Conference strength is great in April. Doesn't mean dick in January-February.

Just pathetic coaching at the end of the game. Why were there Pitt players in the free throw lane? Good Lord Dixon, all of the Pitt players should have been sixty feet away from the basket.

Bad coaching, stupid basketball.

The Big East teams are not ready to play in this tournament.

the uconn huskies and syracues will have to carry the banner for the big east...........
that fat cat barkley is loving this.......

Pitt extends the 2nd longest Final Four drought in the Big East. Every team in the league has made it since Pitt's last trip other than USF.

Fouls aside, the real mistake was the final full possession with a shot clock violation.

(03-19-2011 08:40 PM)mattsarz Wrote:  Fouls aside, the real mistake was the final full possession with a shot clock violation.

Yes, when you have the ball and a slim lead inside a minute, you HAVE to score, or at least get off a good shot.

i feel for you shannon, but dixon just blew it, if the AD doesn't make the change he needs to go because of his bad football hire the first time with alexander i believe, the guy who beat his wife.
wtf was he saving the time out for..............some one please tell me..........

(03-19-2011 08:29 PM)LastMinuteman Wrote:  I have never seen anything like that in my entire life.

+1

(03-19-2011 08:43 PM)Stookey57 Wrote:  i feel for you shannon, but dixon just blew it, if the AD doesn't make the change he needs to go because of his bad football hire the first time with alexander i believe, the guy who beat his wife.
wtf was he saving the time out for..............some one please tell me..........

Both teams were out of time outs as far as I know. At which point in time are you referring to Stookey? I believe Pitt called their last TO with around 7 seconds left to set their defense for Butlers final full possession.

Say this about Butler, these guys are veterans of March.

(03-19-2011 08:34 PM)SF Husky Wrote:  Their style of play suck and they only get away with it because refs in the BE let them.

I think you are right. Big East refs allow us to play very physically, and Pitt is a physical team. Then in the tournament, the refs call the game normally, and our physical teams like Pitt struggle to adjust.

(03-19-2011 08:44 PM)mattsarz Wrote:  Both teams were out of time outs as far as I know. At which point in time are you referring to Stookey? I believe Pitt called their last TO with around 7 seconds left to set their defense for Butlers final full possession.

Horrible coaching in the end. Dixon did not prepare his team in case Brown did not make 2 FTs. That final possession before the MACK foul was a joke too. Pitt players had no clue what they were doing.

(03-19-2011 08:47 PM)USFMike Wrote:  pitt just sucks, the refs gave them the freaking game and they still found a way to choke, i thought the pitt choke against cinci in football was bad but this takes the cake x1000. at the biggest stage in the nation pitt craps the bed. i can hear the haters licking their chops at bashing the league and can't say i blame them either.

i have a new hated team it's pitt, anytime this conference needs pitt to deliver they fall on their face and the one time we needed them to lose they win, WTF!

Come on Mike. Pitt won the Big East regular season, so unless you think the Big East sucks, Pitt doesn't suck.

Yes, it was a bad loss, harmful to our conference's national reputation. But that doesn't mean we should just unload crap all over them here. I'm sure Pitt fans are feeling worst of all right now ...

Props to Turner/CBS having John Adams, NCAA head of basketball officiating, on hand to discuss matters in the Turner studio in ATL. FOX pioneered this with Mike Pereirra on their NFL coverage and its good to see this availability and his candor on the final portion of the game.

For those who did not see it, the only item he would like changed is where Mack was allowed to trash talk Brown. I can go with that, also think Brown could have walked away or done some form of huddle with his teammates.

dumbest 2 seconds in sports history

That was a hard fought game, and the foul calls, I can understand. I think the refs did a very good job considering the consequences of the game. Pittsburgh plays very aggressive, so does Butler. REMEMBER THIS: It was only a year ago that Butler was in the national championship game. They know how to get into tight games. It was just those two guys screwing up badly, and they know it.

Great game Pittsburgh, but unfortunately, it just seems like the cream is rising once again. Another year, perhaps.

(03-19-2011 08:48 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(03-19-2011 08:34 PM)SF Husky Wrote:  Their style of play suck and they only get away with it because refs in the BE let them.

I think you are right. Big East refs allow us to play very physically, and Pitt is a physical team. Then in the tournament, the refs call the game normally, and our physical teams like Pitt struggle to adjust.

ok i apologize it was an emotional game, and i KNOW this is all everyone will be talking about for the entire tourney, so it's going to render watching the tourney almost unwatchable for me, so of course i'm pissed.

having said that this has NOTHING to do with pitt's physical play, there was no huge discrepencies in fouls this was dixon and pitt having the shot clock run out on their last freaking possession, and than choking on the line, and following that up with the tourney's dumbest foul in history, unbelieveable

No reason what so ever to have anybody from Pitt on the foul line for the 2nd shot, coaches got caught watching the game instead of coaching it!!!!!!! BE haters are going to have a field day after today.

(03-19-2011 08:44 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(03-19-2011 08:39 PM)SF Husky Wrote:  

(03-19-2011 08:35 PM)Shannon Panther Wrote:  

(03-19-2011 08:34 PM)SF Husky Wrote:  I have said it every f***ing year. Pitt blows. They choked in the tournament as usual. These clowns can't win a very winnable game. Their style of play suck and they only get away with it because refs in the BE let them.

They got no skills. They choked in the end. They can't make a FT and their other player is SO STUPID to foul howard. It was BEYOND stupid.

Pitt sucks and embarrassed the BE yet again.

F YOU TOO YOU LITTLE *****!

Hey Mods, time to ban this guy. Do you thing Bit.

What i see is THREE posters - USFMike, SF Husky, and Shannon Panther - dropping F-bombs. That's wrong.

it's a stressfull time dr. quo and thats it.........the chancelors need to make a AD change at PITT, this guy is bringin down the program.

(03-19-2011 08:48 PM)SF Husky Wrote:  

(03-19-2011 08:44 PM)mattsarz Wrote:  Both teams were out of time outs as far as I know. At which point in time are you referring to Stookey? I believe Pitt called their last TO with around 7 seconds left to set their defense for Butlers final full possession.

Horrible coaching in the end. Dixon did not prepare his team in case Brown did not make 2 FTs. That final possession before the MACK foul was a joke too. Pitt players had no clue what they were doing.

Yes, the coaching has to be blamed. In the last minute, Pitt (a) couldn't even get a shot off when they had the ball and the lead, (b) committed a bad foul with seconds to go, then © the awful foul with .4 seconds left, all as a result of poor discipline and poor on-court intelligence. And coaches are responsible for that in their players.