so, has anyone actually seen someone predict us to win this game?
LETS GO PITT

Here we go…..

Interesting start still early though

Wow we finally got a lead after being down 7-0.

Way too many fouls though.

Ramon is having a nice game so far. Wisc is tough – we are missing Gray badly at this instant

Wisky would be in trouble without Tucker. We are really good when we go small..Scary good if Kendall and Gray get going.

anybody know what the line was? Thanks…

…this is the 1st game I’ve had the opportunity to watch thus far. can’t get over how strong Graves looks… the Badgers certainly match up well the Panthers — lots of big bodies out there.

no, sorry ECH

I will take being down by 5 at the half. Wisky is legit.

I hate Dick Vitale!

2 Badgers with 20 points already? We need to adjust big time and play some defense. Please.

Wisc has 2 players with 95% of their points. You would think we could adjust and shut that BS down.

Is it me or have the refs been absolutley terrible in this game?

on 2 calls the refs cashed Madison checks. We should be content only being down 10.

Tucker’s just hot right now, he’s “Pittsnoggling” us.

He should cool off in the second half (I hope).

We’re not playing that bad, they just started shooting really well towards the end of the half.

IMO, Fields needs to be on the court a whole lot more to control the tempo (slow- it – down) and effectively feed Gray under the net (as demonstrated).

…the Badgers are red-hot, though — it’s hard stop an opponent who doesn’t miss. The outside shooting (the % of 3’s dropping for Wisc) is reminiscent of past games vs. WVU

right Jimbo, my point exactly…

I’ll take my chances with Butch, but why do we never have an answer for an athletic small forward??

gray is on butch unfortunately

3rd check was cashed after the supposed ‘foul’ against Biggs. the 4th, well, this is getting ridiculous

sorry, confused the big dopey guys, gray isnt on him.

At least Pitt is showing some balls in playing tough teams on the road. Me than you can say for just about any other major team. Nothing you can do when Wisc is getting every break imaginable.

does anyone know what Wisc. is shooting? They seem to be making everything, as well as getting every call.

Must be nice to have home field advantage.

Im not sure that these refs would do well in the Big East.

OVER-RATED!!
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OVER-RATED!!!!!

the refs didn’t beat Pitt. We played like crap. Tucker was awesome, and a big piece of crap (Butch) played out of his mind.

The defense sure ain’t what it used to be. if only we could have the defense from the Brown-Page-Knight era and our current offense we would be set.

Congrats to Wisconsin. They simply outplayed us today. We didn’t rebound well (-7 differential) and we certainly didn’t play good defense. You foul when you are out of position and that’s exactly what happened today. We gave them way too many open looks as a result.
People will complain about the officiating, and I don’t think they did a very good job overall, but we put ourselves in bad positions defensively.
This is a Pitt team without a lock-down defender in the mold of Julius Page. It’s predicated on team defense and it was obvious that we have some weak links and need to improve.
Thought Gray played well despite his illness. Ramon played very well off the bench and Fields continues to impress with his ball handling and leadership. I just wish we would start our offense sooner rather than waiting for the final 15 seconds on the shot clock. Doing that severely limits our options.
Kendall, Biggs and Young were non-factors and it showed. The Badgers front-court absolutely dominated.
Kind of embarrassed that we lost by 14 as the second-ranked team in the nation, but this was a quality opponent and should be a wake-up call for Pitt.
I don’t think we played that poorly, but we ran into two extremely hot players in Tucker and Butch. Very similar to our tournament losses in recent years. Hopefully Dixon and his staff can use this as a stepping stone towards future success.

Butch is not a big piece of crap. He’s a former High School All American. Jamie said on the radio the difference in the game was that we didn’t rebound. Had we boxed out and not been outrebounded, he feels we would have won. Can’t say I disagree. Lost second chance points battle by 7.

Remember, we shut down Tucker in the 2nd half and the other guys on their team responded.

The “Tucker and Butch” were hot because our defense sucked….I wonder if Paul Rhoads had drawn up our defense for this game….horrible….nothing like getting beat down on national TV as the #2 team in the country. 2 and done in March again…this team, looked stupid, bad shot selection, no patience, no hunger for the ball…and even worse defense.

Very very very similar to tournament losses in recent years….O’Bannon from Bradley, Dwayne Wade, Antonio Gates, those two kids from Oklahoma State – always someone that takes the game over against us. That we don’t have.

I agree that the hustle was deficient. Probably one of the big reasons we got outrebounded. And I didn’t want to bring it up, but look at the intangibles.
– Home crowd with Dick V. Always fires up the teams and the crowd.
– Pitt had finals this week. Dixon even said after the game that practices went well although there was never a practice with everyone there. Add Gray’s strep throat to that.
– Wisconsin doesn’t start finals till Monday.

So enough excuses – Pitt got beat and outhustled. Can’t let it happen again.

What a lack of effort defensively and on the boards. Let’s hope they don’t display the same lack of intensity @ ok. st.

I like how some people are already on the ledge after a tough loss, to the #7 team in the nation, IN THEIR HOUSE!!

Hey, this type of shit happens. No one has gone undefeated in what, 30 years? And that was a tough game that most non-Pitt fans didn’t really expect us to win in front of a rabid packed house.

They’ll learn from it, go to Oklahoma City, and get a split from this tough two-game road stretch. And all things considered, that’s a pretty good thing.

Carolina, Ohio, and Florida, a lot of the “big dogs”, have lost tough ones too this season. I know it blows, but seriously, if you think this is an “OH MY GOD OUR SEASON IS OVER!!!” situation you’re REALLY overreacting.

It was truely a bad game for Pitt, in many areas. Most noteably, our lack of defense/rebounding. The intensity just wasn’t there. And the refs…well, they only caused more heartburn. No time to panic though. After all it was a road loss, which included an amazing performance by Tucker and that other dude! In any case, I have great confidence in this team. They will rebound from this loss next wk. versus OK State…

first half they were aggressive, going to the hoop. Second half settled for way too many jumpers, Biggs particularly, and Ramon went cold. Not sure why they stopped attacking the hoop. Would love to see Fields do that more. It seems like he can do it, but is hesitant to do so most of the time. Kendall at some point has got to look to the hoop. With Young clearly not 100% physically, Kendall has to start stepping up.

Refs sucked and some Wisc. guys had games of their lives. Combined with Pitt’s lack of defensive/rebounding intensity, it was a recipe for a loss.