Pirates Win WBB Overtime Thriller Over UAB, 88-87… East Carolina Tops Baseball Preseason Coaches Poll…Pirates Open MBB American Conference Play Against Tulane on New Year’s Eve; Pirates Announce Mid-Year Addition Of Demitri Gardner…Navy football to face a Cincinnati team not at full strength in Liberty Bowl

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Bowl momentum elusive in modern era

ecupirates.com

• Pirates Win WBB Overtime Thriller Over UAB, 88-87
• Pirates Announce Mid-Year Addition Of Demitri Gardner
• East Carolina Tops Baseball Preseason Coaches Poll
• Pirates Open MBB American Conference Play Against Tulane on New Year’s Eve

ECU makes midseason addition with Augusta transfer Demitri Gardner WNCT 9

Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

• ECU women’s basketball: Rembert’s late OT heave lifts Pirates in league opener
• ECU roundup: Baseball picked to win conference, football updates
• ECU basketball: Temperature check ahead of American play

Tulane men’s hoops looking to rise up in down league as its opens American play at ECU NOLA.com

East Carolina hosts Tulane following Woods’ 21-point showing FOX Sports

Sporting News

• Why Mets fans think Juan Soto is leaving MLB to be a wide receivers coach at ECU 
• First-team All-Conference college football starter enters transfer portal

Fact Check: Are The East Carolina Pirates Hiring Juan Soto As Their Wide Receiver Coach? Total Pro Sports

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Conference

• East Carolina Named American Baseball Preseason Favorite
• Tulsa’s Green, North Texas’ Horton Earn Weekly Honors

Navy football to face a Cincinnati team not at full strength in Liberty Bowl  Annapolis Capital

Shocker baseball picked 8th in American Conference preseason poll KAKE

What to know about Charlotte 49ers basketball as American Conference play opens Charlotte Observer

USF receiver Keshaun Singleton entering transfer portal: report Tampa Bay Times

Memphis Commercial Appeal

• Memphis basketball vs North Texas channel, time, TV schedule, streaming
• Can Memphis start strong in league play vs. North Texas? Our prediction

Owls outlast 49ers for conference-opening win  Temple News

Tulane tabbed fourth in American Conference preseason baseball poll NOLA.com

Denton Record-Chronicle

• Game at Memphis to open league play will show how UNT stacks up in American
• UNT makes 5 football assistant hires official. Here’s who’s joined the staff and what they will do
• Rewind: Football’s run to bowl win highlighted 2025 as a landmark year in UNT athletics

San Antonio Express-News

• UTSA women hang on late for win against Tulane
• UTSA losing top receiver Devin McCuin to transfer portal

Tulsa World

• Tulsa women outlast Wichita State in American Conference opener
• TU hires former Georgia Southern standout BJ Johnson as wide receivers coach

AL.com

• Three New Year’s resolutions for UAB basketball
• UAB to hire Todd Grantham as next defensive coordinator

The 5 keys that could swing Wichita State’s American opener at UAB Wichita Eagle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

College football bowl game schedule: The entire postseason lineup through CFP USA Today

WRAL

• Wilson’s double-double helps No. 12 North Carolina beat Florida State 79-66 in ACC opener
• Mantha scores 2 goals to help the Penguins beat the Hurricanes 5-1
• Sun Bowl showdown: Duke’s Manny Diaz, Darian Mensah prepare for Arizona State
• Duke lands coveted point guard recruit Deron Rippey Jr. for 2026 class
• NC State legend Torry Holt a Pro Football Hall of Fame finalist for 7th time
• Rested or rusty? Top four playoff seeds eager to show they are ready as CFP quarterfinals arrive
• In the NBA, 2025 might go down as the year of the injured. Nikola Jokic joined that club at the end

Raleigh News & Observer

• What to know about Duke’s Sun Bowl matchup against Arizona State
• How Caleb Wilson stuffed the stat sheet as UNC rolled past FSU to open ACC play
• Anthony Mantha, Penguins flatten banged-up Hurricanes
• Top recruit Deron Rippey had Duke, NC State in his finalists. Here’s his choice
• NC State great Torry Holt among Pro Football Hall of Fame finalists — again

Charleston Post & Courier

• Bombs away! Charleston Southern leads the country in 3-pointers made
• Citadel falls to ETSU in SoCon opener
• 3-pointer shows up as Gamecocks bury Albany, conclude non-con schedule

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

• David Teel: Entering first clash of season, UVA, Virginia Tech winning despite injuries
• W&M’s Jalen Jones invited to American Bowl

The Associated Press

• NCAA tries to clarify NBA stance after Baylor’s addition of 2023 draft pick prompts criticism
• Role reversals: Alabama returns to the Rose Bowl as a CFP underdog to face powerhouse Indiana
• No. 3 Georgia is eager to make better Sugar Bowl memories while No. 6 Ole Miss eyes payback
• Seals and Payne rally TCU past No. 16 USC for 30-27 overtime victory in Alamo Bowl
• Illinois beats Tennessee in the Music City Bowl to keep Big Ten undefeated this bowl season
• From Obie to the Orange Bowl: Oregon line coach A’lique Terry is having a CFP homecoming
• Wilson’s double-double helps No. 12 North Carolina beat Florida State 79-66 in ACC opener
• Louisiana Tech scores 17 in 4th quarter, beats Coastal Carolina 23-14 to win Independence Bowl
• Warley’s 22 points and 14 rebounds help No. 7 Gonzaga beat San Diego 99-93
• Wooley scores season-high 21 points as No. 16 Louisville beats California 90-70
• No. 13 Nebraska pulls away in 2nd half against New Hampshire to go unbeaten in nonconference play