Man. Don't get me wrong. Last year's ACC championship was awesome! Sauce time! But I fell in love with Pitt through basketball. And I'd probably willingly condemn the football team to 3 win seasons for eternity for a hoops natty (Yes - I know both can be good!). And seeing this team win back-to-back top 25 games is just so fun. I missed this so much. I don't know if a collapse is coming or if this team will make the tournament or what. But I'm going to take it game by game and just enjoy the ride.

Hail to Pitt, baby!

Here's video of what Virginia head coach Tony Bennett said in the aftermath of Pitt's win over the Cavaliers.

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Depends on reasons and circumstances to evaluate. But here is the list.

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We're essentially playing a 6-man rotation and need to get to some games where we can play the twins more minutes and not get worn down.

1 - Hard to say you got the worst of the officiating when you shoot 17 FTs and they shoot 4 (But I think we did)

2 - Seemed we had a foul to give and somehow never gave it?

Jeff Capel, Nelly Cummings and Nike Sibande met the media after Pitt beat Virginia last night. Here's video and a full - long - transcript of what they said.

Only shot 32% from 3 and only 43% from the field, but...

• Shot 88% from the FT line on 17 attempts
• Grabbed 9 offensive rebounds (3 more than UVA)
• Only committed 8 turnovers (3 less than UVA)

That is winning basketball

-This now becomes the best win of the season. UVA played well. They played good offense and really good 1st half defense. To come back after being down 12 and 13 points against a team like this is big time stuff.

-We were lucky to be down only 10 at half. Clark outplayed Nelly, Burton struggled with the pack line D and Fede did not play well. Nike gave us a huge lift and kept us in the game.

-I knew this game would be tough for Burton because of the way they play D and because they were going to put Beekman on him and he is a very good defensive player. But JB did not force too much, let the game come to him and picked his spots.

-Nelly had a rough first half and struggled to guard Clark. He played a flawless 2nd half on both ends of the court.

-Fede, like the Carolina game, had a bad first half, but he really had a super last 15 minutes on both ends of the court.

-Hinson had a solid offensive game and hit 2 big 3’s, but his D on Gardner was huge. Gardner was not effective and they ended up going with Van Der Plaus more and that helped us greatly on the offensive end.

-This team and staff have done such a great job of adjusting and making changes as the games progress. This trend started after our losses in Brooklyn and continue each game. We have now scored over 40 in the 2nd half in 11 straight games.

-This team plays hard, they play tough and they now deserve everyone to jump on board and start filling up the Pete again. Let’s start on Sat.

Only moved up 3 to 68. Incredibly, our RPI is 44. Using 44, we would he pretty safely in if the field was announced today. Using NET, we really wouldn't be very close.

The NCAA never released their formula for NET which upset a lot of people. I suspect there reason for not releasing it was so coaches couldn't game it. I'd like to see someone reverse engineer it because some of these discrepancies are remarkable. For example, James Madison is 43 in NET but 108 in RPI. RPI isn't even factored in anymore so we all may be setting ourselves up for disappointment. Even if we go 9-7 to finish 13-7, it wouldn't seem like our NET would move up that much, perhaps not much higher than 60 especially considering we may well lose 1 to FSU/Lou/BC

Pitt kept the momentum up on Tuesday night at the Petersen Events Center when the Panthers upset No. 11 Virginia 68-65. On today's Morning Pitt, we're talking about Pitt's latest win, how this team keeps winning and how it can stay on a roll.

After defeating No. 25 UNC on Friday and No. 11 UVA tonight, Pitt has now recorded back-to-back wins over ranked teams in consecutive games for the first time since February 2011. The Panthers beat No. 25 WVU on 2/7 then No. 9 Villanova on 2/12. Pitt was ranked No. 4 at the time.

Good watch while we wait on more news.

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The best part of it is that there are so many people contributing to this and we as fans finally get to feel the joy again!!!!

Great game by these guys. Early on hater, but I’m really proud of these guys.

Let’s keep it rolling!

H2P!

Former season ticket holder from 2002 -2011. Went to UNC game this past Friday, my first game in 4 years. Can't wait to support the kids and coach Capel.

Great job by the crew tonight.

A little too early for UP89’s bubble watch but we may be getting closer to DT uttering those words again…

Perhaps the one thing I took away from Friday's game is that it's not just one guy that can lead this team on a particular night, but rather they have options. Capel sort of talked about, 'it could be your night' in his press conference.

Well...

In Pitt's last five games, the team has had a different leading scorer each game.

Vanderbilt: Elliott, 20
Sacred Heart: Cummings, 24
North Florida: Federiko, 22
Syracuse: Hinson, 25
UNC: Burton, 31

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