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No. 2 Memphis mauls
Pirates
From Electronic and Staff Reports
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All rights reserved.
Freshman guard Derrick
Rose scored 19 points to lead second-ranked Memphis to a 99-58 rout of
East Carolina Wednesday night before a crowd of 17,308 at the FedEx
Forum.
The Tigers improved to
14-0 with the victory — their 41st in a row at home — and extended their
Conference USA winning streak to 24 games.
The game was the league
opener for both teams.
Junior forward Robert
Dozier added 13 points and 10 rebounds, senior guard Andre Allen scored
13 points and junior guard Chris Douglas-Roberts contributed 12 points
for Memphis.
Senior guard Darrell
Jenkins and sophomore forward John Fields, with 11 points apiece, were
the only Pirates in double figures.
The Tigers built their
margin from 4 points to 14 points over the final 5:50 of the first half,
then dominated East Carolina 56-29 in the final frame to turn the
contest into a blowout.
Memphis outshot the
Pirates 46.2 percent to 36.2 percent and dominated the backboards 52-31.
East Carolina will have a
week to recover from the trouncing before hosting Marshall next
Wednesday night at 7 p.m.
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BOX SCORE
MEMPHIS 99, EAST CAROLINA
58
Date: Wednesday, Jan. 9,
2008.
Site: FedEx Forum, Memphis, TN.
Attendance: 17,308.
Officials: Ed Hightower, Steve Welmer, Gerry Pollard.
Technical Fouls: ECU - Bench 2; Memphis - None.
SCORE BY PERIODS 1
2 FINAL
East Carolina 29 29
- 58
Memphis 43
56 - 99
EAST CAROLINA (6-8,
0-1 C-USA)
PLAYER FG 3PT FT
R PTS MIN
Gagnon............... 1-1 0-0 0-0
0 2 13
Blair................ 2-4 0-0 2-2
8 6 19
Farmer............... 3-11 2-4 0-2
2 8 28
Hinnant.............. 3-9 0-5 0-0
3 6 32
Jenkins.............. 4-9 3-6 0-0
3 11 23
Legan................ 1-3 1-2 0-0
0 3 11
Young................ 2-5 0-2 3-5
1 7 15
Abrams............... 1-1 0-0 0-0
2 2 10
Fields............... 4-7 0-0 3-9
5 11 22
Sherrod.............. 0-0 0-0 0-0
0 0 0+
Wynn................. 0-4 0-0 0-0
2 0 15
Evans................ 0-4 0-0 2-4
3 2 10
Joyner............... 0-0 0-0 0-0
1 0 2
TEAM.................
1
TOTALS...............21-58 6-19 10-22 31
58 200
PERCENT.............. .362 .316 .455
MEMPHIS (14-0, 1-0 C-USA)
PLAYER FG 3PT FT
R PTS MIN
Dozier............... 4-7 0-0 5-5
10 13 25
Dorsey............... 3-6 0-0 2-2
9 8 15
Anderson............. 1-3 0-1 2-4
3 4 21
Douglas-Roberts...... 4-6 0-1 4-8
6 12 22
Rose................. 6-9 1-1 6-8
1 19 22
Taggart.............. 1-9 0-0 7-9
9 9 13
Kemp................. 2-8 1-4 0-0
3 5 20
Niles................ 0-0 0-0 2-6
2 2 8
Allen................ 4-6 3-4 2-5
2 13 15
Mack................. 3-7 3-6 0-0
2 9 18
McGrady.............. 0-1 0-0 0-0
1 0 5
Robinson............. 2-3 0-1 1-2
3 5 16
TEAM.................
1
TOTALS...............30-65 8-18 31-49 52
99 200
PERCENT.............
.462 .444 .633
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01/10/08 03:27 AM.
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