{"id":129101,"date":"2026-03-04T06:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129101\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T06:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:36:16","slug":"pittsburgh-parts-ways-with-head-coach-tory-verdi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129101\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh parts ways with head coach Tory Verdi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/sites\/pitt-sports-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh<\/a> has parted ways with head women\u2019s basketball coach Tory Verdi, sources told On3. <\/p>\n<p>Verdi took over in 2023 and the Panthers have yet to make the NCAA Tournament or have a season above .500. This season, Pittsburgh finished 8-23 overall, with a 1-17 mark in ACC play.<\/p>\n<p>Verdi came to Pittsburgh after seven years at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/massachusetts-minutemen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UMass<\/a>, where he took the Minutewomen to an NCAA Tournament and a regular-season title. He made previous stops at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/nebraska-cornhuskers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nebraska<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/kansas-jayhawks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas<\/a> as an assistant coach and was the head coach at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/columbia-lions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Columbia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/eastern-michigan-eagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eastern Michigan<\/a> prior to his time at UMass and Pittsburgh. <\/p>\n<p>Recently, six former Pittsburgh players filed a lawsuit against Verdi alleging mistreatment.<\/p>\n<p>Verdi\u2019s overall record as a head coach sits at 223-196. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh has parted ways with head women\u2019s basketball coach Tory Verdi, sources told On3. Verdi took over in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,25697],"class_list":["post-129101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}