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11.11.05: Tangle
with Titans headlines ECU baseball slate ... Updated C-USA
Standings, Scores & Schedule |
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11.10.05: East
Carolina football hire rates a "B" from BCA ... Updated
C-USA Standings, Scores & Schedule |
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11.09.05: Southern
Miss escapes Huntington with OT win ... Updated C-USA
Standings, Scores & Schedule |
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11.08.05: Holland
beefs up rivalries with Wolfpack, Hokies ... ECU's Lee makes
semifinal cut for Groza Award ... C-USA Standings, Scores &
Schedule |
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11.07.05: College
Football Headliners: Stars & Storylines ... Conference USA
Standings, Scores & Schedule |
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11.06.05: Conference
USA Standings, Scores & Schedule |
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11.05.05: Litke:
Politically correct or not, blacks run faster ... Conference
USA Standings, Scores & Schedule |
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11.04.05: Throat-slash
gesture nets trouble for Callahan ... Conference USA
Standings, Scores & Schedule |
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11.03.05: Green
Wave's road trip to Navy on the house ... Tulane coming home
for C-USA hoops schedule ... Conference USA Standings,
Scores & Schedule |
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11.02.05: Fledgling
FIU program lands series with Miami ... Conference USA
Standings, Scores & Schedule |
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11.01.05: Fledgling
FIU program lands series with Miami ... Conference USA
Standings, Scores & Schedule |
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10.31.05: College
Football Headliners: Stars & Storylines ... Conference USA
Standings, Scores & Schedule |
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10.30.05: C-USA
Football Standings, Scores & Schedule |
10.29.05: Wake
football team loses four to suspension ...
C-USA Football Standings, Scores & Schedule |
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10.28.05: UTEP
QB Palmer gaining his own slice of respect ... C-USA
Football Standings, Scores & Schedule |
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10.27.05: Renewal
of USM-NCSU series set for television ... Conference USA
Standings, Scores & Schedule |
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10.26.05: Pirate
basketball set for lights, camera, action ... Conference USA
Standings, Scores & Schedule |
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10.25.05: Stokes'
first squad opening act for Homecoming ... Conference USA
Standings, Scores & Schedule |
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10.24.05: College
Football Headliners: Stars & Storylines ... Conference USA
Standings, Scores & Schedule |
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10.23.05: C-USA
Football Standings, Scores & Schedule |
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10.22.05: C-USA
Football Standings, Scores & Schedule |
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10.21.05: ECU
injury report a mixed bag for U of M game ... NCAA tinkers
with experimental basketball rules ... C-USA Football
Standings, Scores & Schedule |
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10.20.05: Storm-weary
Tulane blown off course again ... Video company repents for
N.C. State incident ... C-USA Football Standings, Scores &
Schedule |
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News Nuggets, 11.12.05
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NOTES FROM ECU AND BEYOND...
Previous Day Nuggets...
Next Day Nuggets...
Compiled from staff reports
and electronic dispatches
Pirate basketball edging toward the limelight
The East Carolina basketball team,
which will unofficially kick off its season with a home exhibition game next
Saturday against N.C. Central (7 p.m.), will share top billing with the
Pirate football team when UAB visits Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium the Saturday
after Thanksgiving.
Tip-off for the ECU hoops squad's game
with Wofford on Nov. 26 in Minges Coliseum's Williams Arena has been changed
from 7 p.m. to 5 p.m., creating a football/basketball doubleheader for
Pirate fans. ECU's football team will host the Blazers at noon that day in
the final regular season game of the gridiron season.
The ECU Athletic Ticket office will
open that Saturday at 8 a.m. for the purpose of selling both football and
basketball tickets. Tickets can also be purchased at the ticket office
weekdays from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. or on-line at
ecupirates.com 24 hours a day.
In another sign that Pirate hoops
action is just around the corner, ECU announced it is offering an eight-game
"Super Saturday" mini-pack for designated games this season.
The package includes eight Saturday
home games throughout the season beginning with the Nov. 26 game versus
Wofford. The remaining seven games in the bundle include match-ups against
Western Carolina (Dec. 10), UNC-Wilmington (Dec. 31), St. Paul's (Jan. 7),
Tulsa (Jan. 28), Houston (Feb. 4), Marshall (Feb. 18) and Tulane (Feb. 25).
The "Super Saturday" package is
available for $75, a savings of $30 off the face value, and can also
purchased at the ticket office, online or by calling 1-800-DIAL-ECU.
First-year head coach Ricky Stokes'
team opens the regular season at home against North Carolina A&T on Friday,
Nov. 18, at 7 p.m.
From an
ECU Athletics release.
ECU in league's upper tier in football attendance
Texas-El Paso, Memphis and East
Carolina are pacing Conference USA in average home football attendance as
the regular season heads into its final weeks.
The Miners, in their first year in
C-USA after departing the Western Athletic Conference, draw an average of
49,161 fans to their games, far ahead of Memphis and ECU, which average
38,709 and 34,560, respectively.
No other team in the 12-team league
reaches the 30,000 mark on a typical Saturday, with Marshall and Southern
Mississippi coming the closest. The Thundering Herd attracts 28,604, while
the Golden Eagles draw 28,305.
