Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

ecupirates.com

• No. 9 ECU Travels To UNCW Wednesday
• Pirates Open AAC Slate At Old Dominion

 ECU football gets ESPN Thursday night primetime game Fayetteville Observer

The East Carolinian

• Pirate Nation Gives sets $3.3 million goal
• ECU baseball will face UNCW on March 17
• Women’s basketball looks to grow next season after unique 2020-2021
• ECU completes third series sweep of season
• Chancellor Philip Rogers takes the helm, steers Pirate Nation
• ECU’s Homecoming Captain of the Ship voting now open
• May commencement ceremonies to be held in-person

WNCT 9

• Dates finalized for two ECU home football games
• ECU men’s golf ties for 11th at Myrtle Beach tournament

Pirates sweep weekly AAC honors WITN 7

247 Sports

• A wild card at each position entering ECU’s spring camp
• Georgia pass-rusher earns his second offer from ECU

Harrell finally getting first spring practice at ECU Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• Houston’s Quentin Grimes Earns Two More All-America Nods
• SMU’s Meissner, Houston’s Normann Win American Golf Player of the Week Honors Following Top-10 Showings
• American Announces Two Updates to 2021 Football Schedule

Wichita State, Drake tangle in First Four matchup Sports Illustrated

Indianapolis Star

• Breaking down NCAA tournament’s First Four at Purdue’s Mackey Arena
• March Madness: Kelvin Sampson will coach at IU’s Assembly Hall again

Six Cincinnati Bearcats basketball players enter transfer portal in 3-day span MSN

How breakup of original Big East still influences Gonzaga, Wichita State and UConn in NCAA Tournament USA Today

Cincinnati Bearcats freshman guard Mike Saunders Jr. to enter transfer portal Cincinnati Enquirer

USF Football: Way-too-early 2021 game-by-game predictions Saturday Blitz

NOLA.com

• New Tulane defensive coordinator Chris Hamtpon confronting third-down woes head on
• Tulane draws Illinois State in first round of WNIT

Miami Heat’s Precious Achiuwa still applying lessons from Penny Hardaway in the NBA Memphis Commercial Appeal

A drive to the airport with Kelvin Sampson inspired Dennis Gates’… Houston Chronicle

‘I’m grateful for everything’: Asbjorn Midtgaard credits WSU for breakout season Wichita Eagle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News and Observer

• Cherokees to open North Carolina’s 1st sports betting venues in time for March Madness
• Two weeks in Texas: NC State’s trip to the NIT is a wager on its future
• No shootaround. No dunk contest. UNC basketball is in for a different NCAA tournament.
• Can UNC beat Wisconsin by dominating inside? One Badger star is worried.
• N.C. State runs away with CCU’s Hackler Championship; individual title determined late
• UNC’s Roy Williams on NCAA experience ‘it isn’t exactly Maui’

Winston Salem Journal

• Aaron McFarling: Stakes soar in this version of ACC-Big Ten challenge
• Last chance! Play our NCAA men’s basketball contest
• Wake Forest quarterback Sam Hartman trying to put his last game in rear-view mirror
• David Teel: Exploring the ACC’s future with new commissioner Jim Phillips
• Appalachian State, more than two decades later, finds the right pieces and the right time
• John Clay: Rick Pitino is proof positive that if you can coach and win, you can survive
• Life in the bubble: Boredom, isolation pose new challenges at unusual NCAA Tournament

Norfolk Virginian Pilot

• Norfolk State hopes to ride mid-major experience to NCAA win against Appalachian State
• Our Greatest Hits: Norfolk State’s Robert Jones arrived as a men’s basketball coach the hard way
• Norfolk State appearance in the First Four offers possible financial rewards and longer NCAA tournament stay

Charleston Post Courier

• With Earl Grant gone to Boston College, CofC begins search for new coach
• College Basketball: CSU’s Fleming in transfer portal; CofC hires search firm
• Gamecock coach Frank Martin’s future up in the air 1 week after USC season ended
• Pandemic deprives Gamecocks of playing home games in NCAA Tournament

Fayetteville Observer

• Coach K feels ‘a little bit empty’ after missing NCAA Tournament
•  Duke misses Big Dance for first time since 1995