I can’t complain over Pitt’s seed or opponent.

Pitt is a #10 seed in the East Region. They will play #7 Wisconsin in St. Louis at 6:50 pm on Friday on TNT. TV viewing-wise, that is remarkably convenient.

Pitt is a slight underdog against Wisconsin.

Wisconsin is still who they have been. They play a methodical, half-court game that is among the slowest tempo nationally. Their offense is efficient, but not as good as the past few years. Their defense is still excellent — among the top-25 per KenPom.com

Greg Gard is their now full-time head coach after the interim tag was removed a couple weeks ago. He has not seen or thought about Pitt until the moment he knew they were the opponent. As you can read from his initial comments.

Gard called the Panthers, who are among the best offensive rebounding teams in the nation, a “very good team, a team that plays a lot like we play in terms of blue collar and tough and man-to-man and will really come after you, (which is) what coach Dixon’s teams are like over the years. That’ll be a huge challenge for us on Friday.”

Um, yeah.

The Badgers came out flat in their Big Ten Conference Tournament game. Getting beaten by 12 by Nebraska — who finished 16-18, and decided against playing in either the Vegas 16 or CBI.

They are not over or under seeded either. They had a bit of an up-and-down season which shouldn’t be a shock when the head coach resigns part way through. They found their footing in mid-January and rattled off 7 straight wins and 11 of 12 overall before a season-ending loss to Purdue and the aforementioned embarrassment to Nebraska.

Common foes: lost to Purdue twice, and beat Syracuse in OT in Syracuse during the ACC/Big Ten challenge.

Size-wise, they don’t have a true center. Their starting front court duo is Nigel Hayes — a 6-8 junior stretch 4 who took over 1/3 of his shots from outside the arc — and Ethan Happ. Happ is a 6-9 freshman forward from Italy. He rebounds well, and is efficient in his shooting — but with more limited range.

That matches up fairly well for Pitt, and means that Ryan Luther and Sheldon Jeter will have more opportunities off the bench.

Wisconsin is a balanced team that gets good guard play from Zak Showalter and Bronson Koenig. Their small forward, Vitto Brown is a consistent presence and good rebounder for the position.

This should be a close one. The winner gets to likely face #2 seed Xavier. Not that there are any easy  #2 seeds out there (though, we all were hoping it would be Villanova just for old times sake).