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Pitt Basketball Reveals 2025-26 ACC Schedule

The Pitt Panthers basketball team has released its ACC schedule for the 2025-26 season, featuring nine games at the Petersen Events Center
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Feb 22, 2025; South Bend, Indiana, USA; Pittsburgh Panthers head coach Jeff Capel watches in the first half against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at the Purcell Pavilion. Mandatory Credit: Matt Cashore-Imagn Images
Feb 22, 2025; South Bend, Indiana, USA; Pittsburgh Panthers head coach Jeff Capel watches in the first half against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at the Purcell Pavilion. Mandatory Credit: Matt Cashore-Imagn Images | Matt Cashore-Imagn Images

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The Pitt Panthers are coming off back-to-back NCAA Tournament misses under head coach Jeff Capel, but he's put together a new-look squad that is looking to break the streak.

Pitt went 17-15 (8-12 ACC) last season, missing the NCAA Tournament after bowing out early in the ACC Tournament, and over the offseason, Capel and the coaching staff completely rebuilt the squad via the transfer portal.

Now, Pitt has announced its ACC schedule for the 2025-26 season.

Pitt will open ACC on the road against Miami on Dec. 30/31 before returning for an opening two game homestand against Clemson (Jan. 3) and Syracuse (Jan. 10).

Pitt will travel to Georgia Tech (Jan. 13/14), Boston College (Jan. 20/21), Clemson (Jan. 31), Virginia (Feb. 3/4), North Carolina (Feb. 14), Stanford (Feb. 24/25), Cal (Feb. 28) and Syracuse (March 7).

The home slate includes Louisville (Jan. 17), North Carolina State (Jan. 24), Wake Forest (Jan. 27/28), SMU (Feb. 7), Duke (Feb. 10/11), Notre Dame (Feb. 21) and Florida State (March 3/4).

The ACC Tournament will return to the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, N.C. from March 10-14.

Pitt has also schedule a strong non-conference schedule that includes rivalry matchups against West Virginia (Nov. 13), Villanova (Dec. 13) and Penn State (Dec. 21).

The non-conference slate also features UCF and Quinnipiac in the Legends Classic, Ohio State at the Petersen Events Center and Texas A&M in the ACC/SEC Challenge.

Pitt dipped into the transfer portal to add Oregon State guard Damarco Minor, Iowa State forward Dishon Jackson, Iowa State guard Nojus Indrusaitis and maybe most importantly, South Alabama wing Barry Dunning Jr. And while Australian prospect Roman Siulepa wasn't a portal addition, the dynamic wing was one of the biggest pickups of the offseason.

The Panthers return Brandin Cummings, Cam Corhen, Papa Kante and Amdy Ndiaye, and with a handful of high school pick ups (Kieran Mullen, Omari Witherspoon, Macari Moore and Henry Cody Lau), there's potential for a new look lineup entering the 2025-26 season.

There are still question marks, particularly when it comes to outside shooting, but Capel made sure to reshape the lineup with a vision of toughness and grit.

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Karl Ludwig
KARL LUDWIG

Karl Ludwig is a Pittsburgh Panthers on SI sportswriter. He has spent the past three years covering the Pitt Panthers for a couple of platforms. While he did not attend Pitt, he grew up in the Pittsburgh area, attending North Allegheny Senior High School and Slippery Rock University. As a student at SRU, he served as the sports editor of SRU’s student-run newspaper, The Rocket, and provided award-winning coverage in football, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer. It was at SRU that his love for sports journalism blossomed. Karl spent three seasons as the Pitt football beat writer for Pittsburgh Sports Now, following time as an intern for the Sports Now Network. His most recent coverage of the University was for Pitt Sports News of the On3/Rivals network. He’s also contributed to Athlon Sports and SB Nation’s Behind the Steel Curtain.

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