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Memphis feasts on 'road kill' Pirates
From wire and staff reports
Box Score
MEMPHIS, TN — East
Carolina's shooting percentage at The Pyramid was abysmal, but it was
29% better than its still-running zero percent winning percentage in
Conference USA road games
Rodney Carney scored career-high 22 points Tuesday night
as Memphis built a double-digit lead early in the second half and was
never threatened in a 73-49 win over East Carolina.
The loss was ECU's 13th straight on the road since
becoming a basketball-playing member of C-USA last season.
Carney led a strong outside shooting attack for the
Tigers, who hit 11-of-28 shots from 3-point range. Jeremy Hunt added 15
for Memphis (13-5, 4-3 Conference USA) and Anthony Rice finished with
13. The outside shooting eventually cleared the lane for Chris Massie,
who leads the team in scoring, to finish with 10 points and 16 rebounds.
Memphis, which hit 14 three-pointers in its win Saturday
over Southern Mississippi, has won three of its last four.
The Pirates (11-9, 2-7) lost for the seventh time in
eight games and were hampered by a 29 percent shooting performance.
Gabriel Mikulas was the only East Carolina player in
double figures with 14 points. No other Pirates player had more than
six.
Memphis led 39-27 at the half. Seventeen of the Tigers'
32 first-half shots were from 3-point range as the Pirates were content
to use a zone defense, collapsing on Massie.
The active, hand-waving zone allowed Massie only two
shots in the first half.
Carney had 11 for Memphis in the half, while Rice added
10.
Mikulas led the Pirates with 10.
Carney added to his total in the first 12 minutes of the
second half, hitting nine points in an opening stretch as Memphis built
its lead to 56-35 with about eight minutes remaining.
East Carolina put together a run of eight points to cut
the lead to 13 with 3:30 remaining but could not get any closer.
The Pirates, ending a three-game road swing which
included earlier losses at Marquette and Tulane, finally return to their home court to host Southern Miss next Saturday
at 7 p.m..
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BOX
SCORE
Memphis (13-5, 4-3)
73, East Carolina (11-9, 2-7) 49
East Carolina (49)
Player FG
FT PTS
Bing
0-7 0-2 0
Mikulas 6-13
2-2 14
Badiane 3-6
0-0 6
Rivers
2-6 0-0 6
Holcomb-Faye 1-8 0-0
3
MacKay
1-6 2-2 5
Rouse
2-6 0-1 5
Boddie
0-0 0-0 0
Wiley
2-7 1-4 5
Moore
1-3 0-0 3
Twitty
0-0 0-0 0
Grindley 1-2
0-0 2
Totals
19-64 5-11 49
Memphis (73)
Player FG
FT PTS
Carney
8-15 2-2 22
Erwin
0-2 0-0 0
Massie
4-8 2-2 10
Burks
3-9 0-0 6
Rice
4-10 2-2 13
Wade
1-3 0-0 2
Hunt
4-8 3-5 15
Grice
1-6 0-0 2
Root
0-1 0-0 0
Diarra
1-1 1-2 3
Totals
26-63 10-13 73
Halftime: Memphis 39, E. Carolina
27.
3-point goals: East Carolina
6-15 (Rivers 2-4, Moore, 1-1, Rouse 1-2, Holcomb-Faye 1-2, MacKay
1-4, Mikulas 0-1, Wiley 0-1); Memphis 11-28 (Carney 4-8, Hunt 4-8,
Rice 3-8, Root 0-1, Grice 0-3).
Rebounds: East Carolina 43
(Bing 7), Memphis 40 (Massie 16).
Assists: East Carolina 12
(Holcomb-Faye 4), Memphis 20 (Burks 6).
Total fouls: East Caroline 16,
Memphis 14.
Fouled out: Badiane.
Technical fouls: None.
Attendance: 16,006. |
02/23/2007 10:56 AM
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