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Pitt men’s basketball extended its 2025-26 season for a few extra days, but the Panthers eventually ran out of gas and failed to keep up with a high-scoring NC State team in the second round of the ACC Tournament.
Behind a season-best 60.7 percent shooting clip from the field, seventh-seeded NC State outlasted No. 15 Pitt 98-88 Tuesday at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, N.C.
Pitt sees its season come to a close with a 13-20 overall record, and now the question is, was this the last game of the Jeff Capel era? It’s the second 20-loss season under Capel and fifth all-time in program history.
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