The Pitt men’s basketball season is about to get underway. The Panthers open with a game tonight against St. Francis as the team hopes to get over the .500 hump under third-year head coach Jeff Capel.
Purely looking at the record, Pitt’s first two seasons under Capel weren’t great. But the program was forced to dig out of a tremendous mess, left partially by previous head coach Kevin Stallings (and, to be fair, somewhat of a decline seen under the departed Jamie Dixon before that). Expecting much more than the 30 wins they had over that time probably was not too realistic.