The attendance figures are based on
information published weekly by the NCAA.
Nationally, Michigan tops the
attendance charts at 110,847 per game. Tennessee, Ohio State and Penn State
also average over 100,000 fans per game.
Among schools in North Carolina, ECU
ranks third behind N.C. State (56,189)and UNC-Chapel Hill (52,500),
but the Pirates easily surpass Wake Forest
(29,288) and Duke (17,486) in average attendance.
The attendance for North Carolina
schools pales in comparison to South Carolina's I-A teams. South Carolina
ranks 16th nationally (78,456 per game) while Clemson is No. 18 (78,000).
Conference USA attendance rankings and
selected national attendance rankings are listed below:
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AVERAGE
ATTENDANCE FIGURES THROUGH SATURDAY, NOV. 5
[Data columns: C-USA rank, Nat
rank, team, tot att,
percent of capacity, avg. att., home games played]
CONFERENCE USA ATTENDANCE
RANKINGS
1. (45) UTEP 196643
94.54 49161 4
2. (64) Memphis 193543 62.05 38709 5
3. (69) East Carolina 138240 80.37 34560 4
4. (80) Marshall 114416 75.24 28604 4
5. (81) Southern Miss 84915 85.77 28305 3
6. (83) Tulsa 92137 64.81 23034 4
7. (84) UCF 90333 32.18 22583 4
8. (85) UAB 88307 26.57 22077 4
9. (92) SMU 94586 59.12 18917 5
10. (100) Houston 48430 50.79 16143 3
11. (106) Tulane 75144 21.54 15029 5
12. (114) Rice 32933 15.68 10978 3
SELECTED NATIONAL ATTENDANCE
RANKINGS
(Conference USA teams in bold.)
(1)
Michigan 554234 103.11 110847 5
(2) Tennessee 431424 103.63 107856 4
(3) Ohio St. 629939 103.37 104990 6
(4) Penn St. 734013 98.42 104859 7
(16) South Carolina 392282 97.76 78456 5
(18) Clemson 390000 95.74 78000 5
(33) West Virginia 284723 94.91 56945 5
(34) N.C. State 280947 109.11 56189 5
(39) North Carolina 210000 87.50 52500 4
1. (45) UTEP 196643 94.54 49161 4
(54) Louisville 166892 99.34 41723 4
(56) Pittsburgh 206485 63.53 41297 5
(57) South Florida 121847 98.01 40616 3
(58) Syracuse 201366 81.28 40273 5
(59) Connecticut 160000 100.00 40000 4
2. (64) Memphis 193543 62.05 38709 5
3. (69) East Carolina 138240 80.37 34560 4
(72) Rutgers 164490 79.27 32898 5
(79) Wake Forest 146438 92.98 29288 5
4. (80) Marshall 114416 75.24 28604 4
5. (81) Southern Miss 84915 85.77 28305 3
6. (83) Tulsa 92137 64.81 23034 4
7. (84) UCF 90333 32.18 22583 4
8. (85) UAB 88307 26.57 22077 4
(88) Cincinnati 86220 61.59 21555 4
9. (92) SMU 94586 59.12 18917 5
(97) Duke 104915 51.52 17486 6
10. (100) Houston 48430 50.79 16143 3
11. (106) Tulane 75144 21.54 15029 5
12 (114) Rice 32933 15.68 10978 3
From data published by the
NCAA.
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C-USA Football Standings, Scores & Schedule
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(Through games
of Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005)
CONFERENCE
USA STANDINGS
EAST DIVISION
TEAM
C-USA ALL
Central Florida 5-1
6-3
Southern Miss
4-1 5-3
Memphis
3-3 4-4
Marshall
3-3 4-5
UAB
2-3 4-4
East Carolina
2-3 3-5
WEST DIVISION
TEAM
C-USA ALL
Texas-El Paso
5-1 7-1
Tulsa
4-2 5-4
Houston
2-3 4-4
Southern Methodist 2-4 3-6
Tulane
1-5 2-6
Rice
0-5 0-8
THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE/SCORES
[C-USA
teams in bold; ECU opponents in red.]
TUESDAY,
NOV. 8
Southern
Mississippi 27, Marshall 24 (OT)
WEDNESDAY,
NOV. 9
West Virginia 38,
Cincinnati 0
SATURDAY,
NOV. 12
Memphis
at Tennessee 2:00 pm
East Carolina
at Tulsa
3:00 pm
Tulane
at Rice 3:00 pm
Central Florida
at UAB
4:00 pm
Texas Southern at
Texas-El Paso 9:05 pm
Miami (FL) at
Wake Forest 3:30 pm
LAST WEEK'S
SCORES
[C-USA
teams in bold; ECU opponents in red.]
TUESDAY,
NOV. 1
UAB 37, Memphis 20
WEDNESDAY,
NOV. 2
West Virginia 45, Connecticut 13
SATURDAY,
NOV. 5
Southern Methodist 27, Rice 7
Central Florida 31, Houston 29
Texas-El Paso 41, Tulsa 38
Navy 49, Tulane 21
Clemson 49, Duke
20
Georgia Tech 30, Wake Forest
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