The wife and one of the kids have been sick for the past week. It’s been nicely staggered so that just as one started improving the next goes down. Spare time has been minimal.
Guess who said this?
“It’s an area we love to recruit. Playing in New York City is something we try to do every year. Hopefully we’ll be able to continue to do it on an annual basis one way or another.”
Nope. Not Jamie Dixon. That’s Cinci Coach Mick Cronin. With Rutgers off to the Big 10, and not even Seton Hall to kick around there is no NY area team in the American Conference. Cinci has four NY area kids on their squad, so there will be families from both sides.
I’ll understand if you were wringing your hands over Pitt’s non-con schedule again after this past weekend. The non-con has not gotten better looking. Not after Cinci went down big to Xavier. Penn State showed why it doesn’t get basketball respect after losing to Princeton at home — by blowing an 18 point lead with 6:34 left. Duquesne lost to Robert Morris. Heck, Fresno State and Albany lost over the weekend.
So no matter what computer metric you use (KenPom, RPI, Sagarin…), Pitt’s non-con strength of schedule is down near the bottom.
It’s the reason why Pitt is still unranked despite piling up a 10-0 record. Stanford is presently the best win, and while nice, provides no boost. And thanks to getting blown out by Xavier, the same can be said for today’s game with Cinci as far as potential impact — assuming a win.
