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No. 4 Pittsburgh (25-9, 13-5 Big East)In: F Lamar Patterson (R-Fr.), G Isaiah Epps (Fr.), F Talib Zanna (R-Fr.), G Cameron Wright (Fr.), F J.J. Moore (Fr.), F Aron Nwankwo (Fr.)
Out: G Jermaine Dixon, G Chase Adams, F Dwight Miller
This is the year that Pittsburgh was supposed to be really good, not last year. That was supposed to be a rebuilding/recovery season, when the impressive freshman class and transfers built a bridge from the DeJuan Blair-Sam Young group that flirted with the No. 1 ranking and was an electrifying Scottie Reynolds drive away from the Final Four.
Yet last year, the Panthers stunned everybody, probably even themselves, not that they would admit it. Not only did they hang around the top of the Big East all year -- cruising in with 25 wins and a trip to the second round of the NCAAs -- but they did it with a few leftovers from the Elite Eight team, two of whom wouldn't do much for the first month or so (the injured Jermaine Dixon, the academically-ineligible Gilbert Brown). It was the newcomers and patch-job players who adhered to coach Jamie Dixon's defense-first, patient-offense principles.
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