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Spinning wheels Though the city has answered calls for safer streets, Pittsburgh remains stalled on more bike lanes in Oakland.

Elaina Zachos and Zoë Hannah The Pitt News Staff

First, a black Jeep crashed into cyclist Dan Yablonsky in Lawrenceville in 2012, shattering his hip, arm and leg and sending him into a five-monthlong coma.

Then, a mini-van hit and abandoned biker Sage Ziviello, a student at Chatham University, in Shadyside in 2013, leaving her with hip injuries that she can still feel when she waits tables at her job.

And just over a month ago, Pitt adviser Susan Hicks was killed on her bike after getting pinned between two cars along Forbes Avenue.

After 2012 saw 104 cyclist crashes in Allegheny County, Hicks’ recent death — along with statistical proof that the number of bike crashes aren’t decreasing — has ignited the community’s calls for more comprehensive bike lanes in Oakland. Mayor Bill Peduto supports installing bike lanes as a safety and economic boost in the long term, but many advocates call for more immediate solutions to the lethal problem, such as an increased focus on speed control.

In 2000, the U.S. Census’ American Community Survey recorded 1,646 bikers on Pittsburgh’s streets. In 2013, there were about 6,729 bikers — a 408.8 percent increase in cyclists in less than 15 years.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation reported 86 bicycle

crashes in Allegheny County in 2014, and 19 cyclists died in crashes across the state that year. There are no current statistics for the number of bike crashes or deaths in Oakland.

Pitt student Gregory Dornseif walked past Forbes and Bellefield avenues 15 minutes after Hicks’ crash, in the midst of the aftermath.

“It really hits home,” Dornseif, a sophomore marketing and finance major said. “And then you read it’s a faculty member at Pitt ... I just felt like something needed to be done.”

Dornseif started a petition on the Change.org website Oct. 24, to show Mayor Bill Peduto, Chancellor Patrick Gallagher and PennDOT District Executive Dan Cessna that the Oakland community wants safer streets for bikers.

The petition garnered 2,504 signatures in five days, and closed by Oct. 28. In response to the signatures , Peduto’s spokesperson told The Pitt News in October that Peduto had fasttracked the city’s existing plans for adding bike lanes in 2017 to 2016.

But that fast-tracked plan is gridlocked in red tape, and progress is struck still with two flat tires.

The voices As the business and education program coordinator of advocacy group Bike Pittsburgh, Yablonsky was already deeply involved in the bike community during the time of his neardeath crash.

Biker crosses intersection on Lytton Ave. Jeff Ahearn ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR “This has to stop,” Yablonsky said.

“No one should be a victim to assault like I was, just by getting around.”

The city installed bike lanes Downtown to kick-start economic development in the Cultural District and partnered with People for Bikes, a national biking nonprofit, on the Green Lane Project.

The Project added bike lanes on

Schenley Drive, O’Hara Street, Bigelow Boulevard and Bayard Street between 2014 and 2015. With those additions in progress, plans to streamline Oakland’s busiest streets have stalled since 2013, when the city proposed a $6 million Bus Rapid Transit corridor.

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on Fifth or Forbes avenues. The city submitted a nearly $4 million funding application about six months ago to the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission, the city’s regional planning agency.

The Commission’s Congestion Mitigation Air Quality committee is currently reviewing the application and will decide whether to fund it by the end of the year. Planning would begin in 2016, but construction wouldn’t begin, according to Saunders, for another year.

“2017 is the earliest we could work on Fifth and Forbes between Oakland and Downtown,” Saunders said. “We need this year to engage [stakeholders’ interest] in the corridor.”

Getting unanimous support is complicated, as the city owns Fifth Avenue and PennDOT owns Forbes Avenue.

“Road ownership, the BRT process and the complications of the geography and existing road uses are major challenges to overcome,” Cessna wrote in an email.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Port Authority, the Oakland Planning and Development Corporation, Allegheny County and local universities all have a say in the layout of the area’s streets.

