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The Pitt basketball team will play Louisville, USF and West Virginia twice during the 2011-12 season as part of its Big East opponents released today. Other notable home games in the 18-game conference schedule include Georgetown, St. John’s and Villanova. Pitt’s road games include trips to defending NCAA champion Connecticut, pre-season top 10 Syracuse, Marquette [...]

  Here are the complete Green Tree Summer League stats for Monday, June 27. Pitt players Malcolm Gilbert 8 points, 5 rebounds Cameron Wright 9 points, 2 rebounds Nasir Robinson 18 points, six rebounds (2-7 FT) Dante Taylor 20 points, 6 rebounds Lamar Patterson 20 points, 7 rebounds Ashton Gibbs 31 points (10 of 15), six assists, [...]

An article by ESPN Joe Lunardi showed Pitt has the 10th toughest non-conference schedule during the past four seasons, and coach Jamie Dixon is working hard to make sure the Panthers don’t take a step back this season — while landing a NYC metro area non-conference game for the fifth year in a row. Dixon is searching [...]

  Ashton Gibbs talks with ESPN from the Deron Williams Skills Academy that he attended this past weekend. The video is part of the Letters from Camp feature that ESPN College Basketball Nation Blog ran this week. Gibbs talks about the camp, which featured the top 10 college and 20 high school point guards in the nation, [...]

  Here is the list of the college point guards who are part of the Deron Williams Skills Academy in Chicago, including Ashton Gibbs. The camp runs through Saturday. The skills academy also includes 20 of the top high school point guards in the nation, including UConn-bound Omar Calhoun.   First Name Last Name HT/WGT* Wingspan [...]

 The call never came for Pitt in this year’s NBA Draft.   Gilbert Brown, Brad Wanamaker and Gary McGhee went unpicked in the two-round draft Thursday night as the Big East matched its lowest draft total in 29 years. The 6-foot-3, 208-pound Wanamaker was regarded as the most likely to be picked; ESPN.com draft expert [...]

Pitt senior guard Ashton Gibbs is training at the Deron Williams Skills Academy, which runs today through Saturday in Chicago.

  *** Thursday night is the moment of truth for Brad Wanamaker and Gilbert Brown, who await the two-round NBA draft. Here are the most recent NBA mock drafts/top 100 prospects for the two former Panther guards. Hoopsworld. com Second round – 33. Brad Wanamaker, Detroit Pistons; 44. Gilbert Brown, Chicago Bulls Top 100 — 41. Wanamaker, [...]

  Here is a link to Gilbert Brown’s interview with Joe Bendel on ESPN 970 on Monday. Brown talks about his workouts with numerous NBA teams, how he has fared against other top wings in the draft, UConn’s run to the NCAA title and the champion Dallas Mavericks, among other topics. The NBA draft is Thursday [...]

The first night of Green Tree Summer League was Monday and there were some interesting storylines. Here is a link to the complete stats:   All four of the incoming freshmen were in attendance. Travon Woodall was the only Pitt player who didn’t show. He is nursing what I’m told is a minor injury.   [...]