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One and done for Pirates
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Senior guard Aubrey
Coleman, the nation's leading scorer, recorded a game-high 29 points to
lead No. 7 seed Houston to a 93-80 victory over 10th-seeded East
Carolina in the first round of the Conference USA Tournament Wednesday
afternoon in Tulsa.
The outcome ended the Pirates'
rocky season and brought to a
close the coaching tenure of Mack McCarthy, who
announced last weekend that he would step aside after
the league tournament to take a fundraising position in ECU's athletic
department.
Junior guard Brock Young
produced 24 points, sophomore forward Darrius Morrow had 22 and freshman
guard Erin Straughn added 12 for
the Pirates (10-21). Morrow's output tied his career-high.
Senior guard
Kelvin Lewis scored 15 points, sophomore guard Desmond Wade had 13 and
senior forward Sean Coleman and junior forward Maurice McNeil each
contributed 11 for the Cougars.
Houston led 50-37 at the
half and extended the margin to as much as 26 points in the opening
minutes of the second frame before bringing in its reserves to mop up.
East Carolina whittled
away against the backups and closed the gap to 9 with 2:06 remaining
before the Cougar starters returned and slammed the door shut.
Houston (16-15)
advanced to play No. 2 seed Memphis in Thursday's quarterfinals. The
Tigers had a bye on Wednesday. [View
Thursday's complete schedule.]
In other action on the
tournament's first day:
Sixth-seeded Southern Miss
ousted No. 11 Tulane 57-47; host and fifth-seeded Tulsa dumped No. 12
Rice 73-62; and ninth-seeded Central Florida sprung a slight upset on
No. 9 Southern Methodist 69-53.
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BOX SCORE
HOUSTON 93, EAST CAROLINA
80
Date: Wednesday, Mar. 10, 2010
Event: Conference USA Tournament
Place: BOK Center, Tulsa, OK
Attendance: 6,961
Officials: Mark Whitehead, Bill Kennedy, Brent Barnaky
Technical Fouls: Jontae Sherrod
SCORE BY PERIODS 1
2 FINAL
EAST CAROLINA......... 37 43 - 80
HOUSTON............... 50 43 - 93
(10 SEED) EAST CAROLINA PIRATES
(10-21)
PLAYER FG 3PT FT R PTS MIN
01 Morrow............. f 7-8 0-0
8-12 3 22 35
21 Abrams............. f 2-3 2-3
0-0 1 6 15
10 Young.............. g 8-15 2-5
6-7 7 24 37
23 Straughn........... g 5-11 2-7
0-0 6 12 34
24 Sherrod............ g 2-5 1-1
0-0 4 5 19
11 Gaines............... 1-1 0-0
1-2 3 3 23
30 Ellison.............. 1-3 0-1
2-2 0 4 13
42 Joyner............... 2-5 0-0
0-2 8 4 24
TEAM....................
4
TOTALS.................. 28-51 7-17 17-25 36
80 200
PERCENT................. 54.9 41.2 68.0
(7 SEED) HOUSTON COUGARS (16-15)
PLAYER FG 3PT FT R PTS MIN
01 S. Coleman......... f 4-7 3-4
0-1 4 11 18
40 Washington......... f 3-6 0-0
0-1 5 6 19
00 Lewis.............. g 5-12 1-5
4-5 2 15 33
11 Wade............... g 4-4 3-3
2-2 1 13 24
12 A. Coleman......... g 9-20 4-6 7-11
4 29 36
02 Nixon................ 0-3 0-1
0-2 1 0 15
03 McNeil............... 4-7 0-0
3-3 8 11 26
05 Haywood.............. 0-2 0-2
0-0 1 0 8
23 Clark................ 0-0 0-0
0-0 0 0 1
24 Broughton............ 0-0 0-0
0-0 1 0 1
31 Brown................ 0-1 0-1
0-0 0 0 4
32 Van Slyke............ 2-4 2-4
2-2 2 8 15
TEAM....................
2
TOTALS.................. 31-66 13-26 18-27 31
93 200
PERCENT................. 47.0 50.0 66.7
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03/11/10 01:44 AM.
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