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Tourney over for Pirates
From Electronic and Staff Reports
©2008 Bonesville.net
All rights reserved.
Any hopes East Carolina
had of finally advancing past the opening round of the Conference USA
Tournament faded away in the long shadow cast over the court at the
FedEx Forum by Tulsa seven-footer Jerome Jordan.
A sophomore from Kingston,
Jamaica, Jordan scored 18 points and dominated the action around the
basket with 14 rebounds and 8 blocked shots as the 7th-seeded Golden
Hurricane soundly defeated the 10th-seeded Pirates 66-49 Wednesday in
the 2008 tournament's first game.
Jordan's dominating
performance in the middle helped Tulsa control the rebounding battle
46-29 and hold the Pirates to 28 percent shooting.
Sophomore guard Ben Uzoh
scored 15 points for the Golden Hurricane.
Senior guard Cory Farmer
had 15 points and sophomore forward Gabe Blair added 10 points and 9
rebounds for East Carolina.
The game's outcome
extended the Pirates' perfect record of futility in the conference's
climactic event. Since entering the league in 2001-02, East Carolina has
not won a tournament game.
Tulsa advanced to a
quarterfinal matchup today at 1:00 p.m. (TV: CSS) against No. 2 seed UAB.
The Blazers, top seed Memphis, No. 3 Houston and 4th-seeded Central
Florida had byes on the tourney's first day.
In other C-USA Tournament
action:
--- No. 6 Texas-El Paso
routed No. 11 Southern Methodist 77-49 and will face Houston at 3:30
p.m. (TV: CSS).
--- In a mild upset, No. 9
Tulane nipped No. 8 Marshall 48-47 and will face host Memphis at 7 p.m.
(TV: CSTV and CSS).
--- No. 5 Southern
Mississippi defeated bottom seed Rice 59-50 and will challenge UCF at
9:30 p.m. (CSS).
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BOX SCORE
CONFERENCE USA TOURNAMENT
(7) TULSA 66, (10) EAST CAROLINA 49
Date: Wednesday, Mar. 12,
2008.
Site: FedEx Forum, Memphis, TN.
Attendance: 10,954.
Officials: Ted Hillary, John Higgins, Gerry Pollard.
Technical Fouls: None.
SCORE BY PERIODS 1
2 FINAL
East Carolina 23 26
- 49
Tulane
28 38 - 66
EAST CAROLINA (11-19)
PLAYER FG 3PT FT
R PTS MIN
Fields f............. 2-10 0-0 4-9
5 8 31
Blair f.............. 4-8 0-0 2-3
9 10 30
Farmer g............. 5-12 2-6 3-4
4 15 34
Hinnant g............ 0-6 0-5 0-0
2 0 31
Jenkins g............ 2-8 1-3 0-0
1 5 28
Legan................ 1-5 1-3 0-0
1 3 13
Young................ 2-6 1-1 0-0
2 5 14
Gagnon............... 0-1 0-1 0-0
0 0 4
Abrams............... 1-1 1-1 0-0
2 3 11
Wynn................. 0-3 0-0 0-0
1 0 4
TEAM.................
2
TOTALS...............17-60 6-20 9-16 29
49 200
PERCENT.............. .283 .300 .563
TULSA (18-12)
PLAYER FG 3PT FT
R PTS MIN
Walls f.............. 3-9 0-0 2-2
4 8 25
Reese f.............. 2-4 0-1 1-1
2 5 23
Jordan c............. 6-11 0-0 6-8
14 18 28
Uzoh g............... 6-10 1-2 2-3
8 15 29
McDade g............. 2-8 2-3 0-0
3 6 26
Kieval............... 0-0 0-0 0-0
0 0 1
Wheatley............. 1-2 0-0 0-0
4 2 17
Andrews.............. 1-3 0-2 0-0
2 2 16
Earls................ 3-6 1-3 0-0
4 7 26
Mitchell............. 1-1 0-0 1-2
3 3 9
TEAM.................
2
TOTALS...............25-54 4-11 12-16 46
66 200
PERCENT..............
.463 .364 .750
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03/13/08 02:43 AM.
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