Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

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• McMillian Earns FWAA All-America Honors
• ’22 Baseball Season Tickets On Sale Dec. 13
• ECU Football Uniform Design Contest Completed

East Carolinian

• TECSpertZ Ep. 14 Military Bowl: ECU vs Boston College
• Pirate basketball continues to reign at home

McMillian earns FWAA second-team All-America honors, becomes fifth ECU player to get recognition WNCT 9

Long layoff comes at good time as ECU tries to get healthy 247 Sports

ECU football: McMillian named to All-American team by Football Writers Association of America Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• Navy Sings Second! Midshipmen Rally Past Army 17-13
• UCF, Tulsa Wichita State Earn Saturday Wins

In the Army-Navy rivalry, where records don’t matter, 4-8 ends up so much sweeter than 8-4 Washington Post

Annapolis Capital

• ‘Sometimes it’s good to be lucky’: LB Diego Fagot’s surprise fake punt helps lead Navy football to 17-13 upset over archrival Army
• ‘It wasn’t supposed to be a fake’: In Navy football’s 17-13 win over Army, defining play by LB Diego Fagot was fortunate mistake
• CB Michael McMorris’ game-saving tackle, Mids’ ‘Philly Special’ attempt and more from Navy football’s 17-13 win over Army | NOTES
• Timeline of 2021 Army Navy game: Navy beats Army, 17-13, for second time in three years

The Associated Press

• Lavatai runs for 2 TDs, Navy’s D dominates in win over Army
• Navy at Army 12/11/2021

Cincinnati Enquirer

• Xavier again blows out Cincinnati in Crosstown Shootout
• Takeaways: UC looks overwhelmed in Miller’s Crosstown Shootout debut

UCF ‘extremely excited’ to face Florida Gators in Gasparilla Bowl Orlando Sentinel

Tulane men’s basketball team cancels next two games because of COVID outbreak NOLA.com

Tigers add junior college tight end commitment Memphis Commercial Appeal

Tulsa World

• TU overcomes late-game struggles to defeat Southern Illinois
• Happy birthday to football coach Bill Blankenship: Take a look back at his career

Why zone defense bothered Wichita State basketball and how the Shockers conquered it Wichita Eagle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• Preparing for No. 1 Purdue: How the NC State Wolfpack hopes to shock the Boilermakers
• Four-game win streak for the Tar Heels: What we learned from UNC’s 80-63 win over Elon

Norfolk Virginian Pilot

• Old Dominion falters down the stretch, falls to VCU before huge home crowd at Chartway Arena
• Virginia hires Clemson offensive coordinator Tony Elliott as new head football coach

The Associated Press

• Back-to-back: Young gives Alabama consecutive Heisman wins
• Mellott’s 5 TDs help Montana St. beat Sam Houston 42-19