The 2025–26 Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team represented the University of Pittsburgh during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Panthers, led by eighth-year head coach Jeff Capel, played their home games at the Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The Panthers began their season with three straight wins before their rivalry match at West Virginia. The Panthers lost the game, 49–71 for their first loss of the season. They defeated Bucknell 84–50 before traveling to Daytona Beach, Florida to participated in the Legends Classic. There they lost both of their games, against non-Power 4 opponents before returning to Pittsburgh. They defeated Ohio State by one point on their return. However, the team could not convert that win into momentum, as their lost their next three games. This run included an eight-point loss to Texas A&M in their ACC–SEC Challenge game. The Panthers won their final two non-conference games, including a thirty-four point defeat of Penn State. They started the ACC season slowly, as they went 1–6 in their first seven games. Their only victory came against Georgia Tech. They only lost to one ranked team over the stretch, a 59–100 loss against twentieth-ranked Louisville. The Panthers went 1–5 in their next six games, and their only victory was over Wake Forest in overtime. They lost to four teams over this stretch: fourth-ranked Duke, eleventh-ranked North Carolina, eighteenth-ranked Virginia, and twenty-second ranked Clemson. The Panthers produced their best stretch to end the season, going 3–2 to finish the regular season. They defeated Notre Dame, California, and Syracuse while losing to Stanford, and Florida State.

The Panthers finished the 2025–26 season 13–20, 5–13 in ACC play, to finish in fifteenth place. As the fifteenth-seed in the ACC tournament they upset tenth-seed Stanford before losing to seventh-seed NC State in the Second Round. They were not invited to any post-season tournaments.

Previous season

The Panthers finished the 2024–25 season 17–15, 8–12 in ACC play, to finish in a five-way tie for ninth place. They were defeated by Notre Dame in the first round of the ACC tournament.

Offseason Departures Departures Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Reason for Departure Damian Dunn 1 G 6'5" 205 Kinston, NC Graduated Ishmael Leggett 5 G 6'3" 185 Washington, D.C. Graduated Marlon Barnes Jr. 11 F 6'6" 190 Cleveland, OH Transferred to Evansville Jaland Lowe 15 G 6'3" 175 Missouri City, TX Transferred to Kentucky Vason Stevenson 21 F 6'3" 190 McKees Rocks, PA Graduated Liam Mignogna 24 C 6'9" 250 Gibsonia, PA Walk on; didn't return Guillermo Diaz Graham 25 F 7'0" 225 Canary Islands, Spain Transferred to San Francisco Jorge Diaz Graham 31 F 6'11" 215 Canary Islands, Spain Transferred to Oregon State Amsal Delalić 52 G 6'8" 210 Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina Transferred to DePaul Zack Austin 55 F 6'7" 210 Winston-Salem, NC Graduated

Incoming transfers Incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Previous School Dishon Jackson 1 C 6'11" 270 Oakland, California Iowa State Damarco Minor 7 G 6'0" 190 Chicago, Illinois Oregon State Barry Dunning Jr. 22 G/F 6'6" 195 Mobile, Alabama South Alabama Nojus Indrušaitis 25 G 6'5" 200 Lemont, Illinois Iowa State

2025 recruiting class

Preseason On October 14, 2025, the ACC released their preseason poll. Pittsburgh was picked to finish 14th in the conference.

Preseason rankings +ACC Preseason Poll Place Team Points 1 866 (34) 2 842 (15) 3 741 4 710 5 623 6 616 7 510 8 500 9 489 10 477 11 412 12 355 13 315 14 Pittsburgh 301 15 221 16 156 17 138 18 107

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Preseason All-ACC Teams No players were named to either First or Second Team Preseason All-ACC.

Roster

Schedule and results

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