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East Carolina's C-USA
road woes continue
From staff and wire reports
Box Score
CHICAGO — DePaul's accuracy from the field left plenty
to be desired in its Conference USA game with East Carolina Saturday.
But the Blue Demons looked like marksmen compared to their
frigid-shooting visitors.
On a day when DePaul's 38 percent shooting margin from
the field was good enough to win, Marlon Brooks' 11 points were enough
to lead the Blue Demons to a surprisingly easy 55-42 victory over the
Pirates.
Brooks came off the bench to hit three of five shots from the field and
was a perfect 4-for-4 from the free-throw line.
"This was my best game this season," Brooks said.
As cold as they were from the field, the Blue Demons (10-4, 2-1) made
good use of the charity stripe, connecting on 19 of 24 shots overall,
including 14 of 17 in the last 12:55 to clinch the game.
ECU (10-5, 1-3) shot less than 31 percent from the field for the game.
The Pirates didn't hit a shot from the field in the last 7:14 of the
game. This was after hitting their last shot from the field in the first
half with 9:01 remaining.
In that first-half stretch, East Carolina had 10 possessions, including
one five-shot possession, and attempted 16 shots.
Gabriel Mikulus led the Pirates with 15 points.
"We just didn't put the ball in the basket. We had a lot of
opportunities around the basket all night. We just didn't put the ball
in the hole," East Carolina head coach Bill Herrion said.
The victory gives DePaul one more win than they had all of last season.
It also gives the Blue Demons two victories in the their first three
conference games, matching their conference victory total from last
season in 16 conference games.
ECU's record of futility on the road in Conference USA
dropped to 0-10 since it became a basketball playing member of the
league last season.
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BOX
SCORE
DePaul (10-4, 2-1
C-USA) 55, East Carolina (10-5, 1-3) 42
East Carolina (42)
Player FG
FT PTS
Bing 0-6
1-2 1
Mikulas 7-11
1-1 15
Badiane 3-8
2-4 8
Wiley 5-13
3-4 14
Holcomb-Faye 1-9 0-0
3
Rivers 0-3
0-0 0
Mackay 0-2
1-2 1
Totals 16-52
8-13 42
DePaul (55)
Player FG
FT PTS
Brown 2-7
2-5 6
Greer 2-7
4-4 9
Hoskins 3-8
2-2 8
Seals 2-4
0-0 5
Diener 3-6
1-2 8
London 0-1
4-4 4
Brooks 3-5
4-4 11
Holland 1-3
2-3 4
Tulley 0-1
0-0 0
Totals 16-42
19-24 55
Halftime: DePaul 26; East Carolina
18.
3-point goals: East Carolina
2-13 (Bing 0-2, Wiley 1-3, Holcomb-Faye 1-3, Rivers 0-3, Mackay
0-2); DePaul 4-9 (Greer 1-2, Hoskins 0-2, Seals 1-1, Diener 1-2,
Brooks 1-1, Tulley 0-1).
Rebounds: East Carolina 33
(Bing 10); DePaul 33 (Brown 12).
Assists: East Carolina 13
(Holcomb-Faye 9); DePaul 10 (Greer, Diener, Holland 2).
Total fouls: East Carolina 18;
DePaul 14.
Fouled out: Johnson.
Technical fouls: None.
Attendance: 4,796. |
02/23/2007 10:56 AM
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Bonesville.net contributed to this report.
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