Powered by 19 points apiece from Zack Austin and Ishmael Leggett, Pitt rallied to take down visiting Syracuse 79-70 Tuesday night.The Panthers (16-10, 7-8 Atlantic Coast Conference) kept their flickering NCAA Tournament at-large hopes alive with their second win in a row. Syracuse (11-16, 5-11) has lost three straight.It was a story of two halves, the first was all Syracuse, while Pitt dominated the second.The Orange entered the contest shooting 32 percent from beyond the arc, placing them 15th in the 18-team ACC, but they found their range in the first half.Syracuse jumped out to a 9-0 lead as Pitt went more than five minutes without a point to start the game. The lead was as big as 16 after the Orange’s Chris Bell hit back-to-back 3-pointers midway through the first half.Pitt shifted to a 1-2-2 press that slowed the Orange attack, but didn’t stop Syracuse all the way. JJ Starling sank two treys in a 36-second span to make it 33-24 for the Orange, and Lucas Taylor buried a 3-pointer with 1:38 left in the half for a 41-30 edge. Syracuse shot 9-for-16 from 3-point distance before the break and took a 41-34 lead into the locker room.