Yes. Rankings are nice for national publicity each week, but tourney wise they will be better seeded than voters suggest. They should win their next 3. Will be 12-2 and likely on cusp of top 25 heading to Duke.
They'll keep dropping because they aren't a very good basketball team. Wait until they get smoked by Duke by 40 points. They won't even receive a single vote. Stop being a Polyanna.
They are a tourney team even without Dunn. It won’t always be pretty blow outs, but they have enough to get it done in acc
and this guy wonders and cries about people being mean to him lul
I think the book is out on how to beat Pitt. I guess lucky for them a lot of the teams in the ACC stink but we have a glaring weakness inside. I say even with Dunn we barely get in as a 10 or 11 seed.
Bracketology on December is pretty irrelevant too but some on here insist on obsessing over it.
Well they will. Because last years team was more than Hinson. He was great from 3, and hit or miss with the rest of his game. You also lose bub, who was great and had potential, though slightly inconsistent. You replace them with a more mature Jaland, a more mature ish, an Austin who we hoped would show up last year, and Corhen, who is a massive offensive upgrade over Fede. You then have Cummings who can mature like Lowe and Bub did last year. Bub made 6 or more 3 pt shots in a game once last year vs BC…Hinson did it 5 times out of 30 plus… I think people overrate what Hinson really did….But Cummings will be in elite Pitt territory if he can replicate his 3 pt shooting moving forward.
Has Corhen been better than Fede even offensively since the first few games against cupcakes? At this point I'd argue having Fede here over Corhen would be better for the team. I still remember how he battled Bacot at the Dean Dome, played great defense and contributed offensively too. No way Corhen could do that.
Dunn is NOT our best defender. Ish is easily a better defender and rebounder. Dunn is an important player, but you are blowing his importance out of proportion.
I think it would be impossible to blow his importance out of propotion.
Fede had two games with 10 or more pts last year and 21 with five or fewer. He was also 41% from the line. Corhen opened up the season with 7 straight double digit games including 3 against power opponents. He can also score without having to be right next to the basket. Total rebounding numbers are essentially equal between the two this year and last, but Fede was more efficient rebounding. Having a legit inside presence for scoring is a massive edge over last year.
Besides NET; Pitt is still #29 KenPom and #30 Torvik. Human polls are worthless.
As bad as the ACC is this year--and barring losing Lowe or Leggett for the season---there is no way this team loses more than 5-6 ACC regular season games.
Austin to 4 and GDG to split time with Corhen at 5.
Correction---17-3 (vs 18-2) is not a zero possibility. ESPN has Pitt currently favored in every ACC game except Duke, UNC away and SMU away.
PittPoker—with your attitude you should really get off the board?
They simply aren't "worthless". Seeing your school highlighted on the bottom line of sports channels 24/7 is huge. Seeing your team's game highlight's shown during every other game's halftime shows isn't irrelevant. It absolutely is positive exposure for your program, even if it's all about cash talking these days.
I do not disagree as to the publicity/public perception factor.