Many of these voices came together at a Dec. 1, presentation on the Complete Streets Coalition, a program to design roadways that are safer and more accessible to nonmotorists. More than 200 people filled the seats in Alumni Hall’s ballroom to hear about Pittsburgh’s transportation redesign.

“The foundational question for Complete Streets is how this works toward safety,” Ray Gastil, director of City Planning, said at the meeting.

The presentation took place at the

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oakland bike lanes Bike lanes protected bike lanes

information from bike pgh A map of Oakland’s existing bike lanes and protected bike lanes, installed within the last five years. Emily Hower LAYOUT EDITOR central-most point of the bike lane debacle: Pitt’s campus.

Pitt’s Student Government Board formed a Bike Safety Task Force earlier this semester, which will distribute brochures to educate people on bike safety.

SGB is also seeking SORC certification for a new club, the Pitt Bike Collective, which would advocate for bike lanes.

Paul Supowitz, Pitt’s vice chancellor for community and governmental relations, said the University will paint bike lanes in the plaza between Hillman Li-

brary and Posvar Hall over the next few weeks. “[Pitt is] adding to the chorus of voices that says we need to add sorts of transportation here,” Supowitz said.

But Pitt isn’t coordinating with the city about installing bike lanes in Oakland, according to Saunders, and the relationship between bikers and motorists remains sour.

“There are people that seem to be offended by the fact that you’re on a bike,” Andrew Konitzer, who bikes to work at

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the Center for REES, said.

Emiko Atherton, director of the National Complete Streets Coalition, addressed the contentious relationship at the meeting earlier this month, blaming poor design.

“We have a road system in this country that was designed for a car,” Atherton said. “Our roadways are still dangerous by design.”

The numbers According to People for Bikes, streets with protected bike lanes — lanes that use cars, posts or plants to separate bike lanes from roadways — see 90 percent fewer injuries per mile than those without bike infrastructure.

Saunders said Pittsburgh has 2.62 protected lanes. It has 39.12 miles of bike lanes across the city, and 1,298 miles of roadways within city limits.

In short, less than one percent of Pittsburgh’s bike lanes are protected, and less than half a percent of Pittsburgh’s roadways have bike lanes.

Matt Bauman, a graduate student studying bioengineering, gets paranoid when cars stop behind his bike at red lights. Hicks’ death was an ugly reminder for the cyclist and validated his growing safety concern.

“I definitely don’t feel as invincible as I did 10 years ago,” Bauman said.

In November, Bauman recorded 10 minutes of Friday afternoon traffic on Forbes Avenue with his cellphone from the top of the Cathedral of Learning.

Using the video and open-source software, Bauman found that about half of the cars on the road were speeding.

In the ten minute video, two cars were driving over 40 miles per hour in the 25 mile per hour zone, one ran a red light and ten were driving between 30 and 40 miles per hour.

Bauman wants change now. He said Pittsburgh can stunt speeding by inSee Biking on page 3

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Advocacy group, Bike Pittsburgh, hangs tags with safety tips on bikes in Oakland. Elizabeth Lepro | Assistant News Editor The BRT’s hypothetical solution to After a car clipped Trachtenberg on Trachtenberg’s criticism is cycle track his bike in Lawrenceville, he spent six pg. 2 alignment, which would install barriers weeks using a cane. stalling radar guns and speed limit signs Still, Trachtenberg said, “You can like poles, plants or curbs to separate to monitor motorists in the short-term. have bike lanes, but if a [motorist] has bike lanes from cars on the road.

“I really think that there are Justin Miller, the city’s sesmall steps that can be taken ... nior planner, said the BRT is that [aren’t] going to cost the city more likely to nix parking on millions of dollars,” Bauman said.

Fifth, where there are not as The gridlock many businesses, than parking Kristin Saunders said the BRT on Forbes. project is “complicated.” The city The project is progressing is juggling the Port Authority’s slowly, because the city wants interests with the needs of other to “[get] this right,” Miller said. influential businesses, instituBut while the BRT crawls tions and organizations, some along, motorists continue to of which make up Pitt’s Oakland speed, and cyclists continue to Task Force. worry.

