Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

ecupirates.com

• ECU, Liberty Announce Two-Year Football Series
• Montinar Named Cornerbacks Coach/Defensive Pass Game Coordinator
• Pirates Hit The Road For MBB Rematch With Temple On Wednesday
• ECU Slotted No. 11 In D1Baseball Preseason Poll
• Pirates Host Cincinnati WBB Wednesday
• ECU Falls To No. 2 North Carolina In Tennis Season Opener
• McNeal Earns Back-to-Back AAC Player of the Week Honors

The East Carolinian

• Pirate basketball looks to snap losing streak vs Temple
• ECU spring sports season springs into session
• ECU’s Ahlers named Player of the Game in the 2023 Hula Bowl

WNCT 9

• ECU softball picked sixth in AAC preseason poll
• ECU football announces two-game series with Liberty
• Montinar named ECU cornerbacks coach/defensive pass game …
• ECU slotted No. 11 in D1Baseball Preseason Poll

WITN 7

• ECU football announces two-game series with Liberty in 2024, 2029
• ECU announces new cornerbacks coach
• ECU baseball ranked 11th in Division One Baseball preseason poll
• Schwartz says on radio show Small out for “Forseeable Future”

247 Sports

• College football transfer portal rankings 2023: QBs headline nine best available players before deadline
• ECU announces home and home series with Liberty in football
• ECU all-conference CB Malik Fleming enters transfer portal
• Leading scorer Javon Small remains sidelined for ECU, currently no timetable for return
• ECU ranked 11th in D1Baseball preseason poll
• ECU’s home game against BYU officially shifted to 2025 season

Liberty, East Carolina agree to home-and-home series The News and Advance

Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

• ECU men’s basketball: Pirates’ Small will miss game at Temple
• College roundup: PCC hoops splits pair over weekend; ECU baseball No. 11 in preseason poll

Too-early Michigan football 2023 schedule game-by-game predictions YAHOO!

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• Tulane, Tulsa Pick Up Road Conference Wins
• No. 1 Houston Remains Undefeated with 80-60 Win at Tulane
• Cincinnati, Rice and SMU Earn Swimming and Diving Awards
• UCF, Cincinnati, South Florida Represented in First Indoor Track & Field Weekly Awards
• Defending Champion UCF Chosen By Coaches as Preseason 2023 Softball Favorite
• East Carolina’s McNeal, SMU’s Brow Earn Women’s Basketball Weekly Honors
• Memphis’ Davis, Tulane’s Forbes, UCF’s Hendricks Earn Weekly Honors

Florida name, image and likeness law moves closer to change Tuesday Tampa Bay Times

Memphis Commercial Appeal

•  Toledo WR commits to Tigers football
•  Memphis football adds transfers Marcus Henderson, Joshua Ellison

Tulsa World

• TU looking for first league win against SMU
• TU women defeat Temple, stay undefeated in AAC

NOLA.com

• Tulane falls 80-60 to top-ranked, hot shooting Houston in packed Devlin Fieldhouse
• Rod Walker: Tulane basketball headed in right direction, but No. 1 Houston showed there’s work to do

Owls fall to Golden Hurricane in second straight conference loss  Temple News

Why SMU men’s basketball coach Rob Lanier says it’s not too late to turn season around Dallas Morning News

Wichita State, UCF Expected to Fight for Conference Championship KSAL

 Johnson leaves UC to become Huggins’ assistant at WVUCincinnati Enquirer

Orlando Sentinel

• UCF women’s basketball starts strong but flames out in loss to Tulane
• UCF softball picked to repeat as AAC champs in coaches poll

Marcus Sasser’s second-half surge lifts UH past Tulane Houston Chronicle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• UNC basketball beats Boston College behind record-tying Armando Bacot double-double
• NC State basketball adds another ACC win with 78-66 road victory over Georgia Tech
• NC State basketball embracing new toughness as Wolfpack puts ACC win streak on line

West Virginia lawmakers consider holiday for 1970 Marshall plane crash CBS News

Charleston Post & Courier

• Wake Forest hands Clemson first ACC loss
• Gamecocks’ scoring droughts vs. Ole Miss keep USC in loss column

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

• Reeling Virginia Tech could be near full strength for the first time this season when it visits No. 10 UVA on Wednesday
• Andre Cason was a world champion sprinter. Now, he hopes a fledgling track and field event will blaze a trail for local athletes.