Boy, do I have great blog timing or what? Friday night, I wrote about the recent struggles of Pittsburgh's sports teams as of late. Shortly after I finished my blog, however, the Pittsburgh Penguins made me look foolish by knocking off the first place Florida Panthers, 4-1.
Speaking of the Panthers, the ones who play Men's basketball at the University of Pittsburgh couldn't duplicate the Pens success as they lost at Marquette yesterday afternoon, 62-57.
The loss drops Pitt to 0-5 in the very strong Big East conference, and with the Panthers traveling to the Carrier Dome tomorrow night to take on top ranked Syracuse, it doesn't look like the losing skid will end anytime soon.
When I found out the score of yesterday's game, I joked that I wanted to see the Panthers duplicate what the Indianapolis Colts did in 2011 and just completely fall apart for a year. Hey, if you're going to lose for the first time in a while, might as well do it with gusto. But then someone else joked that at least the Colts will have quarterback Andrew Luck as a prize, and the Panthers won't be so lucky. That's true. Luck has no control over which NFL team drafts him, but in college athletics, the blue chippers can sign wherever they want, and a team going winless in its conference tends to make top talents run the other way.
There is no doubt that Jamie Dixon is a great coach. This year, with his team falling apart right before his very eyes, it'll be interesting to see how he gets his players to respond.
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