Now all Jeff Capel and his team can do is wait and hope. Pittsburgh had a chance to take a giant step toward an NCAA Tournament berth. But after rallying to a tie late in the game, the Panthers allowed a 7-0 run and lost 72-65 to No. 4 North Carolina in the ACC Tournament semifinals.
Member of the Pittsburgh team from l-r William Jeffress , Federiko Federiko , and Zack Austin at the end of their loss to North Carolina during an NCAA college basketball game in the semifinal round of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament Friday, March 15, 2024, in Washington. North Carolina won 72-65 to advance to the next round.
Hurting Pitt’s case is a November home loss to a Missouri team that went winless in the SEC this season. The Panthers played well enough in league play to earn the No. 4 seed in this conference tournament, but aside from North Carolina and Duke and probably Clemson, nobody in the ACC this season was better than a bubble team.
Two of those bubble teams met in the quarterfinals when Pitt beat Wake Forest. Then the Panthers hung right there with North Carolina. It was 62-all when RJ Davis put the Tar Heels ahead to stay with a 3-pointer.UConn coach Dan Hurley, irritated by a fan again, gets technical foul in Big East Tournament
“There’s no way that you can look at this game and look at Pitt and not say it’s definitively an NCAA Tournament team — and not just an NCAA Tournament team, a team that could go far in the tournament,” North Carolina coach Hubert Davis said. “Extremely well coached. Coach Capel does a fantastic job.”
Pitt was part of the First Four in last year’s NCAA Tournament, then won two games to reach the round of 32.
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