Take Five: Pirates, Pacquette and Rick Pitino
March 2, 2018
Spring break is upon us but the non-stop news cycle of the sports world takes no breaks. The Pitt News staff is back to round up this week’s best stories. Click here to see last week's takes. Cheapskates The Major League Baseball Players Union filed grievances against the Oakland Athletics, Mi...
NCAA should leave the past alone
By Colin Martin | Staff Writer
February 23, 2018
The last time the Louisville men’s basketball team won the NCAA tournament was 22 years ago — at least according to the NCAA. The NCAA vacated 123 wins from Louisville’s program — from between 2011 and 2015 — on Tuesday. The Cardinals will also be stripped of their 2013 NCAA championship win after bei...
Pitt basketball hits new low with loss to Louisville
By Steve Rotstein | Sports Editor
January 25, 2017
If you thought things couldn’t get any worse for the Pitt men’s basketball team, think again. Last time the Panthers played at home, they suffered their worst loss in the 14-year history of the Petersen Events Center: a 72-46 pounding against Miami. They more than doubled that 26-point defeat in...
No. 13 Cardinals crush Pitt, 106-51
By Ryan Zimba | Staff Writer
January 24, 2017
The Pitt men’s basketball team is making history for all the wrong reasons. Just 10 days after suffering the worst loss in Petersen Events Center history — a 26-point defeat against the Miami Hurricanes — the Panthers shattered their own record in a 55-point home loss to the No. 13 Louisville Card...
Pitino’s praise for Artis not as crazy as it sounds
By Steve Rotstein | Sports Editor
January 12, 2017
Louisville head coach Rick Pitino, the only head coach to lead two different programs to national championships and the only coach to lead three different programs to the Final Four, knows a good player when he sees one. Moments after his No. 14 Cardinals overcame Pitt senior point guard Jamel Arti...
Unsung heroes Levitch, Luther shine in Pitt-Louisville
By Dan Sostek / Sports Editor
February 25, 2016
In a game featuring star players like Damion Lee, Chinanu Onuaku, Jamel Artis and Michael Young, one would expect the usual suspects to dominate. But in this season’s second meeting between Pitt and Louisville Wednesday, it was a pair of unsung players that came up big for their respective teams. I...
Preview: No. 20 Panthers prep to take on No. 21 Louisville Cardinals
By Dan Sostek / Sports Editor
January 14, 2016
PREDICTION: PITT 88 LOUISVILLE 81 Pitt has surrendered 80-plus points to opponents in its last two contests, and after Louisville suffered through a poor shooting performance in its loss to Clemson Sunday, it’s unlikely that the Cardinals will lay another egg. Pitt hasn’t won at Louisville since 2007, ...