A week ago, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review ran an extensive piece on the Pitt Panther football team and whether or not they could compete with the nation’s best and what it would take to get there. This past weekend, they looked at the Panther basketball program and asked the question that dogged Jamie Dixon for his tenure in Oakland: Can Pitt become a basketball elite?
I think the question was agonizingly pondered throughout the Dixon era as to whether Pitt was or was not elite. One thing that cannot be disputed now is that the program has taken a step back from where they were.