No. 7 Pitt Travels to Wake Forest and Virginia Tech

PITTSBURGH – No. 7 Pitt (20-2, 10-0 ACC) bring the longest active road winning streak in the nation with them for a pair of ACC matches at Wake Forest (12-9, 4-6 ACC) and Virginia Tech (9-12, 2-8 ACC). The Panthers have won 11 straight road matches dating back to last season and are 5-0 in road ACC matches this year. Overall, Pitt has won 13 matches in a row, the fourth longest active streak in the country, and the longest among Power 5 schools.

WEEK 10 SCHEDULE

No. 7 Pitt at Wake Forest	Friday, Oct. 28	6:30 p.m.	Live Stats
No. 7 Pitt at Virginia Tech	Sunday, Oct. 30	1 p.m.	Live Stats	Watch

Wake Forest is unable to provide a broadcast for Friday's match.
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LAST TIME OUT
The Panthers earned their highest ranked win in program history in their last match, defeating No. 2 Louisville in five sets. Courtney Buzzerio delivered a season-best 22 kills on .302 hitting, earning herself Conference Player of the Week honors for the second week in a row and third time this season. Buzzerio has now tied Kayla Lund for the most ACC Player of the Week awards in a single season.

Pitt also swept Notre Dame last Friday, extending the winning streak at home over unranked ACC Opponents to 40 matches. The Panthers are the first time in the Power 5 to reach 20 wins this season and lead Division I with 129 victories since the start of the 2018 campaign.

SO GOOD IT'S BIZARRE-IO
Graduate transfer Courtney Buzzerio is on an All-American pace in her lone year at Pitt. She leads the team with 288 kills this season, doing so on .343 hitting. She owns the highest hitting percentage in the nation by a pin hitter with 600 or more attacks.

Buzzerio leads all ACC pin hitters in hitting percentage and is 11th overall. She has 259 more attempts than the next closest player in the ACC hitting % Top 10. She became the first student-athlete in the conference to earn ACC Player of the Week three times this season, passing Georgia Tech's Julia Bergmann for the most awards this season. She joins Kayla Lund as the only Panther to have won ACC Player of the Week three times in the same season after Lund did so back in 2018.

Buzzerio has now made at least 3.25 kills/set in 14 straight matches. She has made 10+ kills while hitting at least .300 in each of her last nine matches - the longest active streak in Division I. She is one of six Panthers in the Dan Fisher era to collect multiple matches of 5+ kills/set and .400+ hitting in the same season - Lund (2020-21), Williams (2017/16), Markovic (2017), Kullerkann (2015) and Wynn (2013).

PANTHER POWER TRAVELS
Pitt has started the season 7-0 on the road improving their road winning streak to 11 matches dating back to last season. It is the longest active road winning streak in the nation and the third 10+ match road win streak in the Dan Fisher era.

The Panthers have now won 24 of their last 25 road contests dating back to the fall of 2020. 16 of those wins have come in ACC matches with the lone blemish coming at No. 2 Louisville, in five sets, last season.

This year, Buzzerio has been leading the charge in unfriendly territory, pacing the offense with 97 kills in 25 sets (3.88/set) on .355 hitting. Ashley Browske has been upped her game on the road as well, averaging 3.87 digs/set on the road, an increase of 0.88 digs/set compared to her home and neutral site matches. The defensive effort doesn't just stop with Browske, Rachel Fairbanks is averaging 2.92 digs/set & Vazquez Gomez makes 2.48 on the road, increases of .75 and 0.325 d/s respectively.

SCOUTING WAKE FOREST
The Demon Deacons enter the weekend on a four-match losing streak, having suffered road losses at Notre Dame, Louisville, Miami and Florida State over the last two weeks. They took a set against Louisville but suffered back-to-back sweeps at hands of UM and FSU this past weekend. They are known for their defense and long rallies, boasting the second most digs/set in the ACC with 14.9. Pitt leads the all-time series 10-1 and has not dropped a set to Wake Forest in each of the last six meetings.

SCOUTING VIRGINIA TECH
The Hokies have lost seven straight heading into the weekend after suffering a pair of sweeps against Florida State and Miami in their last two matches. They will take on Virginia in the Commonwealth Clash on Friday before Sunday's match against Pitt. This will be the 20^th meeting between the two schools with Pitt holding a 13-6 advantage in the series. The Panthers have not dropped a set to VT in each of the last seven matches.

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