As you may have figured, I did not bother paying Pitt/Yahoo! for the streaming feed. Nor did I pay the $20 extortion fee from ESPN for the “Full Court” slate of the night.

[Bit of an aside. Aside from guys who are not married, or are not sports writers or involved in sports business and get reimbursed for the expenses, who else will pay the full season package for “full court.” Further, what genius at ESPN figured they could make more money making people pay $20 for one night of all the games on the list rather than an option for just $10 for one game? Do they really make more money that way? I’m just asking, because I know I could have rationalized a couple of the games at $10 a pop on TV, but not $20. And don’t even get me started on how ESPN.com charges you the same price to watch on your computer — lower quality and smaller picture, all at the same price!]

Instead I did the live stats at the Pitt web site. Well, actually I just had the wife updating me, as I gave our daughter a bath. Not good. She’s at the age where kids like to repeat your words. Especially the ones that have a lot of emotion behind them.

I’m waiting to see the box score splits and the full play-by-play from Pitt. But the general box score is astounding. Pitt got 13 more shots, 7 more FT attempts, 19 more rebounds (15 more just on offense), a 14 point lead with under 10 minutes left. I’m not sure I would have believed it if I saw it.