SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Different month and different coach on the Syracuse bench. Same result for the Orange against nemesis Pittsburgh.

Jamel Artis had 21 points and 11 rebounds, James Robinson added 13 points, and Pittsburgh beat Syracuse 66-52 on Saturday.

Defense, including a 20-rebound margin, won this one.

“We just took pride. You can’t count on one man to stop a player,” said Artis, who had 16 points in the second half. “It’s five guys out there and we all have to buy into the same thing. We did that.”

Syracuse’s top four scorers — Michael Gbinije, Malachi Richardson, Trevor Cooney and Tyler Roberson — were held in check the entire game, going 3 for 10 in the opening half as Tyler Lydon nearly singlehandedly kept the Orange in the game with 13 points.

The quartet finished a combined 6 for 30 for 19 points — Gbinije averages 17.2 — and Gbinije, Cooney and Richardson failed to hit a shot from beyond the arc in the second half, missing nine attempts as the Orange shot 1 of 12 from long range after the break.

“Even with the rebounding, our defense held us in there pretty good for a long time, but we have to make shots if we’re going to be successful,” Orange coach Jim Boeheim said. “We’ve got to make shots. That’s the bottom line.”

Pittsburgh (19-7, 8-6 ACC), which snapped a three-game skid on Tuesday with a 101-96 double-overtime victory at home over Wake Forest, has won four straight against Syracuse (18-10, 8-7). The Orange lost their second straight after a five-game winning streak.

It was a game for position in the mid-pack of the Atlantic Coast Conference.