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T&L Extra: PGH Sports' Alan Saunders Previews MSU-Pitt

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SuperTalk Mississippi Media

News, Sports, Sports News

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Mississippi State takes on Pittsburgh in a matchup of two very different teams, both looking for a win to extend their run in the NCAA Tournament. Brian Hadad talks with Alan Saunders of Pittsburgh Sports Now to get an inside look at this Panthers team and what they'll bring to the First Four game in Dayton.

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0:00.0

A Super Talk Mississippi Media Production.

0:05.8

I told Robbie Falk I would get a Pittsburgh interview, and I did it, and I'm proud of myself.

0:10.7

Not only did I get one, but I got one whose bio says he is an award-winning podcast guest.

0:15.8

So my hopes couldn't be higher for Alan Saunders, the editor for Pittsburgh Sports Now, covers the Pitt

0:20.9

Panthers up there. And Alan, when I look at this pit team, a good team, won some big

0:28.3

games this year, had a couple of losses that make you scratch your head a little bit.

0:32.2

Just maybe in, you know, 100 words or less, what is this team's identity?

0:38.3

They shoot.

0:39.7

I really think that's it.

0:41.0

They're a veteran team that likes to shoot and they're pretty good at it.

0:45.2

They are really a very experienced team.

0:48.7

And it's just guys that are very confident in knowing when they can make a shot.

0:54.1

They take the kind of shots that you think, that are very confident in knowing when they can make a shot.

1:00.3

They take the kind of shots that you think, we would say, are bad shots.

1:03.5

Oh, that's a covered three early in the shot clock.

1:04.2

But they make them.

1:05.6

Like, that's just what they do.

1:07.6

And I think that's what makes them good.

1:12.6

If you look at the pit roster, which I did earlier, there's a name that should be familiar to some Mississippi State fans there, Blake Henson, who of course played

1:16.6

a couple of years down at Ole Miss and had a career game against Mississippi State, his freshman

1:22.2

year there in Oxford, at 26 points, had been at Iowa State the previous two years, but not playing college

1:29.6

basketball comes to Pitt this year.

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