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Meltdown in Minges
From staff and
electronic reports
It was a combination of
the best of all worlds and the worst of all worlds in Williams Arena on
Wednesday night. All the best belonged to Southern Miss and all the
worst belonged to East Carolina.
The Golden Eagles (16-8,
6-5 Conference USA) began taking apart the injury-plagued Pirates early
and didn't stop the demolition job until the final buzzer in inflicting
the worst home basketball beating on ECU (5-19, 0-11 C-USA) since the
school was known as East Carolina College.
Jeremy Wise scored 18
points, Andre Stephens added 16 points and Jarvis Hill contributed 12 to
pace the 80-42 rout for USM, which shot 56.4 percent from the field,
53.8 percent from three-point range and 68.8 percent from the free throw
line.
Senior guard Courtney
Captain scored 13 points and junior guard Darrell Jenkins recorded 12
for the offensively-challenged Pirates, who made only 33.3 percent of
their field goal attempts, 20 percent of their three-point tries and 40
percent of their free throws.
Without the services of
6-9 freshman forward John Fields, who was sidelined with an injured
knee, ECU was out-rebounded 45-21.
The 21 boards represented
an all-time record low for the Pirates in Minges Coliseum, and the
38-point pounding was the Pirates' most lopsided home loss since the
building — which these days houses Williams Arena — opened in 1965.
Southern Miss led at the
half 47-22.
ECU has lost 11 games in a
row and 18 of its last 19. The Pirates' last victory came on Jan. 6 over
Chowan.
East Carolina's next shot
at halting the skid will come Saturday night when it visits league foe
Southern Methodist (8:05 p.m.)
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BOX SCORE
SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 80,
EAST CAROLINA 42
Date: Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007.
Site: Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum, Greenville, NC.
Attendance: 3,679.
Officials: Steven Pyatt, Bobby Pennington, Antinio Petty.
Technical Fouls: None.
SCORE BY PERIODS 1
2 FINAL
Southern Miss 47 33 -
80
East Carolina
22 20 - 42
SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI (16-8, 6-5
C-USA)
PLAYER MIN FG 3PT FT
R PTS
Stephens f 28 6-9 0-0
4-5 8 16
Green g 26 1-5
0-2 2-2 1 4
Wise g 27 7-14
3-3 1-1 6 18
Stone g 25 3-3
0-0 3-5 8 9
Craft g 19 4-5
0-0 0-0 8 8
Beasley 10 3-4
1-1 0-0 0 7
Brewer 5
1-2 0-0 0-0 1
2
Hill 22
4-8 3-6 1-2 1 12
Zuffa 10
0-2 0-1 0-0 1
0
Dotson 8
2-2 0-0 0-0 2
4
Bain 20
0-1 0-0 0-1 8
0
TEAM
1
TOTALS 200 31-55 7-13 11-16
45 80
PERCENT
.564 .538 .688
EAST CAROLINA (5-19,
0-11 C-USA)
PLAYER MIN FG 3PT FT
R PTS
Blair f 21 0-3
0-0 0-0 5 0
Ramsey c 25 1-1
0-0 1-2 1 3
Farmer g 29 2-6
1-2 1-3 2 6
Captain g 22 5-9 1-3
2-4 0 13
Jenkins g 33 5-17 0-4
2-4 1 12
Dillard 22 2-5
0-0 0-2 5 4
Gagnon 11 0-2
0-0 0-0 3 0
Ingram 10 1-3
0-1 0-0 1 2
Sweeley 1 0-0
0-0 0-0 0 0
Sargent 1 0-0
0-0 0-0 0 0
Evans 25
1-5 0-0 0-0 1
2
TEAM
2
TOTALS 200 17-51 2-10
6-15 21 42
PERCENT
.333 .200 .400
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PAGE UPDATED
02/23/07 11:45 AM.
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