Panthers open the 2024-25 season on Monday at the Petersen Events Center

Pitt (0-0, 0-0 ACC) vs. Radford (0-0, 0-0 Big South)

Monday, November 4, 2024 • 7:00 p.m

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. • Petersen Events Center

ACC Network Extra • 93.7 The Fan

THE OPENING TIP

• Pitt opens the 2024-25 season on Monday, Nov. 4, with a 7 p.m. tipoff against Radford at the Petersen Events Center. Monday's contest can be viewed on ACC Network Extra, starring Jason Earle and Nick Rivers.
• The Panthers have an 81-36 all-time record in season openers. Pitt is 17-2 in season openers at the Petersen Events Center and has won 24 of its last 27 season-opening contests.
• Head coach Jeff Capel has an 11-4 record in season openers in his head coaching career, including a 4-2 mark at Pitt.
• Pitt has won 20 of 22 home openers at the Petersen Events Center and is 94-23 all-time in home openers.
• The Panthers recorded a preseason exhibition victory over Point Park (93-62) and a closed-scrimmage victory over Cincinnati (71-62). Ishmael Leggett averaged 17.5 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists in both contests.
• Incoming transfers Cameron Corhen And Damian Dunn In two preseason contests, they averaged a total of 24.0 points and 9.0 rebounds per game. Corhen had 14 points and 11 rebounds in the win over Point Park, while both Corhen and Dunn had 14 points in the scrimmage win over Cincinnati.
• Pitt went 11 of 23 (.478) from three-point range and 16 of 17 (.941) from the foul line against the Bearcats. Seven different Panthers made a three-pointer against Cincinnati Jaland Lowe Hit three times from outside the arc.

BY THE NUMBERS

• Jaland Lowe was ranked No. 78 on the CBS Sports Top 100 (+1) and No. 84 on the ESPN Top 100 Players in College Basketball at the start of the season. The second-year guard averaged 12.0 points, 3.2 rebounds and 3.7 assists in the ACC regular season last season, with 16 of his 17 double-digit scoring games coming against ACC opponents.
• Pitt has three 1,000-point scorers in the squad with Ishamel Leggett (1,326), Damian Dunn (1,288) and Zach Austin (1,113) combined for 3,727 career points.
• Guillermo Diaz Graham is looking to build on a strong sophomore season in which he averaged 6.7 points and 3.9 rebounds in 17.9 minutes per game. He shot a team-high 40.5 percent (32 of 79) from three-point range while also adding 28 blocked shots and 27 steals.
• Cameron Corhen averaged 8.8 points and 3.7 rebounds in 60 games (33 starts) while shooting 58.7 percent (210 of 358) from the field and 73.5 percent (100 of 136) in his first two seasons at Florida State. shot from the foul line. As a member of the Seminoles last season at Pitt, he scored 24 double-digit goals and scored a career-best 25 points.
• Zack Austin has 1,113 points, 561 rebounds, 179 blocks and 157 three-pointers in 96 career games. He is one of 15 players in the NCAA since 1994-95 to have at least 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 150 blocks and 150 three-pointers in their career.
• Ishmael Leggett enters the season with a streak of 21 consecutive free throws. Last season, he shot a team-high 85.9 percent (79 of 92) from the free throw line.
• Jorge Diaz Graham is healthy again after missing much of last season due to injury. He enters his third year with the program having averaged 3.1 points and 2.3 rebounds per game in 47 career games.
• Damian Dunna two-time All-AAC selection at Temple, averages 11.8 points per game in 109 career contests (62 starts). In his career, he scored 20 or more points in 15 games and 30 or more points in three games and scored 63 double-digit goals.
• Amsal Delalic will be out for six weeks due to a right hand injury. The 6-8 freshman guard played professionally with Borac Nektar from 2021-24, competing in both the Bosnian Division I and the Adriatic League 2. Last season he scored 483 points and shot 82 of 205 (.400) from three-point range with 25 double-digit hits in 35 games.
• Papa Amadou Kante And Marlon Barnes, Jr. are looking to make their Pitt debut after redshirting as freshmen a year ago. Amadou Kante, a top-100 recruit in the 2023 class, suffered a knee injury in the preseason a year ago. He returned to full action for the Panthers in September.
• Brandin Cummings begins his career at Pitt after scoring 2,222 points in high school at Lincoln Park in Midland, Pennsylvania. A three-time All-State selection, Cummings is the younger brother of 2023 Pitt standout Nelly Cummings.
• For the first time in program history, Pitt has five players ages 6 to 10 or older on its roster. The Panthers are expected to start 6-10 Cameron Corhen and 7:0 Guillermo Diaz Graham in the post.
• Pitt made 642 three-point field goals (9.3 3-pointers) over the past two seasons. The Panthers' 2024-25 roster made a total of 489 three-pointers Zack Austin (157), Ishmael Leggett (123) and Damian Dunn (110) returns 390 of the 489 tokens from outside the arc.
• Pitt returns four of its top six scorers from a year ago. Ishmael Leggett He leads the group of returnees with an average of 12.3 points and a team-best 5.5 rebounds per game.

PANTHER SPOTLIGHT

• Senior security guard Ishmael Leggett was named Preseason Second Team All-ACC by the league's media voting panel. Leggett, the reigning ACC Sixth Man of the Year, finished the 2023-24 season averaging 12.3 points with an ACC guard-leading 5.5 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.3 steals per game.
• Leggett led the Panthers in rebounds and steals (41), while making 35 three-pointers and shooting 85.9 percent from the free throw line. In his first season in Oakland, he scored 23 times in double figures and collected five or more rebounds in 20 games.
• Leggett enters his senior season with 1,326 points, 519 rebounds, 206 assists and 130 steals in 119 career games. He has 69 games with double-digit scoring, including 13 career games with 20 or more points scored