The margin of error in the Big East gained another point in its favor on Thursday as unranked Pitt defeated #13 Louisville to advance to the semifinals of the Big East tournament in a tightly contested matchup between two similarly streaky teams.
Deandre Kane, the best player in the WPIAL this year, desperately wants to attend Pitt. One of two major problems, however, is that he needs to ensure that his SAT scores are high enough to make him eligible to play there.
Pitt fell out of the top 25 for the first time since the 2005-06 season on Monday, but anyone who is actually surprised by this needs to review Pitt’s inconsistency over the last ten or so games. Since losing Levance Fields to injury, Pitt has managed to sort of battle their way through the rough [...]
The University of Pittsburgh Panthers were victorious over Providence on Wednesday evening, thrashing the Friars an 82-63, advancing their record to 94-9 at the Petersen Events Center. To be honest, the trips into and out of slush-covered, construction-filled Oakland were more exciting than anything at the game. I’m exhausted and in no condition to write [...]
Pitt’s 62-59 loss at Cincinnati seems as if it should have damaged their rankings in polls. Instead, it moved them up in CBS’s Top 26, moved from 5 up to 4 in Joe Lunardi’s Bracketology, gained a spot in CNNSI’s Power Rankings, and kept the same 13 spot in ESPN’s Power 16. What all of [...]
It is pretty common for a cultural phenomenon to eventually affect the sports world. Whether it was disco (who could forget Bill Veeck’s ill-fated Disco Demolition Night?) or the haka (how many high school teams have copied the New Zealand All-Blacks rugby squad?), random events have always affected the way sports are played or experienced. [...]
