Pitt hung with Louisville for about five minutes but after that, simply couldn’t keep up with the Cardinals, who defeated the Panthers on Tuesday, 77-51.
If you’ve been watching Pitt this season against some of the better teams they’ve faced, you start to see a trend of scoring droughts. The Panthers had a few of them tonight with the first coming in the first half when they went about eight minutes without scoring a point. That took Pitt from a 1-point lead to a 16-point deficit.
Hardly anyone will survive that and when you add in that Pitt also had other smaller scoring droughts, had some turnover issues, and was beaten soundly on the boards, I mean, it’s kind of a head-scratcher that they didn’t lose by even more.