Panthers Drop Regular Season Finale; Play #10 Notre Dame In ACC Tournament

Sunday, March 1

Coral Gables, FL

3:00 PM

Pitt

4-25,1-17ACC

University of Miami

15-14,7-11ACC

Pittsburgh

Miami (FL)

Panthers Drop Regular Season Finale; Play #10 Notre Dame In ACC Tournament

3/1/2020 5:10:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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CORAL GABLES, FL – The Pitt women's basketball team closed out their regular season on Sunday afternoon with a road loss to the Miami Hurricanes, 73-54. With the loss, Pitt will be the #15 seed in the ACC Tournament and they will play #10 Notre Dame on Wednesday afternoon.

Dayshanette Harris continued her scoring tear for the Panthers on Sunday as she netted a game-high 22 points to go along with five rebounds and a steal across 30 minutes of action. For Harris, it marked her fourth 20+ point scoring outing during her freshman season, the most since Brianna Kiesel had seven as a freshman in 2011-12. Amber Brown finished off her afternoon with 14 points and five rebounds while Jahsyni Knight came off the bench and grabbed six rebounds.

Harris got out to a nice start for the Panthers as she made a free throw and a mid-range jumper to give Pitt the early 3-2 lead before the Hurricanes used a 5-0 run to take the 7-3 lead into the first media timeout of the game. Out of the timeout, Harris cut the Hurricanes lead down to two, 10-8 but Miami responded with an 8-0 run to close out the first quarter with the 18-8 lead.

Pitt opened the scoring in the second with a triple from Harris but the Hurricanes answered with a layup to make it 20-11 in favor of the home side. The Panthers were able to go on a 6-0 run over the next four minutes as Ismini Prapa knocked down a triple and Harris netted a highlight reel jumper after a great crossover dribble, cutting the Pitt deficit to three, 20-17. After the media timeout, the Hurricanes took control of the game as they went on a 17-4 run to close out the half with the 37-21 lead.

The third quarter was a back-and-forth affair as the Hurricanes held the slim 11-10 edge in scoring through the first five minutes of play. Brown scored six of the Panthers first 10 points in the quarter as she capped it with a rebound and went coast-to-coast to finish off a layup. The Canes pushed their lead out to 62-36 at the end of the third as they closed the quarter on a 14-5 run.

The Pitt freshmen took over the scoring load in the final quarter on Sunday as Harris, Brown and Emy Hayford scored 11 points in the quarter as Pitt outscored Miami 18-11 in the final frame.

Hayford finished her afternoon with five points, four boards and two steals while Rita Igbokwe finished with six rebounds and three blocks in the loss.

As a team, the Hurricanes outrebounded Pitt 49-39 while forcing 17 Panther turnovers that they turned into 23 points. The Miami bench had a strong game as they finished with 32 points while the Pitt bench had nine points.

NEXT UP

Pitt will be the #15 seed in the upcoming ACC Tournament and will battle #10 Notre Dame at 3:30 pm on Wednesday in Greensboro, NC at the Greensboro Coliseum in the opening round of the tournament.
Pitt and Notre Dame have faced off twice this season with the Irish winning both of the previous meetings.

PITT NOTES
TEAM

With the loss, Pitt falls to 9-23 all-time against the Canes including a 1-15 mark in games in Coral Gables.

Dayshanette Harris

Finished off her evening with a game-high 22 points, and five rebounds across 30 minutes of work while going 7-for-15 from the floor and 2-for-4 from behind the arc.
She netted 20+ points for the fourth time this season as she is the first Pitt freshman since Brianna Kiesel in 2011-12 to do so.
With the five rebound effort, she has 13 games this season with at least five rebounds. She has grabbed 5+ boards in five straight games since returning from injury.
The freshman has 14 games this season with double figure points scored including in six straight. She has 11 double figure scoring games in 18 ACC games.
She has played 20+ minutes in 24 games while notching 30+ minutes 12 times this season.