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Halftime Update: Pitt leads 32-19.

Horrible start. More than a little rust on Pitt. Not a great sign when Pitt’s next week-long layoff ends with the first real roadie to South Carolina.

Pitt missed first 5 threes of the game and Pitt started 3-14 overall. Vermont, on the other hand hit 3-4 on threes at first and 5-7 overall. Good shooting and lazy D.

What kept Pitt from being at risk to being absolutely buried in the first 10 minutes was that Vermont fumbled the ball away — 8 TOs, 13 for the half.

An early problem was that no one other than Gray was pulling down the rebounds — 6 of the 16 rebounds — Kendall had 3 and 7 others with 1 apiece.

The other early problem was way too much shooting on the perimeter early. They just weren’t going inside (again).

Turned it around, though, with a flurry and fury. 25-4 run by Pitt in last 10 minutes.

Final: 63-52.

I’lll give some credit to Vermont. They did their best to hang around. They stopped turning the ball over, and were impressive off the boards.

Pitt was struggling to get the ball inside. You almost half to force it inside, at some point. Gray simply was not given chances inside. In fact, most of the guys playing inside weren’t given opportunities. A little too much settling, or was the Catamount D that good at blocking the inside pass?