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Pitt enjoys Garden party by knocking off the Hoyas

Originally Published: March 16, 2008
By Dana O'Neil | ESPN.com

NEW YORK -- One is a foot-stomping, arm-flailing, fast talker whose intensity practically seeps out of his pores.

The other is so unassuming he barely managed a smile when his team won the Big East Championship, a quiet pianist and poet who attended the most ideal marriage of high school name and personality possible -- Friendly High.

Together Jamie Dixon and Sam Young converged as the calming salve for a Pittsburgh team that desperately needed ...

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