Tonight Pitt plays St. Francis (NY). If you take a look at the game notes (PDF), you would see that one of the storylines is that Associate Head Coach Barry Rohrssen played his college ball and got his first college coaching gig there. Naturally one of the papers does an article on it. Usual stuff, he roots for his alma mater every other day, etcetera.

In case you were curious, the nickname of the school is the Terriers and they play in the same conference as Robert Morris.

There’s a piece focusing on Levon Kendall’s start to the season. He’s not shooting particularly well, but is the second leading rebounder on the team and is happy to be playing at the power forward position. Coach Dixon is not publicly concerned about his offense, stressing that he is playing solid defense.

“Our biggest thing with him was that he got rebounds,” Dixon said. “He got nine and eight in the last two games. Those are good numbers in 26 and 20 minutes. I think with him and Sam [Young] we’ll have very good production out of that spot. We’re not getting as many points as we would normally get, but I think we will. We’re talking about guys who haven’t played a lot of minutes before.”

Kendall and Young, a talented but unpolished freshman, are sharing the power forward position. Together, they are averaging 11.3 points and 10.6 rebounds per game, which is below the production that Troutman provided last season. Troutman averaged 15 points and eight rebounds per game.

“Chevy didn’t put those numbers up until his senior year,” Dixon said. “We’re talking about a junior and a freshman. I think we’re going to get good numbers out of those guys. And different types of things, things maybe we didn’t get last year. I feel really good about that spot.”

Right now, Kendall has averaged about 24 minutes per game. Young will see more minutes as his defense improves and he becomes more consistent on offense.