Ronald Ramon’s getting a lot of early love. The idea of this Pitt basketball team with an outside threat even has his teammates raving and dreaming. And this was just after the glorified exhibition game against Howard.

On the other side, though, Pitt needs to take better care of the ball. Coach Jamie Dixon is a little concerned about the carelessness in the game. 25 turnovers in the game is not a good thing. Some of it was inexperience from the new kids, some was unfamiliarity with each other, and according to Troutman, some was first game jitters. We’ll see.

In other basketball notes, according to College Basketball Blog, ESPN will be doing a sort of college gameday thing for basketball this coming year. The live show from a game site. They won’t be in Pittsburgh, but they will be in Connecticut to cover the UConn-Pitt game on January 22.