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PITTSBURGH<\/a> (AP) Cameron Corhen had 16 points, Omari Witherspoon scored 15 and Pittsburgh beat Eastern Michigan<\/a> 78-66 on Monday night.<\/p>\n Roman Siulepa and Nojus Indrusaitis both scored seven to help Pittsburgh (3-0) jump out to a 27-10 lead in the first 10 minutes.<\/p>\n Eastern Michigan (1-1) closed within nine, but Papa Amadou Kante had back-to-back baskets in a 6-2 spurt over the final three minutes and the Panthers led 45-32 at halftime.<\/p>\n Carlos Hart had a pair of driving layups to begin the second half as the Eagles again closed within nine, but Witherspoon buried a 3-pointer after Corhen grabbed an offensive rebound and Pitt maintained a double-digit lead from there.<\/p>\n Mohammad Habhab made two free throws to cut it to 66-56 with 7:12 left, but Barry Duunng Jr. answered with a 3-pointer, Corhen scored on a layup and the Panthers cruised to the final buzzer.<\/p>\n Corhen made 7 of 11 shots and grabbed seven rebounds before fouling out. Witherspoon made 6 of 11 shots with two 3-pointers.<\/p>\n Damarco Minor filled up the stat sheet for Pitt with 12 points, seven rebounds, six assists and four steals. Siulepa had 11 points with five boards and Indrusaitis scored nine.<\/p>\n Hart paced the Eagles with 19 points and seven rebounds. Habhab added 15 points and seven boards, while Addison Patterson pitched in with 13 points, six rebounds and four assists.<\/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) Cameron Corhen had 16 points, Omari Witherspoon scored 15 and Pittsburgh beat Eastern Michigan 78-66 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10150,19497,73,75,74,17935],"class_list":["post-30739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-college-basketball","tag-eastern-michigan-eagles","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\/30739","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=30739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30739\/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=30739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}