Family obligations, that I vainly tried to get out of are completely taking me away from the house today.

The meme out of Louisville is that last season, beating Pitt at the Pete was the start of turning around their season. Now it’s about maintaining their run.

Well, for those of you who don’t live in the Pittsburgh area — where the game is on WTAE — or have the ESPN Full Court package, here’s the list of TV stations showing the Louisville-Pitt game tomorrow.

WCTX (Hartford, Conn.), Charter-St. Louis (St. Louis), WTTV (Indianapolis), WMYS (South Bend, Ind.), WAZE (Evansville, Ind.), Cox New Orleans (New Orleans), MASN (Baltimore/Washington, D.C.), WBGR (Bangor, Maine), MSG (New York), Time Warner (Buffalo, Albany, Rochester, Syracuse), Catch 47 (Tampa/St. Petersburg), WWHO (Columbus, Ohio), WKRC (Cincinnati), WHAS (Louisville), WRGT-DT2 (Dayton), ETVW (Madison, Wis.), WTOV (Wheeling, W.Va.), WTAE (Pittsburgh), WHP-DT (Harrisburg, Pa.), WQMY (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.), WHVL (Johnstown, Pa.), Cox New England (Providence), WMLW (Milwaukee), Metro Sports (Kansas City), WOAY (Bluefield, W.Va.), WVFX (Clarkesburg, W.Va.), WTAP-DT2 (Parkersburg, W.Va.), WACY (Green Bay), WMME (Chicago), WPHL (Philadelphia).

Seth Davis at SI.com is picking Pitt — oh no.

Those adjustments have spurred their current stretch of winning nine of their last 10, including six straight. The question here is whether they can do those things on the road against a good, physical team that is in dire need of a quality win — Pittsburgh comes in having lost its last two to fall to 7-6 in the Big East. Junior point guard Levance Fields, who missed eight weeks with a broken foot, is still two or three weeks away from getting his old form back. He looked pretty sharp in Thursday night’s loss at Notre Dame (10 points, five assists in 25 minutes off the bench). Now that he has a couple of games under his belt, I think he’ll give the Panthers just enough of a lift to win.

The loss to ND is still on my mind. Whether it’s simply about getting that final win to feel comfortable about making the NCAA, or how pissed some of the players were afterwards.

“It just slipped away from us,” Blair said. “I don’t know what’s going on with this team. I don’t know. We’ve got to find out quick. That’s two losses. I’ve never lost back-to-back in my life.”

The players know they have to get it all together today.

“We’re going to get them on Sunday,” Blair said. “That’s all I’m looking for right now. Playing hard and getting that win on Sunday. I’m not guaranteeing nothing or saying nothing. I just want it. That’s all.”

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“Notre Dame is in the books,” Benjamin said. “There’s nothing we can do. The ‘L’ is there. We’re just going to go home. When we get off the plane in Pittsburgh, that loss is over.

“Now, the focus is on Louisville.”

Keith Benjamin has apparently decided that as a senior and the struggles of the team means it is time for him to speak to and for the team and step up.

“It’s vocal leadership, it’s doing the right things,” Benjamin said. “I have to make the right plays on the court, so everyone else sees that. I’m disappointed in myself. It beats me up that I’ve been here for four years and haven’t take a charge. Those are the things we need to do better. We have to take charges, we need to get rebounds, box out, make the smart pass. When we do that we win. I’m looking forward doing everything that will help us win. Scoring those points hasn’t helped us, so I’m going to have to do other things. I have to get rebounds, take charges. That’s what I’m going to do.”

For Benjamin and the rest of his teammates, the noon tip-off tomorrow can’t come soon enough.

“I want at it right now,” he said. “Trust me, I want this so bad. It’s going to happen. We’re playing a very hot team, a very tough team in Louisville. We’re in the Pete. We want everyone in Pittsburgh not to give up and to show up on Sunday ready to rock the building. That’s what we need right now.”

It seems Fields might be starting for the game.

Fields, who has come off the bench the past two games after sitting out nearly seven weeks with a fractured bone in his left foot, went through a full practice yesterday without any problems after playing 25 minutes in the 82-70 loss at Notre Dame Thursday night.

“He looks good,” Pitt coach Jamie Dixon said. “That was good to see. We went light [Friday]. It was good to see him go full [yesterday]. I thought he looked good the other day and played well. The process has gone as expected. It’s going exactly as we thought. We’ll figure out [today] who we’re going to start. We’ll see how he responds to practice.”

To some extent it will be about controlling the what kind of runs Louisville gets on and how Pitt responds.