Pittsburgh Impressive at Season’s Start

John Perrotto of BasketballProspectus.com has a nice little article about the Pittsburgh Panthers, the No. 3 team in the nation in the latest version of the AP Poll. Pittsburgh has talent at every position, is deep enough to weather injuries, plays solid defense and can score from inside and out. While North Carolina and UConn have been getting plenty of praise, the Pitt Panthers have been kind of buried as a news story this season. Well, no more, thanks to BP.com and the Final Four Blog.

In the article, Tom Green, the coach of Fairleigh Dickinson, which played Pitt earlier this season, said of the Panthers: “I’ve been coaching 26 years and I’ve never seen a team play better man-to-man. They really get after it and just smother you. We play three or four big-time teams every year and none of them have ever played defense like this Pitt team.”

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