Seahawks sink Pirates  …  Rivalry Renewed: Despite limited attendance, fans enjoy UNCW baseball vs. ECU … Zay Jones expected to re-sign with Raiders … ‘Be like those guys’: Current Shockers want to replicate past WSU March Madness runs … Norfolk State hopes to ride mid-major experience to NCAA win against Appalachian State

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Baseball News
Seahawks sink Pirates Bonesville.net

ecupirates.com

• UNCW Defeats No. 9 ECU, 10-2
• Pirates Open AAC LAX Slate At Old Dominion

UNCW rallies for 10-2 win after ECU strikes early  WNCT 9

ECU falls at UNC Wilmington WITN 7

Rivalry Renewed: Despite limited attendance, fans enjoy UNCW baseball vs. ECU WECT

Big bats lead the way as UNCW Baseball blows past No.7 East Carolina WWAY

Wilmington Pounds (9)ECU 10-2  Rivals.com

247 Sports

• UNCW brings ECU’s winning streak to a halt
• Zay Jones expected to re-sign with Raiders

Seahawks win 10-2, snap ECU’s streak Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Raiders Rumors: Johnathan Hankins, Zay Jones, Denzelle Good Agree to Contracts Bleacher Report

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• UCF and Tulane Pick Up Midweek Wins
• SMU’s Meissner, Houston’s Normann Win American Golf Player of the Week Honors Following Top-10 Showings
• Houston’s Quentin Grimes Earns Two More All-America Nods

Wichita State follows tumult with familiar place in NCAA  The Associated Press

Wichita Eagle

• ‘Not like your usual’ Valley team: WSU prepares for Drake in NCAA Tournament opener
• ‘Be like those guys’: Current Shockers want to replicate past WSU March Madness runs
• NCAA Tournament begins with First Four. Lines, predictions, TV for Thursday’s games

Tampa Bay Times

• USF men’s basketball departures up to six, reports indicate
• Having built a home at USF, Jose Fernandez not pulling up stakes
• Why USF’s Jeff Scott compares Bucs draft target Travis Etienne to Barry Sanders

Orlando Sentinel

• UCF QB Dillon Gabriel embraces change under ‘role model’ coach Gus Malzahn
• UCF women’s basketball to face Northwestern in NCAA Tournament

Branden Mack shows unexpected speed as 21 NFL scouts show up at Temple Pro Day Philadelphia Inquirer

Tulane batters plunked six times in 12-6 win against Texas Southern NOLA.com

SMU using week before NIT as conditioning crash course Dallas Morning News

 Why Memphis vs. Dayton in NIT is also Memphis East vs. Ridgeway Memphis Commercial Appeal

Tulsa World

• TU football promotes Carlton Buckels, adds Eufaula native Kendrick Shaver to staff
• TU point guard Elijah Joiner enters transfer portal

Kelvin Sampson rewards UH’s trust with powerhouse program Houston Chronicle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

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

How the Mountaineers went from eight-straight losing seasons to March Madness Watauga Democrat

Washington Post

• How the NCAA tournament built its ‘bubble’ in Indianapolis
• Just where is Winthrop? Back in the NCAA tournament, for starters.
• Wednesday’s news and updates on the NCAA tournament
• No new positive coronavirus tests for Virginia as it waits for tournament clearance
• NCAA tournament cheat sheet: Bracket tips, upsets picks and more

Raleigh News and Observer

• UNC’s defense confounds its coach while it dazzles on paper
• NC State men’s basketball team excited to still be playing basketball

Winston Salem Journal

• College basketball’s survivors advance to NCAA’s ‘controlled environment’ in Indianapolis
• The biggest NCAA basketball tournament upsets
• These are the 2020-21 AP Women’s All-America Teams
• Two Wake Forest players, one a Winston-Salem native, enter the transfer portal on Wednesday
• Aaron McFarling: Stakes soar in this version of ACC-Big Ten challenge

UNC’s Armando Bacot enters NCAA tourney riding high at Roy Williams’ prodding Fayetteville Observer

Charleston Post Courier

• Sapakoff: A Frank Martin legacy riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
• College Basketball: CSU’s Fleming in transfer portal; CofC hires search firm

The Associated Press

• Will Winthrop, Colgate need change of pace for postseason?
• Aztecs look to break Syracuse’s suffocating 2-3 zone defense
• Baby Boilers 2? Purdue leaning on Fab 4 for tourney run
• West Virginia, others overcome obstacles to get to NCAAs
• What some advanced stats may tell us about the NCAA field