Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Spring drills focused on fast paced attack

ecupirates.com

• No. 12 ECU Faces Off With FAU In Boca Raton
• Yesavage And Root Named To Golden Spikes Award Midseason Watchlist
• Nash Named AAC Golfer Of The Week
• Pirates Set To Welcome UTSA For AAC Series

The East Carolinian

• Relive ECU baseball’s first victory over NC State in Raleigh since 2009.
• Women have taken over the NCAA Tournament
• Multiple MBB players continue to enter the portal
• TEC Athlete of the Month: Carter Cunningham

Pirates to host 10th Annual Bill Carson Invitational on …  WNCT 9

WITN 7

• Yesavage, Root named to Golden Spikes Award Midseason Watch List
• ECU football team is catching on to new offense quicker than expected
• ECU track and field has home meet on Friday and Saturday, hope to showcase star athletes to Pirate Nation

247 Sports

• Three Potential Transfer Targets for Texas Tech: Osobor, Pettiford, Miller
• PHOTOS: ECU works through Thursday practice

ECU men’s basketball: Transfer portal activity guts Pirates’ roster Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

East Carolina Head Coach Mike Houston Assesses His Team After Spring Scrimmage Sports Illustrated

UM lands East Carolina transfer Brandon Johnson, Kyshawn George to test NBA Draft Miami Herald

Former Pitt Coach Takes Job at East Carolina Hosted

When is Gavin Williams Coming Back in Fantasy Baseball? RotoBaller

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• East Carolina’s Nash, Florida Atlantic’s Sturdza Named Golf Players of the Week
• Tulsa Defeats Missouri State in Midweek Action
• Six American Teams Claim Midweek Wins

American Athletic Conference hires IMG president as commissioner Tampa Tribune

Memphis basketball lands explosive guard PJ Haggerty, one of the top transfers available Memphis Commercial Appeal

Tim Pernetti named AAC commissioner  Tulsa World

Can Tulane’s Teo Banks recapture his outstanding form from the second half of 2023? NOLA.com

Sharpshooting guard John Buggs III is latest UNT player to enter transfer portal Dallas Morning News

How Wichita State baseball executed its plan for dramatic walk-off win over Kansas Wichita Eagle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• NC State’s Saniya Rivers, a former South Carolina guard, won’t dwell on the ‘what ifs’
• The Wolfpack screams for NC State’s man of good humor after road wins
• Amid NC State’s Final Four run, a tribute to a Wolfpacker who gave — and never gave up
• NC State’s Final Four run gives Maddie Cox a chance to follow in sisters’ footsteps
• ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips: ‘Narrative’ surrounding the league doesn’t match reality

WRAL

• Welcome to Raleigh, the new epicenter of college basketball
• Keatts: This is not a fluke
• Friday: WRAL turns the gardens red to celebrate Wolfpack in the Final Four
• ‘How can you not pull for these guys?’ UNC fan Cooper backs ‘Pack, but won’t go to Final Four
• ‘Wolfpack Tracks’ a rare find for State fans wanting to relive 1983 run
• For DJ Horne, redemption comes in return to Raleigh, path to Phoenix
• DJ Burns says he has no plans on playing football
• Here are the Raleigh streets closing for Wolfpack Final Four watch party

Columbia The State

• No. 1 South Carolina WBB vs NC State in Final Four: How to watch, top storylines
• Gamecocks assistant Lisa Boyer is Dawn Staley’s ride or die — and a program legend
• Why this season of South Carolina WBB is Dawn Staley’s best coaching job yet
• South Carolina’s Raven Johnson dishes on meeting idol Chelsea Gray: ‘I was about to cry’
• Juice Wells revealed why he left South Carolina. Now he’s dealing with backlash

Charleston Post & Courier

• Before NC State, DJ Burns Jr. scored as a Rock Hill basketball phenomenon
• Wolfpack’s Rivers has no regrets from her time as a Gamecock
• TV talking heads on why Gamecocks seem ignored at Final Four
• Gamecocks’ 5 most memorable moments in a Final Four season
• Former CofC forward Ben Burnham commits to Virginia Tech

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

• Former Princess Anne High star Aziaha James ready for the big stage as she leads NC State women to Final Four
• A 757 Classic? NSU coach proposes annual tournament for region’s Division I basketball programs
• Former Virginia Tech star point guard Georgia Amoore commits to rejoin coach Kenny Brooks at Kentucky

Roanoke Times

• N.C. State’s Keatts played for ‘love of the game’ at Ferrum
• Virginia Tech’s Amoore, Strack following Brooks to Kentucky

The Associated Press

• Seton Hall scores final nine points to rally past Indiana State 79-77 to win NIT championship
• March Madness: How to watch the women’s Final Four and what to watch for in the NCAA Tournament
• A look at each women’s Final Four team, through advanced stats
• Women’s basketball growth helped by star players, more media coverage, rules changes
• The women’s NCAA Tournament is having a big moment that has also been marred by missteps
• Caitlin Clark of Iowa is the AP Player of the Year in women’s hoops for the 2nd straight season
• Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers have been in each other’s orbit for years. The Final Four beckons
• Alabama’s Aaron Estrada finishes 5-year, 4-school odyssey with Final Four trip, NIL money
• Georgia Amoore transferring from Virginia Tech to Kentucky, following her coach to the Wildcats
• March Madness: How to watch and what to watch for in the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four
• A look at each men’s Final Four team, through advanced stats
• UConn, Purdue, Alabama, NC State ride transfer portal additions straight into the Final Four
• A pair of DJs going to the Final Four after coming together at North Carolina State
• Final Four serves up the usual menu of fun stories — and UConn looks to snuff out all of them
• Florida’s 2007 repeat came in ‘totally different environment’ than UConn is facing at Final Four