Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

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ecupirates.com

• No. 10 ECU Blanks Missouri State In Series Opener
• ECU Earns Split On Day One Of Jolly Roger Invite
• Chesney McClellan Joins ECU Football Staff
• Pirates Set to Compete in NCAA Tournament First Round Saturday
• Pirates Travel to Old Dominion Saturday

WNCT 9

• Pirates set to compete in NCAA Tournament Saturday
• ECU softball earns split on Day One of Jolly Roger Invite
• No. 10 ECU blanks Missouri State in series opener
• Chesney McClellan joins ECU football staff

247 Sports

• No. 10 ECU shuts out Missouri State in series opener, 3-0
• ECU 3, Missouri State 0: How it looked from the stands
• SIGHTS AND SOUNDS: ECU returns to field for second day of spring practice
• With her confidence all the way back, Danae McNeal leads ECU into NCAA Tournament

Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

• ECU women’s basketball: Dennis a key piece to Pirates’ success
• ECU baseball” Yesavage spins another gem in ECU’s win over Missouri State

Austin American-Statesman

• Texas, East Carolina women to battle in a late-night opener at the NCAA Tournament 
• Golden: Texas is hurting, but also battle-tested entering NCAA women’s tournament opener

The A-B-C’s of the NCAA Women’s Tournament for Texas, Louisville, Drake and East Carolina YAHOO!

Texas vs. East Carolina Women’s First Round: Game Time, TV Channel and More USA Today

Texas opens NCAA women’s tournament after season of injuries Houston Chronicle

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• Memphis Falls to Florida Atlantic, 66-65, in NCAA First Round
• Houston Advances to NCAA Second Round with 63-52 Win over Northern Kentucky
• Tulane Falls to Auburn in WNIT First Round
• South Florida Sweeps Friday Action with a Pair of Walkoffs
• Five American Squads Earn Friday Wins
• South Florida Rallies Against Marquette; Advances To NCAA Second Round

Memphis Commercial Appeal

• FAU knocks Memphis out of NCAA Tournament
•  Penny Hardaway chucks a water bottle after Memphis March Madness loss
•  What we’re watching as Tigers football starts spring practice

FAU basketball wins first NCAA Tournament game in dramatic fashion Palm Beach Post

Houston Chronicle

• Smith: This UH team will find out if it is Kelvin Sampson-tough
• UH will count on Tramon Mark, its ‘X factor’ against Auburn
• Jim Nantz on a partnership unlike any other with Billy Packer

USF women rally in overtime vs. Marquette in first round of NCAA Tournament Tampa Bay Times

NOLA.com

• Tulane baseball team loses again, ties worst mark in school history through 18 games
• Photos: Tulane falls to Columbia 7-3 on a chilly, wet night

Khalif Battle enters transfer portal  Temple News

SMU women’s basketball cruises to victory over Arkansas-Little Rock to advance in WNIT Dallas Morning News

 UC Bearcats have matinee NIT date at Hofstra with 5/3 Arena unvailable Cincinnati Enquirer

Home-run queen: Addison Barnard becomes Wichita State softball’s all-time career leader Wichita Eagle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• NC State basketball’s NCAA opener against Creighton may come down to battle of big fellas
• NC State players struggle to find the right words after a tough NCAA Tournament loss
• NC State women can’t hold off Princeton, first-round NCAA Tournament win streak ends
• NC State basketball in a better place as Terquavion Smith, Jarkel Joiner say goodbyes
• Duke is big. Tennessee is big. How will that play out in their NCAA Tournament game?
• NC State basketball falls to Creighton despite 32-point effort from Terquavion Smith

Winston Salem Journal

• No. 4 Indiana too strong for No. 13 Kent State in Midwest matchup
• No. 9 FAU edges No. 8 Memphis on basket in final seconds
• Oscar Tshiebwe owns boards, No. 6 Kentucky tops No. 11 Providence
• Today in sports history: March 18

Charleston Post & Courier

• Sapakoff: A season of raising the College of Charleston basketball bar
• Bracket busted! No. 16 FDU takes down No. 1 seed Purdue in March Madness

Top overall seed South Carolina brings NSU women’s historic season to an end in first round of NCAA Tournament Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

Virginia’s Gardner, Franklin were transfers who fit the Hoos all the way to the end The Daily Progress