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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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Fall Schedule The 2020 Panther volleyball team will open its season on Sept. 25 against Syracuse.

Fall sports schedules to watch

By Marshall Worth, Staff Writer • September 16, 2020
After months of uncertainty, all of Pitt’s fall sports now have schedules and teams are beginning play.
Senior safety Damar Hamlin (03) tackles Syracuse running back Jarveon Howard (28) during the 2018 matchup with the Orange at Heinz Field.

2020 ACC football power rankings

By Alex Lehmbeck, Sports Editor • September 6, 2020
College football is back — the first eight FBS games of the season took place this weekend, giving fans a glimpse of what a season amid the COVID-19 pandemic will look like. While the nation’s most prestigious conference, the SEC, won’t kick off until Sept. 26, the ACC and Big 12 will debut the first Power Five conference games this week.
Panthers volleyball will start its season late with its first match on Sept. 25 in Syracuse, New York, against the Orange.

Pitt placed in geographic pods for remainder of fall sports

By Stephen Thompson, Assistant Sports Editor • September 6, 2020
After ensuring that the fall football season was feasible amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Atlantic Coast Conference moved to establish guidelines for the five other fall sports its member schools play.
Temporarily scrapping the traditional Atlantic and Coastal divisions, the ACC football teams will act as a singular division, with each school assigned five home games and five away games.

ACC announces fall sports plans: what are they and what do they mean for Pitt?

By Alex Lehmbeck, Sports Editor • August 17, 2020
After a summer of ambiguity, the Atlantic Coast Conference released an updated schedule in late July for ensuing fall sports seasons, creating a separate plan for football and the rest of the fall sports.
Roc, the Panthers' mascot, walks toward Qadree Ollison during last year’s Pitt vs. Penn State game in State College. (Photo by Anna Bongardino | Visual Editor)

ACC announces delay for some fall sports

By Stephen Thompson, Sports Editor • July 9, 2020
The Atlantic Coast Conference Board of Directors announced Thursday afternoon that the beginning of fall Olympic sports will be delayed until Sept. 1. Pitt’s men’s and women’s soccer, volleyball and cross country are among the affected sports. ACC field hockey programs will also be subject to the delay, but will not apply to Pitt, which does not have a program.
ACC Commissioner John Swofford issued a statement regarding the conference's cancellation of athletic activities.

ACC officially cancels spring season

By Trent Leonard, Sports Editor • March 17, 2020
With the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently recommending that gatherings of 50 or more people not occur for the next eight weeks, it became clear that no timeline in the near future would work for the conference’s spring athletes.
ACC Commissioner John Swofford issued a statement regarding the conference's cancellation of athletic activities.

ACC to suspend all athletic activities

By Trent Leonard, Sports Editor • March 12, 2020
The ACC announced Thursday that it will suspend all athletic related activities in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
North Carolina was one of the ACC's seven founding members in 1953.

Reimagining the broken and senseless ACC

By Henry Jackson, Staff Writer • February 28, 2020
The conference has expanded, retracted and morphed in such bizarre motions as to create a loose confederacy that no longer can even claim the very region it abbreviates — the Atlantic coast.
Duke's Vernon Carey Jr. (1) dunks against Miami at the Watsco Center in Miami on Jan. 4.

Duke, Clemson on the rise in ACC standings

By Henry Jackson, Staff Writer • February 17, 2020
While four teams have climbed to the shallow peak of the ACC and the bottom four have made themselves apparent, an astounding seven teams remain within two games of .500 in conference play.
Sophomore Xavier Johnson (1) during Pitt’s 73-68 loss to Louisville in January.

Upcoming stretch could make or break Pitt basketball’s season

By Alex Lehmbeck, Senior Staff Writer • February 5, 2020
Pitt men’s basketball faces four upcoming opponents with similar records, giving the Panthers a chance to either separate from their ACC competitors or fall into the conference cellar.
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