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• Panthers Hope to Overcome Latest Pitt-falls
• By Brett McMurphy 2/01/2010 5:33 PM ET
• TAMPA, Fla. -- Finally, after making eight consecutive NCAA tournaments, this was going to be the year that Pittsburgh experienced a drop off. A Pitt-fall, if you will. At least that's what the Big ... More »
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• Pitt Can't Keep Up With the Jones
• By Brett McMurphy 1/31/2010 5:46 PM ET
• TAMPA, Fla. -- With South Florida's 70-61 upset of No. 17 Pittsburgh coming to a close Sunday afternoon, USF guard Dominique Jones dribbled away 25 feet from the basket watching the final seconds tick ... More »
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• Pittsburgh, UConn Out to Excel at XL Center in Big East Tussle
• By Brett McMurphy 1/13/2010 1:24 PM ET
• A preview to March's Big East tournament championship or a chance to reminisce about past classic confrontations? Maybe both when No. 16 Pittsburgh visits No. 15 UConn Wednesday in a battle of ... More »
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• Pitt Surviving With Five New Starters
• By David Steele 11/24/2009 5:16 PM ET
• KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- None of the five players Pittsburgh started in the NCAA tournament regional final last March -- the one the Panthers lost in heart-wrenching fashion to Scottie Reynolds' dramatic ... More »
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• Big East Tournament Preview: Everyone Is Playing, Except Bubble Teams
• By Chas Rich 3/10/2009 8:01 AM ET
• The Big East Tournament gets underway Tuesday, and this year the Big East Tournament (BET) matches the construction of the conference -- oversized, a bit confusing and very clearly divided. The Big ... More »
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• Seniors Lead Pitt Closer to No. 1 Seed
• By Chas Rich 3/07/2009 2:35 PM ET
• There is nothing more terrifying at the end of the season than to be the road opponent on Senior Day. UConn was harshly reminded of that in their 70-60 loss to Pitt, a win largely won by the Pitt ... More »
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• Should Pitt Sit Fields to Protect Seed?
• By Chas Rich 3/05/2009 10:00 PM ET
• In Pitt's win over Marquette Wednesday night, starting point guard Levance Fields went down hard with 9:30 left in the game. He suffered a bruised tailbone, but finished the game. Today, Pitt coach ... More »
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• Pitt Runs Marquette to Exhaustion
• By Chas Rich 3/04/2009 9:45 PM ET
• The offense was more vibrant, the swing in the score more violent, but much like Marquette's Sunday game with Louisville, the Golden Eagles just did not have enough depth to stay in the game. ... More »
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• Let the One-derful Upsets Roll
• By Ray Holloman 2/25/2009 1:00 AM ET
• Long ago, somewhere around the time you broke your first New Year's resolution in a flurry of Haagen-Dazz and Oreos, dangerous stopped being an adequate word to describe college basketball's pole ... More »
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• No. 1 Pitt Falls to Providence
• By Chas Rich 2/24/2009 9:18 PM ET
• It was senior night at the Dunkin' Donuts Center for the Providence Friars. The Friars' bubble had seemingly been burst by their home loss to Notre Dame last Saturday, which left them at 16-11. Yet ... More »
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• DeJuan Blair May Have Cost Hasheem Thabeet Some Money
• By Chas Rich 2/17/2009 3:33 AM ET
• There were quite a few NBA scouts in attendance at the XL Center in Hartford to see what Hasheem Thabeet would do against DeJuan Blair, one of the top big men in the Big East. It was no contest. Blair ... More »
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• Pitt's Frontcourt Tames Huskies
• By Chas Rich 2/16/2009 9:54 PM ET
• Coming into the Pitt-UConn game, the main event was Pitt's DeJuan Blair against UConn's Hasheem Thabeet -- the rebounding machine against the blocking bully. After the game, ESPN's Jay Bilas put it ... More »
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• DeJuan Blair Slams Hasheem Thabeet
• By Will Brinson 2/16/2009 9:40 PM ET
• The most exciting matchup of the Connecticut-Pittsburgh fracas tonight was clearly DeJuan Blair vs. Hasheem Thabeet. Both big men, combined, have pulled down 23.1 rebounds and blocked 5.2 shots per ...
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• Foul Trouble Can't Slow Pitt
• By Chas Rich 2/09/2009 9:27 PM ET
• Anyone who has followed college basketball with some interest knows that when Curtis Shaw is listed as a referee for the game, there are going to be a lot of whistles and likely a technical foul. Shaw ... More »
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• Good Is Great for College Hoops
• By Ray Holloman 2/02/2009 6:20 PM ET
• First there was North Carolina. Then there was a brief fling with Pittsburgh that ended quicker than a Hollywood marriage. Wake Forest took over next, and the NTSB is still investigating that one-week ... More »
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• Pitt Realizes Conventional Wisdom on Defense Works vs. Notre Dame
• By Chas Rich 1/31/2009 2:52 PM ET
• Pitt experimented with going against the conventional wisdom in the first half and was lucky not to be down more than only six points. They tried doubling on Luke Harangody, which left a Notre Dame ... More »
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• Onion Peels: The ACC and Big East, Not Home to Road Warriors
• By Will Brinson 1/29/2009 11:15 AM ET
• Onion Peels is a recap of last night's action and an unofficial Bill Raftery blog. Wake Forest 70, Duke 68 Two things stand out about Wake Forest from this game. First, Dino Gaudio has done a ... More »
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• Villanova Closes Out Spectrum With Signature Win
• By Chas Rich 1/28/2009 9:45 PM ET
• It was the final college game at the Spectrum. It was the place where Bob Knight won two national championships at Indiana. It was the place where Christian Laettner hit the shot to knock off Kentucky ... More »
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• Ranking the Rankings: Wake Forest Claims the Top Spot; ACC, Big East Rule
• By Will Brinson 1/19/2009 8:30 PM ET
• Ranking the rankings criticizes the critics as soon as the polls come out. It shouldn't come as a tremendous surprise that the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, the nation's only remaining undefeated team, ... More »
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• Louisville Tops No. 1 Pittsburgh; Earl Clark Has a Decent Birthday
• By Will Brinson 1/17/2009 9:00 PM ET
• The most beautiful thing about college basketball, the "madness" aside, is the collection of mini-runs that occur in a game as momentum shifts throughout. And the Pittsburgh-Louisville game had plenty ... More »
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