ECU aims for tangible improvement at UConn…Watkins Named Semifinalist For Bench Award…Pirates lose quality control coach…For UNC’s long NCAA investigation, an ending nears …UCF baseball fired up about facing USF in series to decide AAC crown…LeBron, Love help Cavs rout Celtics 117-104 in Game 1

Pirate Press: East Carolina Headlines

View from the East: Pirates holding back Kruczynski, Benton Bonesville.net

ecupirates.com

• Watkins Named Semifinalist For Bench Award
• Gameday: ECU Travels To Connecticut
• Conover Wraps Up Season At College Grove Regional

ECU aims for tangible improvement at UConn Washington Daily News

ECU looking to add to HR total  Greenville Daily Reflector

Pirates to sit Kruczynski, Benton for final series at UConn WNCT 9

ECU’s Watkins named semifinalist for Bench Award WITN 7

247 Sports

• Montgomery on QB battle: It will be a ‘major competition’
• Report: Pirates lose quality control coach

Former Mocs lineman will join UTC staff Times Free Press

Around the American Athletic Conference

Softball takes on postseason play  theamerican.org

UCF baseball fired up about facing USF in series to decide AAC crown Orlando Sentinel

Tampa Bay Times

• Dollars and sense? AAC’s push for Power Six
• Scott Frost: UCF better at ‘almost every position’

Plenty of drama as UH enters final weekend of regular season Houston Chronicle

TU Sports: Hurricane basketball to play at OSU on Dec. 19 Tulsa World

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News and Observer

• For UNC’s long NCAA investigation, an ending nears
• Former UNC basketball player PJ Hairston arrested in Wrightsville Beach
• If Tony Bradley stays in NBA draft it might not be the worst thing for UNC
• Tony Bradley in a no-lose situation, but UNC is not – DeCock

Why South Carolina’s NCAA tournament résumé is better than you think  Columbia The State

Jutanugarn embracing a new role at Kingsmill: defending champ Norfolk Virginian Pilot

Wake Forest football announces series against Notre Dame, Liberty Winston Salem Journal