Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

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• Guzman Earns Third Aac Diver Of The Week Honor
• ECU Competes At South Carolina And Wolfpack GAC Invites
• Pirates to Play Montana State in Las Vegas Wednesday

ECU set to officially announce Blake Harrell as new head football coach WNCT 9

247 Sports

• ECU offers two younger brothers of current standout receivers
• What Navy coach Brian Newberry said about ECU
• Everything Blake Harrell said during his Navy week press conference

ECU GAMEDAY: Pirates host Navy to close out regular season Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

ECU expected to remove interim tag, name Blake Harrell head coach 247 Sports

Navy Midshipmen Three Biggest Keys to Defeat East Carolina Pirates Sports Illustrated

Navy football travels to East Carolina, winners of four straight games The Baltimore Sun

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• Memphis Advances to Maui Invitational Final with 71-63 Win over Michigan State
• Memphis Takes Down No. 2 UConn at Maui Invitational
• East Carolina, FIU, Rice Earn Weekly Honors
• East Carolina’s Joyner, Tulane’s Sneed Earn Weekly Women’s Basketball Honors
• Rice’s Broadnax, Florida Atlantic’s Vokietaitis Earn Weekly Honors
• Charlotte, UTSA Players Take Week 13 Player Of The Week Honors
• American Women’s Hoops Earn Four Weekend Wins

Davidson football’s Scott Abell hired as the next head coach at Rice Charlotte Observer

Scott Abell named football head coach The Rice Thresher

Rice hires FCS head coach Footballscoop

USF baseball lands highest-ranking recruiting class in AAC The Oracle

Charlotte football takes down the Owls for road trip matchup ninertimes

How does USF’s Sean Atkins keep getting open? Details, and maybe diet Tampa Tribune

Memphis Commercial Appeal

• Memphis basketball vs Michigan State final score: Tigers advance to Maui Invitational final
• What concerns Auburn basketball coach Bruce Pearl most about Memphis basketball

What to watch in Memphis’ Maui Invitational final against Auburn dailymemphian

‘Good recognition:’ Tulsa football job has national appeal Tulsa World

Georgia State Panthers play the Tulsa Golden Hurricane The Associated Press

Tulane baseball head coach Jay Uhlman signs contract extension Crescent City Sports

NOLA.com

• Tulane baseball coach Jay Uhlman gets two-year contract extension
• Tulane moves up to No. 17 in college football playoff rankings

Owls unable to complete comeback against Princeton  Temple News

Navy football had a revolving door at defensive tackle until moving Griffen Willis  Annapolis Capital

A preview of matchup problem Wichita State basketball must solve in Minnesota game Wichita Eagle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

CBS Sports

• For first time in the modern era, the coaching carousel runs through North Carolina after firing Mack Brown
• North Carolina coaching candidates: Jon Sumrall, Barry Odom, Dan Mullen among options to replace Mack Brown
• College football coaching carousel 2024: Ranking every FBS vacancy after North Carolina fires Mack Brown

Tracking 2024 college football coach firings and changes For the Win

Raleigh News & Observer

• UNC needs a new football coach. Who could replace Mack Brown on Tar Heels sideline?
• Mack Brown’s Hall of Fame coaching career is ending. A look back at his accomplishments

College Football: 10 Coaching Candidates to Replace Mack Brown at North Carolina Athlon Sports

WRAL

• UNC head coach Mack Brown won’t return in 2025, will coach vs. NC State
• Mack Brown out at UNC: Who will be the next coach for the Tar Heels?
• UNC board chair critical of how Brown firing was handled
• Broome has 23 points and 19 rebounds as No. 4 Auburn tops No. 12 UNC 85-72 to reach Maui title game
• No. 1 Kansas holds off No. 11 Duke 75-72 after Dickinson ejected in the Vegas Showdown
• RJ Davis, No. 12 Tar Heels erase 21-point deficit to beat Dayton
• Hurricanes score five third-period goals in comeback win over Dallas

Winston Salem Journal

• Mack Brown fired as North Carolina football coach
• Dave Clawson of Wake Forest on Mack Brown: ‘He’s been good for college football’
• Miami climbs College Football Playoff rankings ahead of season finale
• Five takeaways from College Football Playoff rankings: How SMU, Texas could square off

Columbia The State

• Bowl experience vs. CFP appearance: Shane Beamer explains pros and cons
• Putting the hammer down: USC’s 1987 win over Clemson will always be a masterpiece
• Dabo praises Clemson’s plan for paying football players. Here are the details
• Jadeveon Clowney doesn’t hate Clemson. He just doesn’t want them to beat South Carolina

Charleston Post & Courier

• Hamilton: CFP jumping from SEC to ACC bandwagon
• Gamecocks reunite with alum Mike Boynton Jr. in Fort Myers
• SEC losses are big gains for SMU and Indiana in latest College Football Playoff rankings
• ‘Just another game’ for QB LaNorris Sellers as he faces Clemson for first time
• Swinney says ‘nobody gonna have more money than Clemson’ as revenue-sharing plans unveiled
• Hamilton: Who will fill the first-ever 12-team bracket?
• Swinney says playoff has turned into ‘SEC-Big Ten Invitational.’ Is that fair to Clemson?

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot (sub req’d)

• Teel: Sparse attendance continues to plague UVA, and blowout home losses haven’t helped
• Norfolk State fires head football coach Dawson Odums after four seasons
• ACC this week: No. 8 Miami tries to clinch title game spot, UVA visits Hokies as regular season closes

Roanoke Times

• Hokies hope to continue recent trend of notching sixth win over UVa
• Skidding Virginia Tech seeks to beat South Carolina
• In the region: VMI football players earn All-SoCon honors
• Rice hires former W&L football coach Abell

The Associated Press

• North Carolina goes for win in Mack Brown’s home finale against bowl-seeking rival NC State
• No. 12 Clemson, No. 16 South Carolina playing for biggest stakes in Palmetto Rivalry history
• Virginia visits rival Virginia Tech with each team in need of a win to become bowl eligible
• College football Week 14: Longhorns-Aggies among the high-stakes rivalry games to end regular season
• SEC losses are big gains for SMU and Indiana in latest College Football Playoff rankings
• Court rejects request to sideline San Jose State volleyball player on grounds she’s transgender
• Kansas center Hunter Dickinson ejected for kicking Duke’s Maliq Brown in the head
• No. 2 Ohio State can earn Big Ten championship game rematch with Oregon by beating Michigan
• Big 12 goes into final weekend with four-way tie for 1st and both title game spots up for grabs
• Final week shows expanded Southeastern Conference just means more chaos
• Harper scores career-high 36 points, Rutgers beats Notre Dame 85-84 in OT at Players Era Festival
• Broome has 23 points and 19 rebounds as No. 4 Auburn tops No. 12 UNC 85-72 to reach Maui title game
• No. 1 Kansas holds off No. 11 Duke 75-72 after Dickinson ejected in the Vegas Showdown
• Gilbert and Jones help No. 5 Iowa State outlast Dayton 89-84 in Maui
• No. 16 South Carolina at No. 12 Clemson playing for potential CFP spot
• No. 22 Illinois tries to reach 9 wins for 1st time since 2007 when it meets Northwestern at Wrigley
• Revenge is on the mind of No. 2 Ohio State in the rivalry game against unranked Michigan
• Duke goes for for sweep of instate ACC foes with trip to Wake Forest
• No. 6 Georgia is looking to extend its 6-year winning streak in state rivalry with Georgia Tech
• South Carolina Gamecocks face the Virginia Tech Hokies
• Western Carolina faces Florida State