No. 7 Pitt is ACC Champions Again!

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No. 7 Pitt is ACC Champions Again!

11/26/2022 5:17:00 PM | Volleyball

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The Panthers have won a share of their fourth ACC Title in the past six seasons

PITTSBURGH – For the fourth time in the last six seasons, No. 7 Pitt (27-3, 17-1 ACC) have won the ACC Championship. The Panthers defeated Boston College, 3-0 (25-11, 25-14, 29-27) on Saturday afternoon inside Fitzgerald Field House, securing a share of the ACC Title with Louisville.

"It's been a rewarding season," Head coach Dan Fisher said. "In light of the fact that we lost so many great seniors last year. We knew we had talent with this year's group but we didn't know how it would come together. We have a really enjoyable group to coach and we're still getting better. I'm excited to see our fate tomorrow in the NCAA Tournament Selection Show."

The Panthers will learn who their next opponent is during the NCAA Tournament Selection show, tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. on ESPNU.

QUICK HITS

Pitt has clinched a share of the ACC Championship.
This is the fourth ACC Title in the past six seasons – also 2017, 2018 and 2019.
The Panthers finish the ACC season with a 17-1 record (.944 win%) – tied for the second-best ACC record in program history.
Pitt is now 99-11 in ACC play over the last six seasons (.900 win%).
The Panthers finished ACC play with a perfect 9-0 record at home.
Valeria Vazquez Gomez led the team in kills for the second match in a row, finishing with 11 on .435 hitting. This was her ninth .400+ hitting match of the year after earning just four such matches in her previous two seasons.
She finishes the regular season with 309 kills, her first-career 300 kill season.
Pitt made 11 aces today, the most in an ACC match since 2016 (12 at Georgia Tech).
The 3.67 aces/set average is the second highest ever recorded by a Pitt team in an ACC match – 3.75 aces/set vs. Louisville in 2014.
Four different Panthers registered multiple aces today, led by three from Courtney Buzzerio. Cat Flood, Rachel Fairbanks and Vazquez Gomez each added two with Serena Gray and Emmy Klika adding two others.
Three aces tied the season high for Buzzerio, this is her fourth match with three aces this year.
She finishes the regular season with 30 aces and just 21 service errors, the first time in her five-year collegiate career to have earned more aces than errors.
Buzzerio is one of seven Panthers to finish with more aces than errors this year, alongside Fairbanks, Vazquez Gomez, Flood, Cam Ennis, Lexis Akeo and Rachel Jepsen.
Chiamaka Nwokolo tied her career-best by averaging 2.00 block/set tonight, making six blocks over the course of three sets.
1,950 fans were in attendance today, bringing the 2022 average attendance up to 1,726 per match, a new program record.
The Panthers have now won 42 straight home matches against unranked ACC opponents.

SET 1: PITT 25 – BOSTON COLLEGE 11
The Panthers got off to a great start thanks to some domination from the service line. Buzzerio ripped off three aces over the course of four points with Fairbanks adding another as Pitt took a 12-3 lead thanks to four aces and a service error from BC. Pitt continued to pile on, extending the lead throughout the set and eventually, winning by 14 points. Pitt out-hit the Eagles, .500 to .105 in the set, finishing with five aces to BC's seven kills. Gray led the offense with four kills on four swings, followed by three kills from Buzzerio, on three swings herself.

SET 2: PITT 25 – BOSTON COLLEGE 14
The service pressure continued in the second as Flood delivered a pair of aces in what would become a 6-0 Panther scoring run, putting Pitt comfortably in front, 12-4. Vazquez Gomez took over from there, making a team-best four kills on .667 hitting as the Panthers cruised to another set.

SET 3: PITT 29 - BOSTON COLLEGE 27
BC showed their fight in the third set, coming back after another fast start from Pitt to erase a 14-9 deficit and tie the score at 15-15. Pitt would attempt to pull away again, 19-16, even earning match point at 24-21, but BC stayed in the fight, winning three points in a row to force extra points. BC had two set points at 26-25 and 27-26, only for Buzzerio and Nwokolo to tie the score with kills. Nwokolo continued her great set with a solo block to earn Pitt another match point, 28-27, leading to the 11^th and final kill from Vazquez Gomez to secure a share of the ACC Championship. Nwokolo was the hero of the third, making four blocks and four kills while hitting .571.

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