Kickoff times for East Carolina's 2007 home
football games were announced Thursday.
Conference USA also released its 2007 CSTV
schedule, which includes ECU contests against North Carolina, N.C. State
and Central Florida.
East Carolina's home schedule will open with a 6
p.m. start against North Carolina on Sept. 8. The Pirates begin league
play against defending divisional champion Southern Miss a week later on
Sept. 15 with another 6 p.m. kickoff.
After trips to West Virginia and Houston, ECU
will return to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium Oct. 6 for a 7:30 p.m. matchup
against UCF and will follow two weeks later by welcoming N.C. State to
Greenville for the first time since 1999 in a 4:30 p.m. clash.
The Pirates will close out the month of October
and help celebrate Homecoming festivities on the 27th when they host UAB
at 3 p.m.
ECU will conclude regular season play at 1 p.m.
on Nov. 24 against Tulane.
Naismith honors bestowed on Yow, Knight
College basketball coaching icons Kay Yow of
N.C. State and Bob Knight of Texas Tech have been selected as the 2007
Naismith honorees for outstanding contributions to women's and men's
basketball, respectively.
On February 16, the court at historic Reynolds
Coliseum was renamed in honor of Yow, a 1964 graduate of East Carolina.
Knight surpassed former North Carolina coach Dean Smith in career
victories during the 2006-07 season.
Mountaineers ascend to NIT summit
Frank Young scored 24 points, including six
three-pointers, to lead West Virginia to a 78-73 win over Clemson for
the NIT championship on Thursday night at Madison Square Garden. Young
was named the tournament's most outstanding player.
WVU last won the NIT in 1942.
March
29, 2007
State coach's son facing serious charges
The son of N.C. State basketball coach Sidney
Lowe was arrested and charged Tuesday night in connection with a
shooting at a UNC Greensoro dormitory over the weekend, according to a
Greensboro News & Record report.
The newspaper additionally stated that Sidney
Rochell Lowe II, 21, of 4437 Carly's Way in Greensboro, has been charged
in a home invasion from earlier this month.
Charges from UNCG police against the younger
Lowe, a junior at N.C. A&T:
- Felony aiding and abetting an attempted
armed robbery
- Two counts of possession of a weapon on
educational property
- Possession with intent to sell and deliver
marijuana
- Possession of one-half to 1½ ounces of
marijuana
- Maintaining a dwelling for keeping and
selling a controlled substance
- Three counts of possession of stolen goods
and property.
The News & Record also reported that Greensboro
police said they had connected Lowe II to a March 16 home invasion in
the 1300 block of West Friendly Avenue. He faces 13 charges tied to that
incident, including kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly
weapon.
All charges were the result of a search warrant
served Monday night on Lowe II's home in Greensboro. Among the items
recovered was a semiautomatic assault rifle, police said.
Coach Lowe was seen at the magistrate's office
Tuesday night, where his son surrendered in the company of Greensboro
attorney Locke Clifford.
Tigers, Mountaineers match up in NIT final
Clemson reached the National Invitation
Tournament championship with a 68-67 win over Air Force on Tuesday night
at Madison Square Garden.
K.C. Rivers had 19 points for the Tigers (25-10)
and Trevor Booker added 13. Clemson will play West Virginia (26-9) for
the tournament championship on Thursday night. The Mountaineers edged
Mississippi State 63-62 on a three-pointer Darris Nichols at the buzzer
in Tuesday's opening semifinal.
Clemson lost the 1999 NIT final to California.
Tar Heel women returning to Final Four
The North Carolina women's basketball team
defeated Purdue 84-72 on Tuesday night to win the Dallas regional of the
NCAA Tournament.
Erlana Larkins led the Tar Heels (34-3) with 29
points and 10 rebounds. UNC-Chapel Hill made the Final Four for the
second straight season and faces Tennessee in Cleveland on Sunday.
March
28, 2007
Tigers, Calipari agree to pact through 2011-12
Memphis basketball coach John Calipari has
reached an agreement in principle which will extend the coach's contract
through the 2011-12 season.
The school's announcement of the lucrative deal
ended speculation in the media and among fans that Calipari would fill
the head coaching vacancy at Kentucky.
Calipari cited the school's strong support of
the Tigers basketball program as a key factor in his decision to extend
his tenure at Memphis.
Calipari has posted a record of 181-63 during
his seven seasons at Memphis. In his 15 years as a collegiate coach,
Calipari has amassed an overall record of 374-134.
Memphis won 25 in a row this season before
losing 92-76 to top-seeded Ohio State in the South regional final of the
NCAA Tournament.
ECU football depth chart set for release today
Three days after conducting their first official
intra-squad scrimmage of the spring, the East Carolina football team
returned to the Cliff Moore practice complex and turned in an
enthusiastic two-hour workout in shorts and helmets.
Third-year coach Skip Holtz and his staff are
nearing the completion of full game-tape evaluations and the development
of ECU's first public depth chart, scheduled for release on Wednesday
afternoon.
"For the most part, I think we accomplished what
we needed to Friday," Holtz said after reviewing the 120-plus-play
controlled scrimmage. "Our goals early in the spring are to solidify our
interior with the offensive and defensive lines and, from that
standpoint, we were able to get a lot of situational looks running the
football."
ECU has six more spring practice sessions
remaining, including a second scrimmage scheduled for Friday afternoon
and the Purple-Gold game on April 14.
"The longer we go into the spring, the deeper
we'll go into the team concept," Holtz said. "This week we'll key more
on down and distance orientation, such as first-and-10 and moving the
chains on third down, before working on getting our skill personnel in
open spaces with emphasis on our passing game the following week."
ECU's Eldridge named C-USA hitter of week
After helping East Carolina increase its winning
streak to 13 games, Pirate junior outfielder Harrison Eldridge has been
named the Conference USA hitter of the week.
Eldridge batted .533 (8-for-15) on the week and
helped the Pirates to a perfect 4-0 record, including a sweep of Memphis
in league play and its 13th consecutive win. In three of his four games
played, Eldridge collected two hits and scored two runs, while pushing
his career multi-hit games to 43. He scored eight runs from the lead-off
spot, had three RBI's, four doubles and two walks, raising his batting
average to .358, which ranks third on the team.
The league’s pitcher of the week honor went
Houston freshman left-handed pitcher Wes Musick, who had a career-best
outing in the Cougars shutout win at Central Florida on Saturday.
