Roman Siulepa scored a game-high 22 points and Nojus Indrusaitis finished with a career-high 17 points to lead Pittsburgh to 71-68 home win over Notre Dame, snapping a five-game losing streak.
Cameron Corhen chipped in with 13 points and eight rebounds for the Panthers (10-17, 3-11), and Omar Witherspoon and Barry Dunning Jr. each scored eight. Damarco Minor scored just five points but sealed the game with two free throws with 7.6 seconds remaining.
Cole Certa led the Fighting Irish (12-15, 3-11) with 16 points, but struggled shooting going just 6-for-18 from the floor and 2-for-12 from 3-point range. Ryder Frost and Logan Imes scored 12 points each.
Carson Towt finished with seven points and 13 rebounds, including eight offensive rebounds for Notre Dame. Brenden Shrewsberry finished with just six points on 2-for-15 shooting and 2-for-13 from long distance.
After trailing for the majority of the game, Notre Dame took a 49-48 lead on a Towt dunk with 6:29 remaining in the game. After that, however, Pittsburgh used a 10-0 run, which ultimately proved to be the difference.
Indrusaitis scored eight of the 10 Pittsburgh points during that run, including back-to-back 3-pointers that gave the Panthers a 58-49 lead with four minutes remaining.
Frost ended the 10-0 run with his third of four 3-pointers to cut the deficit to 58-52. Led by a late surge from Certa helped the Fighting Irish cut the deficit to 71-68 with eight seconds remaining.
In the first half, both teams struggled to get anything going offensively. Notre Dame jumped out to a quick 5-0 lead, but both teams navigated through multiple minutes-long scoring droughts. Pittsburgh’s first points of the game came at the 15:55 mark in the first half.
The difference was that Pittsburgh went 5-for-14 from long distance in the first half while Notre Dame went just 2-for-18. For the game, the Panthers went 11-for-24 from 3-point range, while the Irish went 9-for-38.
With the win, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame are tied in the ACC standings for one of the last spots in the conference tournament. Pittsburgh travels to Stanford on Wednesday; Notre Dame hosts No. 3 Duke on Tuesday.
–Field Level Media
