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January 25, 2013

Link Thruough, 1/25

Filed under: Basketball,Players,Recruiting — Chas @ 8:37 am

Kind of busy in the offline world today. Time to just run the links.

Mike Young is looking really good at St. Benedict’s.

“He’s playing great. He’s playing fantastic,” St. Benedict assistant coach Bob Farrell said. “His game has gotten a lot better this year, and I think it’s because of his perimeter skills. He worked real hard in the offseason developing his outside shot.

“Now, the bigs have trouble covering him on the perimeter. He has become a solid, solid all-around player. Jamie Dixon is getting a heck of a player.”

Young is a McKeesport native who played at Shady Side Academy as a freshman before deciding to attend St. Benedict’s as a sophomore. He then played at Hudson Catholic in New Jersey as a junior before returning to St. Benedict’s. Both Rivals.com and scout.com rate him a four-star player. Rivals ranks him the No. 97 player in the country and scout No. 95.

Young had a nice performance Sunday when he had 16 points and seven rebounds in a 63-51 victory against Montrose Christian (Md.) at the Hoophall Classic in Springfield, Mass.

Young has been playing the small forward and power forward positions for St. Benedict’s, a perennial power in New Jersey. Among Young’s teammates are senior guard Tyler Ennis, a Syracuse recruit, and sophomore guard Isaiah Briscoe, who already has scholarship offers from Pitt, Syracuse, Baylor and Florida, among others.

That he happens to be a local kid is seeming more and more like a nice extra rather than a particular feature. Zanna and Moore will be seniors next year. Minutes may be tough for him to get as a freshman, but he will be positioned to be the starting power forward as a sophomore.

Some topics already noted here after the Providence game: Patterson being pushed by Durand Johnson in practice, along with Zanna slumping and free throw issues in this notes piece. As for Steven Adams promise and pain, good point here with his fouls: they come in bunches.

What Adams has to learn is not to commit fouls in rapid succession. He did it in the second half against Cincinnati, drawing two only moments after Bearcats center Cheikh Mbodj went to the bench with foul trouble. Adams also drew three fouls against Marquette and four against Connecticut.

“He‘s still a freshman, and he‘s still learning not pick up some of the fouls he picked up that got him out of the game and messes up his flow,” Patterson said. “Once he learns how not to get those tic-tac fouls, Steve‘s going to be real dominant.”

After the Providence game, it was noticed that Cam Wright never even got in the game. That after only 5 minutes of action in the prior two games. Coach Dixon apparently said not giving Wright any playing time was a mistake on his part, and expects to play him on Saturday.

“We really want to get back to our 10-man rotation,” Dixon said. “I talked to Cameron about getting ready to go Saturday. He needs to be in there. He makes us better.”

Wright is averaging 14.6 minutes and 4.3 points per game with one start.

“We need the defense and rebounding that he brings,” Dixon said.

Easier said than done, when Trey Zeigler is playing so well lately. Add in Durand Johnson’s continued growth and it is hard to see how to get Wright out there for a lot of time at the moment.

Big East parity: Pitt’s right in the midst of it. Looking at the conference from the outside, Pitt’s close games seem part of the overall norm. As a fan: maddening.

More “Send it in Jerome!” memories. I’ve been told that College Gameday this Saturday morning will include a feature on the 25th anniversary of it.





Just saw the trubute to 25th aniversary of Lane breaking backboard.
When asked wath made it so memorable Bilas says “It was Raftery”. What an ass.
Jalen Rose rightly points out that it was the only 1 hand dunk that broke the glass.
Otherwise nice segment on Gameday.

Comment by xfmrman 01.26.13 @ 11:43 am

*WHAT

Comment by xfmrman 01.26.13 @ 11:44 am

I like Raftery, a lot. But without Jerome Lane would he be as recognized?
I like Bilas too, but sometimes some stupid crap can come out of his mouth. Maybe that is why he no longer practices law.

Comment by xfmrman 01.26.13 @ 11:49 am

boubacar–17 points is pretty much what Sagarin predicts (17-18) given the home court advantage and Depaul being the weakest team in the BE (just outside the top 100).

Yes, DePaul is not terrible but they are not any better than several of the relatively decent teams Pitt beat in the OOC schedule by as many as 25.

Unless Pitt has a truly terrible game game (as bad as the Oakland game) it should be somewhere between a 10 point win (don’t play particularly well) and a 25 point win (play really well). The 17 point prediction is right in the middle of that range.

Comment by pitt1972 01.26.13 @ 12:15 pm

2 good things about today’s game:
Jim Burr in Philly.
John Cahill in D.C.

Comment by xfmrman 01.26.13 @ 12:53 pm

Upset alerts for both Syracuse and Louisville, playing against Villanova and Georgetown, respectively. Would really help Pitt’s RPI to get one or both!

Comment by Lou 01.26.13 @ 1:15 pm

Syracuse on the ropes at Villimanilli in OT

Comment by EMel 01.26.13 @ 1:17 pm

@Dan-o

Oh yes, I remember the bloody days in the Eastern Eight against both the Dukes and the Hoopies.

