postgazette.com - 1/8/2009
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After years of chasing the top teams in college basketball, the Pitt Panthers finally rose to the No. 1 ranking in the national polls yesterday. With the adulation and respect of being the nation's top-ranked team comes one undeniable fact: The Panthers have gone from the hunters to the hunted ...
rivals.yahoo.com - 1/6/2009
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Merry New Year! At 4:30 p.m. ET, The
Rose Bowl kicks off the annual NCAA money-grab Bowl
Championship Series, a set of five games designed to maximize profits determine a national championship like Illinois awards Senate seats in an orderly, fair ...
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What if college basketball was stuck with the BCS?
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bankrollsports.com - 1/5/2009
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Earlier in the college basketball season I broke
down how the ACC and the Big East stacked
up against each other to be America’s best basketball conference. Notably pointing out how deep the Big East has become, and that soon they would be considered ...
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Big East Hoops Dominance
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Pitt Blather -- The Rantings Continue —
... there is now a bulls-eye .“People are gunning for us now,” senior point guard Levance Fields said. “We’re the top dogs in the country. We have to play that way and practice that way.… “It’s something every basketball player dreams of, being No. 1 as an individual and as a team,” senior forward Sam Young said. “That’s what we work for. Now that we have it, we have to keep it. We’re here now, but we’re not done. We’re going to try to keep it as long as we can.” Ron ...
Game #15: St. John’s at Pittsburgh Panthers
the east coast bias —
... With the attention to detail and focus that Jamie Dixon brings, the increased scrutiny of being #1, and St. John’s publicized win over Notre Dame, expect the Panthers to take St. John’s seriously. (See also Pitt Blather’s ...
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rivals.yahoo.com 11/29/2008 —
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