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Red-hot DePaul Thumps Ice-cold Pirates
From Associated Press Dispatches with Staff Contributions
JUMP
TO BOX SCORE
GREENVILLE — Turnovers were plentiful and three-point
buckets were scarce for first-year Conference USA member East Carolina
Wednesday night.
ECU (7-11, 1-5) shot 38 percent for the game, including
2-of-18 from 3-point range, and recorded 21 turnovers as DePaul dominated
both ends of the court to cruise to an 80-58 win in the first-ever match-up
between the schools.
With the conference loss, their second in a row since a
January 16 upset win over Louisville, the Pirates flubbed a chance to
move closer to securing a conference tournament berth at the end of the
regular season.
DePaul (8-9, 1-5), which played one of its better games of
the season, shot 60 percent from the floor and got 21 points from Andre
Brown and 20 from Imari Sawyer.
The victory was the Blue Demons' first conference win of the
season, moving them into a 6th-place tie with the Pirates in the league's
American Division. Only 12 of the teams in C-USA's two seven-team divisions
will gain entry into the tourney.
DePaul shot a season-best 10 of 20 from 3-point range,
including a 4-for-4 effort from Sawyer.
Gabriel Mikulas scored 19 points and Kenyatta Brown added 15
to lead East Carolina.
DePaul led by as many as 17 in the first half as the Blue
Demons shot 62 percent (18-of-29) and took a 43-28 into halftime.
East Carolina got to within nine points about 6 minutes into
the second half but would get no closer. The Blue Demons closed the game on
a 10-2 run.
DePaul played the game without head coach Pat Kennedy, who
remained in Chicago due to a bad back. Assistant coach Tracy Dildy ran the
club in his absence.
Box Score
DEPAUL 80,
EAST CAROLINA
58
DEPAUL
(8-9)
Brown 10-11 1-3 21, Hoskin 4-8 1-1 10, Burno 0-0 0-0 0,
London 3-6 0-0 7, Diener 1-4 0-0 3, Brooks 0-0 0-0 0, Tulley 1-4 0-0 3,
Sawyer 6-7 4-4 20, Greer 2-4 0-0 6, Williams 5-9 0-0 10. Totals 32-53 6-8
80.
EAST CAROLINA
(7-11)
Badiane 3-4 0-0 6, Bing 2-6 2-4 7, Mikulas 6-11 7-7 19,
Brown 4-13 6-6 15, Holcomb-Faye 3-7 1-2 7, Primus 0-0 0-0 0, Foxx 1-3 0-0 2,
Hawkins 0-1 0-0 0, Boddie 0-0 0-0 0, Moore 1-8 0-1 2. Totals 20-53 16-20 58.
Halftime:
DePaul 43, East Carolina 28.
3-Point Goals:
DePaul: 10-20 (Sawyer 4-4, Greer 2-4, Hoskin 1-2, London 1-3, Tulley
1-3, Diener 1-4)
East Carolina: 2-18 (Bing 1-4, Brown 1-5, Holcomb-Faye 0-1, Foxx 0-1,
Hawkins 0-1, Moore 0-6).
Rebounds: DePaul 28
(Williams 9); East Carolina 31 (Bing 10).
Assists:
DePaul 20 (Londo, Sawyer 5); East Carolina 7 (Foxx, Moore 2).
Total Fouls: DePaul 18,
East Carolina 11.
Fouled Out:
None.
Attendance:
5,106.
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02/23/2007 10:59:30 AM
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