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Pitt Contacts WVU Transfer Joe Toussaint

The Pitt Panthers will look to pull a veteran guard away from their biggest rival.

Stephen Thompson

Pitt Contacts WVU Transfer Joe Toussaint
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PITTSBURGH -- The West Virginia Mountaineers have begun to hemorrhage players to the transfer portal following head coach Bob Huggins' announcement that he would resign following a DUI arrest in Pittsburgh last weekend and the Pitt Panthers will try to swoop in and claim one of those newly available players. 

The Panthers contacted veteran guard Joe Toussaint early this weekend, not long after he announced that he would enter the transfer portal, according to a report from college basketball insider Adam Zagoria. 

Pitt will face some stiff competition if they hope to land the talented transfer, however. A litany of other high major programs - Gonzaga, Kansas State, DePaul, Seton Hall, Nebraska, Notre Dame, St. John's, Georgetown, Texas Tech, Okahoma and Oklahoma State, among others - have all contacted Toussaint as well in the hours since he decided to transfer. 

Toussaint, who transfered to West Virginia from Iowa last season, stepped into a major bench role for the Mountaineers and thrived, averaging career-high averages in minutes (21.7), points (9.4) and rebounds (2.8). 

He is not an outstanding shooter but would give the Panthers a strong backcourt defender and steady presence at the guard spot, which is all of a sudden very young after losing Jamarius Burton, Nike Sibande, Nelly Cummings and Greg Elliot to graduation. 

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STEPHEN THOMPSON

Stephen Thompson graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications and political science from Pitt in April 2022 after spending four years as a sports writer and editor at The Pitt News, the University of Pittsburgh's independent, student-run newspaper.  He primarily worked the Pitt men's basketball beat, and filled in on coverage of football, volleyball, softball, gymnastics and lacrosse, in addition to other sports as needed. His work at The Pitt News has won awards from the Pennsylvania News Media Association and Associated College Press.  During the spring and summer of 2021, Stephen interned for Pittsburgh Sports Now, covering baseball in western Pennsylvania. Hailing from Washington D.C., family ties have cultivated a love of Boston's professional teams and Pitt athletics, and a fascination with sports in general.  You can reach Stephen by email at stephenethompson00@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter. Read his latest work:

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