ECU baseball sweeps AAC weekly honors; AAC sweeps are rare, especially for non-ECU teams … English Earns Third Goalkeeper Of The Week Award … East Carolina primed to make another run at ending CWS drought … Baylor beatdown: Bears win title, hang 86-70 loss on Gonzaga … UNC finds Roy Williams’ replacement just down the bench. Hubert Davis inherits team after a fitful season…. Wofford opts out of remainder of Southern Conference spring football season … Jets make way for a QB with the No. 2 pick by trading Sam Darnold to the Panthers … After a hard year away, fans celebrate a measured return to Masters

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

E. Carolina primed to make another run at ending CWS drought USA Today (AP)

ecupirates.com

• Bri Wood Earns First Team All-AAC Honors
• English Earns Third Goalkeeper Of The Week Award
• ECU Sweeps Weekly American Honors

The East Carolinian

• Home Sweet Homecoming: a look inside ECU’s homecoming planning amid a pandemic
• Vidant, Pitt County distributes COVID-19 vaccines throughout College Week

WNCT 9

• East Carolina primed to make another run at ending CWS drought
• ECU baseball sweeps AAC weekly honors
• ECU freshman, former D.H. Conley keeper earns third AAC honor of season
• Pirates senior earns first-team All-AAC honors in volleyball

WITN 7

• Greenville’s Maeve English earns third AAC Keeper of the Week award
• ECU baseball sweeps weekly AAC honors
• ECU senior Bri Wood earns First Team All-AAC volleyball honors

College Podcast: Recapping Week 7 Around NCAA Baseball Baseball America

247 Sports

• PODCAST: ECU opens conference play with a bang
• Where ECU is ranked in this week’s Top 25 polls: April 5

Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

• WOODWARD: AAC sweeps are rare, especially for non-ECU teams
• ECU remains a leader in latest national rankings
• Pirates win in track, golf, soccer

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• East Carolina Sweeps Baseball Weekly Awards
• ECU, Houston, USF Earn Women’s Soccer Weekly Honors
• UCF’s McKenna Melville Named 2020 American Volleyball Player Of The Year
• Wichita State’s McKinney, USF’s Corrick Repeat As Softball Top Players In Week Eight
• First-Place Florida, Vanderbilt Win Weekly Lacrosse Accolades

Brannen’s attorney speaks out on saga with UC Cincinnati Enquirer

USF, Notre Dame to play football again in 2029, 2031 Tampa Bay Times

Young UCF cornerbacks forced to grow up fast after challenging 2020 season  Orlando Sentinel

Temple coach Rod Carey starts spring practice with the task of sorting out the QB position Philadelphia Inquirer

Memphis Commercial Appeal

•  Tigers’ Svoboda hired by Alabama
• Tigers offensive coordinator breaks down QB battle

Wichita Eagle

• ‘I found peace’: WSU’s Billy Kennedy leans on faith to overcome Parkinson’s diagnosis
• Wichita State softball ready for No. 1 OU with top-25 ranking, record-setting offense

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

The Associated Press

• Baylor beatdown: Bears win title, hang 86-70 loss on Gonzaga
• Gonzaga’s pursuit of perfection ends in out-of-synch showing
• Analysis: Baylor’s strengths shine in title-game blowout
• Analysis: Baylor bullied the Bulldogs to win national title
• Tar Heels turn to assistant Davis as Williams’ successor
• Texas-Arlington promotes long-time assistant to head coach
• The game plan: Elite players find paths to pros besides NCAA
• Austin Peay names ex-Duke associate James to coach Governors

Baylor men’s basketball wins first national title, state’s second Houston Chronicle

Raleigh News and Observer

• Hubert Davis to make history as UNC’s first Black men’s basketball coach
• UNC promotes Hubert Davis into spotlight, showing once again that family comes first
• New UNC coach Hubert Davis receives high praise from rival coach in the Triangle
• Who is new UNC basketball coach Hubert Davis? Here’s what you should know about him.
• Roy Williams gave Hubert Davis his chance to head coach 8 years ago. Here is that story

College baseball rankings: Vanderbilt remains on top, Tennessee keeps climbing NCAA

College Football And Basketball Combined Rankings: Hoops and Helmets 2021 College Football News

Winston Salem Journal

• Baylor dominates Gonzaga for first men’s basketball title
• Recap: See key moments in the Gonzaga-Baylor championship basketball game
• Dom Amore: NCAA Tournament was a triumph for women’s basketball, but the hard work of fixing inequities must continue after cheering stops
• UNC finds Roy Williams’ replacement just down the bench. Hubert Davis inherits team after a fitful season.

Fayetteville Observer

• Hubert Davis hired as new UNC men’s basketball coach
• Hiring of Hubert Davis as UNC basketball coach became years in the making
• N.C. State ’22 target Curtis Neal is leading a dominant Hough defense

Charleston Post Courier

• Ngata, Ajou give peek of Clemson’s WR depth in spring game
• The Citadel marches on as Wofford joins Chattanooga on SoCon football opt-out list
• Wofford opts out of remainder of Southern Conference spring football season
• Myrtle Beach’s Luke Doty leads Gamecocks’ quarterback competition in spring

Columbia The State

• Gamecocks in hunt for running back, wide receiver prospects; Clemson working big lineman

Washington Post

• Baylor defeats Gonzaga, earns first men’s basketball national title
• Gonzaga-UCLA will be remembered for years. That might be bad news for Gonzaga-Baylor.
• Tara VanDerveer had a vision. Years later, Stanford again enjoys the view from the top.
• Arizona Coach Adia Barnes lost a game but won Final Four weekend
• Stanford defeats Arizona to win its first NCAA women’s title since 1992
• Women’s bracket and results