Sorry, too many things in the real world today. Let’s see, seems that the WVU student fans know how to really live up to their image of wise, smart cheering and trying to get under the skin of opposing players.
West Virginia’s frothing student section spent a chunk of the pregame and some ugly portion of both halves last night yelling at Pitt center Aaron Gray, which was a wholly anticipated part of the typical Pitt-WVU hostilities, except that the kids were yelling the very thing at Gray that, well, how will I put this …
The thing Joey Porter says when he’s not intending to offend anybody except Kellen Winslow.
Yeah, gay slurs were plentiful in this grand old basketball theatre.
The Oakland Zoo reports the same. Good to know that if Penn State ever axes Rene Portland, she has a place to go.
For WVU it was a mix of missed shots and good defense by Pitt. At times it seemed Pitt just had to let WVU beat themselves.
Da’Sean Butler was the only bright spot for WVU. It only seems like Sam Young likes to torture the Mountaineers.
Frank Young has been struggling against Pitt for a while.
Frank Young has missed 19 of his last 22 3-point shots against Pitt, dating back to last season.
Joe Starkey isn’t as high on this Pitt team as previous models.
Pitt turned the ball over 16 times against WVU. That really didn’t bother me because I expected Pitt to have a bunch of turnovers against WVU.
There seems to be a big of a disagreement as to the balance between the Pitt defense and the Mountaineers poor shooting. They were both there. Yes, WVU missed a bunch of easy lay-ups and putbacks. Considering how easy they were getting their way in New Jersey the previous week, that couldn’t be too surprising that they’d be spooked when actually having to work for their shots.
On the perimeter, I saw good defense that forced WVU to pass the ball along the outside more then in and out. The open looks, at least to me, from outside most of the time were rushed and impatient because the Pitt defense had kept them from getting a shot earlier. WVU may not be an up-tempo team, but they like to get shots off a lot sooner and expect someone to get there on a cut. Pitt was keeping them outside, and forced them to take more time.
