He jumps just like his pappy!

Did you hear that the Pitt Panthers were playing without two starters? Did you hear that this will be the case for the next two months? So can we drop it now and move on to the basketball?

Because that’s what Pitt is doing.

The Panthers defeated Georgetown 69-60 last night at the Oakland Zoo in the regular season’s lone matchup between these latter day rivals. The game pitted the Big East’s most dominant young big man against the conferences elder giant. Some speculated that the 6′7″ monster known as Cloverfield DeJuan Blair would lose some of his effectiveness against the ungodly tall Roy Hibbert, but that was not the case. The freakishly long-armed freshman scored 15, grabbed nine rebounds and ate half of a Toyota Yaris The points were nice, but it was the rebounding that put a more physical Pitt team (does that go without saying yet?) ahead of the favored Hoyas.

Nobody could get the Georgetown offense going in the second half and Ronald Ramon’s hot shooting (finally) carried the Panthers to the nine point edge. Pitt now stands at 15-2 despite the losses of Levance Fields and Mike Cook while Georgetown’s second loss will leave them searching for answers.

One guy who can’t help is Chris Wright, the talented freshman scorer is out indefinitely with a broken foot. Now I’m not going to pretend to know how Chris got hurt (or you know, look it up) but I’ll bet it has something to do with the fucking cobblestones on 35th Street. When those fuckers get wet they start claiming ankles like Lance Stephenson.