Well part of the problem is that you think that an OOC schedule that includes Eastern Michigan, Garner Webb, Yale, Morehead State, Duquesne, Buffalo, Rice, Nebraska-Omaha and Marshall was tough. That's 9 out of 13 games against teams that barely have a pulse, and I didn't even include Penn State in that total. We played three tough nonconference games out of 13, SMU and Marquette on neutral courts and Maryland at Maryland.
And I can only imagine what you think we were representing in that game at Louisville where we trailed by 15-plus point much of the game until we put on a late, meaningless run that made the final score look a lot closer than anyone who watched the game knew it actually was. We were down 21 at the half of that game. We were down 24 at the 15 minute mark. We were down 18 with just over 7 minutes left. The fact that we made a run long after the game was in hand wasn't some sort of great sign, it was a sign of how piss-poor we played until the Louisville players lost interest.
You really think that Louisville game was a sign of Pitt representing something good?