PITTSBURGH – No. 8 Pitt (18-2, 8-0 ACC) hosts a pair of ACC opponents this weekend at Fitzgerald Field House. The Panthers will take on Notre Dame (9-9, 4-4) on Friday at 7 p.m. before taking on No. 2 Louisville (17-1, 8-0) in a Top 10 battle on Sunday at 1 p.m.
The Panthers bring a 39-match home winning streak against unranked ACC opponents into the weekend along with a 3-0 record against Top 10 opponents this season. The Panthers are looking to become just the second team in the history of Pitt Athletics to defeat four Top 10 opponents in the same season (1989 Men’s Basketball).
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LAST TIME OUT
The Panthers delivered their first double-sweep weekend of ACC play this past week, taking down Miami and Florida State in straight sets inside Fitzgerald Field House. Courtney Buzzerio earned ACC Player of the Week, making 4.67 kills/set on .407 hitting, 1.33 blocks/set and five aces in the two victories.
Her 16 kills (5.33 kills/set) against Florida State was the most kills/set in a single match by any Panther since Kayla Lund in the 2020 fall season. She did so on .444 hitting, joining Lund (2020-21), Stephanie Williams (2017/16), Nika Markovic (2017), Kadi Kullerkann (2015) and Jessica Wynn (2013) as the only Panthers in the Dan Fisher era to collect multiple matches of 5+ kills/set and .400+ hitting in the same season.
SO GOOD IT’S BIZARRE-IO
Graduate transfer Courtney Buzzerio is on an All-American pace in her lone year at Pitt. She leads the team with 255 kills this season, doing so on .348 hitting. No other player in Division I has a higher hitting percentage than her with as many or more attempts (543). She owns the highest hitting percentage in the nation by a pin hitter with 500 or more attacks.
Buzzerio leads all ACC pin hitters in hitting percentage and is ninth overall. She has 215 more attempts than the next closest player in the ACC hitting % Top 10. She joined Georgia Tech’s Julia Bergmann as the only player to be named ACC Player of the Week twice this season.
She has now made at least 3.25 kills/set in 12 straight matches – tied for the longest streak of her career (12 in a row at Iowa to begin the 2021 season). Buzzerio has also made 10+ kills while hitting at least…
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