Pitt is off until Saturday when it plays Coppin State. This means a slow news week for basketball — which is okay for providing plenty of time to speculate rampantly on the football side.

Troutman and Krauser led the way for Pitt in beating Penn State. Troutman had a lot of fun at the game, even getting into it a little with the PSU students.

Troutman traded barbs with the Penn State student section during pregame warmups. Then he went out and backed it up by getting 18 points, five assists, two steals and a half-dozen rebounds.
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Troutman grew up in Williamsport, surrounded by Nittany Lions fans. Penn State recruited him, but Troutman never wanted to play there. And on Saturday, he had no qualms about performing in Happy Valley.

“This felt like a home game to me,” he said, smiling. “I always like to come up to Penn State and beat ’em. I told my teammates, this is home.”

Krauser had a really good week. Even when he only scored from the free throw line against Memphis and then went off for a career high against Penn St. Lots of scoring. More of it coming in the crunch times at the end.

Krauser earned Big East Player of the Week Honors. According to the BE weekly report (PDF), this is his second PoW. Troutman was co-Player of the Week last week.

Predicted stories this week: more on Graves’ improved play; what is wrong with Chis Taft; DeGroat and Benjamin adjusting; and why was Ramon shooting so much better when he got to start as opposed to coming off the bench?

Okay, the last one was one I think might be a good story, but won’t likely occur. A bit unfair, anyways, too small a sample size.