Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

ecupirates.com

• Winstead Named To 2022 Biletnikoff Award Watch List
• Women’s Basketball Adds Kilby to Staff
• ECU Gears Up For ITA Carolina Regional Championship

WNCT 9

• Houston chosen to win AAC men’s hoops, ECU picked last
• ECU women’s basketball adds Kilby to staff
• ECU kicks off homecoming week with lineup of events

WITN 7

• ECU basketball teams picked to finish 11th in AAC preseason coaches poll
• Winstead named to Biletnikoff Award watch list

Memphis Commercial Appeal

• What Memphis DC Matt Barnes praised about ECU’s offense
• What Tigers’ Henigan said about ECU’s defense

247 Sports

• PODCAST: Breaking down where the Pirates are at the halfway point of the 2022 season
• College football rankings: Georgia surges past Alabama in CBS Sports 131 ahead of Week 7
• Both ECU basketball teams picked to finish last in AAC
• Behind Enemy Lines Episode 7: Stephen Igoe w/ Hoist the Colours
• Memphis at ECU: Setting The Stage
• Mike Houston: ‘We’ve got to be better in all phases of the game’

ECU football: Cleaning up mistakes has been Pirates’ top priority Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

East Carolina vs. Memphis: How to watch online, live stream info, game time, TV channel | October 15 For The Win

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• Wichita State Takes Down Tulsa in Five
• Game Preview: UCF Hosts Temple Thursday
• The American Holds 2022 Basketball Media Days
• Houston Picked as 2022-23 American Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Favorite
• South Florida Selected as 2022-23 American Women’s Basketball Favorite in Preseason Coaches Poll

Inside Ryan Silverfield’s decision-making after Memphis football’s loss to Houston Memphis Commercial Appeal

Memphis adds two years to Penny Hardaway’s contract Winston Salem Journal

Where does Memphis football go next after Houston collapse YAHOO!

Navy vs. SMU Prediction: AAC Teams Meet on Friday Looking to Get Back to .500 Athlon Sports

Daba Fofana leads breakout performance by young Navy football fullbacks Annapolis Capital

Dallas Morning News

• SMU began season with AAC title aspirations. Now it faces must-win situation vs. Navy
• SMU men’s basketball looks to shake outside perception of preseason rankings
• SMU women’s basketball facing raised expectations in second year under Toyelle Wilson

NOLA.com

• The finisher: Tulane rush end Devean Deal a huge factor despite backup status
• Tulane men’s hoops tabbed fourth in AAC; Jalen Cook unanimous first-team pick

Former USF standout Deadrin Senat’s star on the rise again in Tampa The Tampa Times

Owls picked to finish fifth in AAC preseason poll 247 Sports

 UC picked to finish 3rd in AAC; DeJulius earns preseason honors Cincinnati Enquirer

Hosting Temple, UCF football aims for 4th straight win Orlando Sentinel

Houston picked to win AAC in preseason men’s basketball coaches poll Houston Chronicle

After years of waiting, Jaykwon Walton ready to fulfill potential at Wichita State Wichita Eagle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• UNC basketball leaning on last season’s experience for return to Final Four
• NCAA basketball tournament expansion starting to feel less theoretical, more inevitable
• Determined to be Tar Heels great, LB Power Echols is ‘calming force’ on UNC defense
• NC State faces another undefeated ACC team on road. What Pack’s up against at Syracuse

An ‘amazing shift’ at UNC and Duke. What does it portend for ACC basketball? Winston Salem Journal

Columbia The State

• Midseason report card: Grading the South Carolina offense through six games
• Beamer sounds respect for UK’s Stoops, explains purpose of locker room celebration
• ESPN gambling expert explains big drop in Clemson-FSU football point spread

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

• ACC This Week: No. 4 Clemson’s trip to Florida State highlights conference slate. Virginia Tech visits Miami.
• UVA men’s basketball team has high aspirations with five returning starters, top recruiting class
• ODU’s regular-season finale at home against JMU on Nov. 12 is a sellout
• Malachi Thomas’ return from an injury has given Virginia Tech rushing attack renewed optimism

Atlanta Journal Constitution

• Georgia legend Vince Dooley home from hospital
• Georgia linebacker Rian Davis overcomes injuries to earn first career start
• Maturity, experience help Georgia State emerge from rough start