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Why Pitt and Jeff Capel want Derek Dixon here so bad...

Derek Dixon

-43% 3 point shooter in the EYBL this year. 43% 3 point shooter in the EYBL last year. 40% 3 point shooter in the WCAC, the toughest high school basketball league in the country. This is one of the deadliest 3 point shooters, midrange shooters, and overall shooters in all of high school basketball. Period. And is a 90% free throw shooter to go with it.

-Averaged over 15 points per game in the EYBL on one of the best teams in the EYBL that lost 1 time going into Peach Jam finals with a 3-1 assist to turnover ratio. The leading scorer on his team with a Peach Jam semi finals appearance. Repeat 1st team ALL EYBL performer

-Played on one of the best high school teams in the country last year and lost the WCAC finals. Will be a preseason Top 5 team nationally in the entire country, will be the team captain, and will be the preseason favorite for the WCAC title to cut the nets down this coming season.

Why I like him... He can shoot the lights out and can score both in the PnR, the catch and shoot, all types of ball screens, and can easily score off the bounce and has shown ability to score with either hand on the inside. He's very efficient, he can distribute with crafty passes, he can lead, and he puts points on the board in a hurry. He's not the tallest player or the most athletic player and he is going to stick around in college for a long time while other teams pray he leaves while he picks them apart. Likely 4 year player.

Player comparison: Ashton Gibbs-Pitt, Salim Stoudamire without the attitude problem, Arizona

If you are young, old, or in the middle, this is Ashton Gibbs when Pitt used to dominate

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-Derek Dixon is a heavy Pitt lean

Blurbs from around the college basketball world.

From 247:

Omari Witherspoon makes his ranking debut at the No. 104 spot and I think we could have went higher on him. He has positional size and long arms to go along with the ability to create offense off the dribble for himself and others. Witherspoon committed to Pittsburgh this week." — Jenkins

From rivals


“I love Omari Witherspoon to Pitt. He’s one of those tough underrated guys who will thrive at the next level; a DC kid who plays in the grueling WCAC and dominated the Under Armour Association this summer. He finished the summer averaging 18.4 points, four rebounds, three assists and two steals a game for DC Premier. He has great size at 6-foot-4 with efficient three-level scoring ability and a chip on his shoulder. Jeff Capel does well with that profile of guard.” – Jordan




The rivals rankings should be updated this month.
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VB: Six Rotations - 09/16/24

Mick offers detailed insight into these teams and to the sport of volleyball in general.

Of course, I guess you should expect that from a coach who has won multiple national championships.
Yes....his reasoning was although Stanford has a very good pts/set number.....they gives up too many points from hitting, service, and blocking errors. On the other hand....Pitt and Penn State have excellent numbers (Pitt gives away 6 pts/set and Penn State 7 pts/set). I like these explanations.....helps me with my volleyball learning curve.
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Pitt Women’s Soccer Ranked No. 7 in United Soccer Coaches Preseason Poll

I go back to Sue-Muy Chin, who never coached again after she was sacked. She worked at the Apple Store for several years after leaving. Then her replacement, Greg Miller, sold life insurance for 5 years after he was let go, and is now an inside sales rep for a steel company.

One has to wonder why they aren’t coaching anymore. It would have been tough for anyone win when Sue was here, that’s for sure. But there were others from her era like Nikki Izzo Brown at WVU who built that program from scratch. My guess is Coach Brown got more support from her university earlier than Pitt decided to help their women’s coach.

i don't know them. they couldn't find a job on the circuit somehow? coach some dopey ECNL club or something? maybe they did on the side.

Explain #24 Illinois

Ok...So the writer for a San Jose paper that still primarily covers the Pac-12 and Mountain West wants Penn State to get a high ranked opponent?
The Texas grad that write for an Austin paper wants Nebraska to get a high efficiency grade?
The UG grad writing for an Athens paper wants to inflate Illinois because B1G bias?
The Nevada grad who writes for a Reno paper is concerned that B1G teams aren't ranked high enough?

Because those are all among the AP voters that have Illinois ranked in the top 25, including rankings of 18th, 19th, 20th, 22nd.

Obviously there is some bias among voters for regional teams, because those are the teams local reporters are more likely to actually watch and higher ranked local teams leads to greater online exposure for their articles. But AP voters are distributed throughout the country pretty well.

Come on. They inflate Big Ten teams every year. Look at Boston College. There were ranked #24 and lost to the #6 ranked team by 7, and got jobbed down to #30.

OT: Steelers Offense

Why does Philly have all these designed runs for Hurts and the Steelers can’t design crap for Fields? Makes no sense.

I might be bitter because I had a 9 leg parlay yesterday for the steeler game and 8 of them hit, but the only one that didn’t hit was Fields rushing for 40 yards.

Even when Hurts drops back to pass, he doesn’t hesitate to pull the ball down and run .

Hurts is a much better passer and yet his legs are used a ton. Fields is half the passer and the offense has no plays designed for him and he refuses to uses his legs.
Fields is exactly the type of QB you want for an OC to utilize his legs. He should be especially dangerous on the ground if Harris/Warren get going. It's almost like Tomlin only wants his offense to score 17 or less each week.
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