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Tulsa sends Pirates packing
From staff and
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©2007 Bonesville.net.
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East Carolina's first
round game against Tulsa in the Conference USA Tournament went like much
of ECU's faltering season. The Golden Hurricane was hot and the Pirates
were not.
Calvin Walls scored a
career-high 15 points and Rod Earls added 13 to lead No. 5 seed Tulsa to
a 65-50 victory over 12th-seed ECU in the final game of the tournament's
opening round at the FedEx Forum in Memphis.
Senior Courtney Captain's
27 points was the only offensive performance of note for the Pirates,
who otherwise had trouble making shots of any variety.
While ECU was struggling
— shooting 32.8 percent from the field (19-58), 27.8
percent from behind the arc (5-18) and 43.8 percent from the free throw
line (7-16) — Tulsa, in relative terms, was making hay. The Golden
Hurricane converted 49 percent of its field goal attempts (25-51),
including 46.7 percent from 3-point range (7-15), and made 57.1 percent
from the foul line (8-14).
Excluding Captain's
10-of-18 shooting, the Pirates connected on only 22.5 percent from the
field (9-40).
Tulsa, which led at the
half 34-21, also won the rebounding battle 43-31.
The loss ended a rocky
season for ECU, which finished 6-24 and lost 16 of its last 17 games.
The Pirates compiled a 2-23 record after starting the season 4-1.
Tulsa, which won its 20th
game for the 17th season in school history, will face No. 4 seed Tulane
Thursday night (9:30 p.m., CSTV) in a quarterfinal game.
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BOX SCORE
TULSA 65, EAST CAROLINA 50
Date: Wednesday, Mar. 7, 2007.
Event: Conference USA Tournament.
Site: FedEx Forum, Memphis, TN.
Attendance: 8,851.
Officials: Duke Edsall, Hal Lusk, Steve Olson.
Technical Fouls: None.
SCORE BY PERIODS 1
2 FINAL
East Carolina 21 29
- 50
Tulsa
34 31 - 65
EAST CAROLINA (6-24)
PLAYER MIN FG 3PT FT
R PTS
Fields 24 4-7
0-0 0-3 8 8
Blair 35
3-8 0-0 1-1 8
7
Farmer 29 1-8
0-4 2-2 2 4
Captain 33 10-18 5-9
2-4 2 27
Jenkins 34 0-6
0-3 0-0 3 0
Gagnon 18 1-5
0-1 0-0 2 2
Ingram 3
0-1 0-0 0-2 1
0
Sweeley 1 0-0
0-0 0-0 0 0
Ramsey 4
0-0 0-0 0-2 0
0
Sargent 1 0-1
0-0 0-0 1 0
Evans 18
0-4 0-1 2-2 3
2
TEAM
1
TOTALS 200 19-58 5-18
7-16 31 50
PERCENT
.328 .278 .438
TULSA (20-10)
PLAYER MIN FG 3PT FT
R PTS
Ramsdell 18 1-4
0-3 0-0 3 2
Jordan 8
2-5 0-0 0-0 1
4
Uzoh 24
3-4 2-3 0-1 5
8
McDade 23 3-9
1-3 2-4 1 9
Earls 27
5-6 3-4 0-0 5 13
Hill 17
2-4 0-1 0-0 0
4
Walls 25
6-9 0-0 3-4 3 15
Kieval 0+ 0-0
0-0 0-0 0 0
Young 0+
0-0 0-0 0-0 0
0
Crow 17
1-1 0-0 2-2 8
4
McLean 18 0-4
0-0 1-3 10 1
Coleman 1 0-0
0-0 0-0 1 0
Mitchell 8 1-4
0-0 0-0 2 2
Reese 14
1-1 1-1 0-0 1
3
TEAM
3
TOTALS 200 25-51 7-15
8-14 43 65
PERCENT
.490 .467 .571
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03/08/07 06:39 AM.
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