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At Pitt’s first open practice of the year, first-year point guard Jasmine Whitney controls the Petersen Events Center court with a quiet calmness.

She doesn’t frantically shout out a play — rather, she stands at the top of the key and directs her teammates to open spots on the court. She holds onto the ball when there is no rush to pass. But when she sees an opportunity — such as forward Destinie Gibbs open on the left wing — she pounces.

Whitney moves the ball swiftly to Gibbs, who then receives a pick from sophomore forward Kalista Walters. Walters rolls to the hoop for an easy layup, all set up by Whitney’s play call.

It’s rare for an athlete with no prior experience playing at a college level to be trusted to lead the offense by her teammates and coaches alike. But Pitt women’s basketball head coach Suzie McConnell-Serio didn’t hesitate to bestow that responsibility on Whitney.

“She has to be a leader on the floor. She has to control the tempo, offensively and defensively. It really all starts with the point guard, and she makes us better,” McConnellSerio said. “When you look at great point guards, they make the players around them better, and I’m seeing her do that. It’s what we’ve loved about her.”

McConnell-Serio noticed Whitney’s poise on the court at Paul VI Catholic High School, where the high schooler helped the team capture the state championship all four years.

Whitney earned the 2016 WCAC and VISAA Player of the Year awards and led the team to a 123-12 record during her four-year career.

Her head coach at Paul VI, Scott Allen, said Whitney preferred to lead by example.

“Jasmine was a very calm-under-pressure player that also wanted to take the big shot and make the big play when we needed it,” Allen said. “But she also deferred to others when she didn’t have to.”

She learned the game from being around her older brother, Travis, after constantly showing up wherever he was practicing bas-

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WHITNEY BRINGS CHAMPIONSHIP PEDIGREE TO PANTHERS Jasmine Whitney is one of three newcomers for Pitt in 2016-17. John Hamilton SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ketball. Travis said he watched her grow as a player, tacking on one accolade after another.

“She’s probably the most dedicated point guard there has been coming out of the northern Virginia area,” Travis said. “Everyone lets their ego go to their head, and she’s always been humble. Multiple championships and she’s never stated that — she’s always just worked to get better.” **** Whitney, who verbally committed to join the Panthers in March 2015, is one of the team’s two first-year recruits this season along with her roommate, local product Alayna Gribble.

After visiting the campus during her junior year and spending time with the team, Whitney left convinced that Pitt would be the best place to continue her basketball career.

“The team seemed like they were enjoying each other’s company, they seemed like they were a family, the coaches seemed to have their best interests at heart — and I just fell in love with it,” Whitney said.

When Whitney is on the court with the other players, she knows how to keep them focused on the task at hand.

“She has a calming effect, a confidence about her on the floor. I think that’s contagious with the players around her. She doesn’t panic,” McConnell-Serio said. “Shot clock winding down, she likes to have the ball in her hands, knows what she’s going to do ...

The players around her just have a lot of confidence being on the court with her.”

Maybe McConnell-Serio sees a bit of herself in Whitney.

At 5-foot-5, McConnell-Serio was never the tallest player on the court, but that didn’t stop her from becoming the NCAA’s all-time assists leader during her four-year career at Penn State and making her way into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.

McConnell-Serio played point guard at the highest levels of the sport, playing in the WNBA for three seasons and winning a gold and bronze medal at the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games, respectively.

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Her competitive spirit was a big reason why.

Without the ability to stay cool and collected on the biggest stages, McConnell-Serio wouldn’t be where she is today –– and she sees the same drive in 5-foot-9 Whitney. “[Whitney’s] a competitor. She just competes every play — whether she’s on offense or defense, she plays to win,” McConnellSerio said. “Watching her in high school, she came from a great program, and every time she stepped out on that floor, she expected to win.”

McConnell-Serio knew Whitney would be an essential member of the team when she connected to the way she played. The two point guards share a mutual admiration for one another.

“It’s hard to say no to playing for one of the best point guards in the game, being a point guard,” Whitney said.

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Whitney, pg. 2 an extension of yourself,” McConnell-Serio said. **** Whitney is preparing to join already-established junior Aysia Bugg, who started 29 games as a freshman and all 31 games as a sophomore, in Pitt’s point guard rotation.

Last season, Bugg averaged 7.8 points, 2.0 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game, and her 117 assists were fourth-most in Pitt history for a sophomore. Even while battling with Bugg for playing time, Whitney holds her own on the court, and her attitude blends seamlessly with the team’s pre-existing chemistry.

She’s roommates with fellow freshman guard Gribble, and she’s already bonding with the team’s leading scorer and rebounder from last year, sophomore forward Brenna Wise.

