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Villanova Wildcats (7-2) vs Pittsburgh Panthers (5-5)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Where<\/strong>: Finneran Pavilion (Villanova, PA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When: <\/strong>Saturday, Dec. 13 at 4:30 PM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Betting Line: <\/strong>Villanova -9.5 (subject to change)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n How to Watch: <\/strong>truTV\/HBO Max<\/p>\n<\/div>\n How to Listen<\/strong>: Villanova Sports Radio Network<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Net Rankings:<\/strong> Villanova 37, Pitt 163<\/p>\n<\/div>\n KenPom:<\/strong> Villanova 37, Pitt 108<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Torvik:<\/strong> Villanova 46, Pitt 108<\/p>\n<\/div>\n About Pitt:<\/strong> The Panthers were selected to finish 14th out of 18 teams in the ACC Preseason Poll, and not much has been done thus far to dissuade that. Pittsburgh has respectable losses to UCF, West Virginia and Texas A&M, as well as a buzzer-beater home win against Ohio State, but they also have bad home losses to Quinnipiac and Hofstra. The Panthers are led by two returnees from last year\u2019s team, forward Cameron Corhen and guard Brandin Cummings, who average 14 points and 13.7 points respectively. Transfers Barry Dunning Jr. and Damarco Minor round out the double-digit scorers for Pitt. Dunning Jr., a senior transfer from South Alabama, averages 11.4 points per game on 47% from the field. Minor, a 6\u2019 transfer from Oregon State, averages 11.2 points per game and leads the team with 3 assists per game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Notes on Nova: <\/strong>The Wildcats are coming off of their first loss since opening night against BYU. The game against Michigan was a reality check for Villanova, one I\u2019m sure that Kevin Willard used for endless amounts of teaching material in the recent days. At the same time, not much went right in that game, so hopefully the \u2018Cats can have short-term memory against their former rival. One thing of note is that it appears as if Zion Stanford has lost a spot in the main rotation, as he is only playing an average of 4.5 minutes over the last two games. Meanwhile, Chris Jeffery and Malachi Palmer have played double-digit minutes in both games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Villanova Wildcats (7-2) vs Pittsburgh Panthers (5-5) Where: Finneran Pavilion (Villanova, PA) When: Saturday, Dec. 13 at 4:30 PM Betting Line: Villanova -9.5 (subject to change) How to Watch: truTV\/HBO Max How to Listen: Villanova Sports Radio Network Net Rankings: Villanova 37, Pitt 163 KenPom: Villanova 37, Pitt 108 Torvik: Villanova 46, Pitt 108 About … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Villanova-vs-Pittsburgh-Game-Preview.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13222,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220\/revisions\/13222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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