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Pitt basketball preview: Time for Capel to set a new tone

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That's the best thing Jeff Capel could do after how last season finished. Pitt went from being 8-2 with convincing wins over Syracuse, Duke, Miami and Northwestern to going 2-10 the rest of the way and finishing with a losing record. Couple that with seeing five players transfer out of the program, including two of the team's top three scorers in Xavier Johnson and Au'Diese Toney, and you've got the definition of a roller coaster season.

Then, Justin Champagnie, the first ever Pitt Panther to make First Team All-ACC who was the conference's second-leading scorer and its leading rebounder, declared for the NBA Draft after his sophomore season before he was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Toronto Raptors.