{"id":31406,"date":"2025-07-23T14:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T14:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31406\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T14:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T14:35:07","slug":"panthers-to-play-home-and-home-with-villanova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31406\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers to play home-and-home with Villanova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdg0gc9k005f01r86raqvlf2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) \u2013 A Panthers Big East rival is back on the schedule. Jon Rothstein of College Basketball Insider and CBS Sports said Pitt and Villanova have agreed to a home-and-home series starting this season.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdg0hcag001a357t9cadymus@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">The game this year will be at Villanova with the return to the Pete in the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdg0hcbg001b357t4vyhunal@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Pitt leads the all-time series 13-4 including winning the last six. The only meeting outside of conference play, Scottie Reynolds made a layup with 0.5 seconds to beat the Panthers 78-76 in the 2009 NCAA Tournament Elite Eight in Boston. The last meeting was a Pitt overtime win 73-64 in March of 2013 as Talib Zanna had 14 points and 19 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdg0hccf001c357tahpi1n6r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Another Big East foe, Providence, is a matchup for an exhibition game this year.<\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) \u2013 A Panthers Big East rival is back on the schedule. Jon Rothstein of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-31406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}