Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Pirates Fall to Memphis, 61-53 ecupirates.com

WNCT 9

• ECU women fall to Memphis, 61-53
• ECU baseball coaches have a new way of calling pitches

WITN 7

• ECU women’s basketball falls to Memphis
• Joyner finding success right away at ECU, just like her coach expected

247 Sports

• Five series we’re looking forward to this ECU baseball season
• Memphis loss a painful learning lesson for Pirate women
• Memphis 61, ECU 53 (Women’s Hoops): How it looked from the baselines
• ECU’s Javon Small expected to miss at least the next month
• Carter Spivey back to anchor ECU staff after breakthrough season

ECU women’s basketball: Pirates stumble at home against Memphis Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Tigers defeat East Carolina 61-53 WREG

Wichita State at East Carolina odds, tips and betting trends USA Today

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• No. 3 Houston, Temple, Tulane Earn Wins Wednesday
• No. 25 South Florida Extends Winning Streak to Nine

Tampa Bay Times

• Nothing small about USF’s men’s basketball win over UCF
• Former USF standout hired as second female minor league baseball manager

TU women come up short against USF 89-68 Tulsa World

Tulane men’s hoops rallies from 18-point deficit, defeats Wichita State in overtimeNOLA.com

Double-digit lead not enough for Wichita State basketball in agonizing OT loss to Tulane Wichita Eagle

Temple holds on to beat USF in overtime Temple News

Dallas Morning News

• College football transfer portal wins, losses for Texas, SMU, A&M, Tech, Oklahoma, others
• Why SMU won’t let connections with Memphis’ Kendric Davis become a distraction

 UC Bearcats to be on display in NFLPA, East-West Shrine, Senior Bowls Cincinnati Enquirer

Houston rebounds from upset loss, turns back Central Florida Houston Chronicle

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• ‘We’re still a work in progress’: What we learned from UNC basketball’s win at Syracuse
• NC State escapes Notre Dame in one of Mike Brey’s final trips to the ACC heartland

Winston Salem Journal

• Today in sports history: Jan. 26
• Mike Bianchi: Honoring fallen soldiers through kids, assist from Jack Nicklaus
• Pitt holds on to beat Wake Forest 81-79 on Wednesday night
• Longtime CIAA coach Steve Joyner Sr. will bring his J.C. Smith team to the Gaines Center
• Boum, Jones lead No. 13 Xavier over No. 19 UConn, 82-79
• Siblings feed pro hoop dreams at Marquette, Notre Dame

Charleston Post & Courier

• Garrett Riley traverses small world of college football to Clemson
• Meechie and LeBron: Gamecock guard’s ‘uncle’ cheers from NBA
• The Citadel sweeps season series with Western Carolina for first time since 2011
• Charleston Southern drops road game at Winthrop

ODU is still within striking distance of Sun Belt Conference leaders, and Monarchs head to South Alabama looking to ‘grind’ Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

Atlanta Journal Constitution

• Bulldogs held to 41 points in loss to Vols
• ESPN’s Mel Kiper tabs Georgia Tech’s Keion White as first-round pick
• Family of Devin Willock: ‘He will always be loved and never forgotten’
• Creativity, determination lead Buster Faulkner to Georgia Tech

The Associated Press

• Michigan Stadium tunnel will widen without portable seating
• Audit: LSU discovered $1M overpayment to Kelly in 2022
• Tennessee gives Josh Heupel big pay raise to $9 million
• Washington St’s Jake Dickert agrees to extension through ’27
• Well-traveled Jurkovec happy to come home to Pittsburgh