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Post-Game Notes
1/12/2008 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Jan. 12, 2008
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PITT-SETON HALL POST-GAME NOTES
*The game marked Pitt's first Big East regular season home game. It was Pitt's 98th home game at the
*Sam Young recorded a career-high 28 points today. His previous best was 24 against North Carolina A&T (11/10/07). Young also tied career bests for three-point field goals (four), assists (three) and free-throws attempted (12).
*With his three three-point field goals made, Ronald Ramon moved into sixth place on Pitt's all-time career three-point field goals made list. He currently has 192 3-point field goals and passed Carl Krauser (190 from 2002-06). Also, with his eight assists today, Ramon moved into 18th place on Pitt's all-time career assists list. Ramon, who currently has 263 career assists passed Andre Alridge, who accumulated 255 assists from 1992-97. Ramon is also approaching the 1,000-point mark. He currently has 897 career points. *Ramon tied a career high in minutes today with 38. He also logged 38 against Duke (12/20/07).
*DeJuan Blair recorded his seventh double-double of the season. He set a career high for free-throws made (eight) and tied a career high for points (20). His previous best for made free-throws was seven against Duke (12/20/07), and he poured in 20 points on two other occasions this season, against
*Keith Benjamin tallied a career-best six assists today. His previous high was five against
*Benjamin has hit 64.8% of his field goals (24-37), 57.8% of his three-pointers (11-19), 80% of his free-throws (8-10) and is averaging 16.75 points per game since the Panthers lost Fields and Cook.
*Tyrrell Biggs tied a career best for defensive rebounds with six. He also grabbed six defensive boards against
*The Panthers have elevated their shooting percentages in the absence of Levance Fields and Mike Cook. Over the past four games they are converting 53.6% of their field goal attempts (119-222) and 53.9% of their three-point attempts (34-63).
*Ramon's assist-to-turnover ratio is 2.8:1 (28 assists, only 10 turnovers) in his four games since taking over the point guard duties for the injured Fields.
*Gilbert Brown is shooting 50% from the floor and is averaging 8.5 points per game in an expanded role over the past four games.
*In the four games since Levance Fields and Mike Cook were sidelined Pitt owns a 2-2 record.
*Pitt held Seton Hall to 70 points on the day. Pitt has now held 13 of its 16 opponents to 70 points or less on the season and has held 43 of its last 51 Big East regular season opponents to 70 points or less. Additionally, since Jamie Dixon became head coach, Pitt has held 125 of its 151 opponents to 70 points or less.
*Pitt outrebounded Seton Hall today 45-36. Pitt has now outrebounded its opponents in 13 of 16 games played this year.
*Pitt won its 12th consecutive home game dating back to Feb. 17, 2007. The 12-game home win streak ranks tied for sixth among Pitt's all-time top streaks.
*Pitt improved to 10-0 at home this season. The 10-0 record ranks tied for the third best home winning percentage in school history. Pitt went 16-0 in 2002-03, 13-0 in 1973-74 and 10-0 in 1974-75.
*Pitt improves to 34-7 all-time vs. Big East opponents at the
*Pitt improves to 90-8 all-time in the
*The win gave Jamie Dixon a 47-20 record vs. Big East regular season competition. Additionally,
*With its win over Seton Hall, Pitt improved to 28-19 all-time vs. the Pirates. Pitt has now claimed eight of the last 11 meetings between the two schools. It is now 4-1 vs. Seton Hall at the
*Pitt's crowd of 12,508 was its largest crowd this year.
