Recapping Pitt’s non-conference basketball season

I threw out some thoughts a few days ago on five things that stood out to me about Pitt’s non-conference schedule. Later, I asked you for your thoughts. In looking at the Panthers’ overall work in the pre-ACC games, I’m mostly pleased with how things shook out.

Some people were talking about the team winning as few as 5-6 games this season and the Panthers have already won eight. In terms of what I expected, I think the team performed about to where I thought they would and possibly even a little better.

Looking at the team’s five losses, I think the only one that really surprised me was the home loss to Montana and even that came in overtime. Navy isn’t a good team but playing on the road in…