Pitt ended up crushing Robert Morris 83-59. Now 37-1 at the Pete, Pitt was actually down 30-26 with 6:17 left in the first half (PDF version of box score and play-by-play). Pitt then shut out RMU for the rest of the half and went into halftime up 42-30. In the second half it took Pitt nearly 3 minutes to get its first points, and the Colonials closed to within 4 points before Pitt started opening the lead up again and holding RMU to only 19 points over the last 15 minutes.

Looking at the box score, it was a big night for Taft and Krauser. They combined for 39 points. Actually, the big men of Pitt all scored at will. Aaron Gray was 3-3 with 6 points. Troutman had 10 points. I’m not sure why Levon Kendall tried to take a 3-pointer, but it might explain why he only played 3 minutes.

Antonio Graves got back into the game off the bench. He did very well in 21 minutes with 7 points on 3-4 shooting. Ronald Ramon had a bad shooting night (3-9 overall, and 2-8 on 3-point shots) but still had 8 points.

Yuri Demetrius had a solid game off the bench and provided some solid defense, that the coach and some of the players were talking about afterwards (PDF).