Likely similar to Pitt fans, Dixon and his players explained they didn't watch a second of the Louisville game tape after the fact. Redshirt freshman Cameron Johnson mentioned Dixon told the team "Every team loses, but great teams bounce back" in stressing to them to move on.
Pitt dug themselves a bit of a whole early starting the game down 10-2, but slowly walked back up on Boston College as their offense started to click again. Eli Carter single handily kept this from being a blood bath. Carter was once a target of Pitt during Ashton Gibbs's junior year when it was unclear if Gibbs was leaving for the NBA or not.