There was just no way I was doing any basketball posting last week. Wasn’t sure I would squeeze anything out this week, but it’s got to happen.

The ACC finally released the men’s basketball schedule, which means Pitt’s basketball schedule is finally complete.

Pitt’s full schedule.

The start of ACC play does Pitt and new HC Kevin Stallings no favors. In past years, Pitt had the brutal stretch in February. This time the gauntlet starts immediately. ND and Virginia at home, then road trips to Syracuse and Lousville. Back home to face Miami. The wildcard of NC State (talent to rival any team in the ACC, but you never know what version will show). And then Louisville at home.

Pitt’s four home-and-home opponents are Louisville, UNC, Syracuse and Virginia. Yeesh. And Rick Pitino wants to complain? (Okay, yes, Pitino always complains.)

Stallings said the sort of things you have to say.

Still, when he first had a chance to pore over the newly released schedule, a thought couldn’t escape his mind.

“It looks almost comically difficult,” Stallings said Monday with a chuckle. “It’s just one really good team after another, but that’s the part that makes it exciting.”

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“This will obviously be a very new challenge for me,” he said. “My players, at least most of them, will be more experienced at it than I am in terms of the different places we play and even our home court for that matter. It’s the reason I took the job. It’s the reason I wanted to be at Pitt, because of the challenges of the ACC and the excitement of trying to bring a championship-level program to the University of Pittsburgh.”

Also with regards to scheduling in 2017, Pitt will be in the Legends Classic to be played in Brooklyn. Teams also involved in it are Oklahoma St., Texas A&M and… Penn State. Seems to becoming a thing.

Last week, Pitt got a verbal from a very big forward.

Terrell Brown, a 6-foot-10 stretch forward from the BABC AAU program and the Barrington (RI) St. Andrews School, verbally committed to Pittsburgh on Sunday.

Brown joins 6-2 point guard Aaron Thompson of Paul VI (MD) in new coach Kevin Stalling’s Class of 2017 recruiting class.

“Terrell has the unique combination of being able to score in the low post and also be a legitimate threat from the three-point line,” BABC director Leo Papile told SNY.tv. “He has a ‘pro body’ and having just turned 18, he has room to grow in that area as well. I really enjoyed watching him mature over his four years with us at BABC. Pitt has a guy with unlimited potential.”

Brown is doing a year of prep school at Tilton in New Hampshire. Brown has had the size, but needed (and still needs to) add more bulk to his frame. He has improved late.

He averaged nearly 12 points, 6 rebounds and over 2 blocks per game for BABC and helped lead them back to the EYBL Finals at the Nike Peach Jam.

Now, Pittsburgh appears to be landing a player that has starting to put it all together. He’s filling out his frame on a rapid basis, starting to tap into his potential as a shot-blocker, being a more consistent low post scoring threat and also able to pull opposing shot-blockers away from the basket with his shooting range.

His ability to space the floor as a five-man is expected to be very important within the offense of head coach Kevin Stallings, who came to Pittsburgh from Vanderbilt last spring where he previously developed the reputation as one of the nation’s top offensive coaches.

Not sure of his actual size. He’s been listed from 6-8 to 6-10, but he had offers from Xavier and Purdue, with some interest from Syracuse. Star-recruiting wise he was 2- t o 3-star depending on the recency of his evaluation — the ones that have more recent evaluations suggest more 3- than 2-.

A relatively well-known name since entering the high school ranks, Brown has considerably added on the proper bulk and muscle in the past few months which has aided in the toughness category. Planning on prepping a year this fall at the Tilton School, the alma mater of Georges Niang and Nerlens Noel, Brown is a fantastic addition to the ACC program.

Running on the Nike circuit this past summer, Brown displayed a vast skillset and efficiency in scoring around the basket within traffic, yet also stepping out and extending the defense with the perimeter jumper. Converting on over 53-percent of his field goal tries while making over half of his 25 3-pointers attempted, expect for Brown to be used similar to how Vanderbilt big man Luke Kornet was used by former Commodore coach and now Panther head man Kevin Stallings.