 On March 27, 2018, the University of Pittsburgh announced the hiring of Capel to be the 16th head coach of their men's basketball program.Capel replaced 2 year former head coach Kevin Stallings, who led the Panthers to an 0–18 Atlantic Coast Conference record in 2017–18.During the 2019 NCAA Tournament, Capel signed on with CBS and Turner as a guest TV studio analyst for the first round of the tournament.