NEW YORK — Freshman Devin Ebanks scored a career-high 20 points to lead scrappy West Virginia to a 74-60 upset of No. 2 Pittsburgh on Thursday night,

knocking out the defending Big East tournament champions and advancing to the semifinals for the second straight season.

Alex Ruoff added 18 points and Da'Sean Butler had 16 for West Virginia (23-10), which might be the hottest team in the nation's deepest conference. The Mountaineers have won four of their last five, their lone loss coming to No. 5 Louisville last weekend.

The tournament's seventh seed got a big assist from DaJuan Blair, the league's co-player of the year, who spent most of the game on the bench for Pittsburgh (27-4). The big man managed only 14 points and five rebounds before fouling out with 1:17 left in the game.

Sam Young scored 15 points to lead the Panthers (27-4).