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Lady Pirates headed to postseason
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The season got extended Monday
night for the East Carolina women's basketball team. The Lady Pirates
accepted an at-large bid to join the 64-team field in the 2013 Women's
National Invitation Tournament.
ECU will hit the road to take on
Western Kentucky in a first-round game on Thursday, March 21. The
contest will be played in Bowling Green, KY, on the Lady Hilltoppers'
E.A. Diddle Arena home court. The game time is expected to be announced
Tuesday.
�I am so thrilled to coach this
team another day,� ECU coach Heather Macy said in a press release
announcing the invitation. �These girls have worked so hard, they
deserve success.�
The Lady Pirates finished second in
Conference USA with an 11-5 record and carry a 22-9 overall mark into
the tournament.
WKU, which recorded a 13-7 record
in the Sun Belt Conference, also received an at-large bid. The Lady
Hilltoppers, coached by Michelle Clark-Heard, boast a 21-10 overall
mark.
The WNIT field includes 31 teams
that receive automatic berths � one guaranteed bid for each of the
nation's established conferences � and 33 at-large selections.
C-USA teams Memphis, Southern
Methodist, Tulane and UAB will join ECU in the bracket as will future
league teams Florida International and Old Dominion.
Other programs representing the
state of North Carolina in the WNIT are Appalachian State, Charlotte,
Davidson, N.C. A&T and N.C. State.
The 32 first-round games will take
place between March 20-22, second round contests will be held March
23-25 and third round matchups are scheduled from March 27-29.
The quarterfinals are set for March
30-April 1 and the semifinals are slated for April 3-4.
The WNIT championship game, which
will be played on Saturday, April 6, at 3 p.m., will be
national-televised by the CBS Sports Network.
The Lady Pirates advanced to the
second round in their last WNIT appearance in 2010, defeating Drexel in
game one before falling to Maryland in the second round.
WNIT First Round Schedule (Game times TBA)
Source: WNIT
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20:
� Utah at Long Beach State
� UCSB at San Diego State
� Idaho State at BYU
� Eastern Illinois at Missouri
� UAB at Auburn
THURSDAY, MARCH 21:
� Hawaii at San Diego
� Seattle at Saint Mary's CA
� Northern Colorado at Wyoming
� Texas Southern at Kansas State
� IUPUI at Illinois State
� Butler at Toledo
� Indiana State at Youngstown State
� Miami OH at Illinois
� East Carolina at Western Kentucky
� Memphis at Arkansas
� Sam Houston State at Tulane
� Iona at Drexel
� Harvard at Hartford
� SMU at Bowling Green State
� Akron at Duquesne
� Sacred Heart at Boston University
� Army at Fordham
� NCA&T at James Madison
� Richmond at North Carolina State
� Davidson at Old Dominion
� Appalachian State at Charlotte
� Florida at Florida International
� Winthrop at Florida Gulf Coast
FRIDAY, MARCH 22:
� Eastern Washington at
Washington
� UALR at Pacific
� Ball State at Minnesota
� Northern Iowa at Marquette
PAGE UPDATED
03/19/13 06:44 AM.
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