Greg Vacek's Daily Web Roundup
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Gameday: ECU SB Opens American Athletic Conference Slate At Memphis…Spring Notebook No. 4 – Developing Defensively; Lynch assisting Houston’s staff in transition…ECU-UNCW Baseball Game Postponed; Makeup Date Set For April 23…ECU Board of Trustee appointments creating backlash…ESKIMOS SIGN DT MIC’HAEL BROOKS ; James Summers signs with Cobras …Memphis basketball second-round NIT game vs. Creighton set for Friday…No dance with the Devils: NDSU knocks NC Central out of NCAA tournament…Syracuse suspends Frank Howard on eve of NCAA Tournament…Weekend fight leads to suspension of App State football players…Belmont will face Maryland trying to keep Coach Rick Byrd happily off course…Wofford back at scene of two close calls in NCAA tournament…An American figure skater is accused of deliberately cutting a South Korean competitor

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

The Bradsher Beat
Strong leaders fuel lofty hopes at ECU Bonesville.net

ecupirates.com

• Spring Notebook No. 4 – Developing Defensively
• ECU-UNCW Baseball Game Postponed; Makeup Date Set For April 23
• Gameday: ECU SB Opens American Athletic Conference Slate At Memphis
• Pirates Handle UNC Greensboro 6-1

Greenville Daily Reflector

• Roundup: ECU-UNCW game postponed
• Pena in the center of Pirate line
• Woman added to candidate list for ECU trustees

The East Carolinian

• No. 20 Pirates to take on UCF this weekend
• ECU women’s golf finishes 10th in Briar’s Creek Invitational
• Spring football practice brings high expectations
• ECU lacrosse falls 0-2 over the weekend

WCTI 12

• March 20 6 p.m. sports: ECU battles wet weather, continues spring practices
• ECU Board of Trustee appointments creating backlash

ECU trustees chair tells Board of Governors: Stay in your lane The Business Journals

After East Carolina chancellor’s ouster, a UNC Board of Governors on the brink NC Policy Watch

247 Sports

• Lynch assisting Houston’s staff in transition
• ECU aiming to add impact recruits as signing period approaches
• What Mike Houston said after ECU’s Wednesday practice
• LOOK: ECU conducts fourth spring practice

Houston Encouraged by the Play of His Younger Players So Far Rivals

ESKIMOS SIGN DT MIC’HAEL BROOKS rodpedersen

Former Page and ECU standout James Summers signs with Cobras Greensboro News & Record

 

Around the American Athletic Conference

theamerican.org

• Collins Lifts USF Over Stony Brook in OT of CBI
• Marshall Wins 500th Game in NIT Victory
• Houston’s Sampson a Finalist for Naismith Coach of the Year
• Tulane and Wichita State collect midweek wins
• American Goes 6-for-6 in Midweek Action
• American Athletic Conference Golf Weekly Honors

AAC Daily: March Madness is Already in Full Swing in The American BCSNN

USF rallies from 25-point deficit to top Stony Brook Tampa Bay Times

UCF begins NCAA Tournament journey eager to make a statement Orlando Sentinel

Tulane baseball uses early power, solid start from Krishna Raj to beat UL-Lafayette  New Orleans Advocate

New Orleans Times Picayune

• Tulane wins with clutch pitching, power hitting against Louisiana-Lafayette
• Tulane football player goes from Ivy League to New Orleans, just like Saints’ Nick Easton

Memphis Commercial Appeal

• Memphis basketball second-round NIT game vs. Creighton set for Friday
• Memphis basketball: Tigers defer Myrtle Beach Invitational participation until 2020

Houston Chronicle

• NCAA Tournament-bound Cougars to commemorate banner season
• UH guard Corey Davis’ strained hip improving
• Source: UH conference AAC signs $1B deal with ESPN

An inside look at how Wichita State crafted the perfect close to beat Furman in the NIT  Wichita Eagle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News and Observer

• No dance with the Devils: NDSU knocks NC Central out of NCAA tournament
• Emotional NC Central coach LeVelle Moton after NCAA loss
• Armed with an “amazing appetite to win”, Zion looks to stand tallest among Duke’s one-and-dones
• Duke remains an unfinished product, which is a scary thought
• In college basketball, shoe companies walk a thin line between support and scandal
• Luguentz Dort took a scary fall, then jumped all over St. John’s in the First Four
• For this year’s March Madness, Columbia will be the underdog capital of America

Winston Salem Journal

• Syracuse suspends Frank Howard on eve of NCAA Tournament
• Weekend fight leads to suspension of App State football players
• NCAA Tournament: Scouting Thursday’s first-round games

Big Ten co-champ Purdue sees an honorary conference member in Old Dominion Norfolk Virginian Pilot

Washington Post

• Maryland has not won a postseason game in three years. No one needs to be reminded.
• Feinstein: Belmont will face Maryland trying to keep Coach Rick Byrd happily off course
• Harvard makes Georgetown’s postseason stint a short one with loss in NIT
• Tom Izzo, nearing 50 NCAA tournament wins at Michigan State, remembers when he had none
• Syracuse point guard Frank Howard suspended on eve of NCAA tournament

Wofford back at scene of two close calls in NCAA tournament Spartanburg Herald-Journal

Charleston Post and Courier

• Wofford takes #SnackTimeTour to NCAA’s March Madness
• College Baseball Roundup: Clemson sweep College of Charleston; CSU wins in walkoff
• ‘More eyes on us’: SC capital city primed for first NCAA men’s tournament games since 1970
• Clemson escapes Wright State in NIT opener
• Sapakoff: Zion Williamson’s tragic, glorious path to Columbia for March Madness

The Associated Press

• Busted: NCAA bracket filled with tales of transgression
• NCAA Tournament: Let the games begin _ in earnest
• How cutting-edge technology helps basketball players shoot