OOH! Can he bring Gerg Robinson’s stuffed animal along? That’ll E-Bay for at least a dollar fitty.

What’s a Transer?

I like it. Any freshman that starts for an established BCS team should be welcomed at PITT. All that is lost is a scholarship – of which we seem to have some extra.

Great one Lee. Thanks!

33 tackles of which 11 1/2 were for losses … odd stats. However, it may indicate a gambling defensive style with lots of safety blitzes.

But even so, both Michigan’s and Tulsa’s defense were nothing to brag about. Hopefully, the defensive personnel here is a step up.

wbb – I saw that also, it is strange as you say. Maybe he came in only on blitz plays.

Hey guys, I know basketball’s still a bit of a sore subject around here (and writing this wasn’t fun) but if anybody’s still interesting in March Madness, I did a Sweet 16 preview: link to bit.ly. If you don’t want to read it, I completely understand.

*If anybody’s still interested. Good lord.

Rangers are on TV tonight. Still in the run for a playoff spot. BKB season is over.

Steve,

The Texas Rangers?

(Pitt video player is useless.)

James, I’m talking about the hockey squad, the New York Rangers.

If anyone’s interested about how a bunch of New Yawkers became rangers, here’s how:

George Lewis “Tex” Rickard, president of Madison Square Garden, was awarded an NHL franchise for 1926-27 season to compete with the now-defunct New York Americans, which had begun play at the Garden the previous season. The New York Americans (also known as the “Amerks”) proved to be an even greater success than expected during their inaugural season, leading Rickard to pursue a second team for the Garden despite promising the Amerks that they would be the only hockey team to play there.[3] The new team was quickly nicknamed “Tex’s Rangers”.

link to en.wikipedia.org

Rangers s*ch – let’s go Pens!!

The Pitt games not going to start till 10:13 wtf…
oh my bad I mean the Butler game.
Go Huskies.

That Butler game was like another gut punch. No way we would have lost to Wisconsin. This nightmare continues. I guess it’s always a good day when Duke loses though.

Wow, Wisconsin looked like they would have had a tough time finishing in the top half of the BigEast.
Purdue was thoroughly trashed by VCU. So you had 2 of the Top 3 teams in the Little 11, get beat handily by mid-majors. And people say the BigEast was overrated.

Later, more detailed article on Ray Vinopal’s transfer to Pitt with some words from Vinopal.

link to vindy.com

Two of our nemeses advance: Connecticut & Butler. We were so close…how do we push it up to next level? Doesn’t look like we are far from it.

Thank you for this article!

@TonyinHouston,

Maybe if we aren’t so damn predictable on defense all the time. Everyone knows how we’re going to defend certain situations because we play the same man to man defense 99.9% of the time. Like Butler ended up with a layup after Dixon called a TO to let Butler setup a play to pick apart our defense.
As Bilas said, Pitt let’s you make passes, ie. no ball denial, no ball pressure, doesn’t trap, doesn’t double team, doesn’t zone you, doesn’t press. But we do have impressive defensive team stats against North Florida, Delaware State & plug an any other scrub team we play in non-con.
As they continue to flame out in the NCAA’s this could become a self fulfilling type of thing.(I sure hope not) As the media. both local & national will be sure to hop on it.

Cudos to Sean Miller, he had his team jacked and they blew out Duke and didn’t care a crap about the reverence & esteem that Duke is held in.

Brad Stevens mouthed, “we got them” before that Smith layup. He knew exactly what the Pitt D in the paint would do. Of course Jaime probably went with the same D he’s used in that same situation for years. He must be unaware of a thing called game tape I guess.

Amen melvinbennett. Ive been screaming exactly what youve posted for years. The one thing that really stands out watching these games the last few days has been how they all play defense. Majority, if not all, put extreme pressure on the ball. Pitt’s biggest problem defensively was defending the high screen on the ball. Maybe some pressure on the ball wouldnt allow the ballhandler to basically have his choice on how to disect the defense. Also, Pitt’s defensive stats have got to be out of context. By that, I mean that they sag off so much that most teams are a little more patient and take more time offensively. Add in the fact that Pitt doesnt fastbreak and usually runs their own offensive possessions down to the last second and the total number of defensive posssessions they play have to be alot less than most teams. I would like to see a stat on how many possessions they actually play per game. I have to laugh when people brag about Pitts defense becasue they held a team in the 60’s. Needs to be put into perspective.

Very interesting, I’m really gratefull!

Order logical games!

Interesting, thanks a lot!