Yesavage Collects Third 2023 All-America Honor … Christian Academy’s Cole Hodge commits to East Carolina football … ECU soccer welcomes seven more to the roster … ECU to begin home-and-home basketball series with George Mason… Connor Bedard, as expected, taken first in the NHL draft by the Chicago Blackhawks

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Yesavage Collects Third 2023 All-America Honor ecupirates.com

ECU soccer welcomes seven more to the roster The East Carolinian

ECU’s Yesavage collects third 2023 All-America honor WNCT 9

Christian Academy’s Cole Hodge commits to East Carolina football WLKY

247 Sports

• ECU picks up pledge from Florida CB Eric Fletcher
• ECU to begin home-and-home basketball series with George Mason
• ECU Countdown to Kickoff: No. 66 Isaiah Foote
• Here’s where ECU finished in the final 2023 college baseball rankings

Baseball roundup: Williams tosses seven scoreless innings in second career MLB start Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Guardians Scribbles: Gavin Williams, Will Brennan, kid pitchers … wow!– Terry Pluto Cleveland.com

Around the American Athletic Conference

Former UL basketball standout Jordan Brown now headed to Memphis Tigers The Advocate

Tulsa World

• TU Sports Extra podcast: Keuan Parker on feeling at home at TU after leaving Arkansas, New Mexico State
• Where OU, OSU, Tulsa and Oral Roberts finished in the Directors’ Cup

World University Games first opportunity for Tulane men’s hoops to put 2022-23 in rearview mirror NOLA.com

247 Sports

• Owls land shooting whiz from Maryland prep school power
• Richardson’s revamped roster starts summer workouts

UNT rose during its time in CUSA, how preparing it for jump to American Dallas Morning News

UNT lands big-play Coppell wide receiver Baron Tipton Denton Record Chronicle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

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Raleigh News & Observer

• The first ACC-SEC basketball challenge is set, with some intriguing matchups
• Exclusive: Mike Krzyzewski discusses Duke, Dean Smith and future of college basketball

Winston Salem Journal

• A Big 12 tale: Why this athletic boss now wants to defeat teams he loved as a kid in Kansas City
• Mike Krzyzewski discusses Duke, Dean Smith and future of college basketball
• New Mexico State to pay $8M, settle suit in sexual assault allegation
• What Texas’ new NIL law means for college sports, NCAA oversight

Columbia The State

• These 5 teams were South Carolina’s best for 2022-23 sports year
• South Carolina WBB schedule coming together quickly. Here’s what to know

Charleston Post & Courier

• FSU rising? What to make of Clemson’s old (and new) foil in 2023
• Coastal Carolina receives final approval for $20M indoor practice facility