Oh, happy days. Basketball is back.
Pitt starts the season in Okinawa, Japan in the Armed Forces Classic against the number 9 team in the country, Gonzaga. The game is slated for a 7pm (but pushed to 7:40) start on ESPN. That is assuming no disruptions by an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 in Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan — some 763 kilometers away — didn’t disrupt things. (It didn’t.)
Pitt is the obvious underdog in this game.
It’s interesting. As much as Pitt has a huge roster turnover from last year to this, the players from last year had a huge number of minutes.