BRADENTON, Fla. — Pirates minor league catcher Jacob Stallings has a pretty good idea of how Pitt basketball will look under its new head coach.
Pitt hired Stallings’ father, Kevin to replace Jamie Dixon as basketball coach after Dixon left for TCU. Kevin Stallings coached Vanderbilt for the past 17 seasons. During the baseball offseason, Jacob Stallings worked for his dad, working in the office and at practice compiling advanced statistics.
“Basically I chart how we score, what plays we run, that sort of thing,” Jacob said. “I do some advanced defensive stuff too, how we box out or guard the ball, how teams score against us, that sort of thing.