“I think she’s doing a great job of taking control, leading, coming to me for advice, but I’m also coming to her for advice,” Wise said. “She sees the floor from the top of the key, and I see it from the bottom of the floor, so together, we have a great point guard to post game, I would say. She’s just fun to play

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with.”

Wise points to Whitney’s ability to find open spots on the court and fire up shots off the dribble as a problem for opposing defenses.

“I’d say when she comes off the pick and roll, she takes a nice dribble, she gets to the middle line, and she pulls up for her jump shot. I mean, that’s tough to stop,” Wise said.

“As a post, if I can take out her defender, she’s getting that shot nine times out of 10.”

With Wise and Whitney meshing both on and off the court, the Panthers could have a formidable frontcourt-backcourt combination over the next three years.

“I love [having Whitney on the team],” Wise said. “She’s like my little nugget.”

Whitney’s coaches and teammates have high expectations for her in just her first year. But her brother — who has watched her develop her game since she was five years old — isn’t worried about his little sister succumbing to the pressure.

“I think she’ll do as good as her mind lets her do,” Travis said. “Being nervous and scared is always part of the next level, but knowing how she plays when she’s in her comfort zone, I think she’ll do very well. Especially with a team like Pitt.”

WOMEN’S PREVIEW: Transition Year for Panthers Dan Sostek

Senior Staff Writer It seems like the same refrain year after year, but it holds true again this season — Pitt women’s basketball head coach Suzie McConnell-Serio is once again fielding a young team.

Out of 12 players on the Panthers’ roster, eight are first- and second-year players, and only two are seniors. But there’s reason for optimism with the current squad, no matter how raw they are.

Pitt’s core will center around two juniors, Yacine Diop and Aysia Bugg, and one sophomore, Brenna Wise.

Diop played her best basketball of the year as last season came to a conclusion. The 5-foot-10 forward from Dakar, Senegal, provides energy, defensive intensity and the explosiveness to drive to the basket. She averaged 10.4 points and 5.2 rebounds per game last year while shooting an impressive 45 percent from the field.

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bring the ball up the floor as the Panthers’ starting point guard. She led Pitt in assists last season, sporting nearly twice as many as any other player on the team. Bugg is also the Panthers’ best returning outside shooter — she’s the only returning player who made more than 22 3-pointers last year.

Her shooting is key for Pitt, as Fred Potvin –– the team’s best perimeter weapon a year ago –– transferred back home to McGill University in Montreal.

But the biggest name of those three — and the most crucial to Pitt’s success this season — is Wise. As a first-year forward in 2015-2016, Wise quickly became the Panthers’ most effective scoring option and post player, leading the team with 10.7 points and 7.6 rebounds per game.

Pitt will need Wise to be an even bigger force this season and improve a field goal percentage that sat at an unimpressive 36.6 percent last year.

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Q&A: Stallings settles in Kevin Stallings is entering his first year as Pitt’s men’s basketball head coach.

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It feels like an eternity since March 21, when Jamie Dixon’s resignation forced the Pitt men’s basketball team to find a new head coach for the first time in 13 years.

The Panthers hired Kevin Stallings away from Vanderbilt to replace him — a move that was met with immediate and widespread criticism.

Stallings hasn’t yet had a chance to step onto the court in front of the Oakland Zoo and prove his detractors wrong, but that time will come in just 10 days. Pitt opens its regular season with a home matchup against Eastern Michigan at the Petersen Events Center Friday, Nov. 11, at 7 p.m.

With the offseason winding down and live game action fast approaching, Stallings laid out his plans for the season with a new group of players, his expectations for his first year coaching the Panthers, and opened up about his transition from Nashville to Pittsburgh.

The Pitt News: What has the past seven months been like for you since being hired by Pitt?

Kevin Stallings: The best way I can describe it is fast and furious. It’s been exhilarating, energizing, exciting — all of those things. There just don’t seem to be enough hours in the day.

I feel like there are so many things that need to be done and have to be done. And at the same time, as mundane as it sounds, you can only do what you can do.

So, I’ve enjoyed it immensely, I think it’s been productive, I think we’ve made great strides with

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our team, which is really ultimately the most important thing. But between trying to get to know people and get settled in and do the aspects of the job that are not coaching and recruiting, and then throwing on the coaching and the recruiting, it’s been quite hectic. But again, I feel like we’re getting a lot done.

TPN: Do you think you’ve had enough time to implement your system?

KS: We’re getting there. I wasn’t overly thrilled with how we looked on Saturday [at the open intrasquad scrimmage]. So that was a little bit of an eye-opener for me, because we’ve been much better in practice. And we were much better yesterday in practice.

