Dante Taylor News

For the first time in eight years, the Pitt men's basketball team will gather for Thanksgiving dinner with a loss on its record.

J'Covan Brown scored 12 points, replacing guard Varez Ward who was injured in pregame warmups, and helped third-ranked Texas beat Pittsburgh 78-62 on Tuesday night in the championship game of the CBE Classic.

Dante Taylor has averaged eight points and seven rebounds in his first three games.

PITTSBURGH - Mark Macon had just watched his undermanned squad be humbled by a Big East team.

Sophomore guard Ashton Gibbs scored 20 points and Pitt held Eastern Kentucky without a field goal for a long stretch to end the first half, as the Panthers won, 71-60, tonight at Petersen Events Center.

Pitt coach Jamie Dixon has been named the 2009 USA Basketball National Coach of the Year.

Brad Wanamaker scored 15 points to lead the Pittsburgh Panthers to a 63-60 victory over the Wofford Terriers in non-league action at the Petersen Events Center.

The youthful Pitt men's basketball team grew up a bit on Friday night. The Panthers overcame a 13-point second-half deficit to defeat Wofford, 63-60, at Petersen Events Center in the 2009-10 season opener.

The Panthers begin their bid for a ninth consecutive NCAA tournament appearance with the youngest team in coach Jamie Dixon's seven seasons.

There is a chance that sometime in the past century, Pitt tipped off a season with a younger team than this year's. Just don't bet on it.

Pitt held Coker College without a field goal for the opening 16:03 of the game and rolled to an 83-40 victory over the Division II Cobras today in their final exhibition game.

Freshman Dante Taylor scored a game-high 27 points as Pitt claimed a 75-64 exhibition win over NCAA Division II Slippery Rock Sunday at the Petersen Events Center.

By Bill Albright PITTSBURGH -- Somebody must have forgotten to tell Pitt that Slippery Rock University was coming to the Petersen Events Center Sunday afternoon for an exhibition basketball game with the Panthers.

Less than two weeks away from the start of the college basketball season, expectations in Pittsburgh are high for freshman Dante Taylor.

The Pitt mena s basketball team trailed Slippery Rock 29-27 with around three minutes to go in the first half of yesterdaya s exhibition game at the Petersen Events Center.

Dante Taylor understands the hype surrounding him. He knows that he is the first McDonald's All-American to play for Pitt in the past 22 years, knows DeJuan Blair's giant-size center shoes will be tough to fill, and knows there is pressure to succeed and to succeed immediately.