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02.09.06: Circuitous
journey finds Erickson back in Idaho ... Colorado State
athletic director steps down ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard
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02.08.06: Carter
joins East Carolina football staff ... C-USA Basketball
Scoreboard & Schedule |
02.07.06: Key
suspensions deplete Pirates' ranks ... ACC officiating crew
benched for botched call ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard &
Schedule |
02.06.06: Ole
Miss coaching legend Vaught dies ... C-USA guards in running
for Cousy Award ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
02.05.06: Bass
may be in line for new ECU post ... SMU AD Copeland calling
it quits ... Bunting experiences technical difficulties ...
C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
02.04.06: Here
come Cougs and fully-cognizant Penders ... Wolfpack bats
light up for A-Rod ... History of the NCAA now in print ...
C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
02.03.06: FSU
blue chipper says analyst advocated Irish ... Golden Eagles
work the home front ... Pirate softball hurler gets
preseason honor ...
C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
02.02.06: Bailey
heads for Starkville via Iraq ... Texas A&M gridders vie in
"Big Splash" ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
02.01.06: Marshall
crash will become film theme ... Memphis soccer faces
professional team ... Green Wave gets Omaha rings ...
C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
01.31.06: Signing
Day extravaganza looms for ECU fans ... C-USA Basketball
Scoreboard & Schedule |
01.30.06: Wolfpack
sends cash to Southern Miss athletes ... C-USA Basketball
Scoreboard & Schedule |
01.29.06: Diamond
Bucs assign LeClair's No. 23 to Witter ... C-USA Basketball
Scoreboard & Schedule |
01.28.06: Tigers
eye UCF as next victim in climb up polls ... C-USA
Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
01.27.06: Fun,
not money, motivating DeAngelo Williams ... C-USA Basketball
Scoreboard & Schedule |
01.26.06: Marshall
springs shocker on No. 9 West Virginia ... C-USA Basketball
Scoreboard & Schedule |
01.25.06: Loaded
stogie nets trouble for Memphis player ...
C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
01.24.06: C-USA
slams refs for upholding 'T' on Penders ... NCAA to release
RPI ratings for first time ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard &
Schedule |
01.23.06: Epic
upset makes long bus ride home a journey of joy ... C-USA
Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
01.22.06: Memphis
auction includes trip to Dowdy-Ficklen ... Houston coach's
collapse leads to technical ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard
& Schedule |
01.21.06: Bush
summons '66 Miners to watch Glory Road ... C-USA Basketball
Scoreboard & Schedule |
01.20.06: Innovative
creator of I-formation passes at 92 ...
C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
01.19.06: Southern
Miss extends Bower pact through '09 ... C-USA Basketball
Scoreboard & Schedule |
01.18.06: Holtz,
Moore, Whimper team up for Hula Bowl ... ECU reaches
wide-ranging deal with ISP Sports ... C-USA Basketball
Scoreboard & Schedule |
01.17.06: Katrina
blows friendly faces into UAB crowd ... C-USA Basketball
Scoreboard & Schedule |
01.16.06: C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
01.15.06: Hawaii
on itinerary of ECU's Moore, Whimper ...
C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
01.14.06: Former
ECU assistant Berry joins staff at Miami ... C-USA
Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
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News Nuggets, 02.10.06
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NOTES FROM ECU AND BEYOND...
Previous Day Nuggets...
Next Day Nuggets...
Compiled from staff reports
and electronic dispatches
East Carolina steps up
football schedule
East Carolina will begin an extremely
challenging 2006 football schedule on Sept.
2 at Navy, one of eight 2005 bowl teams the Pirates will face next season.
The Midshipmen's option attack led the
nation in rushing last year.
ECU closes the regular season against
regional rival N.C. State at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh on Nov. 25.
The non-conference slate also includes
home games against West Virginia (Sept. 23) and Virginia (Oct. 7).
East Carolina's schedule also will
feature a six-week stretch of five consecutive games at Dowdy-Ficklen
Stadium, a first in school history. On the back end, the Pirates will play
four of their last five games on the road.
Of the eight bowl opponents on ECU's
schedule, seven recorded victories in December and January. In addition to
the Midshipmen (Poinsettia), Cavaliers (Music City), Wolfpack (Meineke Car
Care) and Mountaineers (Nokia Sugar), the Pirates will also face off against
Conference USA post-season winners Memphis, Southern Miss and Tulsa.
