No. 4 Pitt scores first-ever win over No. 1 team

Published Feb. 17, 2009 4:50 p.m. ET

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It wasn't just a game between No. 1 and No. 4. It was a game between two of the Big East's most physical teams. And it was played just the way it was expected to be.

"That was the most physical game I ever played in my entire life," DeJuan Blair after getting 22 points and 23 rebounds in No. 4 Pittsburgh's 76-68 victory over No. 1 Connecticut on Monday night, the Panthers' first win over a top-ranked team. "There were elbows flying, bodies flying. We just went after each other the whole game."