Pirates Drop Regular Season Finale at UCF: Will face Memphis In The American Championship…ECU notches sweep of 49ers, give Godwin 213th career victory…Pirates Drop Regular Season Finale at UCF…TU stumbles at Wichita State, finishes in three-way tie for shared AAC title…Hampton falls to Winthrop in Big South Conference tournament championship, misses out on NCAA berth…Joey Logano holds off Kevin Harvick in NASCAR Cup race at Phoenix…Hurricanes hammer listless Penguins 6-2…The Rams’ new logo apparently leaked online. It didn’t go well.

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Bonesville.net

• Baseball News
  ECU completes sweep at Charlotte
• Basketball News
  Knights down ECU, 94-62

ecupirates.com

• ECU MBB Will Face Memphis In The American Championship
• Pirates Drop Regular Season Finale at UCF
• East Carolina Softball Edges North Dakota State, 8-6
• No. 22 ECU Completes Sweep Of Charlotte, 4-1
• ECU MGolf Sends Split Squad To Myrtle Beach

The East Carolinian

• ECU notches sweep of 49ers, give Godwin 213th career victory
• ECU lacrosse’s win streak stopped after 11-8 loss to Army

WNCT 9

• East Carolina Basketball Drops Regular Season Finale at UCF
• ECU notches sweep of 49ers, give Godwin 213th career victory
• No. 22 ECU Completes Sweep Of Charlotte, 4-1
• East Carolina Softball Edges North Dakota State, 8-6

WITN 7

• No. 22 ECU baseball completes series sweep of Charlotte, 4-1
• Green Jr. scores 23 to lead UCF past ECU basketball, 94-62
• ECU softball edges North Dakota State, 8-6

Rivals

• ECU Faces Memphis in Thursday Rematch in AAC Tourney
• ECU Falls to UCF 94-62 in Orlando
• Cliff Godwin Moves To Third All-Time in ECU’s 4-1 Win Over Charlotte

247 Sports

• ECU draws rematch with Memphis to open AAC tournament
• ECU blown out by UCF to finish regular season
• No. 22 ECU finishes road sweep of Charlotte

UCF basketball routs East Carolina on Senior Day Orlando Sentinel

ECU hoops finishes 11th; Godwin passes LeClair Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Around the American Athletic Conference

theamerican.org

• Six American squads complete sweeps Sunday
• Cincinnati Downs UCF 57-51 And Earns Women’s Basketball Championship Game Berth
• UConn Soars Past USF 79-38 To Reach Women’s Basketball Championship Game
• 2020 Air Force Reserve American Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Championship Bracket Set

Cincinnati Bearcats earn AAC Tournament No. 1 seed, win share of regular-season title Cincinnati Enquirer

UCF QB Dillon Gabriel driven to lead Knights to a perfect season Orlando Sentinel

NOLA.com

• Tulane baseball beats Southern 10-2 to finish dominating sweep
• Tulane finished last in AAC despite promising start. Will Ron Hunter ‘walk on water’ now?

‘We’ve had a rough week’: SMU hits low point in struggles as it heads to AAC tournament Dallas Morning News

Wichita Eagle

• Wichita State looks like NCAA Tournament team in dismantling of AAC champion Tulsa
• How Jaime Echenique connected with WSU so quickly, ending with a kiss on senior day
• Who, when and where Shockers (and every AAC team) play this week in tournament bracket

Tulsa World

• Bill Haisten: With a blowout victory over TU, Wichita State again sets the standard
• TU stumbles at Wichita State, finishes in three-way tie for shared AAC title

Houston Chronicle

• UH clinches share of conference title
• Takeaways from No. 21 UH 64, Memphis 57
• No. 21 UH defeats Memphis in regular-season finale for shot at…

White, Grimes lead No. 21 Houston over Memphis Reuters

Penny Hardaway leading Tigers into AAC Tournament with fingers crossed

Memphis still has hope heading into AAC tournament, and sometimes hope is enough in March

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Charlotte Observer

• NCAA BOUND! Winthrop wins Big South Tournament to earn coveted postseason bid
• PURE PERFECTION! Gamecocks cap undefeated SEC season with tournament title

Hampton falls to Winthrop in Big South Conference tournament championship, misses out on NCAA berth Norfolk Virginian Pilot

UNCW avoids sweep with Sunday win over Memphis Wilmington Star-News

Raleigh News and Observer

• ACC champions! NC State women win their first ACC basketball tournament in 29 years
• NC State’s ACC basketball championship ended 3 decades of misery for Wolfpack sports

Winston Salem Journal

• Eighth-seeded WSSU headed to play top-seeded Indiana (Pa.) in NCAA Tournament’s Atlantic Region
• Wake Forest drops rubber game of series against Louisville, now continues hopes offense will start clicking

ACC Tournament down to 14 teams again Fayetteville Observer

Washington Post

• Anthony Cowan Jr. and Mark Turgeon butted heads all the way to a Big Ten title
• Maryland earns share of Big Ten title with win over Michigan

COLLEGE BASEBALL ROUNDUP: College of Charleston, Clemson win on final at-bat Charleston Post and Courier