Where will the Hoyas be ranked after losing to Pitt?

Hard to say. I think we kind of stay put where we are. None of it will matter that much unless Pitt or Uconn drop really far in the rankings. I just hope we step up tonight against Notre Dame and if we do we will cure any drop we have in the standings.

Last few years we have done terribly on Mondays after Saturday games. Notre Dame played on Saturday too and lost to St. John's and apparently got outrebounded bad by the Johnnies. Not as bad as we did by PItt but then again St. John's is not nearly as good as the Panthers so that is kind of a wash as to who had a worse rebounding performance.

Fact of the matter is that Pitt matches up extremely well against us and we have matched up extremely well against Notre Dame. They do not have big athletic, strong people inside and are a perimeter shooting team so we should do well against them rebounding-wise and if we can do that, we should beat them.

As to our depth, we don't have much of it but our biggest depth problem is lack of big men which kills us against Pitt. Our depth is not nearly as bad at the guard position and doesn't hurt us as badly against teams with slower big guys (Dajuan Blair is the prototypical big man to kill us; Notre Dame does not have Dajuan Blair)

Wattad will be much more effective in a game against slower players like Notre Dame has and Jason Clark should be able to contribute as well off the bench. In a game where we are getting killed on the boards, bringing in Wattad and Clark is useless (obviously) but against a perimeter team, our depth problems are not as exposed.

Also, as bad as Julian Vaughn looked against Pitt, he played well against a slower less athletic Thabeet so I think he should be effective against Harangoody. Vaughn is just an inconsistent player right now. He was that way even in the summer league with his effectiveness rising and falling depending on the pace of the game and the type of player he was against.

By the way, anybody else notice that Pitt did a great job against Chris Wright? He was not getting in the lane and was not putting any kind of pressure on Pitt's defense as he has done in the past. That should not happen against Notre Dame. Levance Fields was getting around Chris pretty routinely as well. It will be interesting to see how Wright bounces back. You take away Wright's penetration and you pretty much neuter a big part of our offense and it is always better to have a full pair . . . especially against a team like Pitt. Anyway, go Hoyas! let's spank Notre Dame the way we just got beat by Pitt. We have their number like Pitt has ours. Hopefully we can get Pitt at the end of the year . . . .