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Knights usher Pirates
out of tourney
From staff reports
MEMPHIS — Poor shooting by
East Carolina helped Central Florida to a 65-52 win over the Pirates in
the first round of the Conference USA Tournament on Wednesday night.
Josh Peppers scored a
career-high 25 points for the fifth-seeded Knights, connecting on 5 of
10 attempts from beyond the 3-point arc. Overall, Peppers was 8 of 14
from the field.
UCF improved to 14-14 and
will face fourth-seeded Houston tonight. ECU finished 8-20 in its
initial season with Ricky Stokes at the coaching helm.
Despite being the focus of
double-teaming defenders, Kinston senior Corey Rouse had 21 points and
14 rebounds in his final effort for the Pirates.
All 16 of Kinston guard
Jeremy Ingram's points came in the second half, which saw UCF extend its
advantage to 29 points early on. Ten unanswered points for ECU cut the
gap but the final margin was as close as the Pirates would get.
ECU trailed 42-16 at the
half, its lowest output of the season for the first 20 minutes. Peppers
outscored ECU in the opening period with 17 points.
No player other than
Peppers scored in double digits for UCF.
East Carolina missed all
eight of its 3-point attempts and shot 19 percent in the first half. The
Pirates connected on only five field goals in the opening 20 minutes,
the last coming just over nine minutes before the break.
ECU entered as the event's
12th-seeded team. The Pirates
have not had a winning hoops season
since the 1996-97 team, coached by Joe Dooley, went 17-10.
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BOX SCORE
CENTRAL FLORIDA 65, EAST
CAROLINA 52
Conference USA Tournament
Mar. 8, 2006, Memphis, TN.
Officials: Tom Eades, Rick Hartzell, Steve Olson.
Technical Fouls: None.
Attendance: 9,175.
CENTRAL FLORIDA 42 23 - 65
EAST CAROLINA 16 36 - 52
CENTRAL FLORIDA (14-14)
PLAYER MIN FG 3PT FT
R PTS
Johnson 22 2-4
0-0 2-4 5 6
Peppers 30 8-14 5-10
4-5 1 25
Gill 20
3-8 0-0 0-1 8
6
O'Donnell 24 2-5 1-3
0-0 0 5
Rose 23
2-5 0-2 1-2 9
5
Taylor 15 3-5
1-2 2-2 1 9
Payne 18
1-3 0-0 0-1 6
2
Noel 16
0-2 0-1 2-2 1
2
Speraw 1
0-0 0-0 0-0 0
0
Zondervan 2 0-0
0-0 0-0 0 0
Lindbeck 12 1-1
1-1 0-0 0 3
Williams 17 0-2
0-0 2-2 2 2
TEAM
4
TOTALS 200 22-49 8-19 13-19
37 65
PERCENT
.449 .421 .684
EAST CAROLINA (8-20)
PLAYER MIN FG 3PT FT
R PTS
Gagnon 26 1-3
0-1 2-4 5 4
Rouse 36 8-15
0-0 5-12 14 21
Hinnant 27 1-8
1-4 0-0 0 3
Captain 26 1-3
1-2 3-4 2 6
Ingram 21 3-8
3-6 7-8 2 16
McNeil 26 0-1
0-0 0-0 1 0
Robinson 1 0-1
0-0 0-0 0 0
King 6
0-0 0-0 0-0 0
0
Hammonds 13 0-3
0-2 0-0 2 0
Beale 5
0-3 0-0 0-0 4
0
Mattone 1 0-0
0-0 0-0 0 0
Hart 10
1-5 0-0 0-0 2
2
Goods 1
0-1 0-0 0-0 1
0
O'Neil 1
0-0 0-0 0-0 1
0
TEAM
3
TOTALS 200 15-51 5-15 17-28
37 52
PERCENT
.294 .333 .607
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02/23/07 10:58 AM.
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