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Colossal rally flames
out at finish
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East Carolina came
within a whisker of completing one of the more dramatic rallies in
college hoops history before its red-hot hand turned cold and
Houston held on for an 82-76 Conference USA victory Saturday night
in Hofheinz Pavilion.
Junior guard Jonathon
Simmons and sophomore forward Alandise Harris scored 19 points
apiece and freshman forward TaShawn Thomas added 17 points and 12
rebounds to help the Cougars avoid falling victim to what would have
been a comeback for the ages.
Trailing 74-50 with
7:46 to play, the Pirates unleashed a ferocious full-court press and
took off on a 25-2 run to cut the lead to 76-75 on a basket by
sophomore forward Robert Sampson with 2:23 left.
Sampson and senior
forward Darrius Morrow then missed shots that would have given their
team the lead and the rally fizzled as the Pirates (9-9, 0-5 C-USA)
missed all six of their field goal attempts in the final 1:36.
Harris and ECU junior
point guard Miguel Paul traded free throws before the Cougars (10-9,
2-4) tentatively regained the momentum as the clock ticked down. Harris made two
more free throws and Thomas added a point from the charity stripe
and a dunk just before the buzzer to account for the final margin.
Paul scored 23 points
and junior guards Shamarr Bowden and Erin Straughn each contributed 12
for the Pirates.
The outcome snapped
Houston's four-game losing streak and extended ECU's skid to five
straight.
East Carolina
returns home for a Saturday night rematch (7 p.m.) with Southern
Miss. The Golden Eagles (17-3, 4-1) will arrive in Greenville coming
off a 67-63 victory over Marshall on Saturday. USM
held off a late ECU rally to claim a 78-76 win in the
teams' Jan. 4 matchup in Hattiesburg.
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BOX
SCORE
HOUSTON 82, EAST CAROLINA 76
Date:
Thursday, Jan. 21, 2012
Place: Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, TX
Attendance: 2,954
Records: ECU
9-9 (0-5 Conference USA); UH 10-9 (2-4)
SCORE BY PERIODS 1 2 FINAL
East Carolina 31
45 - 76
Houston
42 40 - 82
EAST
CAROLINA PIRATES
#
PLAYER FG 3PT FT R PTS MIN
......................... ..
... .. . ... ...
01 Morrow, Darrius..... f 2-8
0-0 5-8 3 9 38
02 Kemp, Maurice....... f 4-9
1-3 0-0 3 9 17
00 Paul, Miguel........ g 7-19 4-15
5-8 1 23 33
20 Bowden, Shamarr..... g 4-8
4-7 0-0 1 12 18
23 Straughn, Erin...... g 4-8
1-3 3-6 4 12 24
11 Gaines, Corvonn....... 1-4
0-3 0-0 2 2 20
12 Sampson, Robert....... 3-7
0-1 0-0 12 6 26
22 Campbell, Paris....... 0-3
0-3 3-3 3 3 21
35 Morales, Darius....... 0-0
0-0 0-0 0 0 3
TEAM.....................
5
TOTALS................... 25-66 10-35 16-25 34 76
200
PERCENT.................. 37.9 28.6
64.0
HOUSTON
COUGARS
#
PLAYER FG 3PT FT R PTS MIN
......................... ..
... .. . ... ...
02 Harris, Alandise.... f 5-7
1-1 8-10 5 19 26
35 Thomas, TaShawn..... f 8-13 0-0
1-3 12 17 29
03 Thompson, J.J....... g 3-5
0-0 0-0 1 6 22
11 Thibodeaux, Darian.. g 3-6
3-6 0-0 1 9 18
23 Simmons, Jonathon... g 7-11 2-2
3-4 7 19 32
00 Young, Joseph......... 2-8
0-3 0-0 11 4 28
12 Jones, Jimmie......... 1-3
0-2 0-1 0 2 21
15 Gibson, Leon.......... 2-9
0-0 0-0 9 4 19
32 Van Slyke, Kirk....... 0-0
0-0 2-2 1 2 5
TEAM.....................
1
TOTALS................... 31-62 6-14 14-20 48
82 200
PERCENT.................. 50.0 42.9
70.0
Fouled
out: None
Technical Fouls: None
Officials: Rick Crawford, Patrick Evans, Steve Divine |
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01/22/12 09:59 AM.
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