How far can we go?

As long as they play consistant (like the BE tourney), they will do well. If they play like they did at WVU, then they will be in trouble. I hope the refs let them play, it will be to Pitt's advantage.

Call me crazy Pittbaster, but I love that matchup.  Memphis just beats teams to the basket and is not really a strong perimeter shooting team when defended.  With our man to man, we would give them fits.  Believe me when I say, Oral Roberts is the game to worry about.  I think this game will be extremely tough and if the players come in over confident, we wil lose.  They are just as physcial as us, have the edge in height and speed, we just have a adavantage over  them in experience and higher competition.  Do not feel we are dramatically better. 

As for the second round Michigan State would be my preference for they are very similar to Oral Roberts and that game would be a great warm up.  Temple is a well balanced team and can beat you many different ways, including the coaching, so watch out.  I feel that Pitt has a road that can be achieved if they continue to play the way they have at least to the Elite 8.  Their matchup there would be either Texas or Standford (who I think will lose) and I do not like the Texas Matchup.  But let us not look too far ahead and jinx our team.  Please just enjoy the ride.  We already earned a new banner for the ceiling at the Pete, wouldn't it be great to get another.

Thursday is going to be great, and I wish I could be out west to see it.

Connect04, I think you are right on. Oral Roberts worries me. They play tough, physical defense like we do, and I can see them hanging around and getting the crowd into the game to root for the underdog and putting themselves in a position where they might be able to pull the game out late, especially if Pitt is having FT issues. I know ORU has FT issues of their own, but when kids start believing and the whole building is pulling for an upset, bad things can happen to top seeds. If we get past that, I do not think either Temple or MSU would have such an underdog advantage. Yes, they're technically lower seeds than us, but they are big-name basketball programs and I think given Pitt's heroic run to the final, I'd even wager we'd be the crowd favorite. Past that, we really would be underdogs and we'd have the support of the crowd against Memphis, although like you said, Texas will be another matter.

I agree that we need to enjoy the ride. No matter what happens Thursday, this team has done something no Pitt team has ever done before, and the adversity they've overcome has been tremendous. I could not be more proud of our guys and I hope they have a deep run in them. If we can get rolling Thursday and avoid that pitfall, I can see us rolling on through the weekend and beyond, but we've gotta take it a game at a time.