Taking it to Duke. Hunter Catoor is back and they are pretty loaded to be honest. Honestly, talent-wise they're Top 5 in the ACC.

I forgot what its like to have this feeling. Haven't felt this way since the Wisconsin loss in 2016. So I guess, in a way, I'm appreciative of this feeling but man does it suck. When your team is as bad as they've been for 6 years, fans dont take losses as hard, at least I dont because the team isnt playing for anything. So, right now this feels really really bad. I'm not going to rag on the team but we all knew we were likely to lose at least one of these Quad 4 games. I've been posting about that but hoping we could avoid it. I think its completely idiotic that a home game vs a team ranked 161 is weighted the same as a home game vs 345. I think its idiotic that the committee will evaluate our games vs Florida State and Alabama State the same way. But I also am super pissed that FSU effed up their non-con as bad as they did. 2-9??? Losses to Stetson, Troy, Siena, UCF??? WTF, that team has talent. More talent than we do, to be honest. I used to rip Leonard Hamilton all the time for being that Mark Gottfried/Lorenzo Romar recruit but cant coach guy but he's won recently. But, man, how did these guys eff up this bad? Their eff ups might cost us the NCAAT as stupid as that is.

As it is, this team is OUT of the NCAAT for the time being. The Quad 4 loss is a killer. It also might warrant us going 14-6. So 8-3 the rest of the way might be what's required and that doesn't seem possible. Just a crusing loss and a game they had at 15-5 and 48-45. Probably the best path to the tournament now is going 13-7, beating the 10 seed or whatever in Greensboro and either upsetting like a 2 or 3 seed or losing that game and hoping you did enough.

These next 2 have almost become must-wins now and Miami is a lot better than us.

Need

Wake W
Miami W
@ UNC L
Lou W
@ FSU W
BC W
@ VT L (not beating them now that Catoor is back)
GT W
Syr W
@ Miami L
@ ND W

0 margin for error. Its been a fun season but its hard to see a path now.

Did he get hurt or suspended? He hasn’t had any stats the last few games.

didn't even win his division.

Fair question considering their similar stated size and the close proximity of their respective high schools (72 miles). Their stats are different but tough to say one's is better than the other's.

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Henry Hasselbeck is the son of former NFL QB Matt Hasselbeck. Pitt is his first P5 offer.

Four things:

1) FSU is not a Quad 4 team regardless of their record. They're a more than decent team; their coach called a critical timeout in the early part of the game (15-5), and the adjustments they made were reflected in the final score

2) Until the whole Quad 1-4 came into the NCAA Basketball jargon, a loss at home felt bad, regardless of who Pitt played that day. A "good loss" versus a "bad loss" is still a loss, but with the metrics used to determine who's in/out come tournament time, Pitt better hope that FSU's record keeps getting better

3) After watching the game, I agree now with several posters that the Oakland Zoo is a shell of its former self despite the large turnout of students. I'm hope those who have been regular ticket holders over the past decade or so will comment. The Zoo was never the equal of the Cameron Crazies but they weren't far off

4) TCU loses to WVU, who at the time had yet to win a conference game, and the goes on to beat #2 Kansas, on the road, by double digits

The only predictable thing about NCAA men's basketball is the unpredictability

Posse should be visiting Pitt soon to throw in person for the staff. Update on Rivals:

Hearing this is happening
Can’t hurt our recruiting next door.

Can you believe the current PSU administrators/trustees would permit Spanier to promote his book at at on campus bookstore? INCREDIBLY SAD

Apologies, I didn’t see the other relevant thread about this until after I posted.
Disregard

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This looks terrible!

I’m willing to let the Bungals win to help the greater good.
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