I thought it before the season. I thought it is. We, you know, got together, we, we all got together, we had our whole team together at the end of august and as I just started watching us when we started workouts practices, you started seeing the camaraderie, just how it organically happened. Start seeing some things on the court, seeing how they wanted to share the basketball, how we wanted to move the ball. Um, but just seeing the connections and you know, we did *** few things, you know, some team building things, team bonding things and just seeing how it organically happened. That's what I thought we had. You know, I thought it probably even more after we got punched in the mouth and we lost those three games and how we came back from that, how we still, that's, that's *** time where it could really become disjointed and in that moment when that didn't happen and we just kind of hunkered down and believed in each other more and worked *** little bit harder. That's when I thought, okay, you know, we we have something and then I, I probably say *** win would be when we went to Northwestern and one, You know, I think northwestern is *** really, really good basketball team and you know, they're in the top half think they're second place in the big 10 had an unbelievable win last night. And when we went there was our first true road game and you started to see just how close you started to see that and it's maybe the best game we've played all year, That's when I knew, okay, this is this is different and we have something here. We have to really, really fight to protect it.
Nelly Cummings scored 22 points and Blake Hinson scored 19 points and Pittsburgh beat Georgia Tech 76-68 on Tuesday night.Federiko Federiko scored 14 points and Jamarius Burton 12 for Pitt, which made 19 of 20 foul shots including all eight in the final two-and-a-half minutes. The Panthers owned a 34-24 rebounding edge.Miles Kelly scored 24 points shooting 6 of 13 from beyond 3-point range, Kyle Sturdivant scored 16 and Javon Franklin 15 for Georgia Tech.Federiko threw down a dunk with 9:09 left to put Pitt ahead 53-52 and the Panthers stayed ahead the rest of the way. Pitt led 33-32 at halftime.With the win, the Panthers (20-8, 13-4 ACC) reached the 20-win mark for the first time since the 2015-16 season when they went 21-12 and lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to Wisconsin. It was also the program's last trip to the NCAA Tournament.This is the first season in the five-year tenure under coach Jeff Capel that the Panthers have won 20 games. It's the 23rd season of 20-plus wins in program history.Pitt sits in third place in the conference behind idle Virginia (13-3) and Miami (14-4) with three games left.Georgia Tech (11-17, 3-14) hosts Louisville on Saturday. Pitt hosts Syracuse on Saturday.___More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
PITTSBURGH —
Nelly Cummings scored 22 points and Blake Hinson scored 19 points and Pittsburgh beat Georgia Tech 76-68 on Tuesday night.
Federiko Federiko scored 14 points and Jamarius Burton 12 for Pitt, which made 19 of 20 foul shots including all eight in the final two-and-a-half minutes. The Panthers owned a 34-24 rebounding edge.
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Miles Kelly scored 24 points shooting 6 of 13 from beyond 3-point range, Kyle Sturdivant scored 16 and Javon Franklin 15 for Georgia Tech.
Federiko threw down a dunk with 9:09 left to put Pitt ahead 53-52 and the Panthers stayed ahead the rest of the way. Pitt led 33-32 at halftime.
With the win, the Panthers (20-8, 13-4 ACC) reached the 20-win mark for the first time since the 2015-16 season when they went 21-12 and lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to Wisconsin. It was also the program's last trip to the NCAA Tournament.
This is the first season in the five-year tenure under coach Jeff Capel that the Panthers have won 20 games. It's the 23rd season of 20-plus wins in program history.
Pitt sits in third place in the conference behind idle Virginia (13-3) and Miami (14-4) with three games left.
Georgia Tech (11-17, 3-14) hosts Louisville on Saturday. Pitt hosts Syracuse on Saturday.
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