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Brad Wanamaker and Gary McGhee were selected to play in the Reese’s College All-Star game on Friday in Houston. McGhee, a 6-11 center, and Wanamaker, a 6-4 guard, are members of the East all-star team. Other East all-stars include Jacob Pullen of Kansas State, Austin Freeman of Georgetown and Dwight Hardy of St. John’s. The [...]

Junior guard Ashton Gibbs will declare for the 2011 NBA draft, but is expected to leave the door open to return to school. “We’re not sure,” Temple Gibbs said today from New Jersey regarding his son’s draft plans. “From what I know, he was thinking about it. But he wouldn’t hire an agent, without a [...]

  @byline-name:By John Grupp @byline-source:TRIBUNE-REVIEW @body-text:Guards Ashton Gibbs and Brad Wanamaker of Pitt and Talor Battle of Penn State earned Associated Press All-America honorable mention recognition today, as the 2010-11 teams were announced. Jimmer Fredette of BYU and Kemba Walker of Connecticut led the first-team AP All-America team. Gibbs, a 6-foot-2 junior from Scotch Plains, [...]

Seniors Brad Wanamaker was among 21 players named to the CollegeInsider.com Lefty Driesell Defensive All-America team. The team is named in honor of the former Maryland coach who is the only person to win 100 games at four Division I schools. The Lefty Driesell Defensive Player of the Year will be announced on April 1 in Houston at [...]

Pitt coach Jamie Dixon was named the 2010-11 National Coach of the Year by The Sporting News magazine today. It marks the third consecutive season that Dixon has garnered a National Coach of the Year award, and the fourth overall award during that span. Pitt (28-6) went a school-best 15-3 in the Big East on [...]

Gilbert Brown has been invited to participate in the dunk contest at the Final Four in Houston. The event will be aired on ESPN2 from 9-11 p.m. on March 31. It will include eight seniors from around the nation. Not sure of the other dunkers, but the 6-6 Brown will be one of them. The skills contest [...]

Here are 10 pivotal moments in Pitt’s 71-70 loss to Butler on Saturday night at Verizon Center. They are ranked in no particular order with comments from Pitt coach Jamie Dixon or the Pitt players on the different situations, if applicable.   No. 10 – Foul play: Nine minutes and two seconds into the game, [...]

Pitt lost to a lower seeded team in the NCAA Tournament for the seventh time in the past 10 years. This time, Butler beats Pitt, 71-70, on a free throw with 0.8 seconds to play.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Pitt routed UNC Asheville, 74-51, in the second round at Verizon Center to move into the Round of 32, where the Panthers will face Butler (24-9) on Saturday at an undetermined site and time. Here is the early game story.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Unless Pitt is the victim of the biggest upset in NCAA Tournament history, the Panthers will play No. 8 seed Butler (24-9) in the third round on Saturday. Butler edged No. 9 seed Old Dominion (27-7), 60-58, on Matt Howard’s last-second shot this afternoon at Verizon Center in a second-round game. Pitt [...]