News and Notes from East Carolina, Conference USA and Beyond

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HOUSTON — Rice and Houston postponed home games scheduled for Saturday, and Texas A&M has moved up its game against Texas State in anticipation of Hurricane Rita reaching the Texas Gulf Coast this weekend.

Rice was scheduled to play Navy, but on Wednesday the game was rescheduled for Oct. 22. Houston was to play Southern Mississippi on Saturday. No makeup date was announced, but school officials said they were looking at Nov. 12 or 13.

To make room, the Southern Methodist-Houston game originally scheduled for Nov. 12 was postponed to Nov. 19, when both teams have an open date. Southern Miss plays at Marshall on Tuesday, Nov. 8.

Rice, Houston and Southern Miss are members of Conference USA, which had already seen its schedule altered by Hurricane Katrina.

``We are getting a lot of practice addressing hurricane-related contingencies. Fortunately, we have had excellent communication and we are getting great cooperation from our members,'' C-USA commissioner Britton Banowsky said in a statement.

Southern Miss's Sept. 4 season opener with Tulane, also a C-USA member, was postponed by Hurricane Katrina.

The I-AA game between Northwestern Oklahoma and McNeese State scheduled to be played in Lake Charles, LA, was canceled.

The Houston Texans canceled Thursday's practice and asked all players to leave town immediately. Houston coach Dom Capers said the Texans, who have a bye this week, were looking at alternatives that include practicing next week in Cincinnati before the Texans' game on Oct. 2 against the Bengals.

The New Orleans Saints, displaced by Hurricane Katrina, are bracing to have their plans rearranged again. Coach Jim Haslett said team officials were considering flying to Minneapolis on Friday instead of Saturday to avoid any weather problems in San Antonio. The Saints play the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.

The Category 5 storm, packing winds of 175 mph late Wednesday night, is expected to make landfall somewhere on the Gulf Coast of Texas early Saturday.

THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE

(Conference USA games in bold.)

Saturday, Sept. 24:

   East Carolina at West Virginia 12:00 PM
   Marshall at Central Florida 6:00 PM
   Memphis at Tulsa 7:00 PM
   Southern Miss at Houston POSTPONED
   Tulane at Southern Methodist 8:00 PM
   Navy at Rice POSTPONED
   New Mexico at Texas-El Paso 9:05 PM

STANDINGS (through games of Sept. 17, 2005)

EAST DIVISION

TEAM                  C-USA ALL
UAB                    0-0   2-1
East Carolina          0-0   1-1
Marshall               0-0   1-1
Memphis                0-0   1-1
Southern Mississippi   0-0   1-1
Central Florida        0-0   0-2

WEST DIVISION

TEAM                  C-USA ALL
Texas-El Paso          1-0   2-0
Southern Methodist     0-0   1-2
Tulsa                  0-0   1-2
Tulane                 0-0   0-1
Rice                   0-0   0-2
Houston                0-1   1-2

LAST WEEK'S SCORES

(C-USA teams in bold; ECU opponents in red.)

Friday, Sept. 16:

Texas-El Paso 24, Houston 21 (2OT)

Saturday, Sept. 17:

   Wake Forest 44, East Carolina 34
   Texas A&M 66, Southern Methodist 8
   South Florida 31, Central Florida 14
   UAB 35, Jacksonville State 28
   Southern Mississippi 48, McNeese State 20
   Tulsa 54, North Texas 2
   Texas 51, Rice 10
   Memphis 59, Chattanooga 14
   Mississippi State 21, Tulane 14
   Duke 40, Virginia Military Institute 14
   West Virginia 31, Maryland 19

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