NEW ORLEANS — East Carolina held off Tulane, 76-73, at Devlin Fieldhouse on Tuesday night. It was the Pirates' first win on an opponent's home floor since March 2 of last season at South Florida. Pirates sophomore Kentrell Barkley had 17 points, hitting the front end of a one-and-one for the final margin with 6.9 seconds to go. The Green Wave's Colin Slater got up a tying … [Read more...]

Three blown leads and three closes losses left a bad taste in East Carolina coach Cliff Godwin's mouth this past weekend. Godwin's homecoming to Oxford,  where he was an assistant coach for three seasons at Ole Miss, didn't go like he had hoped it would. The perennial SEC power rode the momentum of great, rowdy crowds for three days to a series sweep of the … [Read more...]

It’s better to have too many quarterbacks than to get caught not having enough. East Carolina fans are all too familiar with that football fact of life after spending the past two seasons watching their team struggle with limited options at the most important position on the field because of injury, transfer and ineffectiveness. That doesn’t appear to be the case … [Read more...]

OXFORD, MS — For the third straight game, East Carolina took the initial lead at Ole Miss and for the third straight day, the Rebels rallied to win. The Pirates (0-3) had leads of 2-0 and 6-2 but Ole Miss came back for an 8-6 victory to earn a series sweep. ECU started the season No. 10 in the USA Today coaches poll and the Rebels were ranked No. 24. A crowd of 9,459 … [Read more...]