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GREG VACEK'S WEB ROUNDUPWednesday, February 5, 2025

February 5, 2025 By Greg Vacek Leave a Comment

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

ecupirates.com

  • Pirates Finish 11th To Conclude FAU Paradise Invitational
  • Pirates Set To Challenge Rice On Wednesday Night
  • Pirates Travel to UAB Wednesday Evening
  • 2025 Season Tickets And Renewals On Sale
  • Swimming & Diving Named Scholar All-America Team

The Associated Press

  • East Carolina hosts Rice after Walker’s 33-point game
  • Hutton and East Carolina host UAB

President of Daytona International Speedway visits ECU ahead of Daytona 500 YAHOO!

ECU back in the hunt for another football general manager 247 Sports

BYU’s 2025 Big 12 schedule isn’t optimal, but sets Cougars up for another successful season Deseret News

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

  • FIU, Rice, Tulane Earn Swimming and Diving Weekly Honors
  • Three American Players Named to Oscar Robertson Trophy Midseason Watch List
  • South Florida, Tulane, Wichita State Earn Indoor Track Honors
  • UAB’s Malige Takes Men’s Tennis Player Of The Week Honors
  • Wichita State’s Wang Named Women’s Tennis Player Of The Week
  • UAB Moves into Second Place with Win over North Texas
  • Jenkins, Puisis Named to Ann Meyers Drysdale Player of the Year Watchlist
  • South Florida, Tulane Earn Weekly Women’s Hoops Honors
  • UAB’s Lendeborg, Temple’s Mashburn, Florida Atlantic’s Vokietaitis Earn Weekly Honors

The Associated Press

  • Temple hosts Welch and Memphis
  • Mashburn leads Temple against South Florida after 32-point game
  • Haggerty and No. 17 Memphis host Tulsa
  • Tulane visits UTSA after Horton’s 23-point showing
  • Charlotte hosts Hill and Tulsa

Temple’s Jamal Mashburn cracks midseason watch list for college basketball’s Robertson Award The Philadelphia Inquirer

Sports Illustrated

  • Tulane Green Wave Rising Basketball Star Claims Another Weekly Award
  • Pac-12 expansion candidates: South Florida Bulls
  • Former Tulane Green Wave Football Star Makes Top 100 Transfer List
  • Army West Point Black Knights Football Team Announces Date for Major Big 12 Matchup
  • Michigan Football: Biff Poggi’s role with the Wolverines in 2025 is revealed

How close are we to a summer signing period for college football?  Tampa Tribune

Memphis athletics ticket sales rose in 2023-24, reversing post-pandemic trend Memphis Commercial Appeal

As TU football moves into NIL era, what resources do other sports need to compete? Tulsa World

Far from satisfied: Rowan Brumbaugh, Tulane men’s hoops looking for even better second half NOLA.com

Eric Morris high on class heading into signing day but is group enough to elevate UNT? Denton Record Chronicle

UTSA women show defensive grit in win against North Texas San Antonio Express News

FAU to pick new president, with salary and benefits possibly topping $1 million Florida Sun Sentinel

UAB gets big conference win over North Texas behind frontcourt duo AL.com

Wichita Eagle

  • Shorthanded Shockers pick up first road AAC win to sweep Charlotte: 3 takeaways
  • Wichita State basketball wins at Charlotte without 2 starters. When will they return?
  • How freshman point guard Zion Pipkin sparked the Shockers to a road win at Charlotte

Biff Poggi Returns to Michigan Wolverines As Associate Head Coach MSN

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

  • More than Travis Kelce’s backup. Why former Duke TE Noah Gray is so important to Chiefs
  • Why just UNC football? Basketball coach Hubert Davis wants a general manager, too
  • Can UNC basketball salvage a season gone awry? Coach Hubert Davis, players think so
  • Eric Comrie, streaking Jets shut out Hurricanes
  • With Leonard Hamilton’s retirement, ACC’s basketball coaching brain drain complete

WRAL

  • Comrie nets shutout, Jets beat Hurricanes 3-0 for seventh straight win
  • Holliday: Historic 20-0 ACC season in sights for Duke after crushing win over UNC
  • Aziaha James goes for career-best 36 points to help No. 14 NC State beat No. 10 Duke
  • Hubert Davis pledges to expand staff, change UNC basketball operations

In Charlotte, there’s an HBCU conference head whose pioneering legacy is hard to overstate Charlotte Observer

Columbia The State

  • Williams-Brice renovations could include cool upgrade for student section. What we know
  • ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ locks in new date for South Carolina, this time for UConn clash
  • One question looms for USC slugger Ethan Petry in 2025. The answer doesn’t really matter

Charleston Post & Courier

  • Gamecocks’ Ethan Petry ready to buck team projections, lead USC to Omaha
  • Hamilton: Dick Vitale’s return is good for him, great for us
  • Clemson hopes ESM can supercharge its NIL deals. Here’s what the Greenville agency has done so far.
  • Another year, another Clemson home loss to Georgia Tech in multiple overtimes

ODU men look to get out of home court slump  WAVY

The Associated Press

  • Indiana’s Mike Woodson says ‘we’re just not a tough team right now’ after 4th straight loss
  • No. 12 St. John’s passes 1st test of big week with victory over No. 11 Marquette
  • Northwestern uses Martinelli’s last second heroics to stave off USC 77-75
  • UCLA edges No. 9 Michigan State 63-61 on Dailey’s basket with 7 seconds left
  • Williams and High Point host Radford
  • Blacksher and Cal host NC State
  • Knueppel and No. 2 Duke host Syracuse
  • Big 12 will kick off 30th football season in Ireland, and has only 2 weeks when all 16 teams play
  • Tuesday’s college football: CB says he may get ‘hundreds of thousands’ if eligible at Wisconsin

 

Nuggets and Briefs:  National and Professional articles of interest

The Associated Press

  • More than a third of Black NFL players surveyed by the AP are discouraged by a lack of Black coaches
  • The Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics are 1 year away. One venue remains uncertain
  • The Chiefs show a knack for turning coin-flip games into wins
  • Luka Doncic is excited to join the Lakers after the shock of his stunning trade away from Dallas
  • When will Luka Doncic debut with the Lakers? Soon, but not before his calf strain is totally healed
  • US national anthem booed before NBA, NHL games in Canada despite tariff pause
  • NFL referees union calls allegations of bias toward the Chiefs ‘insulting’
  • Not 1. Not 2. But 3 women’s hoop leagues? Athletes Unlimited and Unrivaled WNBA offseason options
  • Vonn and Shiffrin among athletes to look out for on the road to 2026 Winter Olympics
  • Trump to sign executive order barring transgender female athletes from competing
  • Simons scores 22 and Portland downs Indiana 112-89 for 5th straight win
  • LeBron scores 26, and the Lakers thrash the Clippers 122-97 with Luka Doncic watching on the bench
  • Late 3s by Johnson and Russell give the Nets a 99-97 win over the Rockets
  • Josh Giddey, Matas Buzelis score 24 to lead the Bulls over the Heat 133-124
  • Anaheim goaltender John Gibson not ready to reminisce after reaching 500 NHL games
  • Armia scores short-handed tiebreaking goal late in 3rd as Canadiens beat Sharks 4-3
  • Patrick Kane scores in SO as Red Wings beat Kraken 5-4 for 7th straight win
  • Zegras scores, Gibson gets win in 500th NHL start as Ducks snap Stars’ 5-game win streak 2-1

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