And some cyclists, like Peter “If you’re really going to Trachtenberg, a professor in Pitt’s make a transformative change,” English department, have mixed opin- to make a right turn, he has to go ... into crash survivor Yablonsky said, “You reions on bike lanes. ally need to step on it.” the bike lane.”

Biking,

Our roadways are still dangerous by design.

-Emiko Atherton,

Complete Streets director

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Filmmakers resignation will not affect Pitt film classes Rio Maropis Staff Writer

the coming spring semester, which begin Jan. 6.

“Most of the students have already registered,” Cantine said. “I really don’t expect this to change anything about that.”

At Filmmakers, the new management team isn’t going to change anything immediately, but is hoping to reevaluate the organization from its foundation up, .

“We’re not planning on making any changes on day-to-day operation,” Khaira said. “We’re looking to put into motion a lot of different moving parts as far as stabilization of this organization.”

Efforts toward stabilization will involve evaluating each of Filmmakers’

programs, defining their organizational structures and their needs. The team hopes to be able to identify where it can create more efficiencies within the nonprofit, so as to avoid budget issues in the future.

In the meantime, Filmmakers will continue to receive community funding for about two years, contracted in a stabilization plan that they drew up after the job cuts over the summer.

“As a staff and as a board of directors, we’re working together to keep moving forward with plans to revamp the organization, increase the communities that we serve and serve the communities that we already serve, better,” Cantine said.

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Though the executive director of Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts has resigned from his post, classes for Pitt film students at the nonprofit will roll on.

Charlie Humphrey, who worked with Filmmakers for 14 years and oversaw activities at the nonprofit after it merged with Pittsburgh Center for the Arts in 2006, announced his resignation earlier this week.

Humphrey’s departure comes after Filmmakers suffered a budget deficit of more than $750,000 earlier this year, and a majority of Filmmakers’ 32 full-time staff members signed a letter to the board of directors last week saying they had lost their confidence in Humphrey as a leader.

Because of the deficit, Humphrey laid off 20 employees over the summer. By September, nearly all 20 were rehired,

but the nonprofit still had more than $300,000 of the deficit to make up.

The board placed Humphrey on an indefinite leave of absence Friday, Dec. 4, according to Jasdeep Khaira, Filmmakers’ director of artist services.

Humphrey announced his resignation at an unscheduled board meeting on Tuesday night. In the absence of an executive director, a three-person team will temporarily manage Filmmakers — John Cantine, Khaira, and Laura Domencic, director of Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.

Filmmakers will maintain its partnership with Pitt, offering film equipment, video editing offices, and classes based in production to film students — things Pitt’s film program doesn’t offer on campus, and Cantine, director of Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ School of Filmmaking and Photography, said Humphrey’s resignation won’t affect classes at Filmmakers in

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Casual Fridays Six feet deep like Moscow authorities are giving people an exclusive opportunity to take a Snapchat selfie with a ghost.

Starting next year, free Wi-Fi will be available in the city’s three main cemeteries — a major plot twist in the city’s planning. If death stresses you out, you can unwind with Wi-Fi at specially-designated relaxing spots — but don’t get too comfortable. The city is still working out a few issues with dead zones.

Paranoid pothead On Thursday, a Florida man sent out smoke signals to police investigating a suspicious death in the neighborhood. After hearing the sirens, Jasper Harrison had high — but false — expectations that police were on the verge of uncovering the marijuana he was growing in his storage unit. He called the dispatcher and bluntly told operators that he was the man they were looking for. Police arrived at his storage unit to find him rolling in his mistakes, 150 grams of cultivated marijuana and nine plants.

Harrison is going to have to deal with his growing pains in jail.

Fluffy hates Fedex Due to a claws in the security contract, a London post office inflicted a cat-astrophic fate on a feline when it withheld an advent calendar of cat treats. The purrfect package was addressed to Ted, Brittany Maher-Kirk’s cat. But because Ted didn’t have an ID at the meowment, the post office wasn’t kitten when it told Maher-Kirk

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that she couldn’t have the package.

