Bearcats down ECU

By Al Myatt
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CINCINNATI — East Carolina was held to 27 percent shooting in a 69-48 American Athletic Conference loss at Cincinnati on Tuesday night.

The Bearcats went ahead 3-0 on a shot from behind the arc by Troy Caupain with 18:02 left in the first half and led the rest of the way.

Two free throws by Cincinnati's Octavius Ellis pushed the margin to 29-18 with 3:10 remaining in the half and the Bearcats maintained a double-digit advantage the remainder of the game.

Cincinnati led by as many as 24 points several times in the second half as a crowd of 7,516 looked on at Fifth Third Arena.

Ellis finished with 12 points, nine rebounds and blocked three shots as the Bearcats improved to 11-3 overall and 2-0 in the AAC.

Freshman B.J. Tyson had 13 points for ECU (7-9, 0-3) to lead all scorers and he also claimed a team high seven rebounds.

Florida State transfer Terry Whisnant added 11 points for the Pirates and Lance Tejada tallied nine.

Marshall Guilmette, who has been out much of the season with a hip ailment, had five points in 14 minutes.

ECU had a 29-24 edge in bench scoring.

The Pirates made 17 of 63 field goal attempts and were five of 22 from 3-point range (22.7 percent).

ECU sank nine of 13 free throws (69.2 percent) compared to 13 of 23 (56.5 percent) for the hosts.

The Bearcats had a 47-35 rebounding advantage. Kevin Johnson had 12 points for Cincinnati. Caupain had 10 points and six assists.

The Pirates have some time to regroup before Houston visits on Jan. 14 for a 7 p.m. AAC contest that will be shown on ESPNU.

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