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Pitt Loses Scholarship G Michael Hueitt

The Pitt Panthers suffered some in-season attrition this week.

Stephen Thompson

Pitt Loses Scholarship G Michael Hueitt
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PITTSBURGH -- Shortly after the Pitt Panthers secured one of their biggest wins of the season over Wake Forest, they got some bad news as a scholarship guard decided to depart from the program. 

Michael Hueitt, a late addition to Pitt's roster this season, has left the team due to personal reasons, according to a statement from the program. The Panthers now have just 10 healthy scholarship players left on the roster. 

Hueitt filled the roster spot left open by the departure of Dior Johnson, who was dismissed from the team before the start of the 2023 fall semester. He transferred in from UNC Greensboro and appeared in five games, averaging 3.2 points per game on seven of 10 shooting from the field. He had not played in a game since mid-December. 

The Panthers will play with just three scholarship guards - Ishmael Leggett, Jaland Lowe and Bub Carrington. Sophomore wing Jorge Diaz Graham has been sidelined indefinitely with an injury, freshman center Papa Kante is out for the season with a knee injury and Pitt planned on redshirting freshman Marlon Barnes but that could change with how thin the roster has become. 

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Stephen Thompson
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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