Pitt’s roster reconstruction continued Saturday evening when the Panthers landed a commitment from North Carolina guard Jonathan Powell.
Powell, who joins Dominique Diomandre (BYU/Washington) as the first two transfers landed by coach Jeff Capel, played last season at UNC and began his collegiate career at West Virginia.
Like Diomandre, Powell announced his commitment on Instagram.
A 6-foot-6 player from Centerville, Ohio, who will be a junior for 2026-27, Powell averaged 4.8 points and 2.4 rebounds over 33 games, all off the bench, with the Tar Heels last season.
Powell averaged 16.3 minutes per game and shot 38.1% from the field in his one year with North Carolina.
With West Virginia in 2024-25, he averaged 8.3 points and 3.1 rebounds per game.
Powell also brings a track record as a dependable 3-point-shooting threat to Pitt.
In total, he’s attempted 286 3-pointers in his collegiate career, with a lifetime make rate of 35.7%.
Last year, he shot 36.5% (38 of 104) with UNC and, with the Mountaineers, hit 35.2% (64 of 182) of his shots from behind the arc.
Powell and Diomandre represent the first wave of incoming transfers that Pitt is bringing in to replace the production of nearly all of its scholarship players from a season ago.
Cam Corhen, Damarco Minor and Barry Dunning Jr. graduated, and Brandin Cummings, Roman Siulepa, Omari Witherspoon, Papa Amadou Kante and Kieran Mullen entered the transfer portal.
Of last season’s Panthers squad, Macari Moore is the only returning player still on roster who saw game action.