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No. 21 Tigers dodge ECU
upset bid
From electronic and staff reports
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Freshman guard Chris
Crawford's steal with 2.5 seconds left short-circuited East Carolina's
attempt to set up for a tying 3-pointer and preserved a 61-58 Conference
USA victory for Memphis on Saturday at FedExForum.
A second half comeback
put the Pirates (8-7, 0-1 C-USA) in position to joust for a monumental
upset until Crawford's theft cut off ECU's chances to gain its
first-ever win over the Tigers (12-3, 1-0).
Junior forward Darrius
Morrow scored a game-high 17 points, senior forward forward Jamar Abrams
had 15 and senior guard Brock Young added 10 for East Carolina.
Freshman forward Tarik
Black with 12 points and senior forward Will Coleman with 11 were the
only players in double figures for Memphis.
The Tigers led 33-21 at
the half but saw their chances for a rout melt away in the second frame.
The Pirates used a barrage of three-pointers to rally, then applied a
sticky defense to prevent the nation's 21st-ranked team from scoring a
field goal in the game's final five minutes-plus.
A pair of free throws and
a 3-pointer in a 53-second span by East Carolina senior guard Brock
Young knotted the score at 49-49 with 7:59 left, setting the stage for a
battle for momentum down the stretch.
The teams were tied on
three subsequent occasions and the Pirates twice managed brief one-point
leads until junior forward Wesley Witherspoon nailed a pair of free
throws to put Memphis ahead for good 58-56.
East Carolina continues its
C-USA campaign on Wednesday when it hosts UAB at 7 p.m. The
matchup will mark the Pirates'
first home game in over a month.
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BOX SCORE
MEMPHIS 61, EAST CAROLINA
58
Date: Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011.
Place: FedExForum, Memphis, TN.
Attendance: 16,058.
Records: ECU 8-7 (1-0 C-USA); Memphis 12-3 (1-0).
SCORE BY PERIODS 1
2 FINAL
East Carolina 21
37 - 58
Memphis
33 28 - 61
EAST CAROLINA PIRATES (8-7, 1-0
C-USA)
# PLAYER FG 3PT FT
R PTS MIN
01 Darrius Morrow...... f 5-10 0-0 7-11
8 17 33
21 Jamar Abrams........ f 5-11 2-6
3-4 5 15 29
11 Corvonn Gaines...... g 2-4 2-4
2-5 0 8 38
23 Erin Straughn....... g 0-5 0-3
0-0 7 0 33
24 Jontae Sherrod...... g 3-7 2-3
0-0 3 8 15
10 Brock Young........... 3-9 2-5
2-2 4 10 28
12 Robert Sampson........ 0-0 0-0
0-0 1 0 7
30 Wakefield Ellison..... 0-0 0-0
0-0 0 0 5
33 Chad Wynn............. 0-1 0-0
0-0 1 0 4
35 Darius Morales........ 0-0 0-0
0-0 0 0 4
42 Daquan Joyner......... 0-1 0-0
0-0 0 0 4
TEAM.....................
2
TOTALS................... 18-48 8-21 14-22 31 58 200
PERCENT.................. 37.5 38.1 63.6
MEMPHIS TIGERS (12-3, 1-0 C-USA)
# PLAYER FG 3PT FT
R PTS MIN
00 Will Coleman........ f 2-2 0-0
7-12 3 11 20
01 Joe Jackson......... f 2-6 0-1
2-4 0 6 18
30 D.J. Stephens....... f 0-2 0-0
1-2 4 1 16
03 Chris Crawford...... g 3-7 0-2
0-0 0 6 25
05 Will Barton......... g 2-6 1-4
1-2 2 6 21
02 Antonio Barton........ 2-6 1-3
1-2 4 6 29
04 Charles Carmouche..... 1-3 0-0
0-0 2 2 14
10 Tarik Black........... 4-5 0-0
4-5 7 12 18
11 Wesley Witherspoon.... 3-8 0-1
2-3 4 8 22
12 Drew Barham........... 1-4 0-2
1-2 5 3 17
TEAM.....................
5
TOTALS................... 20-49 2-13 19-32 36 61 200
PERCENT.................. 40.8 15.4 59.4
Officials: Duke Edsall, Don
Daily, Brent Dugas.
Technical Fouls: None.
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01/09/11 10:00 AM.
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