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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
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03/19/13 06:44 AM.
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