Probably a good thing for me, because maybe I was a little too comfortable with the thought that we were doing better than we were actually doing. I don’t know if that was sort of an outof-body experience and not who we are. I don’t know enough about these guys as you’d think I would after seven months. We’re getting there.

TPN: Do you worry that they’re not going to be ready for the start of the season given how they performed at the scrimmage?

KS: I’m worried every year that we’re not going to be ready for the start of the season ... I worry about getting the things in that we need to have in so that they’re completely ready and know how to deal with any situation they’re confronted with. But I’m not worried, because we’ve got a veteran group, they know how to play, they know how to compete. We didn’t do it the way I wanted to on Saturday, but we will.

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Zimba: Give Stallings a chance Ryan Zimba

For The Pitt News New Pitt men’s basketball coach Kevin Stallings knows his first season won’t be easy.

When the Panthers’ ACC schedule came out Sept. 12, he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Craig Meyer, “It looks almost comically difficult.”

But as challenging as the Panthers’ schedule may be — with two matchups against Virginia, which made it to the Elite Eight in last year’s NCAA Tournament, and Syracuse, which beat Virginia to get to the Final Four — gaining fans’ support may prove to be even tougher.

When the Panthers hired Stallings to replace Jamie Dixon in March, both he and Pitt Athletic Director Scott Barnes came under intense criticism from local and national media for supposedly downgrading based on Stallings’ track record at Vanderbilt.

Myron Medcalf of ESPN called the hire “confounding” in April, saying, “It didn’t make sense then. It doesn’t make any sense now.”

At the same time, Pitt fans set Twitter ablaze with threats to cancel their season tickets orders.

The pessimism carried over into the introductory press conference in late March –– an event commonly used to paint a bright future for the program.

For the entire conference, Barnes and Stallings struggled to defend themselves against the press’s difficult questions, such as why Stallings blocked Sheldon Jeter’s transfer to Pitt and why Barnes used a search firm led by Vanderbilt’s former athletic director to find the Panthers’ new coach.

Even before he was officially hired, the majority of Pitt fans wrote off the coaching hire as a failure. They looked at Vanderbilt’s recent history of mediocrity and assumed the difference between the two programs was their coaches alone.

But Pitt’s program is not the same as Vanderbilt’s, and it shouldn’t be treated like it is.

Until 2013, Pitt played in the Big East Conference, a league filled with top teams and NBA-bound players. The lure of playing in the Big East gave Pitt the opportunity to recruit in

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the talent-rich areas of the Northeast and build a powerhouse program.

Vanderbilt, on the other hand, plays in the Southeastern Conference, arguably the weakest of the Power Five conferences. The Commodores also have stricter academic regulations for their student-athletes than most schools, making recruiting much harder.

“If there were 100 kids that were Division I college basketball players, we could probably recruit 25 or 30 of them,” Stallings told local radio station 93.7 The Fan on March 28, estimating that put him at a disadvantage of about 50 to 60 percent compared to other schools.

But even with the recruiting restrictions, Stallings managed to pull in higher-ranked classes during his tenure at Vanderbilt. There, he was a two-time SEC coach of the year and led the Commodores to seven NCAA tournament appearances –– more than half of the program’s total since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985.

Over the past three years, Pitt’s classes have had an average ranking of No. 90 nationally while Vanderbilt has been No. 48, according to 247Sports.

For his first recruiting class at Pitt, Stallings will have to fill five scholarship positions, making this incoming class the largest and most important one in recent Pitt history.

Thus far, the class has four three-star recruits in power forward Terrell Brown, shooting guard Jared Wilson-Frame and point guards Aaron Thompson and Marcus Carr.

The group –– currently rated 44th –– isn’t going to turn many heads, but each player has the potential to be a solid contributor.

Last week, when Carr became the fourth commit of 2017, some still found a way to scold the class.

“If Stallings doesn’t bring in some MAJOR recruits to fill the vacuum left by [Michael] Young, [Jamel] Artis and [Sheldon] Jeter ... next year is gonna be a LONG, LONG year,” one fan remarked on Pitt sports blog Cardiac Hill [emphasis theirs].

In his first few weeks, Stallings managed to hold former coach Dixon’s recruiting class together, keeping each of the three recruits.

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MEN’S PREVIEW: A New Era Dan Sostek

Senior Staff Writer If Kevin Stallings was still in the Southeastern Conference, his roster — featuring an arsenal of returning talent and multiple all-conference performers — would rank among the best, a definite contender to make the title game in the conference tournament.

