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ECU hoops mirror reflects Herd, Wave, Knights
©2005 Bonesville.net
Conference USA has further defined the
basketball schedule format approved earlier by league coaches with the
naming of the three teams that each member institution will meet on a home
and home basis.
C-USA teams will play each of the other 11
teams in the restructured league once in addition to a second game against
three designated "mirror" opponents for a total of 14 conference regular
season contests.
East Carolina, coming off of a 9-19 season
which led to the hiring of new Pirates coach Ricky Stokes in mid-March, will
play Marshall, Tulane and Central Florida twice during the 2005-06 regular
season.
Marshall and Central Florida became C-USA
members earlier this month. The Thundering Herd program is guided by former
Georgia coach Ron Jirsa, whose Bulldogs managed a controversial 55-54 win in
Greenville on Dec. 13, 1997. Marshall was 6-22 last season.
Tulane ended the Bill Herrion coaching era at
ECU last season with a 77-71 win over the Pirates in New Orleans. The Green
Wave finished 10-18 in 2004-05 and brought in former Maryland assistant Dave
Dickerson to take over the program.
Central Florida offers the Pirates a winter
trip to Orlando against a team that will be seeking its third straight NCAA
Tournament bid. The Golden Knights coached by Kirk Speraw lost three seniors
from a 24-9 club.
The complete list of league home and home
opponents for each C-USA team:
East Carolina: Marshall, Tulane, Central
Florida.
Houston: Rice, Central Florida, Texas-El Paso.
Marshall: East Carolina, UAB, Central Florida.
Memphis: Southern Miss, Tulsa, UAB.
Rice: Houston, Southern Methodist, Tulane.
SMU: Rice, Tulsa, UTEP.
Southern Miss: Memphis, Tulane, UAB.
Tulane: ECU, Rice, Southern Miss.
Tulsa: Memphis, SMU, UTEP.
UAB: Marshall, Memphis, Southern Miss.
UCF: ECU, Houston, Marshall.
UTEP: Houston, SMU, Tulsa.
Page updated
02/23/2007 12:33 AM.
From staff reports and a Conference USA news
release. Bonesville.net writer Al Myatt compiled this story.
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