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*** Pitt snapped a five-game losing streak with one of its best performances of the season. Is this a hint that the Panthers are back to their late-January, post-Tray Woodall back in the lineup form? Or is it another tease from a team that had trouble getting the ball across midcourt for stretches of the second half? I’d say somewhere in between. Jamie Dixon said after [...]

Pitt snaps a five-game losing streak with a lopsided victory over St. John’s. Here is the early game story.

Coach Jamie Dixon said star guard Ashton Gibbs needs to stop passing up open shots. Gibbs is 0 for 9 from 3-point range in the past three games.  He attempted one 3-pointer in the loss to USF and three against Louisville, and one of those was a desperation 3-pointer at the buzzer. Here are Dixon’s quotes [...]

Here is the early game story for Pitt’s 57-54 loss at No. 17 Louisville.

Steven Adams was named the Sports Illustrated High School Player of the Week. Here is the link to the story.

There is no documented evidence to suggest that Pitt athletic director Steve Pederson tried to find the anti-Todd Graham when he started looking for a new football coach two months ago. He uncovered one, anyway. Pitt fans, meet Paul Chryst. Unassuming. Sure of himself and his methods, but without hitting his listener over the head [...]

*** Pitt got a combined 15 points from its starting lineup – Lamar Patterson, Nasir Robinson, Talib Zanna, Tray Woodall and Ashton Gibbs — on 7 for 27 shooting. J.J. Moore came off the bench to score a career-high 21 points — his previous best was 19 against North Florida last season (maybe he likes playing directional Florida schools). But the starters did [...]

Pitt dropped its fourth game in a row, 56-47, to USF on Sunday night at Petersen Events Center. Here is the early game story.

When George Novak shows up for work at Woodland Hills on Friday, there will be a surprise waiting for him. Lousaka Polite is in town. “He doesn’t know I’m here,” Polite said of the longtime Woodland Hills football coach and athletic director. Polite, one of eight Woodland Hills graduates who played in the NFL last [...]

Former Pitt forward Gilbert Brown was cut by the Fort Wayne Mad Ants of the NBA D-League. The 6-foot-6 Brown was waived to make room for former Notre Dame guard Tory Jackson, who is coming off an ankle injury. Brown, who averaged 12.2 points and 4 rebounds per game in 19 games for the Mad Ants, didn’t get [...]