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Game Thread: Pitt vs. Syracuse

JimHammett

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Dec 4, 2012
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We'll get it going early today.

Here is our usual Behind enemy lines feature: https://pittsburgh.rivals.com/news/behind-enemy-lines-syracuse-16

Here is Matt's match-up breakdown: https://pittsburgh.rivals.com/news/matchup-pitt-syracuse-14

Here are some fun facts I dug up yesterday on the Pitt-Syracuse Basketball series:

- This will be the 100th meeting between Pitt and Syracuse. Syracuse is Pitt's second most common opponent, behind WVU (116 meetings). Syracuse leads the series 59-40.

- The series started in 1952. Pitt won that day 72-49.

- Pitt is 12-19 in the Carrier Dome

- Since the year 2000, Pitt leads the series 20-14.

- During that span (2000 - present) Syracuse has been ranked for 21 of those 34 meetings, while Pitt was ranked 13 times during those 34 games. 11 games both teams were both ranked.

- From 2002-2011, Pitt went 12-3 against Syracuse. During those 10 seasons, Pitt made the tournament every year and were ranked 83.2% of the time.
 
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