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News Nuggets, 10.19.03
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10.11.03: Frogs
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After festively tipping its 2003-04
basketball season with a Midnight Madness event the night before, East
Carolina conducted its first full-scale practice Saturday morning.
During an offensive drill, sophomore guard
Belton Rivers suffered a concussion when he ran into a pick and is expected
to be sidelined for a few days.
The Pirates will play their first preseason
exhibition on Nov. 6, hosting the World Young Stars. Campbell will visit ECU
on Nov. 22 to open the regular season.
Read
a more detailed account, including
quotes from Pirates head coach Bill Herrion, on ECUPirates.com.
Conference USA weekend football roundup
No. 16 Texas Christian stayed unbeaten
Saturday night, but it wasn't easy.
With the first BCS standings coming out
Monday, the Horned Frogs (7-0, 4-0 Conference USA) had one last chance to
prove they should start out in the upper tier. Instead, they were pushed to
the limit before pulling out a 27-24 victory.
Lonta Hobbs ran for two touchdowns and Nick
Browne kicked four field goals, but those were the only points TCU could
muster out of nine drives that started within 60 yards of the end zone.
In other games involving C-USA teams:
— At Michie Stadium, East Carolina (1-6,
1-2) held off a late charge by still-winless Army (0-7, 0-5) to earn John
Thompson his first win since taking over as the Pirates head coach.
— Memphis (4-3, 1-2) went on the road and
laid a 45-14 shocker on heavily favored Houston (5-2, 2-1).
— South Florida (4-2) raced to a 55-7 rout
of visiting I-AA opponent Charleston Southern (1-6).
— In a Friday night ESPN game, host
Louisville (6-1, 2-1) pulled away to a 47-28 win over Tulane (3-4, 1-3).
Tulsa trustees sign off on move to C-USA
The University of Tulsa's CEO has indicated
that his school is taking official steps towards joining Rice and Southern
Methodist in a move to Conference USA from the Western Athletic Conference.
Tulsa president Bob Lawless said in a
statement that the school's Board of Trustees "has authorized this proposed
change in conference membership. We anticipate having a formal announcement
with Conference USA regarding its membership realignment in the near
future."
Rice University president Malcolm Gillis
and C-USA commissioner Britton Banowsky had both issued statements Friday
acknowledging that such a deal was in the works.
TCU
basketball posts help wanted notice
Neil Dougherty, Texas Christian's
second-year head basketball coach, is looking for a few more good men
willing to work for free.
The Horned Frogs plan hold tryouts for
walk-ons at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 23, at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum, according
to an announcement posted on the TCU athletic department's website.
Interested students must pick up a health
packet at the basketball office, fill it out and return the packet by
Wednesday, Oct. 22.
During Dougherty's inaugural season at the
helm of the program, TCU was 9-19 overall and finished 3-13 in Conference
USA.
New ACC alignment separates Wolfpack
and Heels
The Atlantic Coast Conference will divide
into two six-team football divisions when Boston College joins league play.
Based on a scheduling formula devised by
the conference's leaders, each team will play its division opponents, a
primary rival in the opposite division and two cross-divisional games
against rotating opponents.
The split places Sunshine State powers Florida State and Miami in separate
divisions and also pairs Duke and North Carolina in an alignment opposite
N.C. State and Wake Forest.
Virginia and Virginia Tech will be in the
same division.
Here are the planned divisional alignments:
— Division A: Boston College, Clemson,
Florida State, Maryland, N.C. State, Wake Forest.
— Division B: Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami,
North Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech.
The primary cross-divisional rivalries will
be Maryland-Virginia, Clemson-Georgia Tech, N.C. State-North Carolina, Wake
Forest-Duke, Florida State-Miami, Boston College-Virginia Tech.
News Nuggets are
compiled periodically from staff, ECU, Conference USA and its member
schools, and from Associated Press and
other reports. Copyright 2003
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