It’s a bit of a basketball round-up.

First up, J.J. Moore got injured over the weekend playing pick-up basketball.

Pitt sophomore forward J.J. Moore will undergo surgery for a fractured fifth metatarsal bone in his right foot after suffering the injury in a pickup game Friday.

The injury takes three months to heal.

Moore’s injury is common among basketball players. It is the same injury that forced Levance Fields and Jermaine Dixon out of the lineup in recent seasons.

It isn’t the healing that is the concern. It is the possibility of it being a recurrent issue. It was a bit of a problem for Levance Fields. Still, while he won’t be playing in the summer league, he will be ready for the start of the practices before the season begins.

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So spring practices are in the books. Now the darkness of the spring and summer months fall. With little but speculative predictions, tidbits of recruiting news, filler, fluff and whatever else that can partially fill the void of Pitt football (insert joke here) until August.

But before that, a recap — media-wise — of the spring game. Reed did another great job of covering spring practices and recapping key things from the spring game. And thanks for all who were able to attend who left their impressions of the day.

For some other blog-writer perspectives, Anson from Cardiac Hill had a list of developments from spring practices. Pitt Script has his view, and makes a great observation.

It really hit me yesterday how much of a rebuilding job Paul Chryst has in front of him. There’s the team coming off a season that had nearly as many head coaches as wins with an incumbent quarterback that can’t seem to get the job done and no one to replace him. But there’s also the fanbase – which was never particularly large or deep – that seems deeply unsatisfied with how the past 18 months have gone.

The fanbase point is a good one.

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