Pittsburgh Panthers (11-19, 4-13 ACC) at Syracuse Orange (15-15, 6-11 ACC)<\/p>\n
Syracuse, New York; Saturday, 4:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Orange -6.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Pittsburgh plays Syracuse after Barry Dunning Jr. scored 26 points in Pittsburgh’s 75-74 loss to the Florida State Seminoles.<\/p>\n The Orange have gone 12-5 in home games. Syracuse is 8-8 in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n The Panthers are 4-13 in ACC play. Pittsburgh is 8-10 in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n Syracuse’s average of 7.1 made 3-pointers per game this season is only 0.7 fewer made shots on average than the 7.8 per game Pittsburgh allows. Pittsburgh has shot at a 43.6% clip from the field this season, 0.5 percentage points less than the 44.1% shooting opponents of Syracuse have averaged.<\/p>\n The teams play for the second time this season in ACC play. Syracuse won the last matchup 83-72 on Jan. 10. Donnie Freeman scored 22 points points to help lead the Orange to the win.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Nate Kingz is averaging 11.7 points for the Orange. Freeman is averaging 14.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Cameron Corhen is scoring 12.9 points per game with 7.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists for the Panthers. Dunning is averaging 12.9 points and 7.2 rebounds while shooting 41.0% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Orange: 3-7, averaging 74.9 points, 29.1 rebounds, 11.8 assists, 5.4 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 46.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 84.0 points per game.<\/p>\n Panthers: 3-7, averaging 65.1 points, 29.9 rebounds, 14.0 assists, 6.6 steals and 2.9 blocks per game while shooting 41.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 71.5 points.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Panthers (11-19, 4-13 ACC) at Syracuse Orange (15-15, 6-11 ACC) Syracuse, New York; Saturday, 4:30 p.m. EST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61239,1165,10150,2300,16220,73,75,74,726],"class_list":["post-132208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-61239","tag-article","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132208","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=132208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}