That’s what I dubbed the group of four “blonde” hotties who park themselves in the front row of the Zoo near half court (so as to maximize TV exposure). You’ve seen them – each is clad in a sleveless white t-shirt that is several sizes too small, with a letter painted on in blue (as well as a small number, I assume for their favorite player) to spell out “P-I-T-T”. Home made t-shirts to honor their university and its team – it’s the kind of enthusiasm that brings joy to my heart.

I was at the Seton Hall game Saturday, sitting in the lower level at half court (great seats), directly across from the group of girls. They are conspicuous in their refusal to wear the gold Zoo t-shirts like nearly everyone else; their ensemble screams “Look at us! We have something important to say!” as they gently sway and bounce during the game. All are white, blonde, and clad in hip hugger jeans. They are not fat, but they aren’t thin either.

That’s when inspiration dawned on me – they are the kind of girls Chevy Troutman would enjoy spending time with (not like the rest of us would not enjoy spending some time, but you get my drift). Thus, I named this group: Chevy’s Bevy.

They appear to be the same girls who park themselves just next to the away tunnel at Heinz Field in the student section – within close binocular distance from our seats. I’m not 100% sure it’s them, but I’m going to assume they are the same group.

As the game continued, I noticed that each had a small number painted on their t-shirt; the “P” had a 23, the “I” had 2, the first “T” a 21 and the final “T” a 2 as well. I assumed they were references to Taft (23), McCarroll (21) and Chevy (2).

I don’t know if we can get this to catch on or not; most girls would probably not want to be associated with such a group anyway, especially if they were to become members of a “bevy” of some sort. Still, I’m proud of my creativity.

As for the game, I thought Taft and Krauser got off to extremely slow starts. I know I hated going to games that started at noon when I was a student, and I wasn’t even playing. Perhaps they were up late Friday night studying? As the game went on, they both performed better (although Krauser is still too much of a ball-hog). Taft really came on strong with the blocks in the last five minutes.

I was happy to see DeGroat finally get some minutes. He took a bad foul, but I thought that was the refs calling the game too closely. In fact, they called it too close all game – this is Big East basketball, not Argentina v. Sweden in the Olympics! If the rest of the season is called this way Pitt is in trouble – we are still suspect in foul shooting.

Aaron Gray needs some extra coaching in catching the ball. If Pitt can only get the ball to him down low, AND have him hang on to it, he could score almost at will.

I did notice that Cerniglia guy from SH doing the “X” move – that got the student’s all riled up.

All in all, I was happy to see Pitt stiffen up and come back. I hope the 2 home losses brought this team down to earth and reminded them they have to work hard to beat average teams.