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Regular season finale
slips away
Pirates to face Tulane
in opening round of tourney
From Electronic and Staff Reports
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All rights reserved.
Senior guard Jermaine
Taylor closed out his home career in heroic fashion on Senior Day,
scoring 36 points to power Central Florida to a 74-71 comeback win over
East Carolina Saturday night in Orlando.
Taylor's old-fashioned
three-point play with 28 seconds left put UCF ahead 72-71 and sealed the
deal on a remarkable second half turnaround by the Golden Knights.
Senior guard Sam Hinnant,
who led ECU with 22 points, was whistled for a charging foul with less
than 3 seconds left, short-circuiting the Pirates' strategy to play for
the final shot in the regular season finale for both of the Conference
USA teams.
East Carolina led 37-23 at
the half and extended its advantage to as much as 17 with 18:17 to play
before Taylor and the Knights seized the upper hand with a 38-17 run
over the next 12 minutes.
UCF, whch outscored the
Pirates 51-34 in the second half, traded momentum and leads with ECU as
the clock wound down until Taylor's pivotal three-point play in the
final minute.
Senior center Kenrick
Zondervan added 15 points and 8 rebounds for the Knights.
Senior guard James Legan
and sophomore wing Jamar
Abrams each scored 13 points for the Pirates.
With the win, Central
Florida (17-13, 7-9 C-USA) nailed down the No. 6 seed in the C-USA
Tournament in Memphis and will face 11th-seeded Southern Miss on
Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.
ECU goes into the tourney
as the ninth seed and will play No. 8 seed Tulane at 7 p.m.
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BOX SCORE
CENTRAL FLORIDA 74, EAST
CAROLINA 71
Date: Saturday, Mar. 7,
2009
Place: UCF Arena, Orlando, FL
Attendance: 4,788
Officials: Brent Hampton, Kevin Mathis, Mark Whitehead
Technical Fouls: None
SCORE BY PERIODS 1
2 FINAL
East Carolina........ 37 34 - 71
Central Florida...... 23 51 - 74
EAST CAROLINA (13-16, 5-11 C-USA)
PLAYER FG 3PT FT
R PTS MIN
Morrow............ f 2-2 0-0
3-4 4 7 12
Legan............. g 5-10 3-6 0-1
5 13 37
Hinnant........... g 8-12 6-9 0-0
0 22 36
Young............. g 2-8 0-1
2-2 6 6 34
Abrams............ g 3-8 1-5
6-6 4 13 38
Turner.............. 1-4 0-1
0-1 3 2 14
O'Brien............. 1-1 0-0
0-0 1 2 6
Wynn................ 3-4 0-0
0-0 0 6 23
TEAM................
7
TOTALS.............. 25-49 10-22 11-14 30 71
200
PERCENT............. 51.0 45.5 78.6
CENTRAL FLORIDA (17-13, 7-9 C-USA)
PLAYER FG 3PT FT
R PTS MIN
Zondervan......... f 5-6 0-0
5-7 8 15 31
Tyler............. f 1-7 1-4
0-0 4 3 28
Taylor............ g 12-31 5-14 7-8
8 36 38
Rompza............ g 0-4 0-0
0-0 1 0 17
Sosa.............. g 1-5 1-5
0-0 4 3 21
Weathers............ 2-4 0-0
0-0 2 4 17
Young............... 0-1 0-1
2-2 1 2 13
Baez................ 2-5 1-4
0-0 3 5 20
Gaynor.............. 3-4 0-0
0-0 3 6 13
Yotio............... 0-0 0-0
0-0 0 0 2
TEAM................
3
TOTALS.............. 26-67 8-28 14-17 37
74 200
PERCENT.............
38.8 28.6 82.4
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03/08/09 02:28 AM.
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