Pirates Return Home for Florida Atlantic WBB Bout on Tuesday… Fauntleroy Earns American WBB Player of the Week Nod… Pirate Baseball Travels to Campbell Tuesday, Hosts NIU Wednesday… Report: ECU intends to hire Miami’s Devontay Love-Taylor as general manager

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

ecupirates.com

• Pirates Return Home for Florida Atlantic WBB Bout on Tuesday
• Fauntleroy Earns American WBB Player of the Week Nod
• Pirate Baseball Travels to Campbell Tuesday, Hosts NIU Wednesday

Giles leads Wichita State against East Carolina The Associated Press

On3

• Report: ECU intends to hire Miami’s Devontay Love-Taylor as general manager
• This week in UNC baseball: The grind begins, ECU looms

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Conference

• Charlotte Sweeps Softball Weekly Honors
• James Madison, Temple, Vanderbilt Earn Weekly LAX Honors
• East Carolina’s Fauntleroy, Tulane’s Marshall Earn Weekly Women’s Basketball Honors
• UAB’s Miller, Wichita State’s Jones Earn Baseball Weekly Honors
• South Florida’s Enis, Florida Atlantic’s Parker Earn MBB Weekly Honors

USF roundup: Baseball and softball rally, women’s hoops faces big challenge Green, Gold, and Bold

Memphis Commercial Appeal

•  Tigers’ mindset ahead of stretch drive: ‘Time to put up or shut up’
•  What Penny Hardaway’s future looks like, other burning questions from fans

Dominant pitching keyed Tulane’s series-opening win at Loyola Marymount NOLA.com

Megan Nestor will take aim at North Texas single-season record for rebounds on Tuesday Denton Record-Chronicle

Tulsa softball: Golden Hurricane look for rebound weekend in Texas Tulsa World

UAB basketball suffers more adversity in home loss to Tulane  AL.com

Charlotte visits Tulsa following Riley’s 21-point performance The Associated Press

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• Triangle women’s hoops roll call: Officiating controversy headlines the weekend
• Duke basketball hammers Syracuse. Observations from the latest Blue Devils win
• Hurricanes goalie, once a waiver-wire castoff, cements future with new contract
• Duke-Michigan men’s basketball now a matchup of top-3 AP Top 25 teams

WRAL

• Lenovo Center’s new View Bar to open for NC State-UNC game
• No. 3 Duke routs Syracuse 101-64, shifts focus to weekend showdown versus No. 1 Michigan
• ‘I know what I saw’: Scheyer responds to claim Duke staffer wasn’t assaulted during UNC court storm
• UNC to keep Smith, Williams names on any future basketball arena, court
• UNC AD: ‘We dropped the ball’ on future of Dean Dome conversations

Charleston Post & Courier

• Lack of offense, coach’s comments linger after first Gamecock baseball weekend
• Gamecocks make final cut for defensive end out of Raleigh; Tigers make inroads with lineman
• Here and back again: Gamecocks add former QB to coaching staff

The Associated Press

• Geno Auriemma ties Tara VanDerveer for most AP Top 25 appearances as UConn stays No. 1
• Michigan rises to No. 1 in AP Top 25 men’s hoops poll for 1st time since January 2013
• No. 1 Michigan’s weekend tussle with No. 3 Duke stands out on AP Top 25 schedule
• No. 3 Duke routs Syracuse 101-64, shifts focus to weekend showdown versus No. 1 Michigan
• Heisman winner and national champion QB Fernando Mendoza shifting to NFL mindset