One place we rarely see the Pitt Panthers basketball team is on the NCAA Tournament bubble. But after Tuesday’s loss to Virginia Tech, the Panthers are going to need to put a couple of quality wins on their resume the rest of the way, just to become a bubble team come March. They can start that this Saturday against Notre Dame, but that is easier said than done with this young Pitt team. At 13-8 on the season, this Panthers team doesn’t have a quality win on their resume to date. For ... Read More
PSAC Hoops Notebook: Three-way tie atop West
As PSAC action continues to heat up, the past week has produced a three-way tie atop the PSAC leader board between Gannon, No. 25 IUP and Mercyhurst. Gannon's recent struggles continued as the Golden Knights split a pair of games this past week. IUP and Mercyhurst both won of their games. Mercyhurst is on a five-game winning streak. Gannon lost to Cal in OT and ended its 5-0 mark when leading at halftime. The loss also lost for the first time at home in the past seven games. Senior Adam ... Read More
Panthers downed by hot shooting Louisville
You aren’t going to win many games when you can’t stop the opposition and the Pitt Panthers found that stopping the Louisville Cardinals on Sunday was a near impossible task. The Cardinals made a whopping 71 percent of their field goal attempts in the first half and cruised to an 80-68 victory, dropping the Panthers to 3-4 in ACC play on the season. The No. 10 ranked Cardinals are one team that hasn’t found trouble winning at the Petersen Events Center as they improved to 4-1 on the ... Read More
Pitt needs a lot more from James Robinson
Coming into the season, it was expected that we would see more of a scoring role from Pitt’s junior point guard James Robinson. That hasn’t exactly happened. With the Panthers in the middle of a brutal part of their schedule for the next month or so, it goes without saying that if Pitt is to have a chance at reaching the NCAA Tournament, they need a lot more from Robinson. The DeMatha Catholic High School product has long been one of the more underappreciated point guards in the nation. ... Read More
Duquesne looks to start busy stretch with win over St. Bonaventure
Duquesne (6-10, 1-4) will take on St. Bonaventure (10-6, 3-2) tomorrow at 7:00 pm ET at the A.J. Palumbo Center in beginning a stretch of three games for the Dukes in seven days. This is the 113th meeting in a series dating back to 1920 that is led 58-54 by Duquesne, including a 30-28 lead in Atlantic 10 regular season games. Duquesne owns more conference wins over St. Bonaventure (30) than any other Atlantic 10 competitor. The Dukes lead the Bonnies 39-15 in games played at Pittsburgh. St. ... Read More
PSAC Hoops Notebook: Upsets highlight week of league play
As PSAC West teams squared off against each other, plenty of upsets came throughout the league. Seton Hill shocked both Slippery Rock and Cal U during last week's action. The Griffins beat The Rock, 88-82, and then beat the Vulcans, 63-59. In the same week, Cal suffered back-to-back losses for the first time this season. Gannon also lost to Pitt-Johnstown, 65-57, just the second PSAC loss for Gannon this season. IUP also fell during the week. The Crimson Hawks defeated Edinboro before losing to ... Read More
Pitt falls victim to Duke long-range attack
The Pitt Panthers haven’t visited Cameron Indoor Stadium in 36 years. After watching the Duke Blue Devils put on a shooting display from behind the arc, they may wait 36 more years before they come back. No. 5 Duke shot 48 percent from three-point range and Blue Devils’ head coach Mike Krzyzewski moved one victory from 1,000 for his Hall of Fame career as Duke cruised to a 79-65 ACC victory. Pitt’s Jamel Artis turned in a second consecutive outstanding game, leading the team with 21 ... Read More
Pitt preparing for tough guantlet of ACC games
After putting up back-to-back ACC victories to move to 3-2 in the conference, Jamie Dixon’s Pitt Panthers are about to find out how difficult conference play can be beginning Monday night. Beginning with a trip to Cameron Indoor Stadium to take on No. 4 Duke, the remainder of the Panthers schedule shapes up as a very tough gauntlet for a young team to run. Needless to say, if Pitt doesn’t win some big games during this upcoming stretch, there’s a good chance that they won’t be dancing come ... Read More
Cal U mourning loss of women’s basketball player
Students, athletes, fans, coaches and members of the Cal U community woke to the news that women's basketball player Shanice Clark had passed Sunday morning around 4 a.m. Clark, a 6-foot senior forward from Toronto, Ontario, was reportedly found unresponsive in her apartment on campus early Sunday morning. She was then transported to Monongahela Valley Hospital and was pronounced dead there about an hour after arriving, reports state. Clark had choked on chewing gum while she was asleep, ... Read More
Pitt gets defensive in win vs. Georgia Tech
Jamel Artis scored 16 of his 20 points in the second half and the Pitt Panthers held Georgia Tech scoreless for a five-minute stretch late in the game as Pitt squeaked out a 70-65 victory Saturday afternoon, improving to 3-2 in the ACC. In a game where each possession was a grind, Pitt (13-5, 3-2 ACC) held the Yellow Jackets to just 40 percent shooting on the afternoon, while getting just enough offense of their own to get by. “We did a lot of good things,” said Jamie Dixon. “We have some ... Read More