Maher-Kirk was able to pop into the depot and put a paws on Ted’s pain once she explained the situation. Ted isn’t forgetting his snail mail experience, however, and is no longer feline the love for the mailman.

No soup for you Jonathan Ray is hoping his mother stops stewing while he cools off in jail for stealing her New Mexican stew. Ray and his mother got into a family food when his mom put a lid on his soupy desires and told him he couldn’t have any of her stew. Ray dismissed her command, swiping the soup off the back porch anyway. His mom didn’t believe that contentment was a dish best stolen, and called the cops to report the scalding hot crime.

There hasn’t been any word on what Ray found so enticing about the mystery meat.

Slice of the pie Manchester Metropolitan University is giving students a chance to snag a piece of the restaurant business. The university recently teamed up with Pizza Hut to offer a course on bringing in the dough — and making it. In the course, students will learn the art of pizza making, pizza eating and pizza money making. Students might have to know how to compute pi to chart the circumference of their growing pockets — and bellies.

The course isn’t as easy as it looks, though, and only the upper crust of the class will pass.

A Farewell to London: Home is where the hot tea is

Courtney Linder after she touched down in London-town.

Courtesy of Courtney Linder.

Courtney Linder Senior Columnist

Prior to the day I landed at Heathrow Airport, I’d never had hot tea.

I’ve found that my lack of warm, herbal drinks is an eerily appropriate metaphor for my lack of culture up until the point I came to England.

My friends will vouch that the bland ideas I held of the world were unsavory — I had no idea where Spain was on a map, I had no clue what curry was and my sense of direction was deplorable — to put it kindly. I was a blind sheep, baa-ing senselessly at the things I couldn’t comprehend because geographically, they escaped me.

While I sat in my first black cab, I stared out the window, wide-eyed and full of childlike innocence. Excitement swirled about in my head, a maelstrom of opportunities awaiting me. Profound questions such as,

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“What is the point of a two pence coin?” and, “Why does a stupid beer cost five quid?” were at the top of the list.

Since that second day of September, I’ve had the sincere pleasure of burning my tongue on dozens of cups of hot tea, and I’ve learned more than I bargained for about the English way of life. But by far the greatest piece of knowledge I’ve gained is that you can never fully understand another culture by approaching it as a tourist. To fall in love with every facet of a city, you must fully immerse yourself in its crags and crannies.

That’s not to say I haven’t been fully taken by the spectre of Parliament or that I don’t get rosy in the cheeks when I talk about the Thames. Of course I will miss stepping outside Westminster Station and getting an enticing full-frontal of the London Eye. There’s no shame in admitting that earlier this week, I stared at Tower Bridge off in the distance See Linder on page 7

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Linder, pg. 6 and listened to melodramatic indie songs. I feel like I’ve been in a loving relationship with this gorgeous city, but as with all things, there is more to dote on than immediate, external beauty.

Really, I’ve become smitten with the way I’ve settled into the day-to-day drudgery of English life — without it feeling like it’s actually drudgery.

I get a sick enjoyment out of sitting on the Tube and glaring at tourists who yell obnoxiously or people who dare to laugh before noon — there is no place for these people in London, thank you very much, and I’ve perfected my English mean-mug.

I’ve worked at a multi-newspaper media building and worn leggings to work while internally laughing at the Daily Mail overcompensators wearing suits and ties.

I’m on a first-name basis with the guys who work the register at Sainsbury’s — the quintessential English supermarket. Seriously — he knows where I live and that I only buy bottom-shelf red Shiraz.

I’ve realized how completely arrogant and U.S.-centric my ideas of politics once were.

That being said, I embarrassingly went from not knowing who David Cameron was to becoming a full-fledged member of the antiCameron club. I was here when Parliament voted in favor of air strikes on Syria and subsequently posed in front of a piece of crude anti-Cameron street art in protest — so radical, right?

I’ve gone to a conference at the London School of Economics and learned that gender inequality rages on in England just as extensively as it does at home, piquing my interest in global feminism.

