Aaron Gray had 12 points and 15 rebounds in limited playing time and Pittsburgh, picked by coaches as the preseason favorite in the Big East Conference, beat Carnegie Mellon 103-45 in an exhibition game Wednesday night.Who, exactly, thought this would be a good idea?
None of Pitt's starters played more than 19 minutes after the Panthers opened a 21-2 lead against Carnegie Mellon, a Division III school located in the same Oakland section of Pittsburgh as Pitt.
When I was at CMU from 2000-2003, the basketball team was littered with engineering students. I'm pretty sure the Tartans are possibly the only team in the nation to make such a claim. (Does MIT have a basketball team?) How can a bunch of electrical and chemical engineering nerds be expected to do anything other than lose 103-45?
Come on fellas, do the math.
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