Let's not get ahead of ourselves

    Before we start saying that Pitt's going to the final four, we have to remember that every year we say that Pitt's a final four or Elite 8 team, they find a way to screw it up. They go through the long grind in NYC the week before, playing their hearts out, usually making it to the finals, start looking ahead to that potential Pitt/ UCLA matchup like we usually do (and thank God we don't have to put up with that this year) and then they go into the tournament flat. It's not like a lot of the teams we lose to are that stellar. Remember Pacific? Bradley? Kent State? Wiscon ... oh wait, the NCAA jobbed Pitt that year by giving the lower seed the home court adv.. Point is, Jamie Dixon better make sure these guys are fresh, prepared, and ready to go come 2:50 (12:50 MDT) because we don't want Oral Roberts to make this dubvious list. No looking ahead to Memphis and Texas. Let's get our business done in Denver first.

Very well put Steelers. You are absolutely right. Pitt CANNOT look past any game. Any team can get streaky and get hot from the 3 pt. line at any time. Ive heard from other people and Oral Roberts fans that Oral Roberts is a Dayton-type team and can really drain the 3's if they get into a groove. I think Jamie has a hold on his team this time though. Jamie, the actual team, and the fans all know too well what can happen when we look ahead. We trip over that proverbial invisible log in the forest (ie Bradley, Pacific) every time we worry about the Sweet 16 or Elite 8 matchup. This is a "one game at a time" process, so lets hope Jamie stresses that to the team.

GO PITT!!!!

Thanks the firethatpit and Steelers.  I am hoping and have been preaching this since Fields broke his foot.   I believe then and still believe now that this year is special as I called it magical then.  I wish the stoogies would stop talking about Young's possibilities of going into the draft and all of this other post season BS.  We do not need these distractions.

I can see and feel the team ignoring the idiots (to date at least) about how good they are and who they should beat.  Even Bobby Knight went as far as picking Pitt to the Final Four and even furtheer.  Jamie's job is to get them up for every game especially the lesser teams that want it badly.  Oral Roberts upset Duke a couple of years ago and believe me, they can be the cinderella team and do it again.

Pitt has been playing better defense every game dating back to the Louisviille game. They will have their hands full with Oral Roberts and their perimeter game but as long as they continue the perimeter defense, they will be fine.  Remeber that most of Vaughns and all the other 3's for Louisville, Georgetown and Marquette wer NBA 3s.  They will need to defend the 3s and make free throws as most of the inside shots will be fouled early and lead to free throw.  If they are not shooting free throws better than 60% this game will be tight.  I am excited and cannot wait until thursday.

Lets go Pitt!!!

You won't find this guy getting ahead of things.  I know that to make it past the Sweet 16 is quite an accomplishment...one to date that has managed to elude the Panthers.  We have not had a run in the NCAA's that would be considered a good one.  However, we have really only had one really poor showing the past 6 seasons in the tourney (losing to 13 seed Bradley in the 2nd round in 2006).  That loss to Pacific in the first round...don't forget that Pitt was the lower seed that year (an 8-9 matchup). 

Pitt's NCAA tournament record over the past six years is 9-6.  Not bad considering that when you get to the Dance, everyone is good or they wouldn't be here and everyone is keyed up.  I'll grant you, it would be much nicer to have had a Final 4 run in there somewhere, but all the same, 4 sweet sixteens in 6 years are nothing to sneeze at.

If you finish in the Sweet 16, that means in theory that your team is somewhere between the 9th and 16th best program in the country that year (again, I say in theory).  Pitt really has not been much better than that over those years.  Maybe once or twice they were a top 10 team.  However, I think that in general they have made the most of their talent through those years.  Here's hoping they have a Final Four run in them this year.  Go Pitt!!!!

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