Pitt in; 7 seed Atlantic region

[CrazyPaco]

Pitt-Johnstown received an at-large bid to the Division II NCAA tournament for the first time since 2009.

This is UPJ's 5th all-time DII NCAA appearance.

Full bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/basketball-men/d2/2023

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Pitt-Johnstown received an at-large bid to the Division II NCAA tournament for the first time since 2009.

This is UPJ's 5th all-time DII NCAA appearance.

Full bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/basketball-men/d2/2023

Its ashame the 2 seed cant host their half of the bracket. We could have had Pitt finally play in Wheeling fulfilling a great SMF prophecy.

I noticed St. Thomas Aquinas in this tournament. Sometimes we wonder how much better the NEC is than D2. I always thought it was very close to the level of the PSAC. Well, Fairleigh Dickinson hired the STAq coach and he brought 4 players with him. 2 are his leading scorers and he's going to the NCAAT in Year 1.

 

[Fk_Pitt]

Pitt-Johnstown received an at-large bid to the Division II NCAA tournament for the first time since 2009.

This is UPJ's 5th all-time DII NCAA appearance.

Full bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/basketball-men/d2/2023

Click bait!

 

[Duneaux Harm]

Pitt-Johnstown received an at-large bid to the Division II NCAA tournament for the first time since 2009.

This is UPJ's 5th all-time DII NCAA appearance.

Full bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/basketball-men/d2/2023

Should you publicize this? Most of their students are longing to go to Penn State anyway. At least the ones in Cambria County.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Should you publicize this? Most of their students are longing to go to Penn State anyway. At least the ones in Cambria County.

I dont think this is true. Johnstown is very Pitt-friendly. Those kids could have gone to Penn State's high school campus in Altoona.

 

[CrazyPaco]

Should you publicize this? Most of their students are longing to go to Penn State anyway. At least the ones in Cambria County.

Yes.

And even if it was 100% true of all Cambria kids, which it clearly is not, that's still less than 1/3 of the students. They could have funneled themselves through a PSU branch and transferred like over 50% of nitters.

 

[FireballZ]

I honestly never even knew there were Division II brackets.

I know little to nothing about UPJ except that the handful of posters on here over the years with such monikers often don't even seem to be Pitt fans at all. Just trolls.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

Its ashame the 2 seed cant host their half of the bracket.

The D2 tournament runs differently than the D1 tournament. Eight teams go to the same site because the teams that advance will play three games in four days to get to the Elite Eight. Then the Elite Eight is all at the same site as well.

 

[Duneaux Harm]

I dont think this is true. Johnstown is very Pitt-friendly. Those kids could have gone to Penn State's high school campus in Altoona.

You have got to be kidding!!! I spent much of my life fighting for the honor of Pitt in a heavily Penn State loving area. It is Nittany Lion Country man.

 

[Duneaux Harm]

I honestly never even knew there were Division II brackets.

I know little to nothing about UPJ except that the handful of posters on here over the years with such monikers often don't even seem to be Pitt fans at all. Just trolls.

I spent my first two years of college there and the only obvious tie into Main Campus and Pitt was that I could purchase Pitt Football season tickets through UPJ if I wanted to. 45 years ago you didn’t really see much alignment.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

That's not always what it used to be. When I was in school, There was a Regional, that had then 32 and 16 teams.......Then the Elite 8 was in the top regional seeds home court. Then the Final 4 in Springfield. When I was in college, Gannon hosted the Eastern regionals 3 times!! And hosted the Elite 8 twice.

 

[20-20Hindsight]

Pitt-Johnstown received an at-large bid to the Division II NCAA tournament for the first time since 2009.

This is UPJ's 5th all-time DII NCAA appearance.

Full bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/basketball-men/d2/2023

Wow, Rukie is still there, eh? I can still recall him telling me back in the Willard era (prob ~93 or 94) that his starting backcourt was better than Pitt's that season, and he was dead serious about it. I think I last saw him at the '97 Final Four in Indianapolis. Good guy.

 

[Pitt5593]

Pitt-Johnstown received an at-large bid to the Division II NCAA tournament for the first time since 2009.

This is UPJ's 5th all-time DII NCAA appearance.

Full bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/basketball-men/d2/2023

Pitt Johnstown. Does anyone remember the days of Tom Traynor, Jerry Causer(sp?) and Ron Howie??

 

[tetonpanther]

Weare all dumber for having read this thread thanks CP . Not

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

The D2 tournament runs differently than the D1 tournament. Eight teams go to the same site because the teams that advance will play three games in four days to get to the Elite Eight. Then the Elite Eight is all at the same site as well.

Yea I forgot that. When I saw they were the 2, I thought they hosted their side of the bracket. I was so excited for Pitt to play in Wheeling then realized they have to go to Indiana, PA. What a bummer. That said, a UPJ vs IUP Elite 8 game would be super cool. I might even go.

 

[TitoBeagle]

Pitt-Johnstown received an at-large bid to the Division II NCAA tournament for the first time since 2009.

This is UPJ's 5th all-time DII NCAA appearance.

Full bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/basketball-men/d2/2023

Man, A UPJ Fairmont St. Match up would be classic…

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

Man, A UPJ Fairmont St. Match up would be classic…

The whole country would be waiting for that one with bated breath.