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Pitt names Tom Herrion Associate Head Coach (Rivals.com)

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:15:00 PDT

University of Pittsburgh head basketball coach Jamie Dixon announced today that Tom Herrion has been promoted...

Pitt's Young will return for senior season (AP)

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:04:46 PDT

Pittsburgh forward Sam Young, the Big East's most improved player last season, will return for his senior year. The 6-foot-7 Young weighed entering the NBA draft but, with two other starters back from last season's team that went 27-10, decided to finish his college career. Pitt also returns point guard Levance Fields and center DeJuan Blair.

Pittsburgh Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:30:58 PDT

It was a tale of two tournaments for the Panthers in 2007-2008. Pittsburgh entered the Big East Tournament as the No. 7 seed but won four games in four days to earn the championship and the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. That brought a squad that was previously looking at a seed probably in the No. 7-10 range up to a No. 4 seed in the Big Dance, and a trendy pick to make the Final Four.

Ultimately, however, the Panthers were denied a fifth trip in the past seven seasons to the Sweet 16 by a Michigan State squad that put the clamps down on the Panthers' offense. The 65-54 defeat ended the season in the second round, and torpedoed the NCAA pools of folks like Bobby Knight, who had picked the team to go much farther.

Those expectations, however, may have been too much...