I’ve managed to become quite familiar with not only London but Essex, England.

One Monday morning, I even made the commute to London alongside the ever-cheery faces of English people thrilled to be riding to work. Lucky for us, a train got delayed due to broken parts.

I have a best friend in England who has changed my life forever. My British boyfriend’s renditions of American accents make my ears bleed, and he force-feeds me Marmite — the overly-salty spread for which England is notorious — against my will. He’s cooked me my

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first English breakfast and made me my first chai tea. I guess you’d say I’m preparing to enter a long-distance relationship — bloody hell.

I have the pleasure of complaining about English phone plans. Really, what’s more English than complaining? It’s brilliant.

I’ve learned that it’s okay to call your friends horrible things here, and they just laugh — I need to remember to remove some key phrases from my vernacular when I get home this weekend.

I’ve become accustomed to asking for ranch dressing and hearing back, “Mayonnaise?” No, mayo is not the same thing as the artistry of ranch. I still don’t get the mayo obsession, but I have fully accepted it.

These little quirks are hard not to fall in love with. After living somewhere so long, you find bits of the culture have been hopelessly ingrained into your being.

I’m going to feel lost in Pittsburgh at first.

I’m going to hear the Yinzer chatter and dream of English banter. I’ll have my first legal drink on the South Side and get misty-eyed, wishing I was at BrewDog in Shepherds Bush — in which case, I’ll need to order another round.

I’m even going to miss singeing off my taste buds while sipping on chai tea, laughing at the name “digestive biscuits” because no, my stomach did not hurt, and no, cookies aren’t called biscuits.

The nuances of English life have crawled into my heart, and I think I’m stuck with them.

So if you travel abroad at some point in your life, the best advice I can leave you with is this: Get lost on purpose. Go on Tinder dates and experience the first-class status of being a foreigner for the first time in your life.

Find the bars with the dirtiest bathrooms and grungiest barmen. Do things your parents might not like. Get on stage at a concert. Go to a protest. Swear like the locals. Eat great food. Eat terrible food. Watch the sun rise from a tent in the countryside. Meet someone famous. Fall in love.

Drink it all in. Have as much hot tea as possible. You might burn your tongue a few times, but for the most part, it will be sweet.

Courtney Linder is a senior columnist at The Pitt News, primarily focusing on social issues and technology. Write to her at CNL13@ pitt.edu.

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Pitt prepares for 3-point barrage Narduzzi agrees to new contract

Jeremy Tepper

Senior Staff Writer The Pitt men’s basketball team has earned its 6-1 record this season through its versatile and deep roster.

But that depth can only prepare the Panthers so much for their upcoming game against Eastern Washington (5-3). The Eagles implement a three-point heavy offense from top to bottom, having made 87 threes on the year, good for 16th in the country. That attack can hurt opponents because if the shooters hit a hot streak, it creates a difficult hole to escape. The Panthers escaped that situation against a similar offensive style in Duquesne by holding the Dukes to only seven 3-point baskets.

In preparation for Eastern Washington, Pitt head coach Jamie Dixon has found that his team’s imitation skills are limited.

“It’s interesting because sometimes these games concern you early on, but they help you too, because they give you a team that you probably can’t simulate in practice,” Dixon said.

The distinctive Eagles offense worries Dixon, because it relies on dribble drives and stretching and spreading the floor out to find open shots behind the arc. Teams in Pitt’s conference don’t run similar offenses, though Dixon said some ACC teams will occasionally implement the attack for brief stretches.

“They play a little different. [They] weave and spread it out and try to get some matchup situations,” Dixon said. “[They’re] not huge, but five guys are almost interchangeable. I’d say that’s the biggest thing that stands out about them.”

That spread style creates roster balance, as four players on Eastern Washington average at least 13 points per game.

Austin McBroom, a senior guard transfer from Saint Louis University, leads the team in scoring with 15.9 points per game, while also making 2.9 threes a game. Felix Von Hofe, the

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Assistant Sports Editor Pitt football fans accustomed to constant coaching changes can welcome a possible step away from the norm: a head coach staying long-term.