Even Thuggy Bear as a player. lol

Comment by EMel 01.26.13 @ 1:20 pm

The cuse jinxed by that talkative, annoyingly voiced, commentator

Comment by steve1 01.26.13 @ 1:23 pm

Syracuse is toast.

Don’t particularly shoot well

Only play 6 or 7 guys.

Don’t know how they’re 18-1 before today.

Comment by EMel 01.26.13 @ 1:28 pm

What stations is the game available on today?

Comment by Scott 01.26.13 @ 1:32 pm

19 ranked teams in action today.

I predict at least one of them will lose. 🙂

Comment by EMel 01.26.13 @ 1:34 pm

lol actually I predict at least 30% of them will lose.

Comment by EMel 01.26.13 @ 1:40 pm

Outside of Pittsburgh viewing area, Pitt game is on ESPN3

Comment by Lou 01.26.13 @ 1:48 pm

@Scott
Looks like ROOT for the locals.

If you don’t have access to ESPN 3

This will work:

link to firstrow1.eu

Comment by EMel 01.26.13 @ 1:52 pm

Just don’t download anything on there !!!

Let the ads run to their end over the video player then click them off.

Comment by EMel 01.26.13 @ 1:56 pm

On MSG in NY

Comment by Pitt Dad 01.26.13 @ 1:56 pm

And….Louisville goes down to Gtown

Comment by Lou 01.26.13 @ 2:04 pm

Ranked team #2 goes down.

G-Town 53
L-Ville 51

Comment by EMel 01.26.13 @ 2:04 pm

Cuse losses, Louville losses, this league wide open, why not us.

Comment by alcofan 01.26.13 @ 2:04 pm

L-Ville has now lost 3 in a row since being ranked #1.

Good time for them to go into a funk with us coming into L-Ville on Monday !

Comment by EMel 01.26.13 @ 2:06 pm

Gotta love the Big East. We better come to play today. The top two go down to teams that we beat. Go figure.

Comment by gc 01.26.13 @ 2:07 pm

Do you think we could make LVille lose 4 in a row?

Comment by gc 01.26.13 @ 2:08 pm

As I mentioned last week to Jackagain, there are no great teams in the BIgEast, so a 3rd place finish is certainly possible. (maybe higher now)

Heck, L-Ville now has the same record as us at 4-3.

As you saw today Syracuse is not unbeatable.

Comment by EMel 01.26.13 @ 2:09 pm

Let’s see. We beat GTown and Nova on the road. Neither Cuse nor the Ville could do that.

Comment by Pitt Dad 01.26.13 @ 2:10 pm

The players better not look ahead.

Comment by gc 01.26.13 @ 2:10 pm

DePaul likes to press, so this should be an excellent game to get prepared for L-Ville’s press.

I hope Coach has them aggressively attacking the press today and taking it to the rack.

Make em pay for pressing you !!!

Comment by EMel 01.26.13 @ 2:12 pm

@Emel thanks im in NEPA and use that site all the time for games, the pop ups are annoying but site is great for sports

Comment by Scott 01.26.13 @ 2:20 pm

lol ikr

They keep changing the name of the site slightly.
When you go to full screen mode, the pop ups stop.

Sometimes the feed is kinda weird, it will skip… shooting attempts at the basket, which is really annoying. Does yours do that too ??

Comment by EMel 01.26.13 @ 2:32 pm

@EMel

feeds aren’t always the greatest and I get what you said about pauses and stuff, but I figure thats part of being able to watch a game you wouldn’t have been able to with out the site

Comment by Scott 01.26.13 @ 2:41 pm

lol ik

but I’d like to see the made baskets.

Sort of adds something to the game.
Ya know. 🙂

Comment by EMel 01.26.13 @ 3:12 pm

Oh my…out toothless friends to the south

lost again …and fall below .500 at 9-10

Inching ever closer to the bottom of the Big 12.

2nd thoughts ?

Comment by EMel 01.26.13 @ 3:15 pm

**our toothless**

Comment by EMel 01.26.13 @ 3:16 pm

I think Marquette is going to win the BE…and Pitt has zero chance of beating them (anywhere really) on the road.

I still will be thrilled if Pitt gets 11 wins in the BE.

Comment by Jackagain 01.26.13 @ 3:22 pm

Actually Morganhole is way north of me.

But you know what I mean.

Thuggy Bear picked a bad year to go on the wagon.
lol

Comment by EMel 01.26.13 @ 3:23 pm

@Jack

Pitt would have beat Marquette with Woodie the whole game imo. But you might be right about beating them at the Bradley Center.

BigEast gave them a pretty favorable schedule, they get South Florida & Seton Hall twice. And only have to play former C-usa foes L-Ville and Cincy once.

I still see them having 4-5 losses by season’s end in conf. imo

Comment by EMel 01.26.13 @ 3:35 pm

A day of upsets…maybe. Big Green up on the Crimson by 8 w/6 minutes to go.

Comment by steve1 01.26.13 @ 3:39 pm

@EMEL, that would be spelled “toofless”.

Comment by Dan 01.26.13 @ 3:59 pm

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