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Gilbert Brown and the Oliver Baskets Wurzburg basketball team have agreed to dissolve the contract of the former Pitt wing, according to the German club. The 6-f00t-6 Brown, who signed with the European team this summer, was averaging 4.3 points and 1.8 assists. He played only sparingly, averaging 12 minutes per game.  Brown is reportedly back in the U.S. and awaiting [...]

*** Pitt throws up a non-conference clunker every once in a while (Wofford comes to mind), and Rider certainly is a lot better than the team that lost at Robert Morris by 26 two nights ago. But Pitt’s youth got exposed defensively for large stretches tonight, and Jamie Dixon will have a lot of coaching to do as the [...]

*** Tray Woodall scored a career-high 25 points on 5 3-pointers and added 10 assists in Pitt’s 89-56 kickoff victory over Albany on Friday night. The junior guard shot 9 of 13 from the field, and 5 of 7 from behind the arc, in his best game as a Panther. He broke his previous career-high of 19 points against Wichita State in [...]

  Pitt routs Albany in the 2o11-12 season opener. Here is the early game story.

New Zealand five-star big man Steven Adams and DeMatha (Md.) Catholic point guard James Robinson have signed their National Letters of Intent. Both letters were received earlier in the week — signing period started on Wednesday — but coach Jamie Dixon said there were some administrative dottings of Is and Ts that needed to be [...]

  Here are the direct links to ESPN3 for Pitt’s games this weekend against Albany and Rider. Here is the link to Albany vs. Pitt on ESPN3 at 7 p.m. Friday at Petersen Events Center Here is the link to Rider vs. Pitt on ESPN3 at 6 p.m. Sunday at Petersen Events Center.

 Sophomore forward J.J. Moore will miss Friday’s season-opener with Albany while serving a one-game suspension due to a secondary violation of NCAA rules.   Moore unknowingly competed in an unauthorized summer basketball league game this summer. The violation carries a mandatory one-game suspension. When Pitt coaches learned that Moore had played in the game, the Panthers reported [...]

Pitt defeated Kentucky Wesleyan, 76-67, in the final exhibition. Here is the game story. Here are some notes and quotes from exhibition:   *** First off, Kentucky Wesleyan is one of the best NCAA Division II teams, so don’t be deceived by the score. Pitt trailed by as many as seven in the first half. Kentucky Wesleyan, enrollment [...]

Pitt senior guard Ashton Gibbs is one of 30 NCAA men’s basketball student-athletes selected as candidates today for the 2011-12 Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award. Here is Gibbs’ bio for the award. To be eligible for the award, a senior must excel in four areas – community, classroom, character and competition. The complete list of candidates follows this release. The list will be [...]

It was a good week for reporters seeking interviews after Pitt practice Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Players Zach Brown, Andrew Taglianetti, Max Gruder, Tino Sunseri and Chas Alecxih and four coaches, including offensive and defensive coordinators Calvin Magee and Keith Patterson, line coach Spencer Leftwich and the head man Todd Graham, spoke for 79 minutes [...]