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Bucs lose heading into tournament
From staff and
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©2007 Bonesville.net.
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Josh Peppers scored 25
points, Lavell Payne added 17 and Mike O'Donnell registered 15 to lead
Central Florida to a 77-64 Conference USA victory over East Carolina
Saturday night in Orlando.
Cory Farmer's 21 points
was tops for East Carolina, which also go 14 points from Darrell Jenkins
and 10 points and 10 rebounds from Gabe Blair.
The game was the regular
season finale for both teams, which head into this week's Conference USA
Tournament in Memphis at opposite ends of the seeding order.
The No. 12 seed Pirates
(6-23, 1-15 C-USA) will face No. 5 seed Tulsa Wednesday night (9:30
p.m.) in a first round game at the FedEx Forum.
The second-seeded Golden
Knights (22-8, 11-5), beneficiaries of a first-round bye, will see their
first tourney action at noon on Thursday, when they meet the winner of a
day one matchup between No. 7 Rice and No. 10 Texas-El Paso.
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BOX SCORE
CENTRAL FLORIDA 77, EAST
CAROLINA 64
Date: Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2007.
Site: UCF Arena, Orlando, FL.
Attendance: 3,725.
Officials: Steven Pyatt, Kyle Chambers, Jeff Malhan.
Technical Fouls: Blair.
SCORE BY PERIODS 1
2 FINAL
East Carolina 29 35
- 64
Central Florida
41 36 - 77
EAST CAROLINA (6-23, 1-15
C-USA)
PLAYER MIN FG 3PT FT
R PTS
Fields 21 2-2
0-0 4-5 3 8
Blair 31 5-12
0-0 0-0 10 10
Farmer 30 7-9
3-5 4-4 1 21
Captain 27 2-6
0-3 0-0 3 4
Jenkins 38 4-8
2-5 4-6 2 14
Dillard 0+ 0-0
0-0 0-0 0 0
Gagnon 25 0-1
0-0 0-0 1 0
Ingram 7
0-1 0-1 0-0 0
0
Sweeley 0+ 0-0
0-0 0-0 0 0
Ramsey 3
1-1 0-0 0-0 1
2
Sargent 0+ 0-0
0-0 0-0 0 0
Evans 18
2-3 1-1 0-0 5
5
TEAM
3
TOTALS 200 23-43 6-15 12-15
29 64
PERCENT
.535 .400 .800
CENTRAL FLORIDA (22-8, 11-5 C-USA)
PLAYER MIN FG 3PT FT
R PTS
Payne 27 8-13
0-1 1-3 3 17
Peppers 27 8-12
3-6 6-8 3 25
Gill 15
1-3 0-1 0-0 1
2
Noel 28
1-3 1-3 2-2 2
5
O'Donnell 33 5-9 5-9
0-0 3 15
Taylor 22 1-8
0-3 0-0 3 2
Cartwright 7 0-1 0-1
0-0 0 0
Battle 6
0-0 0-0 0-0 0
0
Zondervan 13 1-1 0-0
0-2 3 2
Davis 9
0-1 0-0 0-0 0
0
Billings 11 3-5
0-0 1-4 5 7
Thornton 1 1-1
0-0 0-0 0 2
Loucks 1
0-0 0-0 0-0 0
0
TEAM
2
TOTALS 200 29-57 9-24 10-19
25 77
PERCENT
.509 .375 .526
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