Pitt category, Page 38

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After he looked like the second-best guard on the Capital One Arena floor Friday night, Bub Carrington made multiple references to his next season — at Pitt. Although his name was linked to mock 2024 NBA Drafts as early as the beginning of this season, Carrington talked...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the end, Pitt’s 72-65 loss to North Carolina on Friday night did nothing to throw the team off its intended course. But there is nothing more Pitt’s players can do about their NCAA Tournament chances. The loss to the Tar Heels (27-6) in the ACC Tournament...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The argument will rage all day, certainly on social media and the talk shows in Pittsburgh. During the telecast Friday night of the ACC Tournament semifinal doubleheader — Pitt vs. North Carolina; N.C. State vs. Virginia — ESPN will flood its cable lines with talk and speculation...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ishmael Leggett’s 30-point effort Thursday afternoon at Capital One Arena was special for many reasons. The most basic reason is this: Without it, Pitt could not have defeated Wake Forest, 81-69, in an ACC Tournament quarterfinal game. Also, the precise number of points felt right because the...

Jeff Capel was once a wide-eyed North Carolina school boy, full of eager anticipation while his teacher wheeled a TV into the classroom for the students to watch the ACC Tournament. “For as long as I was in school, when it got to the ACC Tournament, you really didn’t do...

Ever the pragmatist, Blake Hinson answered with an emphatic “No” when he was asked if he or his Pitt teammates are bubble watchers. “We’re basketball players,” he said. “We don’t spend much time doing that, as far as I know. What we do know is you get in the tournament...

Remember the City Game? It wasn’t long ago — 2018, to be exact — that Pitt was continuing its dominance over Duquesne in the intracity college basketball series, which is on pause. Neither of the school’s current coaches — Pitt’s Jeff Capel and Duquesne’s Keith Dambrot — has had much...

Pitt’s Blake Hinson, Bub Carrington and Ishmael Leggett claimed All-ACC honors in voting conducted by a 75-person panel of 60 media members and all 15 head coaches. The conference released the results Monday afternoon. Hinson was named to the All-ACC first team, making it two years in a row with...

When Pitt ventures into Washington, D.C., on Thursday for its ACC Tournament quarterfinal, the Panthers’ hope of advancing to even greater heights rests in large part with Blake Hinson and how accurately the basketball flies off his fingertips. Pardon us for stating the obvious. Pitt coach Jeff Capel has put...

Jeff Capel appears weary of the debate. Pitt’s coach is a busy man, and he has more pressing issues on his mind than metrics, quads and what outsiders think of his team. Most important at the moment is the fact that after 10 previous ACC Tournament appearances, the No. 4-seeded...

Before he left the Petersen Events Center on Saturday night — stepping through piles of confetti to reach the Pitt locker room and, finally, home — Jeff Capel stopped to talk about something more important to him than a single victory. Perhaps more important than even Pitt earning the double...

With the exception of quarterback, no position on the field will get greater scrutiny during Pitt’s spring drills than cornerback. All three cornerbacks who played the most significant minutes last season — M.J. Devonshire, A.J. Woods and Marquis Williams — are gone. In their place has stepped redshirt sophomore Ryland...

For the moment, let’s set aside talk and speculation about Pitt’s NCAA Tournament hopes and dreams and concentrate on four hours coming up Saturday night. Three ACC games will be contested between 6 and 10 p.m. The results will impact where Pitt lands in the ACC’s final standings and whether...

Basketball is a game of ball control. Maintaining and maximizing possessions are critical to a team’s success, and guards often control the offense’s flow. No wonder that nine of the past 10 players who were named Most Outstanding Player in the Final Four are guards. Miami rode guards Jordan Miller,...

We begin Thursday’s “First Call” the same way we ended Wednesday night. That’s waiting for the Penguins to trade Jake Guentzel. At least there is an update on that front. We get into some recent struggles for Sidney Crosby. Mitch Trubisky has a new home. A former Pitt Panther is...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Tonie Morgan had 24 points and 11 rebounds for her eighth double-double of the season, Kara Dunn added 14 points and nine rebounds and 10th-seeded Georgia Tech knocked off No. 15 seed Pitt, 73-60, on Wednesday in the first round of the ACC Tournament. Georgia Tech (17-14)...

Nailed to the wall at the back of the players’ meeting room are four words coaches and players believe are “pillars” of the Pitt football program. Attitude. Effort. Toughness. Knowledge. Two members of the defense said Wednesday those pillars were missing last season, and one of the goals of spring...

Jaland Lowe called it “controlled freedom.” Leonard Hamilton, whose Florida State team was crushed by Pitt’s wave of 3-point shots, was impressed with “the uniqueness” coach Jeff Capel put on display Tuesday night and for the past two months. How impressed? “This team is capable of beating anybody in our...

Bill Hillgrove retired after 30 years as the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers last week. However, he will remain as the play-by-play man of the Pitt football and men’s basketball teams. He has been a part of both of those broadcasts for more than 50 years. The news of Hillgrove’s...

There were four distinct storylines that explained Pitt’s 88-73 victory Tuesday night against Florida State, what the game meant to the program and what coach Jeff Capel and his players are trying to accomplish in the latter stages of the season. • First, Blake Hinson wrote his name into the...

After the first day of Pitt’s spring practice, no one knows if offensive coordinator Kade Bell’s system will work any better than Frank Cignetti’s did. Sure, players and coaches have ideas and high hopes, but this fast-paced, no-huddle offense is on the other side of anything Pat Narduzzi has implemented...

Sustained success has eluded Pitt men’s basketball in the post-Jamie Dixon era. Dixon’s teams were criticized for their inability to make deep runs in the NCAA Tournament, but most Panthers fans no doubt would be thrilled to see the program return to annually being in the March Madness conversation. Jeff...

Add about 20 degrees to the morning temperature and you’d have a difficult time believing Pitt didn’t start summer drills Monday morning on the South Side. The sun was shining, the grass was green and coaches’ sharp words filled the air. Coach Pat Narduzzi brought his 110-man team outside Monday...

Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Diontae Johnson seems less than thrilled about some recent trade rumors. At the NFL Scouting Combine, the Steelers spoke with a former Pitt Panther and a stud wide receiver. A former WPIAL star had a banner night in the NBA, and the Robert Morris men’s hockey team...

The numbers connected to Pitt’s quest to land an NCAA Tournament berth paint hopeful and discouraging scenarios at the same time. 7: That’s good. Pitt has seven victories on an opponent’s home floor, as many as No. 4 Tennessee, No. 9 North Carolina, No. 12 Creighton and No. 18 South...