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With two games to play, Pitt (22-7, 11-5) will be seeded anywhere from second to sixth in the Big East Tournament.

SOUTH BEND, IND – Hot-shooting Notre Dame defeated No. 12 Pitt, 68-53, on Wednesday night to gain a much-needed win and keep alive NCAA Tournament at-large hopes that had reached life support. Pitt (21-7, 10-5), looking to improve its seeding for the upcoming Big East and NCAA tournaments, saw its five-game winning streak snapped with [...]

Pitt has vaulted seven spots to No. 12 in the latest Associated Press Top 25 men’s basketball poll

Ashton Gibbs scored 21 points and Gilbert Brown added 16 as No. 19 Pitt defeated No. 3 Villanova, 70-65, on Sunday afternoon at Petersen Events Center.

No. 19 Pitt snapped its road frustrations at Marquette with a 58-51 victory over the surging Golden Eagles on Thursday night at Bradley Center.

Pitt defensive back Elijah Fields has been kicked off the Panthers football team for disciplinary reasons, head coach Dave Wannstedt announced today. Fields would have been a fifth-year senior next season. The 6-foot-2, 225-pounder from Duquesne High School recorded 34 tackles and shared for the team-lead with three interceptions last year for the Panthers (10-3). [...]

Pitt officials said there are no plans for additional security for the men’s basketball game with No. 6 West Virginia on Friday night at Petersen Events Center. Pitt lost to West Virginia, 70-51, on Feb. 3 in a game marred by unruly fan behavior at WVU Coliseum. “Some of the biggest games in all of [...]

MORGANTOWN, W. Va. — Two teams headed in different directions kept going that way. No. 6 West Virginia defeated No. 22 Pitt, 70-51, on Wednesday for the most lopsided victory over the Panthers in more than three decades. Pitt (16-6, 6-4) has lost four of its past five games and stuck in the worst five-game [...]

Senior guard Jermaine Dixon practiced Tuesday afternoon, his first action since he sprained his right ankle early in the second half of Pitt’s 63-53 victory over St. John’s on Thursday. The injury forced Dixon to sit out Pitt’s 70-61 loss at South Florida on Sunday. “It was good to see him out there and I [...]