Michael Perry is in his 10th season as an assistant in the East Carolina basketball program. This has been the highest profile week at ECU for the former Richmond star as he steps in as coach while Jeff Lebo recovers from hip surgery. Perry will guide the Pirates at Connecticut on Sunday at 6 p.m. at the XL Center in Hartford. Perry has been there and done that. "As an … [Read more...]
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From the Anchor DeskDriesell disciple plugs the gap for Lebo
Even before last week's news on Jeff Lebo's bad hip, this East Carolina basketball season was on a downward spiral. Lebo's departure puts a whole new twist on the year. The Pirate coach says it was the only solution. "It's been bad for two years but I have tried to get through it because I'm young," said Lebo. "But it has gotten to the place where I couldn't function. I … [Read more...]
BasketballCold-shooting Pirates fall to Cincy
GREENVILLE — In the last game for East Carolina coach Jeff Lebo before hip surgery today, No. 22 Cincinnati topped the Pirates 55-46 in an American Athletic Conference contest Sunday in Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum. ECU (9-10, 1-5 AAC) played its first contest without leading scorer B.J. Tyson, who was averaging 11.9 points before a knee injury against Houston on … [Read more...]
View from the EastPirate perspective on Tiger triumph
The Clemson Tigers were 60-minute men at Raymond James Stadium in the national championship game in Tampa on Monday night. In a rematch from Alabama's 45-40 title win over the Tigers, the powerful Crimson Tide was denied a fifth national crown in the last eight years. Clemson was intent on earning its second national championship and first since 1981, accomplishing the … [Read more...]
Insights from BrettPirates get a jump on rebuilding project
Recruiting is an inexact science, a reality that was graphically illustrated on national television during Monday’s college football national championship game. Amid all the former five-star prospects that dotted the rosters of both teams, it was Hunter Renfrow — a former walkon who didn’t receive a single Division I offer out of high school — that scored the game-winning … [Read more...]