text: 2010–11: Jamie Dixon won the Sporting News National Coach of the Year award.
  Hall of Fame inductees
  Three inductees represent the University of Pittsburgh in the Helms Foundation Basketball Hall of Fame; two of them, Carlson and Hyatt, are also represented in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. Both Carlson and Hyatt were selected as the first class inducted to each hall.
  Henry Clifford "Doc" Carlson, M.D., Pitt head coach from 1922 to 1953.  He is noted as the innovator of the "figure 8" play, the first coach to take his team cross country and a leading advocate for intersectional games.  Despite great modern eras in Pitt basketball (late 1950s, mid 1970s, 1980s, 2000s), he continues to be the winningest coach in program history as well as the only one to lead the program to national championships.
  Charley Hyatt, Pitt player and three-time All-American and two-time national scoring leader, he also was a senior year All American in High School and earned three other all-pro awards in the pre-NBA era playing after Pitt. He was a member of the very first Consensus All American team in 1929.
  Don Hennon, two-time All-American (with one being a Consensus All American), led Pitt to two NCAA Tournament bids.