Pitt announced Thursday that it had come to an agreement with West Virginia to extend the Backyard Brawl basketball series through the 2023-2024 season:
Extended.
— Pitt Basketball (@Pitt_MBB) October 15, 2020
The original agreement between the two athletic programs to resume the basketball rivalry in the 2017-2018 season and would include four games. The last of those four games was originally scheduled to be played on November 13th of this season.
But due to the pandemic and COVID-19 complications, the NCAA pushed back the start of the season to November 25th, and the reduced number of games made it more difficult for programs to schedule out-of-conference games.
That means Pitt and West Virginia will presumably play their next game in the 2021-2022 season, and that the new agreement announced Thursday will add games where the two programs play each other in the 2022-2023 and the 2023-2024 seasons.
Pitt and West Virginia have played each other in 187 basketball games, stretching back to the start of the series in 1904. That makes West Virginia the Panthers' most played opponent in the program's history. West Virginia leads the series with a 99-88 record over Pitt, but Pitt has a 7-4 record against the Mountaineers when playing at home at the Peterson Events Center.
