Pitt Contacts Iowa State Transfer Jeremiah Williams

The Pitt Panthers reached out to an Illinois decommit over the weekend.

PITTSBURGH -- The Pitt Panthers are still searching for a player to fill their final roster spot and they are lining up a list of veteran guards that could be good fits. 

Pitt, alongside Arizona State, Wichita State, St. Bonaventure, Middle Tennessee State, Sam Houston State and San Jose State, all reached out to Jeremiah Williams, a transfer from Iowa State and Temple who had decommitted from Illinois earlier this month. George Michalowski of The Portal Report was first to report the news. 

Williams doesn't have much of an outside game to speak of - he's just a 26.7% shooter from 3-point distance over the course of his two seasons in college basketball - but he is can be a playmaker (31.1% assist rate in 2021-22) without giving away the ball too much (1.3 over 31 minutes per game for his career) and a plus defender (1.7 defensive box plus-minus in 2021-22).

This seems like the best of both worlds to me - an older player that can bring something different than what everyone else at his position does and makes sense as a bench piece behind Johnson, Lowe and Leggett. Williams wouldn't play 30 minutes a night but Pitt wouldn't need him to. Williams could simply be another weapon on a team that seems poised for a shift from offensively to defensively focused. 

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