The East Carolina basketball program has so many new faces that many of us are still trying to learn everyone by name. These Pirates have dug themselves an early season hole. Now the squad hopes to use December as a chance to dig themselves out. It won’t be easy. ECU opened the month by falling to Coppin State, 85-75. The Pirates went into that game a double-digit … [Read more...]

With the new early signing period rapidly approaching — it begins on Wednesday, Dec. 18 — East Carolina football coach Mike Houston and his staff are on the road working hard to recruit the kind of talent that will help the Pirates be competitive and win in the American Athletic Conference. By all accounts, they’re in the process of putting together a class that rates in the … [Read more...]

East Carolina improved its size and talent level with 11 new players entering the basketball program, but the personnel makeover has yet to produce significant results. The Pirates took a 4-game losing streak into exam break and are 2-7 overall with four home games coming up. Pirates coach Joe Dooley was an assistant at Kansas in 2008 when the Jayhawks won the NCAA … [Read more...]

Bubba Skelton and Shane Oakley know Tremont Robinson-White pretty well, and they know that he has high expectations of himself and his team now that he’s back in the East Carolina lineup. The two coaches, who led Robinson-White during his 2017-18 season at Northwest Mississippi Junior College, also understand that a ramp-up period is expected when a player transitions from … [Read more...]