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2nd half fade scuttles
Pirates again
By The Associated Press
FORT WORTH — Marcus
Shropshire scored 19 points as Texas Christian recovered from a halftime
deficit and snapped a four-game losing streak with a 71-59 win over East
Carolina on Saturday.
Nile Murry added 17 points
for TCU (14-9, 4-5 Conference USA), which improved to 11-2 at home.
The Horned Frogs trailed
by two after a low-scoring first half, 28-26, but scored 45 points on 54
percent shooting in the second half.
Mike Cook led East
Carolina (7-15, 2-8) with 12 points and Corey Rouse pulled down 13
rebounds.
The Pirates, who fell to
0-9 on the road, shot just 35 percent from the floor.
The game marked the eighth
time this season TCU has held an opponent under 60 points.
Coming off a loss earlier
in the week at Memphis, it was ECU's second defeat in a row after
putting together back-to-back wins last week, both at home, over Saint
Louis and Charlotte.
The loss to the Horned
Frogs also marked the second straight game in which the Pirates saw a
halftime lead vanish. On Wednesday night, ECU led Memphis 33-28 at
intermission only to fall by the wayside in the second half as the
Tigers spurted to a 72-55 win.
ECU coach Bill Herrion
pointed to the second half deficiencies in postgame remarks aired over
the Pirate Sports Radio Network.
"What we have really
struggled with is doing things for 40 minutes," he said. "We just
haven't been able to sustain it."
Alluding to the team's
youth and relative inexperience, Herrion indicated he sees the potential
for some positive results over the last six games of the regular season.
"I think this team is
close," he said. "I think we've still got games we can win."
East Carolina will have a
week to prepare for its next game, which will be at home against
Marquette on Saturday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m.
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BOX
SCORE TEXAS CHRISTIAN
71, EAST CAROLINA 59
Records: ECU 7-15, 2-8; TCU
14-9, 4-5.
Halftime: East Carolina 28-26.
EAST CAROLINA
Name FG FT
Pts
Rouse 2-10
2-2 6
Badiane 3-8
1-3 7
McNeil 4-7
0-0 9
Hammonds 1-6
3-4 5
Cook 3-12
4-4 12
Kilgore 3-7
4-6 11
Gagnon 1-1
0-0 3
King 1-3
0-0 3
Hart 0-0
0-0 0
Castro 1-1
1-3 3
O'Neil 0-0
0-0 0
Totals 19-55 15-22
59
TEXAS CHRISTIAN
Name FG FT
Pts
Sloan 1-1
0-0 2
Ibikunle 2-3
1-4 5
Santee 2-10
1-4 7
Murry 5-6
5-6 17
Shropshire 6-11 4-4
19
Hackett 2-5
0-0 4
Owens 0-1
0-0 0
Dougherty 0-0
0-0 0
Stubbs 3-5
3-6 9
Markley 0-0
0-0 0
Pierce 0-1
0-0 0
Curtis 2-6
4-5 8
Totals 23-49 18-29
71
3-Point goals: East
Carolina 6-15 (Cook 2-3, Gagnon 1-1, King 1-3, McNeil 1-3,
Kilgore 1-4, Hammonds Jr. 0-1); Texas Christian 7-16 (Shropshire
3-5, Murry 2-2, Santee 2-5, Hackett 0-1, Stubbs 0-1, Curtis
0-2).
Fouled out: Kilgore,
McNeil.
Rebounds: East Carolina 35
(Rouse 13); Texas Christian 36 (Ibikunle 9).
Assists: East Carolina 15
(Cook 4); Texas Christian 14 (Santee 5).
Total fouls: East Carolina
24, Texas Christian 20.
Technical fouls: None.
Attendance: 3,843.
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