No. 15 ECU Welcomes UNCW To Greenville Tuesday… Pirates Conclude Homestand On Tuesday Against Elon… Pirates Travel to Duke on Tuesday… ECU picks up 2025 OL commitment Jonathan Stokes… Pirate Nation Gives raises $8.6M for ECU programs

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

ecupirates.com

• No. 15 ECU Welcomes UNCW To Greenville Tuesday
• Pirates Conclude Homestand On Tuesday Against Elon
• Pirates Travel to Duke on Tuesday

Episode 25 of ‘Inside Pirate Athletics’  WNCT 9

WITN 7

• ECU baseball drops AAC opening series at UTSA, falls to 15th in national poll
• “Paydert” films final scene at ECU

247 Sports

• ECU picks up 2025 OL commitment Jonathan Stokes
• PODCAST: Reacting to ECU’s first series loss of the season

Pirate Nation Gives raises $8.6M for ECU programs Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Robots “Terrorize” East Carolina University, Prompting Student Protest Bored Panda

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• North Texas’ Savage, Wichita State’s Wong Named Softball Players of the Week
• Florida, Temple, JMU Players Take Weekly Lacrosse Accolades
• South Florida’s Montes, UTSA’s Riojas Earn Weekly Honors
• South Florida Falls to VCU in NIT Second Round
• UAB, East Carolina, North Texas Earn SB Series Wins

USF women’s coach Jose Fernandez being courted by University of Miami Tampa Tribune

Why Memphis football QB Seth Henigan changed his number again, this time to No. 9 Memphis Commercial Appeal

Bill Haisten: TU on the brink of doing something special for a special coach Tulsa World

Van’s Savage named conference pitcher of week after 2 weekend wins for North Texas KLTV

Clifton McDowell re-enters transfer portal  Temple News

As Charlotte 49ers begin spring football, coach Biff Poggi optimistic: ‘I really like it’ Charlotte Observer

Morris taking step back from offense in hope of steering UNT football in right direction Denton Record Chronicle

UAB’s Barry Dunning, former Mr. Basketball, in NCAA transfer portal again AL.com

Wong Tabbed AAC Player of the Week for Second Time KSAL

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• Shades of NC State and 1983? The 2024 Wolfpack is creating its own basketball story
• Scouting NC State basketball’s NCAA opponent: Marquette stands in the Pack’s way
• ‘We lit a fire.’ Two freshmen play key roles as NC State women head to Sweet 16
• How sweet it is: NC State women hang on to beat Tennessee, 79-72, advance to Sweet 16
• As ACC basketball again confounds March expectations, let’s separate fact from fiction

WRAL

• Holliday: Here’s what lies ahead for NC State, UNC, Duke in Sweet 16 and beyond
• Duke, NC State, North Carolina men’s basketball all advance to Sweet Sixteen
• 2024 NCAA men’s interactive bracket: Matchups, times, TV

Teel: No time to celebrate for JMU as Mark Byington leaves for Vanderbilt Richmond.com

Winston Salem Journal

• Wake Forest’s season ends, and now the waiting begins about next year’s roster
• Big East, with just 3 NCAA bids, remains unbeaten
• NC State returns to Sweet 16

Columbia The State

• Former Clemson football star says he would have made $10 million in NIL era
• Meechie Johnson, South Carolina’s leading scorer, headed to transfer portal
• Two of the best: Dawn Staley, Lamont Paris finalists for Naismith Coach of the Year

Charleston Post & Courier

• What’s the deal with Clemson’s chef hats? On the Ian Schieffelin tribute
• March Madness on the diamond: How Clemson swept FSU in dramatic fashion
• Gamecocks’ first defection is a massive one: Meechie Johnson to transfer
• College of Charleston’s Ante Brzovic enters transfer portal
• How Gamecock baseball revived its offense to sweep Vandy, return to Top 25

The Associated Press

• Iowa’s Clark shows love for the fans after they cheer her on one last time at Carver-Hawkeye Arena
• The NCAA Tournament wants to expand without losing its soul. It will be a delicate needle to thread
• March Madness: 3 perfect brackets remain entering Women’s Sweet 16
• Pac-12’s final chapter not over yet. Conference has 5 teams in NCAA Women’s Sweet 16.
• James, Rivers help No. 3 seed NC State hold off No. 6 seed Tennessee to reach Sweet 16
• Kiki Iriafen carries No. 2 Stanford in 87-81 OT win over Iowa State, advance to Portland Regional
• Gonzaga uses hot shooting to reach Sweet 16 for first time since 2015 topping Utah 77-66
• JuJu Watkins’ double-double leads top-seeded USC over Kansas 73-55 for trip to women’s Sweet 16
• Kiki Rice scores 24 as UCLA rallies past Creighton 67-63 to reach the Sweet 16