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Spartans Hand ECU Fifth Straight Loss
From AP Wire Reports with Staff Contributions
Box Score
GREENSBORO,
N.C. (AP) — Moussa Badiane, who sat out East Carolina's first six games,
made a meaningful contribution in his first regular season action, but the
Pirates gave an 8-point advantage to UNC-Greensboro at the foul line and
came up just short of breaking their losing streak.
ECU hit just
10 of 18 shots from the line for 56 percent, while UNC-G converted 18 of its
22 chances for 82 percent as the Spartans' David Schuck had 10 points and 10
rebounds to lead his team past the Pirates 56-54 on Wednesday night.
The win improves the Spartans to 4-1 on the season while
ECU, which dropped its fifth straight game after season opening victories
over Rutgers and Northwestern, fell to 2-5.
“This is the best we’ve played collectively this season,”
UNC-G coach Fran McCaffery said. “I thought we played with great intensity
and energy. If we hadn’t, we’d certainly get beat against a team like East
Carolina.”
Courtney
Eldridge scored 12 for the Spartans, hitting just 3 of 10 shots from the
field, but making 6 of 8 free throws.
ECU's Erroyl
Bing scored 14 and grabbed 15 rebounds, continuing his season-long string of
double-figure scoring efforts.
Jonathan
Moore and Badiane, a freshman from France, each scored 10 for the Pirates.
Badiane missed all three of his free-throw attempts.
The game marked
Badiane's first action after sitting out
ECU's first six games while awaiting an NCAA ruling concerning foreign
players who participated on club teams in their native countries. His
Argentine teammate, sophomore Gabriel Mikulas, is still on the sidelines
awaiting a ruling in his case.
Both teams
shot poorly from the field — 36 percent for the Pirates and 35 percent for
UNC-G. ECU out-rebounded the Spartans 45-28.
Box Score:
UNC-Greensboro 56, East Carolina 54
EAST CAROLINA
(2-5)
Moore 2-4 5-6
10, Bing 5-13 2-3 14, Howard 0-0 2-2 2, Brown 3-9 1-2 9, Holcomb-Faye 2-10
0-2 4, Primus 1-4 0-0 3, Hawkins 1-5 0-0 2, Boddie 0-2 0-0 0, Badiane 5-6
0-3 10. Totals 19-53 10-18 54.
UNC-GREENSBORO (4-1)
Schuck 4-8
2-3 10, Maye 2-5 4-4 9, Boythe 3-5 1-1 7, Eldridge 3-10 6-8 12, Joseph 3-9
0-0 8, Taylor 2-8 2-2 7, Johnson 0-3 3-4 3, Gross 0-0 0-0 0, Burrell 0-0 0-0
0, Popp 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 17-48 18-22 56.
Halftime —
UNC-Greensboro 33, E. Carolina 28.
3-Point goals
— E. Carolina 6-24 (Moore 1-2, Bing 2-5, Brown 2-6, Holcomb-Faye 0-3, Primus
1-3, Hawkins 0-4, Boddie 0-1); UNC-Greensboro 4-18 (Schuck 0-1, Maye 1-2,
Eldridge 0-3, Joseph 2-5, Taylor 1-4, Johnson 0-3).
Rebounds — E.
Carolina 45 (Bing 15); UNC-Greensboro 28 (Schuck 10).
Assists — E.
Carolina 9 (Bing, Boddie, Holcomb-Faye, Primus 2); UNC-Greensboro 10
(Eldridge 5).
Total fouls —
E. Carolina 19, UNC-Greensboro 17; Fouled out — Schuck.
A--1,539.
AP-NY-12-05-01 2248EST
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