Pitt at Georgia Tech: Game Info, Odds, Three Storylines

PITTSBURGH — The Pitt Panthers have suffered consecutive losses for the primary time since November and escaped essentially the most tough a part of their schedule with two victories over ranked opponents, a one-point loss to the league’s first place squad and an eight-point loss on the street at No. 24 Duke. 

This has traditionally been a hazard zone for Jeff Capel-led groups. Now it is time to begin stacking wins if the Panthers wish to keep away from a second half collapse. Starting with a mid-afternoon tip-off towards the Yellow Jackets, the Panthers’ subsequent three opponents personal a mixed report of 15-35. Pitt has examined their mettle towards among the greatest groups within the ACC and fared about in addition to one may hope, however now’s time to handle enterprise earlier than the slate will get harder. 

Sport Data

Opponent: Georgia Tech (8-8 general, 1-5 ACC)
Time: 3:00 PM EST
Location: McCammish Pavillion; Atlanta, Georgia
Broadcast: ACC Community and 93.7 The Fan

Odds

The Panthers are 1.5-point favorites over the Yellow Jackets. Pitt is -134 on the moneyline and the Yellow Jackets are at +112. The entire factors over/underneath has been set at 142. 

Three Storylines

Swarming Jackets

Georgia Tech has fallen on laborious instances ever since successful the ACC Event in 2021, however one factor is for sure about Josh Pastner groups – they are going to defend their tails off and that holds true this season. The Jackets are 104th nationally in defensive effectivity, 81st in efficient subject objective share protection and twenty second in 3-point protection. 

Pitt struggled mightily on the offensive finish – esspecially within the second half – at Cameron Indoor Stadium earlier this week. The Panthers acknowledged of their postgame press conferences that they had been too stagnant and leaned on isolation performs too incessantly. Ball movment can be key for a Pitt crew that’s undefeated and averaging 71.4 factors per sport when recording 13 or extra assists. 

A bounce-back sport from Nelly Cummings – who owned an assist-to-turnover ratio of 0:4 towards Duke – would do wonders for the Panthers. He and Jamarius Burton had executed a wonderful job distributing and caring for the ball over the previous seven weeks, however had been sloppy in Durham. 

Rebounding and Rebounding

If the Panthers wish to get again to their successful methods, it will have to begin on the glass. Two video games in a row, Pitt has been dominated on the boards – -31 in complete rebounding margin and -13 in offensive rebounds, with most of that injury coming towards the Blue Devils. 

Successful on the defensive glass helps Pitt get their transtion sport happening offense and prevents exhaution constructed up over lengthy possessions. In the meantime offense rebounds have the identical impact on the opponent and permits the Panthers to get extra open seems to be from deep off scrambles for the ball. 

It is a Georgia Tech roster that boasts simply two gamers taller than 6’9 and just one – 6’10 ahead Rodney Howard – averages greater than 10 minutes per sport. It is unlikely that Pitt will face groups as massive, sturdy and athletic within the frontcourt as Duke and Clemson they usually might want to take benefit in the event that they wish to get again within the win column. 

Street Warriors

Pitt has loved the comforts of residence for many of this season. The Panthers have performed 10 of 17 video games on the Petersen Occasions Middle, and have received eight of these ten residence contests. The street has been much less forgiving. 

Pitt is 3-4 away from the Pete with their level differential sitting at a shaky -5 over these seven video games. The Panthers have performed some good competitors on the street however have not look excellent doing it. They obtained blown out by Michigan and misplaced a nail-bitter to VCU in Brooklyn and suffered domination within the paint at Vanderbilt, practically blew a double-digit lead at Syracuse and truly did blow a double-digit result in the Blue Devils. 

Half of their remaining 14 video games can be someplace aside from Pittsburgh, that means the Panthers and their wealth of expertise should conjure some extra resiliance to allow them to handle their touring issues.  

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