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2011–12 Pittsburgh Panthers women's basketball team

2011–12 Pittsburgh Panthers women's basketball
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Caribbean Classic Champions
Conference Big East
2011–12 record 8-22 (0-16 Big East)
Head coach Agnus Berenato
Assistant coach Patty Coyle
Assistant coach Khadija Head
Assistant coach Mallorie Winn
Home arena Petersen Events Center
Seasons
← 2010–11
2012–13 →
2011–12 Big East Conference women's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Notre Dame 15 1   .938     35 4   .897
Connecticut 13 3   .813     33 5   .868
St. John's 13 3   .813     24 10   .706
Georgetown 11 5   .688     23 9   .719
West Virginia 11 5   .688     24 10   .706
Louisville 10 6   .625     23 10   .697
Rutgers 10 6   .625     22 10   .688
DePaul 9 7   .563     23 11   .676
South Florida 8 8   .500     19 16   .543
Syracuse 6 10   .375     22 15   .595
Villanova 6 10   .375     19 15   .559
Cincinnati 6 10   .375     16 16   .500
Providence 5 11   .313     13 17   .433
Marquette 4 12   .250     14 17   .452
Seton Hall 1 15   .063     8 23   .258
Pittsburgh 0 16   .000     8 22   .267
2012 Big East Basketball Tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2011–12 Pittsburgh Panthers women's basketball team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 2011–12 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Panthers, coached by Agnus Berenato, were a member of the Big East Conference and played their home games at the Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

An unusual distribution of players by academic class, with five seniors and six freshman, but with no juniors or sophomores, and three new assistant coaches resulted in some growing pains for the 2010-11 Pitt women's basketball team which went 14–17, suffering their first losing season since 2004-05. In the Big East, the team finished with a 5–11 record finishing with the 12th seed in the Big East Tournament, the Panthers won their first round of the tournament to South Florida, but exited the tournament with a 61–65 loss to Marquette leaving the Panthers without a post-season tournament invitation for the first time since 2005.

The Panthers lost their top four scorers, seniors Taneisha Harrison, Jania Sims, Chelsea Cole, and Shayla Scott, and return only one starters, Ashlee Anderson, along with five letter winners while welcoming seven newcomers. Composed of six sophomores and six freshman, with no seniors or juniors, Pitt is the youngest team in NCAA Division 1 for the 2010-11 season. Pitt looks to help replace 74.6% of its scoring, 64.1% of its rebounds, and 75.8% of its assists with its best ever recruiting class, ranked 18th by ESPN's Hoopgurlz, along with redshirt sophomore Abby Dowd, who begins play with the team after transferring from Buffalo during last season.

Staff moves included moving Meghan Bielich to Director of Basketball Operations and adding David Scarborough as the team's Video Coordinator. Assistant coach Patty Coyle was promoted to associate head coach.

The women's basketball team enters the season with modest expectations due to their inexperience and was picked to finish 12th in the Big East Conference in a preseason poll of conference coaches.


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