The Pitt men’s basketball team will get a chance to avenge its most lopsided loss from last season.
The Panthers will visit the University of Tennessee on Dec. 3 as part of the 2011-12 Big East-SEC Challenge. The schedule for the fifth-year event was released this afternoon.
Pitt lost to the Volunteers, 83-76, last season at Consol Energy Center.
Also, West Virginia will play at Mississippi State on Dec. 3 as part of the 12-game event. Four Big East teams, Marquette, Notre Dame, Villanova and USF, are not part of the Big East-SEC Challenge.
In other notable games for the 2011-12 season, St. John’s will play at Kentucky, Syracuse will host Florida and defending national champion Connecticut will play host to Arkansas.
The Big East/SEC format has changed this season, with 12 games being hosted at on-campus facilities. The past four years the event featured four doubleheaders were played at off-campus arenas.
Tennessee, under first-year coach Cuonzo Martin, lost Scotty Hopson and Tobias Harris, who both declared for early-entry in the NBA draft.
There will be a familiar face on Tennessee. Dwight Miller, a 6-foot-8, 240-pound forward who transferred from Pitt following the 2009-10 season, signed today with the Vols after playing last year for Midland (Texas) College.
Here are the complete dates and games for the 2011-12 season:
| Date | Game |
| Thu, Dec 1 | St. John’s at No. 2 Kentucky |
| Georgetown at No. 14 Alabama | |
| Providence at South Carolina | |
| Mississippi at DePaul | |
| Fri, Dec 2 | No. 7 Vanderbilt at No. 9 Louisville |
| No. 12 Florida at No. 4 Syracuse | |
| No. 19 Cincinnati at Georgia | |
| Auburn at Seton Hall | |
| Sat, Dec 3 | Arkansas at No. 6 Connecticut |
| No. 17 Pittsburgh at Tennessee | |
| West Virginia at Mississippi State | |
| LSU at Rutgers |