After completing his first regular season with an 8-4 record as Pitt’s head football coach, Pat Narduzzi has agreed to a contract extension through the 2021 season, the school announced Thursday.

“My family and I plan to make Pittsburgh our home for a very long time, and we’re glad the leadership at Pitt feels the same way,” Narduzzi said in a release.

The coach’s original contract was for five years, and the new agreement will extend his time to seven years.

“I think I’ll be 57 years old when this contract ends, and hopefully there’s more contracts to come after that,” Narduzzi said. “It’s something I came here with the intention of doing, of making this a long-term deal. This Sterling Smith has averaged almost 10 points per game in his last five is just the beginning.” contests. Jeff Ahearn ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR Pitt’s athletic director Scott Barnes said defense to contain Eastern Washington. team’s second highest scorer at 14.9 points, leads Narduzzi earned the extension after revital“We’ve got to be prepared for them to be izing Pitt football “on and off the field.” the team with 3.3 threes per game. able to play one and one and have some isolaThough the offense is predicated on 3-point Barnes came to Pitt after the school hired tions, and just be prepared that at any point in Narduzzi, but both said their relationship has shots, the nature of the scheme spreads the time they can attack us,” Maia said. floor, freeing up space inside for forward Venky grown since they first met.

Pitt’s defense will find containing isolations Jois, who averages 13.6 points on 72.4 percent “We’re excited about what our studentchallenging because it’s struggled with con- athletes can continue to achieve — on the shooting, which ranks sixth in the country.

With a spaced out floor, Pitt forward Rafael See Men’s Basketball on page 9 See Narduzzi on page 10 Maia recognizes the team may need to use help

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Campbell, Pitt blow by Edinboro, 24-9

TeShan Campbell recorded a comeback 14-12 decision to help seal Pitt’s win over Edinboro. Dagmar Seppala STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Chris Puzia

Assistant Sports Editor Surrendering four years — but no weight — to his redshirt senior competitor, Pitt wrestler TeShan Campbell did not relent after falling into an early hole.

“I just keep looking to score, stay focused on getting more points,” Campbell said after coming back from an early hole to defeat his Edinboro competitor, 14-12, to extend the Pitt wrestling team’s close lead.

In their first dual match action since Nov. 20, the Panthers (4-1) defeated the Edinboro Fighting Scots (4-3) 24-9 in the Fitzgerald Field House Thursday night.

Campbell, a local freshman from Penn Hills, trailed by four points in the first period, but made several key takedowns late to build his lead. After his go-ahead maneuver, the Pitt crowd roared to its feet, which Campbell said helped him close out the victory and give Pitt a crucial 15-9 lead.

“The crowd noise gives you a bit of a kick in the butt, like, ‘I gotta go get that point, get that takedown,’” Campbell said. “That definitely played a role. I enjoyed it, it’s defi-

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nitely a great atmosphere to be around.”

Pitt head coach Jason Peters said freshmen like Campbell and LJ Bentley — who won the first bout of the night 7-5 — have progressed quickly after their first few collegiate matches.

“It’s a young group, we’re asking a lot of them, and the expectations are high for them, and right now they’re delivering,” Peters said. “Every once in a while, they may stub their toe, but Bentley beat a top-20 guy tonight, which was good. They’re progressing week to week.”

But Campbell wasn’t the only Panther with a close and difficult bout Thursday.

One of Pitt’s more experienced wrestlers, junior Mikey Racciato, has led the Panthers this season, earning a national ranking as high as No. 9 at 141 pounds.

He received an unexpected challenge from the 12-9 Edinboro freshman, Nate Hagan.

Hagan executed several takedowns to bring a narrow 7-5 Racciato lead to the third period. The Edinboro bench looked See Wrestling on page 10

Men’s Basketball, pg. 8 sistency from game to game and possession to possession — the Panthers rank 69th in points allowed per game.

