University of Pittsburgh Athletics
Friday, January 30
Chapel Hill, NC
7 PM
Pitt
at
North Carolina
No. 14 Pitt Travels to No. 11 North Carolina in Top-15 Showdown
1/29/2026 11:10:00 AM | Wrestling
#14 Pitt Panthers at #11 North Carolina Tar Heels
Date: Friday, Jan. 30
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Carmichael Arena – Chapel Hill, NC
Match Notes: Pitt
Watch: ACCNX
QUICK NOTES
- No. 14 Pitt returns to action Friday night, facing a ranked road test at No. 11 North Carolina at 7 p.m. on ACC Network Extra.
- The Panthers have eight wrestlers featured in the first edition of the NCAA Coaches' Rankings: No. 8 Mac Stout (197), No. 13 Dayton Pitzer (285), No. 20 Luca Augustine (174), No. 22 Kade Brown (149), No. 22 Chase Kranitz (184), No. 30 Evan Tallmadge (133), No. 33 Tyler Chappell (125).
- Mac Stout paces the Panthers with a 13-2 record this season, six of which have come by technical fall. Stout has won five consecutive matches, including defeating three top 25 opponents in that stretch: No. 15 Branson John (Maryland), No. 17 Sonny Sasso (Virginia Tech), and No. 21 Rune Lawrence (West Virginia).
- Dayton Pitzer has won six straight matches, including picking up wins against No. 12 Jimmy Mullen (Virginia Tech) and No. 24 Connor Barket (Duke) during that span.
- Pitzer has delivered two match-clinching performances for the Panthers this season, recording a pin against Princeton to secure the dual and earning a major decision to lock up a win over No. 22 West Virginia.
- Jared Keslar has won his last three dual matchups against Virginia Tech, West Virginia, and Duke. Keslar got Pitt on the board and sparked the five straight bout wins against the Hokies with a 4-2 win by decision over Mac Church at 165.
- Pitt trails North Carolina 12–5 in the all-time series. The Panthers' most recent win over the Tar Heels came on Feb. 3, 2023, when Pitt earned a 21–11 victory at the Fitzgerald Field House.
- The Panthers have been ranked in the Top 15 in the NWCA Rankings for the past four polls. Pitt previously jumped six spots to No. 16 in the Week 6 rankings after an exciting win at then-No. 14 Lehigh on Dec. 5 and improved to No. 14 in the Week 7 rankings.
- Pitt has five wrestlers ranked in the top 25 of the InterMat rankings: No. 8 Mac Stout (197), No. 15 Dayton Pitzer (285), No. 18 Dylan Evans (157), No. 19 Luca Augustine (174), and No. 20 Kade Brown (149).
POTENTIAL LINEUP vs. North Carolina
125: Tyler Chappell vs. #15 Kysen Terukina (UNC)
133: #30 Evan Tallmadge vs. #19 Ethan Oakley (UNC)
141: Briar Priest vs. #10 Luke Simcox (UNC)
149: #20 Kade Brown vs. Nate Askew -or- Nick O'Neill (UNC)
157: #17 Dylan Evans vs. #28 Laird Root (UNC)
165: #33 Jared Keslar vs. #14 Bryce Hepner (UNC)
174: #19 Luca Augustine vs. Collin Carrigan (UNC)
184: #28 Chase Kranitz vs. #13 Jake Dailey (UNC)
197: #8 Mac Stout vs. Robert Platt (UNC)
285: #15 Dayton Pitzer vs. Jacob Levy (UNC)
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