Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Basketball News
Pirates top USF, 64-60 Bonesville.net

ecupirates.com

• Pirates Complete Season Sweep Of Bulls, 64-60
• Pirates Clash With Tulsa Postponed
• Former Basketball Players To Be Honored
• Pirates Prep For Trip To VCU

The East Carolinian

• Tennis takes back-to-back losses at the coast
• ECU lacrosse continues undefeated season
• Pirate baseball grabs first win of the season

WNCT 9

• ECU women’s game with Tulsa postponed due to weather
• Pirates complete season sweep of USF
• Two former ECU hoops stars to be recognized Saturday
• USFL 2.0: Former ECU OL part of picks in draft

ECU men’s basketball uses late run, free throws to battle past South Florida WITN 7

ECU men’s basketball grinds out a win against South Florida at home WCTI 12

USF falls at East Carolina for sixth loss in a row Tampa Bay Times

Suggs carries East Carolina over South Florida 64-60 Charlotte Observer

247 Sports

• ECU surges past USF late to sweep season series
• ECU 64, USF 60: How it looked from the baselines
• ECU targets to know at DT for the 2023 class
• Garrett McGhin selected in USFL Draft

No bull, Pirates win Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Around the American Athletic Conference

Houston Wins on Road at Tulane to Remain in First Place American Athletic Conference

Tulsa men handled in Dallas, drop to 3-12 in AAC Tulsa World

SMU overcomes slow start to keep home undefeated streak alive with 75-61 win over Tulsa Dallas Morning News

 Turnover-prone Cincinnati Bearcats slip and fall 75-61 at UCF Cincinnati Enquirer

Orlando Sentinel

• UCF gets 13 points from C.J. Walker in regular-season home finale to defeat Cincinnati 75-61
• UCF women’s basketball not distracted by top 25 ranking: ‘We have to be us’

Houston Chronicle

• Walker scores 13 to carry UCF over Cincinnati 75-61
• Coach’s faith in J’Wan Roberts pays off as Houston tops Tulane
• UH’s late dunk earns Kelvin Sampson’s ire, prompts apology

Tulane men’s hoops can’t handle No. 14 Houston in charged-up Devlin Fieldhouse NOLA.com

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• Coach K appreciates respect from other college basketball coaches, ACC ‘brotherhood’
• Jeremy Roach scores season-high 15 as Duke basketball beats Virginia to split series
• NC State basketball drops fourth home game in a row, falls to 4-13 in ACC with BC loss
• UNC football ‘starting over as a program’ this spring after last season’s 6-7 finish

Winston Salem Journal

• Wake Forest stumbles on the road and loses to Clemson 80-69
• Mike Bianchi: Juwan Howard is symbolic of a society where clinched fists have replaced handshakes

Norfolk Virginian Pilot

• Hampton’s Deuce Dean drains jump shot with 1.3 seconds left to beat Campbell in home finale
• A.J. Griffin keys late surge as Duke holds on to win in Coach K’s last trip to U.Va.
• Old Dominion hosts Florida Atlantic in Conference USA game Thursday

Columbia The State

• What to watch for as these South Carolina Gamecocks compete at 2022 NFL combine
• Gamecocks bolster postseason hopes with big SEC win over Bulldogs. What we learned

Atlanta Journal Constitution

• The College Football Playoff doesn’t need to grow just yet
• Georgia baseball is ‘lights-out’ against Wofford