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Pitt Declines Invitation to NIT

The Pitt Panthers will not play more postseason basketball this season.

Stephen Thompson

Pitt Declines Invitation to NIT
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PITTSBURGH -- The Pitt Panthers will not participate in anymore postseason basketball this season, the program announced after being left out of the NCAA Tournament. 

The Panthers have declined an invite to the 2024 National Invitational Tournament, they announced in a release moments after the NCAA Tournament brackets were revealed. Their 2023-24 season is over. 

“I am incredibly proud of the performance, development, and fight of our team,” head coach Jeff Capel said in a prepared statement. “We ultimately fell short of our goal of reaching the NCAA Tournament, despite ranking favorably in the computers, performing well in conference play with a fourth-place finish and an ACC Tournament Semifinal appearance, and playing our best basketball over the last eight weeks of the season. We made the decision to decline an NIT invitation as a team and with the support of our University leadership. It was a difficult choice, but ultimately what is best for our student-athletes.”

Pitt finished their season 22-11 overall and 12-8 in ACC play. It concluded its season with a 72-65 loss to North Carolina in the ACC Tournament semifinals. They were named one of the first four teams to be left out of the NCAA Tournament, the selection committee revealed.

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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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