What happened to Pitt basketball?

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The Pittsburgh basketball team gathers in a hotel conference room for their pregame breakfast just after 10:30(13) a.m. on a recent weekday morning in South Florida, helping themselves to pancakes, bacon, eggs, toast, cereal, yogurt, juice and hash browns.

Players eat quietly before leaving to get ready for shootaround. Assistant coaches and support staff linger a little longer, and the conversation turns to 1980s television and movies, and a rather heated debate over whether "Top Gun"=30,24,93 is, in fact, a good movie. They fail to reach a consensus.

Eventually, the topic turns to this season. Pitt, once an NCAA tournament mainstay, is on pace to finish winless in conference play for the first time ever, and critics across Pittsburgh have loudly voiced their displeasure over where the program is headed. Coach Kevin Stallings has repeatedly praised his players both publicly and privately, adamantly insisting, "We will have success here."=322,119

Not too long ago, Pitt had a long streak of success: Between 2002 and 2016, Pitt missed only one NCAA tournament. But the program showed signs it had slipped in the final two seasons under Jamie Dixon, going to the NIT in 2015 and failing to make it out of the NCAA tournament's first round in 2016.

When Stallings took over last season, he inherited a team filled with seniors and with young players not suited for ACC play. Both he and those inside the program prepared for a rocky 2017-18: They had an NCAA-high 11 newcomers, zero returning starters and three total players with NCAA Division I experience on the roster when camp opened. That is not merely rebuilding; that is starting over with nothing to build off.

"It was told to me in the job interview, 'Hey, listen, this is what you have and this is what you're up against,'" said Stallings, whose team enters Tuesday night's game against Boston College at 8-18 overall and 0-13 in the ACC. The 13-game losing streak is a program record.