I am guessing the students disagree, but I am very grateful for Finals week at Pitt. It’s meant a week with no basketball games. Given the Pitt football saga of the week, that has been a good thing.

So the game is on FoxSports-Pittsburgh, MASN, ESPN3.com and ESPN FullCourt package starting at 7pm.

New Pitt football HC Mike Haywood will be there before the game doing the meet-and-greet. I expect that he will stop by the broadcast booth since that is standard PR.

Assuming a blowout, I will be willing to talk about the hiring of Haywood in the second half.

It is a moderated chat, so always keep that in mind.

The liveblog is below. As usual, you can break the chat out from the site by Clicking Here if you need to.