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GREG VACEK'S WEB ROUNDUPSunday, April 2, 2023

April 2, 2023 By Greg Vacek Leave a Comment

No. 8 East Carolina Evens Series At Houston… Pirates Down Vanderbilt, Move to 2-0 in AAC LAX Play… FAU basketball’s Final Four dream crushed at buzzer vs. San Diego State; UConn manhandles Miami in wire-to-wire win, 72-59

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Pirates top Houston, 5-4

ecupirates.com

  • No. 8 East Carolina Evens Series At Houston
  • Pirates Down Vanderbilt, Move to 2-0 in AAC LAX Play
  • Pirates Host Ironwood Invitational To Close Out Regular Season
  • Pirates Fall Short To UCF SB, 4-0
  • Pirates Sweep Bill Carson Invitational Titles
  • ECU Returns To Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium For Second Scrimmage
  • East Carolina Falls To No. 7 Wolfpack, 7-0

WNCT 9

  • Pirates down Vanderbilt, move to 2-0 in AAC play
  • Pirates fall short to UCF, 4-0

247 Sports

  • ECU holds off Houston to even series
  • Alex Flinn putting together impressive spring in ECU’s QB room

ECU lacrosse: Off to best start in team history, Pirates take aim at postseason Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

  • All Four Road Teams Win in League Action on Saturday
  • UCF, Tulsa, Wichita State Pick Up Saturday Wins
  • ECU, JMU, Cincinnati Take Conference Wins; Florida Pulls Away From No. 23 Penn
  • Houston’s Sasser Receives Jerry West Award as Nation’s Top Shooting Guard

Palm Beach Post

  • FAU basketball’s Final Four dream crushed at buzzer vs. San Diego State
  • FAU falls after buzzer-beater ends title hopes
  • Nick Boyd: “We put FAU on the map. And we took it to a new height’
  • 5 takeaways: San Diego State stuns FAU basketball at the buzzer
  • Alijah Martin on abrupt end to FAU Owls’ basketball season: ‘Devastating’
5 things we learned about new USF basketball coach Amir Abdur-Rahim Tampa Bay Times

Memphis Tiger Nick Jourdain through the years Memphis Commercial Appeal

TU football hosts fans for Springfest, sixth spring practice Tulsa World

Memphis rallies late, deprives Tulane’s Chandler Welch of well-deserved victoryNOLA.com

Wichita State baseball extends winning streak to six, wins first AAC series at Cincinnati Wichita Eagle

Morris sees signs of growth as UNT prepares for first of key scrimmages next week Denton Record Chronicle

AL.com

  • Goodman: UAB will curse this NIT time and time again
  • Scarbinsky: No banner to prove it, but UAB basketball is in a great place

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Palm Beach Post

  • Miami basketball overwhelmed by UConn in Final Four loss 
  •  5 takeaways: San Diego State stuns FAU basketball at the buzzer 
Duke, UNC basketball navigate a new landscape, one year after epic Final Four meeting Raleigh News & Observer

Winston Salem Journal

  • NCAA Tournament recap: Buzzer-beater sends San Diego St. to title game, Iowa and LSU women meet for championship, and more
  • UConn manhandles Miami in wire-to-wire win, 72-59
  • San Diego St. rallies, defeats FAU on buzzer-beater, 72-71
  • Luke DeCock: NCAA celebrates basketball amid epochal change, but football pulls strings in the shadows
  • Mike Sielski: John Mara was right and Jeffrey Lurie missed the point: Flexing Thursday night NFL games is madness

Columbia The State

  • ‘A fun year’: South Carolina looks past Final Four loss to reflect on historic season
  • 3 lessons learned as South Carolina tops Mississippi State for third SEC series win

‘The Freshies’ leave Gamecocks with re-established culture as their greatest gift Charleston Post & Courier

CNU women’s basketball team just misses spot in history, falls in national championship game Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

Atlanta Journal Constitution

  • Kirby Smart evaluates quarterbacks after Georgia’s first scrimmage
  • Georgia’s Jenny Bae the runner-up at Augusta National Women’s Amateur
  • Stegeman Coliseum expected to be open for play in the fall
  • Two transfers could be the answers at linebacker for Georgia Tech
  • Georgia Tech secondary has strength at safety
  • Linebacker Demontrae Gaston commits to Georgia Tech

 

Nuggets and Briefs:  National and Professional articles of interest

Carolina Hurricanes facing plethora of problems as NHL regular season winds down Raleigh News & Observer

Charlotte Observer

  • NASCAR race at Richmond: How to watch Cup race, penalties galore, story lines, more
  • Chandler Smith edges John Hunter Nemechek for first career Xfinity win at Richmond
  • Bad weather cancels NASCAR Cup Series qualifying at Richmond. Starting lineup now set
  • After ‘embarrassing’ finish at COTA, NASCAR drivers weigh in on road course solutions
  • ‘More money, better lawyers.’ NASCAR drivers react to Hendrick’s successful appeal

Washington Post

  • Lamont Butler’s buzzer-beater shows San Diego State can win pretty
  • For Connecticut, Final Four vs. Miami is another breeze
  • Caitlin Clark believed in Lisa Bluder. That’s why Iowa is in the title game.
  • Iowa’s upset of South Carolina draws record viewers as new TV deal looms
  • Jim Nantz, calling his last Final Four, gets nostalgic. Can you believe it?

Atlanta Journal Constitution

  • Matt Olson, Braves’ high-powered offense rout Nationals
  • Falcons’ updated depth chart: OT Joshua Miles added
  • Atlanta United finally defeats the Red Bulls in a regular-season match

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