In advance of its home game against No. 18 West Virginia this weekend, Pittsburgh sits at 5-4 on the season. The Panthers have lost at home to Montana, on the road to Navy and most recently needed overtime to prevail against Mount St. Mary's at the Petersen Events Center.
Most tellingly, perhaps, Pitt has, in effect, played a rather forgiving nonconference schedule to a draw. The 5-4 record includes a 1-1 mark in overtime games. The Panthers have scored 640 points on the season, and allowed 647. And all of this has come against a schedule that Ken Pomeroy rates as merely the 254th most challenging such slate in Division I.