Pitt has been contacting transfers within the portal for a couple of weeks now, and a latest report says that the Panthers’ workers has contacted a switch from throughout the ACC.

Jake Weingarten reported that Pitt was one of many applications to achieve out to Louisville switch Jae’Lyn Withers, a 6-foot-9 ahead who averaged nearly 9 factors per sport for the Cardinals this 12 months.

Withers is a local of Charlotte, North Carolina, and has performed three seasons of school ball, all for the Cardinals. After averaging greater than 10 factors per sport as a freshman in 2020-21, Withers averaged simply 5 final 12 months. Then, this season, his offensive sport took one other step up as he scored 8.9 factors per sport and 5.3 rebounds per sport. Withers shot 43% from the sphere, in addition to 41.7% from three-point vary.

JAE’LYN. WITHERS.

😤😤😤

📺: ESPN2 pic.twitter.com/lKAqNGD3p4

— Louisville Males’s Basketball (@LouisvilleMBB) March 6, 2021

This 12 months in opposition to Pitt, Withers scored 9 factors within the first matchup, and scored eight and grabbed seven rebounds within the second.

Pitt has now contacted at the very least six gamers within the switch portal.

Pitt Basketball Switch Portal Information for 2023 Offseason

For the reason that finish of its season, Pitt continues to indicate curiosity in bringing in switch guards for subsequent season.

Our accomplice The Portal Report tells us that Pitt has reached out to North Carolina switch guard Dontrez Types.

Types (6’6”, 210) is a former four-star recruit from Kinston, North Carolina and have become the third Tar Heel to enter the switch portal.

Types simply couldn’t discover minutes in Hubert Davis’ rotation since becoming a member of them two years in the past. This previous season, Types performed in simply 15 video games and averaged 1.4 factors in 5 minutes per recreation. Two years in the past, he performed in 30 video games and averaged 2.0 factors per recreation.

Pivotal second by Dontrez Types within the OT intervalpic.twitter.com/7DfJLKiJod

— Tar Heel Nation (@UNC_TarHeelFan) March 19, 2022

Since coming into the portal, Types has heard from Georgetown, Seton Corridor, Maryland, South Carolina, Illinois, NC State, West Virginia, LSU, Windfall, and so forth.

Again in 2021 when he was the No. 66 general participant, Types picked North Carolina over different presents from Clemson, Georgetown, Maryland, NC State, Ole Miss, St. John’s, Texas A&M, VCU, Wake Forest and Pitt.

Over the subsequent couple of months, Pitt’s basketball employees will look to fill the group’s open spots with gamers from the switch portal. There are greater than 700 gamers within the portal proper now, and Pitt has already began contacting gamers.

Take a look at the up to date switch portal information under.

Contacted:

Dontrez Types / Soph. / 6’6 W / North Carolina

15 GP, 5.9 MPG, 1.4 PPG

Denver Jones / Soph / 6’4 G / Florida Worldwide

20.1 PPG, 3.8 RPG, 2.0 APG, 37% 3FG

Myles Stute / JR / 6’7 F / Vanderbilt

8.4 PPG, 4.6 RPG, 36.1% 3FG

Zack Austin / So. | 6’7 F / Excessive Level

14.1 PPG, 5.4 RPG, 1.3 APG

Departed:

John Hugley / JR. / 6’9 F