Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

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ecupirates.com

• Pirates Travel to Wichita State For New Year’s Eve Matchup
• Pirates Host Tulsa to Open AAC Play

Three ECU football players choosing to leave school  WNCT 9

247 Sports

• ECU offensive tackle Noah Henderson officially declares for NFL Draft
• PODCAST: ECU caps 2022 season with Birmingham Bowl victory
• ECU CB Damel Hickman enters portal as graduate transfer
• ECU loses starting safety Jireh Wilson to the transfer portal
• ECU lands North Carolina DB transfer Dontavius Nash

Mason column: Not many teams end a season the way ECU did on Tuesday Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

TU visits East Carolina in AAC women’s opener Tulsa World

Porter and the Wichita State Shockers host conference foe East Carolina Washington Post

Iconic Virginia coach Terry Holland accepted Alzheimer’s diagnosis with poise and grace Raleigh News & Observer

ECU’s Ahlers throws Birmingham Bowl-record 5 TD passes CBS Sports

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• UCF Caps Non-Conference With Win
• Cincinnati, Memphis Start Conference Play 1-0
• Bowl Preview: No. 16 Tulane Battles No. 10 USC in Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic

NOLA.com

• Slow start costs Tulane men’s hoops in road loss to Cincinnati
• Who’s the juggernaut? Tulane’s offense putting up numbers similar to USC in past seven games

SMU QB Tanner Mordecai reportedly enters transfer portal, could land at Wisconsin Dallas Morning News

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• NC State football seeks Duke’s Mayo Bowl win over Maryland, tries to ‘go out the right way’
• NC State football offensive line benefits from center Grant Gibson’s ‘extra set of eyes’
• How UNC basketball coach Hubert Davis has developed coaching style of constant change

Winners and Losers of Bowl Season Part 2 Bleacher Report

Coastal Carolina backup QB enters transfer portal CBS 17

Charleston Post & Courier

• Coastal Carolina nose tackle Clark declares for NFL Draft; QB Archie enters portal
• Sapakoff: Spencer Rattler is the key to a Gamecocks happy new year
• South Carolina vs. Notre Dame odds preview: Point spread, prediction for Gator Bowl
• Gamecocks meet Notre Dame in Gator Bowl: 4 things to watch
• As Clemson tries to slow Vols in Orange Bowl, 4 things to watch
• The Citadel surprises Chattanooga in SoCon opener to snap 4-game skid

Columbia The State

• Final thoughts, prediction for South Carolina vs. Notre Dame today in Gator Bowl
• Clemson vs. Tennessee in Orange Bowl kickoff time, odds, stream, radio, weather
• How Spencer Rattler remains connected to a former Notre Dame quarterback
• Some Gamecocks in transfer portal asked to play in USC’s bowl game, Shane Beamer says

Liberty football notebook: Hunter enters transfer portal, Chadwell’s staff coming together, and more The News & Advance

Winston Salem Journal

• College bowl roundup: Washington beats Texas in Alamo Bowl; FSU edges Oklahoma in Cheez-It Bowl
• TCU ready to face Michigan’s ‘Big Ten physicality,’ change Fiesta Bowl narrative
• How Chip Kelly and Dorian Thompson-Robinson’s mutual trust elevated UCLA
• Reports: Bears considering Big Ten head Kevin Warren for team president
• Deion Sanders, Colorado nab sixth Jackson State transfer

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

• Arkansas State fends off Old Dominion men in Sun Belt opener
• Last-minute touchdown, deflected extra point rally No. 15 Oregon past North Carolina in Holiday Bowl
• No. 13 UVA bounces back from two straight losses in a big way, routs Albany

Atlanta Journal Constitution

• There is nothing quiet about the way Georgia’s Jalen Carter plays football
• This is Georgia’s chance to one up Alabama
• There’s a reason for the Big Ten’s inferiority complex
• Once on verge of extinction, Peach Bowl now has national prominence