Felton’s Second Half Explosion Helps Fuel Pirates To 75-59 MBB Win At Charlotte…. Pirates Handle Charlotte WBB, 63-45… Bouche’s Walk Off Blast Lifts East Carolina To Series Win Over George Mason… Pirates Earn Split To Close Out Pirate Clash… Record-Breaking Pirates Find Success at Tiger Paw, Pre-Nationals

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Pirates pull away to 75-59 triumph at Charlotte

Bouche lifts ECU to series win with walk-off homer

ecupirates.com

• Felton’s Second Half Explosion Helps Fuel Pirates To 75-59 MBB Win At Charlotte
• Pirates Handle Charlotte WBB, 63-45
• Bouche’s Walk Off Blast Lifts East Carolina To Series Win Over George Mason
• Pirates Earn Split To Close Out Pirate Clash
• Record-Breaking Pirates Find Success at Tiger Paw, Pre-Nationals

RJ Felton scores 23 to guide East Carolina to 75-59 victory over Charlotte ABC News

East Carolina at Tulane odds, tips and betting trends – February 19 SportsbookWire

WNCT 9

• ECU baseball claims series win on walk-off homer …
• Pirates pick apart 49ers for road win in men’s hoops

College Baseball: ECU walks George Mason off 4-3 on Alex Bouche heroic-homer WITN 7

ECU wins opening weekend series in grand walk-off fashion over George Mason, 4-3 WCTI 12

247 Sports

• ECU rides blistering hot second half to double-digit road win at Charlotte
• Walk-off homer lifts ECU to series win over George Mason
• ECU 4, George Mason 3: How it looked from the dugouts

ECU baseball: Bouche’s walk-off home run sends Pirates to series win over George Mason Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• East Carolina, Tulane, Tulsa Earn Saturday MBB Wins
• Florida Atlantic, Tulane baseball Improve to 2-0 on Season
• Florida Atlantic, South Florida Increase SB Win Total to Nine

The Associated Press

• RJ Felton scores 23 to guide East Carolina to 75-59 victory over Charlotte
• Temple hosts Florida Atlantic in conference showdown
• Dainja leads No. 14 Memphis against Wichita State after 20-point game
• South Florida visits UAB following Lendeborg’s 22-point game
• Tulsa defeats UTSA 80-76

South Florida visits UAB following Lendeborg’s 22-point game Washington Post

Florida Atlantic vs. Temple odds, prediction, time: 2025 college basketball picks, Feb. 16 bets by top model CBS Sports

Wichita State hosts Rice after Anderson’s 21-point game KOB 4

Charlotte, Appalachian State’s 2025 Uptown season opener moved to Friday WSOC-TV

UTSA continues unbeaten run at home, surging past Memphis MSN

Memphis basketball left out of mock top 16 NCAA tournament bracket reveal Memphis Commercial Appeal

Tulane women’s basketball suffers defeat against motivated Temple squad NOLA.com

Pac-12 Hints at More Interest in Tulane and Other Top AAC School Sports Illustrated

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

WRAL

• Jayden Taylor scores 19 points to lead N.C. State’s 70-62 win over Boston College
• Tyrese Proctor scores 23 to lead No. 3 Duke over Stanford 106-70
• King’s 16 lead North Carolina Central over Coppin State 71-59
• Fans in Montreal loudly boo US anthem prior to Americans’ 4 Nations Face-Off game vs. Canada
• With tears flowing, Dale Earnhardt Jr. gets another shot at the Daytona 500 as a team owner

Parker Friedrichsen helps lead Wake Forest to big road win at SMU on Saturday night Winston Salem Journal

Raleigh News & Observer

• Duke breaks up SEC party as NCAA reveals early peek at top 16 seeds for March Madness
• An academic victory: Three takeaways from Duke basketball’s blowout win over Stanford
• One step forward: Three takeaways as NC State snaps losing skid with home win over BC
• North Carolina basketball weathers unexpected Syracuse test, thanks to Jae’Lyn Withers

Columbia The State

• South Carolina MBB overmatched vs. No. 3 Florida on the road. 3 observations
• As Gamecocks honor Ray Tanner, USC baseball dominates in win over Sacred Heart
• ‘Familiarity’ can help South Carolina women’s basketball against UConn, Dawn Staley says

Core of Virginia baseball’s roster fueled for 2025 by painful recent exits from Omaha Roanoke Times

The Associated Press

• Auburn, Alabama, Florida headline SEC’s haul in the NCAA selection committee’s early top-16 seeds
• No. 1 Auburn edges No. 2 Alabama in a showdown of top-ranked teams; a rematch is set for March 8
• Michigan State’s Tom Izzo passes Bob Knight for most Big Ten conference wins
• Madsen scores 24 and becomes Utah’s career 3-point leader in 74-67 win over No. 17 Kansas
• Johnson, Mark score season bests to lead Texas past No. 15 Kentucky 82-78
• Denzel Aberdeen and Thomas Haugh notch career highs as No. 3 Florida beats South Carolina 88-67
• Simpkins scores 32 as Elon knocks off UNC Wilmington 81-70
• Wake Forest jumps out early in the 2nd half and cruises past SMU 77-66
• Ian Jackson scores 23 with 5 3-pointers, North Carolina beats Syracuse 88-82
• Richmond takes down Fordham 70-66
• Holiman scores 24 as Georgia Southern knocks off Old Dominion 78-75
• Castro scores 20 as George Washington beats Davidson 74-67
• Banks scores 23, UNC Asheville holds off Charleston Southern 75-72
• Tyrese Proctor scores 23 to lead No. 3 Duke over Stanford 106-70
• Marcus Kell scores 18 to help Western Carolina hand The Citadel 17th straight loss, 76-73
• Jayden Taylor scores 19 points to lead N.C. State’s 70-62 win over Boston College
• Mark Freeman scores 23 as James Madison hands Coastal Carolina 12th straight loss, 74-73
• McKneely scores 22 points to lead Virginia to 73-70 win over Virgnia Tech
• Milos Uzan scores 19 as No. 6 Houston grinds out 62-58 win over No. 13 Arizona