Top 10 that is unranked. Sure there have been other disappointments. Maryland and Connecticut come to mind. But nobody has done so little with so much as the Pirates. At least the Terps and Huskies still have legitimate tournament hopes.
Nobody is down.
Uh, Shine should take the temperature in his dressing room before making such an erroneous statement. For Darius Lane, the sharp-shooting junior guard, looked as down as down gets following the Pitt game. His cheeks puffy, his eyes close to tears, Lane was shaken as he tried to make sense of things. Just a year ago, on a team nobody expected anything from, Lane was a key force in guiding the Pirates to the Sweet 16. And now this.