Women’s Basketball Sweeps Tulsa With Road Win…Men’s Basketball Hosts SMU In Penultimate Home Game…Lacrosse Back Home To Take On Liberty…Even-keel approach working ECU baseball coach…Outfield options already on display…Wright arrives in camp in the right frame of mind…Williams has sights set on professional football…AAC Insider: Cincinnati loses twice, tightening conference race…Louisville must vacate basketball title, NCAA denies appeal…Gregg Marshall still wants to play Michigan for the 2013 national title…Lindsey Vonn’s Olympic downhill farewell is a lovely shade of bronze

Pirate Press: East Carolina Headlines

Football Recruiting Report Card: Impact players highlight defensive recruiting haul Bonesville.net

ecupirates.com

• Women’s Basketball Sweeps Tulsa With Road Win
• GAMEDAY-M Basketball: Pirates Host SMU In Penultimate Home Game
• GAMEDAY-Lacrosse: Pirates Back Home To Take On Liberty
• Pirates Finish Ninth At Puerto Rico Classic

Greenville Daily Reflector

• Outfield options already on display
• Pirates play host to Mustangs
• ANDERS: NASCAR broadcasting a balancing act

Washington Daily News

• Williams has sights set on professional football
• ECU opens spring looking for starting QB

ECU women complete season sweep of Tulsa, 59-57 WNCT 9

Feb. 20 6 p.m. sports: Even-keel approach working ECU baseball coach  WCTI 12

ECU football and coach Mo kick off spring practice The East Carolinian

247 Sports

• Pirates hoping this is the year for Green
• ECU sets starting pitcher for first midweek contest
• ECU’s 10 Most Wanted in North Carolina: S Lannden Zanders
• Ahlers impresses on Day 1
• SMU not rushing Milton’s return from injury

Competition Is at a Premium as Spring Camp Opens for ECU Rivals.com

Around the American Athletic Conference

theamerican.org

• ECU Edges Tulsa, 59-57, Despite Career Night from Wakefield
• Baseball: Tuesday Recap
• Baseball: Teams gear up for 32 nonconference games
• Mondays With Mike: Feb. 20
• The American hosts Indoor Track & Field Championships Feb. 23-24
• Tulsa, Memphis Players Earn Weekly Tennis Honors
• Wichita State Named NABC Team of the Week
• Cincinnati, Memphis and Tulane student-athletes take home final indoor track & field weekly honors

Hamilton Tiger-Cats lock up CFL rights to UCF QB McKenzie Milton Orlando Sentinel

Expect USF to break ground on indoor facility in ’18 Tampa Bay Times

Temple looking to recover from rout Philly.com

Hoops notebook: Tulane men face tall (and wide) task at Wichita State New Orleans Advocate

Dallas News

• Why Shake Milton’s absence has been too much for SMU to overcome
• Tim Jankovich uncertain if SMU leading scorer Shake Milton will return this season
• How SMU head coach Sonny Dykes got his nickname

Memphis Commercial Appeal

• Memphis power rankings: Johnson, Parks rise up
• Memphis, UT Vols football attendance drops; Vandy up slightly
• Manager’s death hits Memphis players, staff hard

National ranking nets UH coach Kelvin Sampson hefty bonus,… Houston Chronicle

NHL ready to put Navy stadium on ice for outdoor game in Annapolis Annapolis Capital

Tulsa World

• More experienced TU team showing late-season grit
• UCF at Tulsa: Starting lineups
• AAC Insider: Cincinnati loses twice, tightening conference race
• American Athletic Conference men’s basketball power rankings for week of Feb. 19

Wichita Eagle

• Wichita State not overlooking Tulane with conference title race in doubt
• Gregg Marshall still wants to replay the 2013 Final Four
• Gregg Marshall still wants to play Michigan for the 2013 national title

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Louisville Courier Journal

• U of L has lost its 2013 NCAA banner
• UofL takes medicine, starts healing | Sullivan
• Column: NCAA has no moral authority in UofL case
• U of L loses its NCAA title: 5 things to know
• Louisville basketball investigation: A timeline

Raleigh News and Observer

• N.C. State carves out more margin for error with win over Boston College
• Energetic N.C. State continues its roll through a memorable ACC season
• 25 years ago this week, an ailing Jim Valvano returned to NC State’s Reynolds Coliseum
• Louisville’s 2013 national basketball championship stricken from history as NCAA denies school’s appeal
• Poof. No title. Kevin Keatts “disappointed” Louisville’s NCAA title is taken away

Winston Salem Journal

• ‘Next game or never’ for Wake Forest
• Deacon Notes: Wade, Byrd move into secondary ahead of spring practice
• Mountaineers Notebook: App State men’s basketball taking last regular season road trip
• App Trail: Appalachian State gets first football commitment of 2019 class

Norfolk Virginian Pilot

• Hampton U. officials rip MEAC for “vindictive sanctions” and “unreasonable demands”
• Much at stake for rested U.Va. vs. Georgia Tech

Columbia The State

• South Carolina pulls away late from North Florida for midweek win
• Former Gamecock kicker rewarded with new $20 million contract
• Duce Staley misses out on one job, still gets new title with Eagles
• South Carolina target ranked No. 1 in the country by major recruiting service
• Clemson coach responds to Louisville having 2013 national title vacated
• South Carolina-Georgia men’s basketball: How to watch, what to watch for
• Clemson will be without its starting PG against surging Virginia Tech

The Associated Press

• Louisville must vacate basketball title, NCAA denies appeal
• Bubble teams UCLA and Utah highlight the Pac-12 week
• No. 2 Michigan St tops Illinois 81-61, seals share of title
• Jackson scores 18 as No. 16 Ohio State routs Rutgers 79-52
• No. 4 Xavier tries to get over lulls as tournaments approach
• URI fights off La Salle for share of A-10 title
• No. 21 West Virginia 71-60 win ends Baylor’s 5-game streak