Temple wins on ECU's Senior Night
By
Al Myatt
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GREENVILLE — Temple overcame a fast
start by East Carolina on Senior Night to take a 70-56 American Athletic
Conference win over the Pirates in Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum on
Thursday night.
A 3-pointer by Terry Whisnant gave
ECU an 11-3 lead with 17:14 left in the first half, but the Owls (21-9,
12-5 AAC) rallied to go ahead to stay, 30-27, on a 3-pointer by Will
Cummings with 5:20 left in the first half.
Cummings finished with 16 points,
seven rebounds and six assists.
Caleb White led ECU (13-17, 6-11)
with 13 points, seven rebounds and three assists.
Whisnant finished with nine points.
Michel Nzege and freshman B.J. Tyson each added eight points for the
Pirates.
"We lost to a really outstanding
basketball team, an NCAA tournament team, tonight," said Pirates coach
Jeff Lebo. "We had our chances, but didn't shoot it really well from the
foul line or from three. We made four threes to start the game and we
ended with six."
ECU made 21 of 51 field goal attempts
for 46.2 percent, six of 21 threes for 28.6 percent and eight of 15 free
throws for 53.3 percent.
"We need to shoot the ball a lot
better," Lebo said. "We had chances and they only shot 33 percent (12
for 36) in the second half, but we just couldn't capitalize. We couldn't
get (shots) to go down consistently for us in the second half."
The Pirates were nine for 25 from the
floor after intermission (36 percent).
Temple extended its lead from two
points to 41-33 over the last two minutes of the first half. ECU trimmed
a 12-point Owls lead to 54-49 with 13:10 to go on a layup by Antonio
Robinson.
Paris Roberts-Campbell, Robinson and
Francis Edosomwan were recognized as seniors and all three started.
Robinson injured a knee on a second
half drive but contributed five assists and five rebounds.
Roberts-Campbell had six points in 17 minutes.
Marshall Guilmette grabbed six
rebounds for the Pirates.
ECU plays at Houston on Sunday at 4
p.m. (ESPNews) to complete the regular season. The Pirates
topped the Cougars in Greenville by a 66-61 margin on
Jan. 14.
Houston won 68-63 over host Tulane in
overtime on Wednesday to improve to 11-18 overall and 3-14 in the AAC.
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