Hart hits campus, continues search…Stopping Brown a big challenge…ECU football removes Eric Weber, Tyree Owens…ECU hoping for tight end evolution with new offensive wrinkles…ECU Baseball holds firm in polls after 4-1 week…American Athletic Conference Partners With ACC On Football Officiating Alliance; Will AAC’s alliance with ACC be the end of bad officiating?…AP source: Memphis to announce Penny Hardaway as next coach…Charlotte hires Virginia assistant Sanchez as new coach…A bright future awaits UMBC’s Odom…A Curveball From the New Tax Law: It Makes Baseball Trades Harder…Jarius Wright has experience with Norv Turner. That’s not all he’ll bring to Panthers.

Pirate Press: East Carolina Headlines

From the Anchor Desk: Pirates on a roll heading towards AAC play Bonesville.net

Spring Football Notebook No. 12 ecupirates.com

Greenville Daily Reflector

• Hart hits campus, continues search
• Stopping Brown a big challenge

ECU blanks Terps twice in sweep Washington Daily News

The East Carolinian

• ECU football removes Eric Weber, Tyree Owens
• ECU men’s tennis gets ready for final stretch of the season
• ECU lacrosse falls to Columbia at home
• Natalie Montini signs with pro agent overseas
• Overall dominance leads to series sweep for ECU
• ECU softball goes undefeated at JMU invitational

ECU opens final week of spring practice WNCT 9

ECU opens fourth and final week of spring football practice WITN 7

247 Sports

• ECU hoping for tight end evolution with new offensive wrinkles
• 2018 ECU Spring Game Central
• ECU holds firm in polls after 4-1 week

Around the American Athletic Conference

theamerican.org

• American Athletic Conference Partners With ACC On Football Officiating Alliance
• USF Duo Takes Weekly Baseball Honors
• Tulsa’s Watson, Stafford Collect Weekly Softball Honors
• UConn Downs Quinnipiac, Advances to 25th-Consecutive Sweet 16
• Nine teams open 2018 outdoor track & field season

The Associated Press

• AP source: Memphis to announce Penny Hardaway as next coach
• Cincinnati commiserates again, this time over ‘Black Sunday’

Memphis Commercial Appeal

• Memphis to announce Hardaway’s hiring Tuesday
• Tigers WRs eager for increased opportunity
• Memphis’ Damonte Coxie on how the WR corps is looking to replace…

Cincinnati Enquirer

• UC: Recapping season and NCAA loss, and a look ahead 
• Will UC Bearcats star Evans stay or go to NBA?

Orlando Sentinel

• UCF football schedules series with former conference foe Louisville
• UCF opens spring football with key questions to address

SMU spring breakout candidate No. 5: Is this the year Alex Honey makes a leap? Dallas News

Hartford Courant

• UConn Women Advance To Sweet 16 With 71-46 Win Over Quinnipiac
• UConn Recruit James Akinjo Released From Letter Of Intent

Tampa Bay Times

• Willie Taggart to NFL GMs: Ignore Quinton Flowers at your own risk
• AAC, ACC form football officiating alliance

TU Sports: Will AAC’s alliance with ACC be the end of bad officiating? Tulsa World

Sean Chandler improves 40-yard dash time at Temple’s pro day Philly.com

Tulane baseball loses to Long Beach State 1-0, next faces LSU  New Orleans Times Picayune

Navy football makes significant change with strength and conditioning program Annapolis Capital

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

The Associated Press

• Charlotte hires Virginia assistant Sanchez as new coach
• Mississippi introduces Kermit Davis as coach
• NCAA Sweet 16 has unexpected field after favorites ousted
• Jayhawks looking to peak in Week 2 of NCAA Tournament
• Michigan State’s crisis affected Tom Izzo and his program

Charlotte Observer

• Charlotte 49ers find next basketball coach on bench of No. 1 NCAA seed
• Reaction: Charlotte 49ers fans seem (mostly) pleased with new basketball hire

Raleigh News and Observer

• The other Wolf Pack? The Zags seeking redemption? The giant fruit mascot? Who should you pull for in Sweet 16?
• Is playing for an ACC title worth it? Here’s what NCAA performance tells us
• What UNC will look like next season without Joel Berry and Theo Pinson
• Duke beats cold-shooting Georgia, to face UConn in regional
• Cal State Northridge says no ‘red flags’ in Mark Gottfried hiring
• NC State’s Nyheim Hines and Jaylen Samuels show their skills on NFL Pro Day

Winston Salem Journal

• A bright future awaits UMBC’s Odom
• Meet Wake Forest football’s early enrollees: Q-and-A with Michael Jurgens
• App Trail: McMahon, Peterson and Fancher recall the 1999-2000 App State tournament team
• Appalachian State, Wake Forest baseball game moved to Winston-Salem

Norfolk Virginian Pilot

• Report: U.Va. assistant Ron Sanchez headed to Charlotte 49ers
• Back from injury, ODU receiver Jonathan Duhart has high hopes for senior year

Columbia The State

• South Carolina announces venue changes for matchups with The Citadel
• Florida’s Kevin O’Sullivan on South Carolina: ‘I think they should be ranked’
• The forgotten man on Clemson’s defensive line is aiming for a big senior season
• Dawn Staley gives thanks to the ‘basketball gods’ for five consecutive Sweet 16s
• Dawn Staley apologizes for South Carolina missing the national anthem