Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro will provide commentary for the 93.7 The Fan live radio broadcast of the Pitt-Syracuse men’s basketball game Tuesday night at Petersen Events Center, sources informed the Post-Gazette.
Shapiro will join play-by-play announcer Bill Hillgrove and former Pitt basketball star Curtis Aiken, who’s in his 15th season as a radio analyst for Pitt basketball games, on the live broadcast. Shapiro and Aiken have longstanding ties, including when Shapiro named Aiken to his administration’s transition leadership board in Nov. 2022, and when Shapiro appointed Aiken to the Board of Trustees of the University of Pittsburgh in Jan. 2024.
Aiken played as a guard at Pitt from 1983-1987, when he finished having scored 1,200 points. In his final season, Aiken led the Panthers in 3-point shooting and was a significant part of their first-ever Big East regular season championship in 1987. In 2006, Aiken was named to Pitt’s 15-man all-centennial team.
Shapiro’s daughter — Sophia — graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in April 2024.
In high school, Shapiro was a team captain for Akiba Hebrew Academy’s basketball team in Merion Station, Pa.
After graduating from the University of Rochester with degrees in political science and his juris doctorate from Georgetown University, Shapiro worked in diplomacy and under various United States legislators before he first ran for public office in 2004 for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
Shapiro would later be elected to Pennsylvania Attorney General in 2016 and re-elected in 2020 before he would run to replace Tom Wolf as Governor of Pennsylvania in 2022. Shapiro won that election and has served as governor since he assumed office in Jan. 2023.
First Published: February 17, 2025, 10:53 a.m.
Updated: February 18, 2025, 7:54 p.m.