But Stallings, the new head coach of the men’s basketball team who spent the past 17 seasons as Vanderbilt’s head coach, is in the ACC — perhaps the most competitive conference in the country this year. Preseason polls project his Pitt men’s basketball team to finish in the bottom tier of the conference despite returning six out of the top seven scorers from last year’s NCAA Tournament team.

And without longtime head coach Jamie Dixon at the helm, the identity of the program under Stallings is currently a mystery.

What is obvious is that Pitt will go as far as its top two seniors — guard and forward Jamel Artis and power forward Michael Young — will take the team. The pair have led the Panthers in scoring each of the past two seasons in a trend Sheldon Jeter is one of four Panthers seniors in 2016-17. John Hamilton that will almost certainly continue into 2016SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER 2017.

Artis’ role on the team is especially intrigu- perimeter shooter, who possesses good athleticism and size at 6-foot-8. He finished the season ing.

The senior — who has only played forward strong with a breakout performance in the Panduring his three-year career at Pitt — says he thers’ 72-71 ACC Tournament win against Syrawill play point guard to start the season. The cuse, posting a career-high 24 points.

Senior forward Sheldon Jeter — who played move would give the Panthers a projected starting lineup of five players all standing 6-foot-6 or under Stallings at Vanderbilt before transfertaller, which could help them overcome a lack of ring to Polk State College and then Pitt — is size in the frontcourt by creating mismatches at also expected to join the starting lineup after fluctuating in and out of it under Dixon. Jeter is the guard position.

Young, the team’s best player, is a bona fide a polished offensive player who can score from force on offense. The 6-foot-9, 235-pound for- anywhere on the court but needs to make imward is incredibly difficult to defend in the post provements in his post defense.

The Panthers’ top defensive players are redand boasts a reliable mid-range jumper. With a potential increase in tempo, it isn’t out of the shirt senior guard Chris Jones — who will probquestion to expect 20 points per game from the ably join Artis, Young, Johnson and Jeter in the starting lineup — and junior forward Ryan LuDuquesne native.

Young and Artis give the Panthers the only ther, who appears primed to serve as the Panduo of returning All-ACC performers in the thers’ sixth man. Jones matches up well against conference, but Pitt has other talented players on guards and small forwards while Luther is the team’s best post defender. the roster too.

Perhaps the most interesting is redshirt Read the rest online at Pittnews.com. sophomore Cameron Johnson: the team’s best

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Chance, pg. 5 Recently, he has tried to build excitement around the program with events like Throwback Throwdown –– where he drained a buzzer beater –– and a Pitt basketball weekend featuring an open scrimmage, yet fans remained reluctant to let go of their first impressions.

Instead, they talk about how forward Artis is transitioning to point guard for the upcoming season. This change — questionable at worst — has been polarizing within the

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fanbase, with some focusing on Artis’ large number of turnovers and obvious lack of experience.

Following the news, Cardiac Hill published an article detailing the pros and cons of the change, and skeptics have been eager to share their thoughts as well.

“Our offense has been so stagnant in recent years, all we do is pass it around the perimeter and heave up a long jumper as the shot clock is expiring,” another fan commented on the article. “I don’t see how this changes anything.

It just means we’ll have worse shooters taking these shots.”

As stated, the Pitt offense has been anything but stellar in recent years. Last season, the Panthers ranked No. 130 in scoring offense, including horrendous outputs of 41 against Louisville and 43 against Wisconsin.

If Stallings wants to switch up the team’s look, he should be able to do so without criticism. Power Five programs should never be scoring 41 points in a game.

Pitt fans don’t have to look back far to spot another instance where they jumped to conclusions. Just last year, they questioned first-year football coach Pat Narduzzi when he effectively forced out incumbent quarterback

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Chad Voytik in favor of little-known Tennessee graduate transfer Nathan Peterman.

Now, Peterman is Pitt’s starter and has a quarterback rating of 152.3 while Voytik transferred to Arkansas State, where he recently lost the starting job.

The second-guessers were wrong then –– and they may be wrong now too. Now, they should believe that Stallings knows what he is doing and go along with it.

These feeling toward Stallings, of course, will only intensify if the team does poorly this season. Fans might have to be patient, something many don’t want to hear.

Stallings’ first team will be made up entirely of players Dixon recruited. This could be a positive, as the Panthers return six of their seven leading scorers from last year’s NCAA tournament team. It could also be a negative if Stallings fails to adapt to his players’ strengths.

Either way, people should give Stallings the opportunity to recruit and develop his own players before making any judgements. If, in three or four seasons, the team is far out of NCAA tournament contention, then people can start calling for his firing.

Until then, Pitt fans need to forget their early assumptions and let Stallings take a shot.

After 23 years of coaching, he deserves it.

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