Happy Wednesday! Thanks for joining us for some mid-week Pitt basketball news:
- This is a few days old, but it is a fantastic read in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazzette on the early recruiting successes and the previously dire situation inherited by Jeff Capel and his staff.
- My favorite portion of the article? Capel talking about how the ACC helped land some of the big recruits that Pitt has brought in this year. For the past five years, the move to the ACC has largely been defined as the beginning of the end for Pitt basketball. Rightly, Capel notes that the move to the ACC hasn't hurt some of the other programs that came from the Big East, and that Pitt can make it work.
- I long hoped that Pitt would hire a coach familiar with ACC terrain who could take advantage of all the conference has to offer. Lo and behold, Capel already has two commits from Virginia this season in Trey McGowens and Xavier Johnson. They had just one from Virginia from 2014 through 2017. And you had better believe that Capel will be familiar with the style of play of ACC opponents when the team is game planning for the 2018-19 season.
- A fun fan tweet showing appreciation for Capel's work thus far:
- He committed a couple of weeks ago, but forward commit Au'Diese Toney is officially a member of the 2018 Pitt class:
- File this one away in the fun category as well, but Dick Vitale comes in for some love from the Oakland Zoo after tweeting about the greatness of Pitt hoops:
That's all for now everyone, stay tuned for more! And be sure to follow us on Twitter @PittLead or subscribe to the blog if you're enjoying the content.
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