if we were to lose today.
Shzzssss. Don’t you know anything about not angering the sports Gods? On any given day…
I thought Lamar Patterson was an unsung hero today, he gave Pitt great minutes at the 4 and was very useful in helping Pitt break the press.
Here it is SEVERAL hours since the Pitt rout of DePaul has been in the books. And there is not ONE WORD of it on the front page of the PG website nor on the ‘Pitt’ page.
Hey we’re only going to the #2 ranked team in the country come Monday.
When you get no respect from your own local newspaper HOW CAN YOU EXPECT ANY FROM THE NATIONAL MEDIA !!!!
The Pittsburgh Tribune is doing it’s job though
Mentions that this is the 2nd best start in Pitt history at 19-1. Also that this was the largest margin of victory for Pitt in a BigEast road game since March of 2004.
Also has a quote from DePaul coach Oliver Pernell, saying ‘Pitt is a great team’.
I think we need to boycott the anti-Pitt PG, I know Chas has a link that Zeise put on his blog, but this is ridiculous. Zeise has also been AWOL for most of December & January as well during one of the most hectic times in Pitt history.
I also believe they intentionally tried to embarrass Pitt with that whole Holgorson affair and were possibly complicit in hyping this clown. Who nobody would have heard of without their hype of him. When WVU hired him, most people would have said ‘WHO?’ and sighed. Bottom line was Pitt didn’t even interview the guy as we only interview Head Coaches the first go round.
Zeise is sovering Pitt women today who is playing UConn.
True, there hasn’t been much Pitt FB updates lately but until now, Fittipaldo has been following Pitt BB regularly.
Neiter paper has yet listed Pitt’s FB verbal recruit, Corey Davis. Pantherlair listed it mid-afternoon
I am in the printing business and have been for a long time. Do you realize how close the PG is to going out of business? Years of mismanagement and an editorial page so slanted that it would take an idiot not to see it, have lost them many readers and supported their competition and the start up of the Tribune.
I guarentee that if all the Pitt fans stopped buying and reading the PG for just 2 weeks, we could bring them to their knees financially.
How’s that for a solution…where is the old Sun Telegraph when we need it??
The Pittsburgh Tribune Review loses ~20 million annually and is simply buoyed by the surrounding regional papers it bought a decade or so ago.
Sounds like you have an axe to grind.
To the fella above, yes, the hometown newspaper may report that way, but, we can lose the “disrespect” nationally talk. The disrespect card was over 3 or 4 years ago. Pitt has gotten high seeds, as my in laws in Cali and S. Carolina always say, “why is Pitt on every time I turn the friggin’ t.v. on”.
Constantly on Espn highlights, CBS sports, many announcers have picked Pitt to go to the final four the past few years, and allready this year.
Nope, time to give it up, Pitt is known as a basketball power, and frankly, we get talked about quite a bit, and yes, we’re on the tube constantly.
Read more: link to postgazette.com
HUH????
Either (1) the Pitt-DePaul was not important enough to the PG to send their beat writer (which I never recall happening) or (2) maybe he got sick or some other abnormalty.
05 Brown, Gilbert 27
35 Robinson, Nasir 26
52 McGhee, Gary 23
12 Gibbs, Ashton 33
22 Wanamaker, Brad. 32
01 Woodall, Travon 15
11 Taylor, Dante 15
21 Patterson, Lamar 13
42 Zanna, Talib 5
44 Moore, J.J 7
55 Richardson, J.J 2
Our practices are tougher on the kids than a game like this (and why Jamie shortens practices as the season wears on)
One of my favorite indicators is how well a team plays after they play Pitt. Generally, not very well.
Pitt beats Texas at a neutral court.
Pitt blows out UConn at home.
UConn beats Texas.
Texas is better than Pitt.
It’s annoying but until Pitt wins in the NCAAs they will continue to be overlooked by the national pundits.
Funny thing is…the minute we will the NC (and it will happen)…is the point, from that day on, where we will get perception equity and all of these guys will turn into revisinonists and marvel how “we saw this coming from Pitt’s strong ascension to the top”….
Laugh when it happens, and ignore what the say now.
Fortunately, NCAA BB NC is won on the COURT. And perception means far less than the sham that is CFB.
link to gary-parrish.blogs.cbssports.com
Duke #3, SDSU #4, then UConn, Texas, Kansas, Nova, Syracuse.
WVU fans, see what happens when you throw coins off of assistant coaches head?
I wonder what that kid must have done for his coach to belittle him like that. Maybe he didn’t turn out to be as talented as Kevin Jones, but that’s no reason for a coach to say those kind of things. Any respectable coach would either make a non-comment or say something about it not working out and wishing that student the best. But to call him a “nonentity” and admit he started only to motivate OTHER players…well, that’s just sad.
Ugh.
Meanwhile, it appears Pitt got its 2nd RB commit over the weekend
You heard it here first!
HTP
