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PITTSBURGH<\/a> (AP) Damarco Minor totaled 23 points, Brandin Cummings scored 19 and Pittsburgh beat Longwood<\/a> 78-60 on Friday night.<\/p>\n Minor sank 5 of 8 shots, including 4 of 7 from 3-point range, and 9 of 10 free throws for Pittsburgh (2-0). He added six rebounds. Cummings shot 5 for 8 from beyond the arc and 0 for 2 from inside it, making 4 of 5 foul shots.<\/p>\n Roman Siulepa had a team-high 10 points to lead the Panthers to a 33-28 advantage at halftime before finishing with 12.<\/p>\n Johan Nziemi led Longwood (1-1) with 16 points. Jacob Hutchinson scored 13 with six assists and Alphonso Billups III scored 11.<\/p>\n Neither team had a two-possession lead until Damarco Minor sank a 3-pointer to put the Panthers up 17-11 with 9:13 remaining. The Mastodons pulled even three times, the last at 23-23 when Billups scored on a layup at 3:11. Brandon Cummings answered with two free throws and a 3-pointer and Pitt stayed in front at the half.<\/p>\n Johan Nziemi scored on a layup and a tip-in to cap a 9-3 run to begin the second half and the Lancers grabbed a 37-36 lead. Minor and Cummings followed with two straight 3-pointers and the Panthers never trailed over the final 17 minutes.<\/p>\n — Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here and here (AP News mobile app). AP college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/p>\n \n Copyright 2025 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH (AP) Damarco Minor totaled 23 points, Brandin Cummings scored 19 and Pittsburgh beat Longwood 78-60 on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10150,17936,73,75,74,17935],"class_list":["post-28344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-college-basketball","tag-longwood-lancers","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-panthers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28344","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=28344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}