I’m going to sound condescending for this, but it can’t be avoided. If and when Pitt lost it was just about a given that people would be all over Krauser for the loss. It’s the nature of the situation. This is a football region and the QB is lionized or villanized. In basketball, that’s how the PG is treated regardless of whether he is designated as the Shooting or Point. Krauser is and always will be Point. A lightening rod of criticism.

I’ve made no secret of how much I like Krauser. To paraphrase Jim Boeheim: We wouldn’t have one [bleep] without him!

Krauser hasn’t just been the guy with the ball at crunch time — for good and ill — he’s been the guy to make the passes inside. Don’t believe me? Believe this.

Sampling 17 games for which play-by-play stats could be found, the Big East regular season and the NCAA Tournament game versus KSU, the evidence is clear. During that span, Aaron Gray made 89 field goals; 63 of those field goals came with an assist. Here’s how those assists broke down…

Oh, you have to go visit Keith Wehmeyer to read it all. Consider those numbers don’t even begin to take into account the number of misses by Gray or times fouled.

The offseason assignment for both Fields and Ramon: work on the interior passing. Then we can talk a little bit about how much better Pitt will be.

It’s one thing when Pitt has the outside shooting to spread the defense, but who can thread the needle when the perimeter game is not there and the opposing defense is collapsing inside?