I don’t expect any Pitt player to take home the Wooden Award. Still, it’s nice that Pitt actually has two of the thirty remaining candidates in Sam Young and DeJuan Blair.

There are four teams that have two candidates on the midseason cutdown list: Pitt, UConn (Adrien and Thabeet), Marquette (Matthews and McNeal), UNC (Hansbrough and Lawson).

The Big East placed 1/3 of the players: Young, Blair, Adrien, Thabeet, Matthews, McNeal, Flynn (‘Cuse), Harangody (ND), Monroe (G-town), Williams (L-ville).

Levance Fields is a finalist for the Cousy Award — best point guard. There are 13 D-1 finalists.

Jonny Flynn, Dominic James (Marquette) and A.J. Price (UConn) are the other Big East PG Finalists.

Sam Young also is a finalist for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award. There are ten finalists. Sam Young could use some help in the fan vote. And he has more planned in his off-the court community service.

Pitt stayed at #7 in Luke Winn’s SI.com power poll. He notes Ashton Gibbs’ emergence on the perimeter and Jermaine Dixon knocking down 3s of late to make the team more complete on offense.

The ESPN.com power poll has Pitt at #4.