No. 15 ECU Completes Season Series Sweep Of UNCW… Pirates’ Magical Comeback Effort Falls Short at Duke, 14-12… East Carolina, North Texas, Rice Earn Weekly Outdoor Track & Field Honors

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Pirates come back to sweep UNCW series

ecupirates.com

• No. 15 ECU Completes Season Series Sweep Of UNCW
• Pirates’ Magical Comeback Effort Falls Short at Duke, 14-12
• Pirates Sail Past Elon, 9-1
• Mouzzon Tabbed American Women’s Track Athlete of the Week

No. 15 ECU completes season series sweep of UNCW  WNCT 9

ECU comes back to beat UNCW, sweep season series WITN 7

ECU baseball back home to take on UNCW, Havelock High football duo inks with colleges WCTI 12

247 Sports

• Pirates rally past Seahawks to complete season sweep
• ECU 7, UNCW 4: How it looked from the dugouts
• Everything Mike Houston said after ECU’s Tuesday spring practice
• Sights and Sounds: ECU back to work for second week of spring ball
• FINAL: ECU 7, UNCW4

ECU baseball: Pirates rally in seventh, top UNCW to pick up midweek win Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• East Carolina, North Texas, Rice Earn Weekly Outdoor Track & Field Honors
• Charlotte’s Quiterio Takes Third Player of the Week Honor of 2024
• Rice’s Zemel Takes Player of the Week Honors After 5-0 Performance

Can USF keep its roster (and coach) around for another title run? Tampa Tribune

Continuity is key for Memphis Tigers 2024 offense ABC 24

Memphis cornerback Davion Ross feels ‘blessed’ to return from injury Daily Memphian

Throwback Tulsa: Thousands welcome NIT champion TU home 43 years ago today Tulsa World

Quarterback Michael Pratt headlines Tulane’s pro day at Saints’ indoor facility NOLA.com

Temple Football hosts annual pro day  Temple News

Meet ‘Baby Hooter,’ one of five people — and two women — who portray Temple’s mascot Philadelphia Inquirer

Wichita State veteran center Kenny Pohto enters transfer portal for 2nd straight year Wichita Eagle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• UNC, Arizona on collision course? Sometimes, basketball gods know what’s good for ratings
• Doing whatever needs to get done, Casey Morsell is always ready to help N.C. State win
• Scouting Duke basketball’s NCAA opponent: Top seed Houston stands in the Blue Devils’ way

WRAL

• Holliday: Here’s what lies ahead for NC State, UNC, Duke in Sweet 16 and beyond
• UNC guard RJ Davis among finalists for 2024 Naismith Men’s College Basketball Player of the Year
• 2024 NCAA men’s interactive bracket: Matchups, times, TV

Winston Salem Journal

• WSSU loses two key starters in Parson and Dodd
• Dutcher’s Aztecs get second chance to beat UConn
• Utah coach says team was shaken after experiencing racist hate during NCAA Tournament
• Top women’s stars expect to keep NIL deals beyond college
• Be like Caitlin: Iowa’s Clark inspiring a new generation
• Wake Forest’s season ends, and now the waiting begins about next year’s roster
• Deion Sanders: Certain cities ‘ain’t gonna happen’ when it comes to Shedeur’s NFL future

Columbia The State

• South Carolina lacks size in wide receiver room. Is that an issue for Gamecocks?
• Second player in transfer portal from South Carolina men’s basketball roster
• Young South Carolina wide receiver no longer with the team
• Clemson hires new women’s basketball coach. Here are his salary, contract details
• South Carolina down another running back for spring because of injury
• Sweet 16 stage is set: What lies ahead for No. 1 South Carolina in NCAA Tournament
• South Carolina’s LaNorris Sellers not feeling pressure of quarterback competition
• Former Clemson football star says he would have made $10 million in NIL era

Charleston Post & Courier

• College of Charleston All-CAA forward enters transfer portal
• Clemson tabs Chattanooga’s Shawn Poppie as women’s basketball coach
• The latest from Gamecocks’ Shane Beamer on spring football practice
• For a year, USC Salkehatchie had no men’s basketball. Then it hired Matt Lynch.
• What’s the deal with Clemson’s chef hats? Here’s why Tiger fans are wearing them.

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

• Pair of 757 products lead UVA baseball team to sixth straight victory
• Virginia Tech women’s basketball coach leaves to take Kentucky job

Roanoke Times

• Teel: ACC’s NCAA tournament success again belies critics
• Richmond native excels at Wake Forest after trail of hardship and loss
• Kenny Brooks leaves Virginia Tech for Kentucky
• In the region: No. 13 Virginia Tech baseball beats Marshall
• Virginia Tech’s Kidd, Camden, Suffren enter transfer portal
• ‘I definitely missed it’: Virginia safety Antonio Clary returns to practice after an ankle injury sidelined him last season
• Without Kitley, Virginia Tech bows out in NCAA Tournament 2nd round

Atlanta Journal Constitution

• Kirby Smart: Fast cars and college football players a growing issue
• Georgia Bulldogs beat Ohio State, advance to NIT Final Four
• Police: Georgia’s Trevor Etienne driving 80-90 mph before DUI arrest

UConn has the resume of a college basketball blue blood, but is it one? San Diego Union-Tribune

The Associated Press

• Creighton do-it-all man Baylor Scheierman looking for happier ending in March Madness
• The NCAA Tournament wants to expand without losing its soul. It will be a delicate needle to thread
• Bello’s 21 lead Purdue Fort Wayne over Tarleton State 73-72 in CIT semifinals
• Kentucky AD: Calipari will return as coach, despite calls for his firing after early NCAA exit
• Avila scores 22, Indiana State defeats Cincinnati 85-81 to reach NIT semifinals
• Seton Hall, UNLV play in NIT
• Utah plays VCU in NIT
• North Carolina Tar Heels and Alabama Crimson Tide play in Sweet 16
• Arizona Wildcats face the Clemson Tigers in Sweet 16
• UConn and San Diego State play in the Sweet 16
• Iowa State Cyclones and Illinois Fighting Illini meet in Sweet 16
• High Point and Seattle U play in CBI Tournament matchup
• Norfolk State and Purdue Fort Wayne square off in TBC