Though that standing is less than ideal for Dixon, defensive efficiency statistics adjusted for pace and opponent are even worse. According to the KenPom website, Pitt ranks 101st in defensive efficiency.

That’s a stark contrast to Pitt’s offense, which ranks high in both conventional and advanced statistics. Averaging a robust 87.4 points per game, the Panthers rank 10th in scoring nationally. They’ve also shot 49.9 percent from the field and averaged 22.1 assists a game, second in the nation.

Pitt’s assist to turnover ratio, 2.12, is tops in college basketball, and KenPom ranks the Panthers offensive efficiency 11th.

With the strong offensive play has also come a recent increase in shooting guard Sterling Smith’s efficiency. Since scoring just six total points in his first two games, the graduate transfer from Coppin State has averaged 9.2 points in his past five. The improved play correlates with increased comfort, Smith said.

“Chemistry is definitely playing a big part in that,” Smith said. “I’m getting more comfortable with my teammates. They know where to find me.”

Pitt’s offense is still starting to gel with a number of new players, including some underclassmen who are seeing more minutes. Though Maia, also a graduate transfer, said the team’s chemistry has developed, he noted the growing pains that come with a deep new team.

“Our team has a lot of depth, which I think is very good, but also it’s harder to be a team that plays together, since you have so many players.

Every day in practice, you’re playing with different guys,” Maia said.

Regardless of the learning curve, the Pitt offense may continue to excel Friday against the Eagles’ defense, which ranks 314th in KenPom’s defensive efficiency.

The Panthers’ defense, though, will shape a game between two proficient offenses. In some ways, Smith said, results on both ends are interconnected.

“I think a lot of times our offense runs off our defense,” Smith said. “We play well on that end, you get better shots.”

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Pat Narduzzi received a two-year contract extension on Thursday.

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field, in the classroom and in the community — under Pat’s long-term leadership,” Barnes said.

Narduzzi’s contract only applies to the head coach, but he did acknowledge that his assistants may have received contact from other schools. Still, Narduzzi said he is confident they will stay with the Panthers as well.

“When you have great coaches and you have success, people are going to come after your guys,” Narduzzi said. “Continuity is important ... We need to keep our staff intact.

I’m going to do everything in my power to keep them there.”

Pitt’s 2015 campaign was its winningest regular season in six years, and the Panthers finished second in the ACC Coastal division with a 6-2 record. The Panthers have one more game this calendar year, when they face No. 21 Navy on Dec. 28 in the Military Bowl in Annapolis, Maryland.

“It is an honor to serve as Pitt’s head football coach, and I’m continuously energized by what we can, and will, accomplish here,” Narduzzi said.

for the tying takedown late in the match, but did not receive it. Scots coach Tim Flynn, who had already received a mat misconduct warning earlier in the night, screamed at the referee, but Racciato escaped victorious.

Edinboro fielded a young lineup in the early weight classes, trotting out freshmen in its first five bouts, and Pitt took advantage, jumping out to a 12-0 lead after the first three matches.

Sophomore Dom Forys earned three takedowns in the first 45 seconds of the 133-pound match, controlling a 6-2 lead.

Edinboro freshman Tony Recco never gave the 9-1 Panther a challenge, as Forys pinned him in the first period.

Forys said getting an early pin helps more than just his personal record.

“It gets the guys hyped up, the crowd gets wild,” Forys said. “It gets everybody fired up and gives them more confidence [on the mat].”

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Brand new, completely renovated 5 BR, 2 full bath house.

All appliances including washer and dryer are brand new and included. Too many features to list. Close to Magee Women's Hospital. On Pitt shuttle and PAT bus lines. 10 minute walk to Univ. of Pittsburgh. $2500/mo.

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Free parking. Minutes to campus. Cat friendly. Call 412977-0111.

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Nice 6BR house available Aug. 1, 2016.

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OFFFICE INTERN Shadyside Management Company seeks person w/ min 3 yrs. college, for upcoming spring semester, to interview & process rental applications, do internet postings & help staff our action-central office. Part time or full time OK starting January 2; full time in summer. $12/hour.

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