WSU VERSUS PITTSBURG PREDICTIONS AND PREGAME DISCUSSIONS

[forevershockerfan]

Here's the deal. We are Dancin so let's Dance like we own the place. We would have been seeded much higher with an injury free Season. We can win this game. By the way, did they have to wait so long to tell us? It makes 'we, the SN faithful' anxious baby.

Dancing Bracket-Bustin- Angry- MTXE- Shockers--70

Pitt---------------------------------------------63

[forevershockerfan]

This Dance is a 'dream come true' for some of our, new Shocks that came here seeking this chance and I am sooo happy for all of our beloved Shocks. Let's make 'Dancing With the Stars' an every Season habit. That type of consistency is what our Program is developing.

[shocka khan]

I think we have a real good chance of winning our first game. Having said that, I hope we don't get tub-thumped after that.

And I'm not interested in the score. We can win by one or by a hundered, I just want us to WIN!!!

[jocoshock]

In general, I don't like 8-9 seeds, but i couldn't be happier with this draw. We get a Big East team in the first round, and I think it is a good matchup. We do have to hit shots and our guards have to be aggressive, but I like it.

Shox 74
Pitt 69

[KC Shox]

Tray Woodall is a beast. He's a Senior who shoots 48 percent from the field. Pitt is similar to the Shox, they play great defense but struggle offensively a lot of times. This game will probably end up in the 50's or 60's with the winner making foul shots at the end. I will say since Tray is a guard, we have a better chance to match up with him defensively rather than say a Doug McD type of player. But if he goes off dribble driving and dishing us to death, (which we've seen other guards do to us all too often), it will get nasty.

Mr. Cotton is going to have to stick to him like glue as I believe he is the catalysts of that PITT team. They live and die by him. I will reserve my prediction later, but as you would expect with an 8/9 game, it's going to be a toss up.

[SubGod22]

We survive and advance.

Shox - 73

Cats - 67

It's time for the nation to meet Ron Baker and Fred VanVleet.

[TheYeti]

Tray Woodall is a beast. He's a Senior who shoots 48 percent from the field. Pitt is similar to the Shox, they play great defense but struggle offensively a lot of times. This game will probably end up in the 50's or 60's with the winner making foul shots at the end. I will say since Tray is a guard, we have a better chance to match up with him defensively rather than say a Doug McD type of player. But if he goes off dribble driving and dishing us to death, (which we've seen other guards do to us all too often), it will get nasty.

Mr. Cotton is going to have to stick to him like glue as I believe he is the catalysts of that PITT team. They live and die by him. I will reserve my prediction later, but as you would expect with an 8/9 game, it's going to be a toss up.

Cotton's got the onions to guard this guy, we got this.

[SubGod22]

Cotton's got the onions to guard this guy, we got this.

And lets not forget that Baker is back now and is someone who can guard just about anybody as well

[shocksrbest]

We survive and advance.

Shox - 73

Cats - 67

It's time for the nation to meet Ron Baker and Fred VanVleet.

I like 2 things. We are out of the Valley and their familiarity, and we are in the NCAA tourney and have a whole new start.

Shocks 63
Pitt 57

[pinstripers]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/teams/roster/PITT/pittsburgh-panthers

[HarpBros]

Jay Bilas just called this game a "This will be a war on the glass"

[jocoshock]

Seth Greenburg says first to 55 wins.... he picks Pitt... Thank you Seth... that's how we like it...

[KC Shox]

Oh and would it be weird to ask the basketball team to exact some revenge for the baseball team who got whooped by PITT earlier this year?

[cjp27]

Watching espn it appears that Pitt just has a bye to the second round and will give Gonzaga a tough game.

[jocoshock]

Watching espn it appears that Pitt just has a bye to the second round and will give Gonzaga a tough game.

that's fine... keeping sunshine up Pitt' skirt...