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Cougars cancel out Jenkins' heroics
From staff and
electronic reports
East Carolina's one-man
show was no match for Houston's more balanced effort Saturday night as
the Cougars chewed up the Pirates and claimed an 83-59 Conference USA
victory.
ECU senior guard Darrell
Jenkins' deft shooting performance resulting in 31 points barely fazed
Houston, which bolted to a 10-0 lead in the game's first three and half
minutes and virtually removed all doubt about the outcome by building a
44-20 halftime lead.
Junior guard Robert
McKiver scored 23 points, senior forward Jahmar Thorpe tallied 15 points
and junior forward Dion Dowell added 11 points for the Cougars.
Jenkins made 10 of his 13
shots — including eight of 10 from beyond the three-point line — and
three of four free throws to score more than half of East Carolina's
points on a night when his teammates experienced great collective
difficulty finding the basket.
Excluding Jenkins shooting
exhibition, the Pirates made only 23.7 percent of their shots from the
field (9-of-38), 21.1 percent from behind the arc (4-of-19) and 46.2
percent from the charity stripe (6-of-13) in absorbing their 10th loss
in a row and the 17th in their last 18 games.
Junior guard Jeremy Ingram
was ECU's second-leading scorer with 6 points.
Houston converted 44.1
percent of its field goal attempts (26-of-59), 33.3 percent from
three-point range (12-of-36) and 86.4 percent from the free throw line
(19-of-22)
The Cougars improved
to 13-10 overall, 7-3 in C-USA, while ECU dropped to 5-18 in all games,
0-10 in the league. The Pirates' last victory came on Jan. 6 over Chowan.
East Carolina's next shot
at halting its skid will come Wednesday when it hosts Southern
Mississippi (7 p.m.)
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BOX SCORE
HOUSTON 83, EAST CAROLINA
59
Date: Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007.
Site: Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, TX.
Attendance: 4,570.
Officials: Hal Lusk, Jackie Sanders, Larry Rose.
Technical Fouls: None.
SCORE BY PERIODS 1
2 FINAL
East Carolina 20 39 -
59
Houston
44 39 - 83
EAST CAROLINA (5-18,
0-10
C-USA)
PLAYER MIN FG 3PT FT
R PTS
Fields 14 1-3
0-0 3-6 2 5
Blair 33
0-3 0-1 0-0 7
0
Farmer 28 2-7
1-4 0-0 2 5
Captain 25 2-10
1-7 0-0 4 5
Jenkins 36 10-13 8-10
3-4 4 31
Dillard 5 0-0
0-0 0-0 0 0
Gagnon 16 1-3
0-1 0-0 2 2
Ingram 10 2-6
2-5 0-0 1 6
Ramsey 14 0-2
0-0 0-2 2 0
Sargent 2 0-0
0-0 0-0 0 0
Evans 17
1-4 0-1 3-5 4
5
TEAM
4
TOTALS 200 19-51 12-29 9-17
32 59
PERCENT
.373 .414 .529
HOUSTON (13-10, 7-3 C-USA)
PLAYER MIN FG 3PT FT
R PTS
Dowell 26 3-8
3-8 2-2 6 11
Thorpe 28 5-9
1-2 4-4 5 15
McKiver 35 8-16 4-12
3-4 2 23
Malone 25 3-7
3-6 0-0 2 9
Lafayette 32 1-9 0-5
0-0 10 2
Lee 16
0-3 0-2 4-4 3
4
Mosley 7
0-0 0-0 0-2 2
0
Hatcher 1 0-0
0-0 2-2 0 2
Jones 11
1-1 1-1 0-0 0
3
Toney 19
5-6 0-0 4-4 9 14
TEAM
3
TOTALS 200 26-59 12-36 19-22
42 83
PERCENT
.441 .333 .864
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PAGE UPDATED
02/23/07 11:45 AM.
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