No. 7 Pitt is ACC Champions Again!

PITTSBURGH – For the fourth time in the last six seasons, No. 7 Pitt (27-3, 17-1 ACC) have won the ACC Championship. The Panthers defeated Boston College, 3-0 (25-11, 25-14, 29-27) on Saturday afternoon inside Fitzgerald Field House, securing a share of the ACC Title with Louisville.
 
“It’s been a rewarding season,” Head coach Dan Fisher said. “In light of the fact that we lost so many great seniors last year. We knew we had talent with this year’s group but we didn’t know how it would come together. We have a really enjoyable group to coach and we’re still getting better. I’m excited to see our fate tomorrow in the NCAA Tournament Selection Show.”
 
The Panthers will learn who their next opponent is during the NCAA Tournament Selection show, tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. on ESPNU.
 
QUICK HITS

• Pitt has clinched a share of the ACC Championship.
• This is the fourth ACC Title in the past six seasons – also 2017, 2018 and 2019.
• The Panthers finish the ACC season with a 17-1 record (.944 win%) – tied for the second-best ACC  record in program history.
• Pitt is now 99-11 in ACC play over the last six seasons (.900 win%).
• The Panthers finished ACC play with a perfect 9-0 record at home.
• Valeria Vazquez Gomez led the team in kills for the second match in a row, finishing with 11 on .435 hitting. This was her ninth .400+ hitting match of the year after earning just four such matches in her previous two seasons.
• She finishes the regular season with 309 kills, her first-career 300 kill season.
• Pitt made 11 aces today, the most in an ACC match since 2016 (12 at Georgia Tech).
• The 3.67 aces/set average is the second highest ever recorded by a Pitt team in an ACC match – 3.75 aces/set vs. Louisville in 2014.
• Four different Panthers registered multiple aces today, led by three from Courtney Buzzerio. Cat Flood, Rachel Fairbanks and Vazquez Gomez each added two with Serena Gray and Emmy Klika adding two others.
• Three aces tied the season high for Buzzerio, this is her fourth match with three aces this year.
• She finishes the regular season with 30 aces and just 21 service errors, the first time in her five-year collegiate career to have earned more aces than errors.
• Buzzerio is one of seven Panthers…