Duke, Louisville, Clemson among ACC teams visiting Pitt's Petersen Events Center next season
Three of the ACC’s top men’s basketball teams will visit the Petersen Events Center next season as part of Pitt’s nine-game home conference schedule.
Duke, which was a Final Four team this past season, as well as Louisville, ranked No. 21 in the final AP Top 25, and No. 22 Clemson are among nine ACC opponents the Panthers will host.
The Panthers also will welcome Syracuse, Notre Dame, SMU, Florida State, NC State and Wake Forest.
Pitt’s road trips will be to Syracuse, Clemson, Cal, Stanford, Miami, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Virginia and Boston College.
Times, dates and television designation will be announced in September.
The ACC is moving to an 18-game schedule for 2025-26. League play will start in late December and end the first Saturday of March. Each team will play one primary partner both home and away as well as one variable partner home and away. Teams will play one game, home or away, against 14 of the remaining 15 teams annually.
Syracuse is Pitt’s primary partner, and Clemson is the Panthers’ variable partner.
Pitt returns four scholarship players from it’s 2024-25 roster — Papa Amadou Kante, Cameron Corhen, Brandin Cummings and Amdy Ndiaye. The Panthers have also signed four players from the transfer portal in Barry Dunning Jr. (South Alabama), Nojus Indrusaitis (Iowa State), Dishon Jackson (Iowa State) and Damarco Minor (Oregon State).
Three newcomers in the 2025 recruiting class are Omari Witherspoon (St. John’s College), Henry Lau (Sydney Boys High/Sydney Kings) and Kieran Mullen (St. Thomas More).
Bill Hartlep is the TribLive sports editor. A Pittsburgh native and Point Park graduate, he joined the Trib in 2004, covering high school sports. He held various editing roles before assuming his current position in 2019. He can be reached at bhartlep@triblive.com.
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