One of those days. The laptop abruptly has decided it might want to die on me. Now my satellite is in reset mode.
Clearly my mistake is that I haven’t been drinking enough.
It’s a good thing I don’t believe in omens or anything.
So we’ll see if I can get everthing up and running in time.
UPDATE:
Okay. Things are looking up. The laptop fired back up, shortly after halftime of the Syracuse-ASU game. Satellite is fine. All is well. At least as long as nothing goes wrong with the Mega March Madness feed.
Let’s do a liveblog. The fun will start around 2:45 pm.
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Hail to PITT!
-al-
It was real guys! Four more….
Survive and move on…
That was a BRUTAL first half where the ‘pokes nailed everything from 3 point land and had everything going their way, but we still wound up tied with them at the half. That was a good sign.
We actually rebounded this game, the turnovers weren’t quite as bad, although there were a few.
Hail to PITT!
-al-
OSU had to be frustrated though when they hit 60% including 10 for 16 from 3 pt line in 1st half ans was tied; only negative was that we couldn’t put them away until last minute.
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Otherwise, Sam Young was amazing, Fields, aside from MFing stupid passes, looked much better and continues to hit HUGE clutch shots, and Ashton Gibbs showed he is going to be a huge contributor for the next few years, and that contributions from him may be essential to making a deep run.
Res Ipsa Loquitur
And we still turned it over a little more than I would’ve liked.
But, we took their best punch and came out on top.
You know carmen I was thinking the same thing. Oh by the way FU.
Hail to Pitt!
overall, great win. survive and advance baby!
Xavier also has little interest in taking long perimeter shots; they’d much rather penetrate and get to the line and feed Frease. Fields, Wanamaker and Gibbs will have to keep their men out of the lane….
Have mixed feelings about the regionals. I love the match-ups for Pitt, but I still don’t feel like this team is playing well. Blair has done a great job of staying in the game and Young is carrying them, but I feel like one average night from either of them and this run is over. I’d feel a lot better if there were a reliable third option on this team — a guy who you knew was going to get you 12-15 most nights, especially when Young isn’t hitting. I would have expected that guy to be Fields coming into the season, but don’t care who it is now. Wanamaker, Gibbs, Brown….whoever……but none of those 4 seem able to give a consistent scoring punch to the lineup.
I’m trying to be optimistic, though. If Pitt can get past Xavier, I love the Nova or Duke matchup to get to Detroit. Pitt would handle Nova this time and Duke just doesn’t have the meat to deal with Blair. Even Biggs would get some hoops inside against the Dukies.
See y’all in Boston!!!!
Does anyone have a really good scouting report on Xavier? From what I can tell, they are a tough defensive team, and they hit the boards hard – sort of like Pitt, but with less experience and probably less talented on the offensive side. That being said, I haven’t seen them play at all this year, and the stat lines can lie…
Overall I am pleased that this team overcame adversity in these 2 games. I think in years past they would be out of the tourney perhaps in either game.
I kind of like the fact that this team found a way to win in both games. I am also impressed with Gibbs making shots but he has too because Dixon and Wanny are not. They both seem a little overwhelmed a bit. Hopefully they calm down in the next game because Xavier will play a slow methodical game.
This is the golden road for the Panthers. It may never come to pass again. They have to seize the opportunity.
And … bring in any high school coach in western PA this week to teach them how to break a friggin press.
I hope that’s Dixon’s actual mantra… your comment made me laugh, but it’s probably true.
Also, Tim Higgins reffed and there were 6 technicals called. That’s not really relevant, but I found it ridiculous enough to mention.
– let them shoot 3’s. Don’t foul. Don’t let them get by you. Sag a little to cut off the lanes, but don’t foul and don’t give up the easy 2.
It was frustating as hell when they were hitting the 3’s but seemed to work out OK. The only thing I would have suggested was to quit doubling the ball because someone was always WIDE open.
And did Gilbert really foul the guy on the 4 point play? Didn’t look like it on TV.
A healthy and somehwat efficient Levance coupled with Dixon getting just a little bit of his stroke back will get us to where we need to be assuming we stay out of foul trouble. HTP
Pitt is -9.5 points.
I vote for Gibbs starting instead of Biggs. Simple name inversion and a better matchup.