Pitt, WVU reschedule postponed game to 2023-24 basketball season
Pitt and West Virginia officials have worked out an agreement to move their basketball game, postponed this year by covid-19 restrictions, to the 2023-24 season in Morgantown, W.Va.
That extends by one season the two-year agreement, finalized earlier this year, for games during the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons.
The teams will play in Morgantown in 2021-22 and Pittsburgh in 2022-23. Dates for the games will be determined prior to each season.
This season’s Backyard Brawl, scheduled for Nov. 13 in Morgantown, was the last of the original four-game agreement the schools negotiated in 2016.
When the NCAA delayed the start of this season to Nov. 25 and reduced the maximum number of regular-season games from 31 to 27, the game was postponed. Officials couldn’t find a mutual date, because of existing contracts, in-season tournaments and the ACC and the Big 12 starting conference games in December.
Pitt has played West Virginia 187 times, more than any other opponent. The Mountaineers lead the series that dates to 1906, 99-88.
Jerry DiPaola is a TribLive reporter covering Pitt athletics since 2011. A Pittsburgh native, he joined the Trib in 1993, first as a copy editor and page designer in the sports department and later as the Pittsburgh Steelers reporter from 1994-2004. He can be reached at jdipaola@triblive.com.
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