New date set for ECU-UAB
clash
From ECU SID and staff reports
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A makeup date and tipoff
time have been established for East Carolina's weather-deferred home
basketball game against Conference USA foe Alabama-Birmingham.
The teams will face off in
Williams Arena on Monday, Jan. 17 at 7 p.m., ECU announced in a press
release. Tickets for the for the originally-scheduled date will be
honored on the makeup date, said the release.
Originally scheduled for
Wednesday, ECU
had announced the day before the game
that the contest would be postponed because of weather-related flight
disruptions in Birmingham, AL, and elsewhere. The postponement came in
the wake of the winter storm that struck the South earlier in the week.
In the meantime, the
Pirates will host a league battle against Tulane on Saturday, Jan. 15,
at 5 p.m. The matchup will mark ECU's first home game since
a Dec. 7th visit by Old Dominion.
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