DAYTON, Ohio — Pitt ahead Federiko Federiko is not going to play in Tuesday evening’s Pitt recreation towards Mississippi State within the First 4 of the NCAA Match, the staff introduced.

On Monday evening, Pitt head coach Jeff Capel mentioned that Federiko could be a game-time determination as a consequence of his damage suffered towards Georgia Tech in final week’s ACC Match.

“He’s nonetheless nursing that knee,” Capel mentioned. “He damage it towards Georgia Tech, he tried to play towards Duke the following day. We didn’t like the best way that he was shifting, which is why we held him as soon as we received down. So he’ll be a game-time determination.”

Guillermo Diaz-Graham will begin in his place on the 5.

Federiko performed 26 minutes in that recreation, going 7 for 7 from the sphere and scoring 19 factors. In Pitt’s subsequent recreation towards Duke, Federiko performed 12 minutes and scored simply 4 factors.

Federiko is averaging seven factors and greater than 5 rebounds per recreation in his first season with the Panthers.

Behind Federiko, Pitt has to depend on fellow younger bigs Guillermo and Jorge Diaz-Graham. Mississippi State’s main scorer Tolu Smith stands at 6-foot-11, 245 kilos and might be a pressure for the Panthers to cease all evening.

PITTSBURGH — It’s an enormous day for Pitt athletics out in Dayton, Ohio, but additionally down on the South Facet as spring ball kicked off on the UPMC Rooney Sports activities Advanced.

Randy Bates spoke in regards to the protection, Michael Stacchiotti talked about how he’s ready Pitt’s athletes — offensively and defensively — and a few returning starters on either side of the soccer touched upon getting again onto the sector.

Amber Brown gained’t be sticking round Pittsburgh to search out out who this system hires as its subsequent girls’s basketball coach.

Brown, a four-year starter for the Panthers, entered the switch portal on Tuesday, a supply conversant in the scenario confirmed to Pittsburgh Sports activities Now.

A 6-foot ahead from Monroe, Louisiana, Brown was one in all former head coach Lance White’s first recruits. White was fired earlier this month after 5 straight shedding seasons.

However Brown usually shined and was a vibrant spot for the Panthers amidst all these losses. She was an essential participant too, beginning in all 110 video games that she featured in. Brown averaged 9.1 factors, 6.2 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.1 steals per recreation whereas capturing 45.6% from the ground.

Brown was additionally the quickest Pitt participant in additional than 20 years to document not less than 550 factors, 450 rebounds and 100 assists, doing so in 67 video games. She was twice an ACC Freshman of the Week as a rookie within the 2019-20 marketing campaign.

This previous season, she was tenth within the ACC in free throw capturing proportion with a 74.8% mark.

What was probably Brown’s finest recreation as a Pitt Panther got here earlier this season in an additional time loss to Ball State the place Brown tallied 20 factors, 17 rebounds, two assists and three blocks. In a loss at Syracuse in January, Brown tallied a career-high 21 factors, seven rebounds and 5 assists. She had 9 double-doubles in her profession at Pitt.

Her 684 profession rebounds are tenth all-time in Pitt program historical past.

Brown will graduate from Pitt this spring with a bachelor’s diploma in communications. She will probably be instantly eligible to play wherever she transfers too and can have one 12 months of eligibility left.

On the ACC Event in Greensboro, N.C. earlier this month, Brown informed Pittsburgh Sports activities Now that White was “like a father determine” to her.

Pitt has interviewed not less than 4 coaches for its opening, in response to a earlier Pittsburgh Sport Now report.

The switch portal opened on Monday and will probably be formally open for 60 days. Brown isn’t the one ACC girls’s basketball participant to enter it up to now few days. Duke’s Lee Volker, Boston School’s Maria Gakdeng, Clemson’s Tadassa Brown, N.C. State’s Jessica Timmons, and Louisville’s Jalyn Brown and Zyanna Walker have additionally entered.