In the ranking, it was number 6, Pittsburgh, against number 4, Connecticut. The first big clash of the Big East. In the end, led by Ashton Gibbs (21 points), the panthers defeated Jim Calhoun’s team which relied too much on super star Kemba Walker, who scored 31 points but had a poor 3 in 11 from the arc. The winning Pittsburgh team distributed the scoring a lot better with four players in double figures: Gibbs, Wannamaker (14), McGhee and Robinson (11 each). “It’s great to get a win against a great team – Wannamaker said – It shows where we’re at”.