Pitt Moving Up NCAA Tournament Bubble
PITTSBURGH -- The Pitt Panthers' 2023 season is still only about one-third of the way completed but they have done enough to earn early consideration for an NCAA Tournament berth from one of the sport's leading postseason predictors.
ESPN's Joe Lundardi still has Pitt in the "considered" category of teams, same as his last seeding projections, but the Panthers are just two spots removed from being one of the "Next Four Out," trailing Cincinnati, Texas Tech, TCU, Butler, St. John's and others.
When push comes to shove, the Panthers appear to have a better resume than many of the teams listed in front of them do. They lack many quality wins but they have avoided bad losses to inferior competition, which boosts them into the realm of very early NCAA Tournament consideration.
With a brutal stretch of games on deck to open ACC play, beginning with a date against rival Syracuse on the road this weekend, the Panthers will have plenty of chances to
Four of their next eight games come against teams receiving votes in the latest AP poll and five are on the road. Dates with Duke, North Carolina, Wake Forest and Syracuse over the next month will say a lot about just how good this team is.
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