West Virginia, which is likely to be
highly ranked heading into next season, posted a 38-35 Sugar Bowl win over
Georgia in what was essentially a home game for the Bulldogs. The game, long
a New Orleans fixture, was moved to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta because of
the effects of Hurricane Katrina.
"Needless to say, I'm excited about our
non-conference schedule and the opportunity to spend nearly a month and a
half of the season without leaving Greenville," ECU coach Skip Holtz said.
"Unfortunately, it comes with a price of having to play four of our last
five games on the road during a critical stretch of the year. We obviously
need to be ready to play early and get off to a fast start with Navy, West
Virginia, Virginia and two tough Conference USA games right out of the
chute."
After opening the season against Navy's
triple-option scheme, East Carolina will begin C-USA play a week later when
it visits UAB. After meeting the Blazers, the Pirates will open an
unprecedented five-game homestand beginning Sept. 16 when they host Memphis
and ending Oct. 21 when they welcome Southern Methodist to Dowdy-Ficklen
Stadium.
East Carolina's Sept. 23 home matchup
against WVU, which finished the 2005 season ranked No. 5 in the Associated
Press poll and No. 6 in the USA Today poll, is scheduled to be televised
nationally by ESPN or ESPN2, according to a release on ecupirates.com.
The Mountaineers hung on for a 20-15
win over the Pirates last September in Morgantown.
After an off week, the Pirates will
face their first of two ACC opponents when Virginia makes its first-ever
visit to Greenville Oct. 7.
The Pirates will close out the long
home stretch by hosting defending C-USA champion Tulsa Oct. 14 before
meeting SMU a week later. ECU will then play four of its last five games
away from Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. The road matchups will be against long-time
rival Southern Miss (Oct. 28), Central Florida (Nov. 4), Rice (Nov. 18) and
N.C. State (Nov. 25), with a home battle against Marshall (Nov. 11) featured
in the middle.
The trip to Carter-Finley Stadium will
be East Carolina's first since 1997 and will renew a series with N.C. State
that dates back to 1970. Although the Wolfpack leads the series 14-9 and
handed the Pirates a 52-14 loss during their last meeting in 2004, ECU has
captured four of the last six meetings since 1987.
Play ball! Pirates, Terps open
baseball season
East Carolina begins its quest for an
eighth straight NCAA Tournament berth when it opens the
2006 baseball season today at 3 p.m. at
Clark-LeClair Stadium. The Pirates will host Atlantic Coast Conference foe
Maryland, which is in Greenville for a three-game Friday-Saturday-Sunday
series.
Today's contest also is the season
opener for the Terrapins and will mark the debut of Billy Godwin as East
Carolina's head coach.
C-USA Basketball Standings, Scores & Schedule
(Updated
through Thursday, Feb. 9, 2006)
CONFERENCE USA STANDINGS
TEAM
C-USA ALL
Memphis
7-0 21-2
Texas-El Paso
7-1 14-6
UAB
6-2 16-5
Houston
5-3 15-6
Rice
4-4 10-11
Tulane
4-4 9-12
Central Florida
3-4 9-11
Southern Methodist 3-5 11-10
Tulsa
3-5 8-13
Marshall
2-6 9-12
Southern Miss
2-6 8-15
East Carolina
1-7 7-14
----- SCORES -----
THURSDAY,
FEB. 9
No games
scheduled.
WEDNESDAY,
FEB. 8
Rice 78,
Marshall 75 (OT)
Tulsa 55, Southern Methodist 51
Southern Mississippi 59, Central Florida 51
Texas-El Paso 65, UAB 37
TUESDAY,
FEB. 7
Tulane 87,
Loyola (LA) 41
Houston 82, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 74
----- SCHEDULE -----
FRIDAY, FEB.
10
No games
scheduled.
SATURDAY, FEB.
11
Rice at Tulsa,
3:05 pm
Memphis at Marshall, 4 pm
Texas-El Paso at Southern Mississippi, 5 pm
Tulane at Central Florida, 7:30 pm
Southern Methodist at Houston, 8 pm
East Carolina at UAB, 8:30 pm
SUNDAY, FEB.
12
No games
scheduled.
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