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Baye Ndongo had 23 points and 21 rebounds, Chase Foster added 20 points and Pitt rallied from a 13-point halftime deficit to beat Buffalo 80-61 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Ndongo made 13 of 17 free throws and added two steals. The Georgia Tech transfer’s 20-20 performance was the first by a Pitt player since Justin Champagnie on Dec. 12, 2020.<\/p>\n
The Panthers (2-0) trailed 47-32 early in the second half before steadily erasing the deficit. Jonathan Powell hit consecutive 3-pointers to pull within 53-52, and Naithan George made two free throws to give the Panthers their first lead of the half at 54-53 with 8:59 remaining.<\/p>\n
George had 16 points, seven assists and two steals, while Foster finished with nine rebounds and two blocks.<\/p>\n
Drew Steffe led Buffalo (0-2) with 15 points, four assists and three steals. Syracuse transfer J.J. Starling added 13 points.<\/p>\n
Pitt outrebounded Buffalo 50-27 and outscored the Bulls 48-16 in the second half.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Pitt: Travels to Philadelphia to play Penn State at the Palestra on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Buffalo: Plays United States Collegiate Athletic Association member Penn State Schuylkill this Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 Baye Ndongo had 23 points and 21 rebounds, Chase Foster added 20 points and Pitt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12486,130654,1611,130655,36178,18425,34209,6734,3398,73,75,74,11647,15895,13247,27183,130656],"class_list":["post-322159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-assist","tag-baye-ndongo","tag-buffalo","tag-chase-foster","tag-deficit","tag-free-throw","tag-naithan-george","tag-panthers","tag-pitt","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-point","tag-rebound","tag-second-half","tag-steal","tag-syracuse-transfer-j-j-starling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322159","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=322159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}