The performance looked personal, but Syracuse killer Nelly Cummings and Blake Hinson each downplayed as added motivation what Jim Boeheim said mere weeks ago about how Pitt allegedly "bought" its players over the offseason.
I'll say it if they won't.
Pitt took this personally, and it was treated as such. The scoreboard read 99-82 in favor of Pitt at the final horn, and the sold-out crowd of 12,508 inside the Petersen Events Center erupted into mayhem as the Pitt bench stormed the floor to mob manager-turned-walk-on-turned-scholarship-player Aidan Fisch, whose left-handed scoop layup resulted in the final bucket of the game with 14 seconds to play.