Guess it sums up the CBI. Both the Trib and P-G did not bother sending their beat reporters to the Pitt-Butler game. So, the articles from each paper were written by Indiana-based freelancers.
Let me assist:
Next up for Pitt is (fill in the blank).
or
Pitt will now face the winner of (Team X vs. Team Y).
While I’m on the subject I’d also like to say the PG’s new online format is awful and Zeise has been AWOL. OK, I’ll stop moaning.
Is there a stat for “Most shots blocked?” I would assume Nas has set a record for having his shot blocked in one season. I know he has knee troubles and is undersized but how about a pump fake?
An observation from last nights game — Jamie was drawing up a play on the white board and Gibbs wasn’t even looking at Jamie and seemed to be somewhere other than in the game.
I hope Pitt wins but I still believe, unless returning players play most of the minutes, this tournament is not worth much.
Nice to see Pitt win that one. Now let’s finish this off and win the whole CBI! Why not?
Optics are everything, sometimes. Pitt had 2,000 turn out for the Princeton game. The Pete was an empty arena.
Butler last night – packed arena and big turnout, or so it looked to be on tv. Really, the game was played in a gym smaller than Fitzgerald when it hosted basketball (Fitzgerald held 6800). The attendance was only 3700.
Groat and Hillgrove called the game….as usual they were biased as hell and emotional…just the way I like them to be as the voice of Pitt Hoops. So they did their thing..two professionals and Pitt legends that make me proud to be a Pitt fan. As soon as the game’s over Chris Muller (or whatever his name is) is the next voice you hear giving a sarcastic, frat boy rant cutting up on the CBI and Pitt fans that give a crap about it. If you want to do that fine, but not immediately after the Hilly-Groat spills their guts out for 2 hours and it’s ESPECIALLY disrespectful coming from some amateur, bush-league, mid-night shift, two-bit hack like Muller or Andrew Filiponi.
THE FAN SUCKS AND PITT FANS SHOULD NEVER LISTEN TO IT WHEN Hillgrove isn’t on the mic.
Does anyone know anything about Washington St? Their statistics are average, at best, and don’t really have any notable wins this season.
It does look like it was more of the returning players contributing-Zanna, Patterson, Moore, and Woodall. Nas did seem to get his share of minutes, but Gibbs being in there was almost a negative. It feels like Jamie has worked in the returning players into the CBI tourney, but has used his seniors for some stability.
Of course, the same program also suggested that Ashton Gibbs was a “player to watch” last night. I suppose that might’ve been true, if you wanted to watch a player contribute negligibly to their team’s effort.
Chris Mueller (or whatever) is bush league and wated time talking about whether a banner should be hung or not rather than the game. Totally misses the point and like many a sport talk radio host, his logic is ridiculous. Anyway, who cares whether there is a banner (there won’t be). How about talking about how the leaders for next years team won this game for us, are still fighting and still see reasons to keep improving. Or maybe what does this mean for next year?
anyway, the fan after 6pm stinks unless its someone from the Pitt b-ball group — that includes Julius Page by the way who, while a complete homer (totally fine with me) is pretty savvy, and knows the game. MORE JULIUS PAGE, less these bush league frat boys like Mullen.
