For the second time in his career, Joe Dooley has been hired as East Carolina’s basketball coach. Nineteen years after ending his first four-year tenure with the Pirates and after five straight 20-plus win seasons […]
Two weeks ago, East Carolina turned to former athletic director Dave Hart to help stabilize a program knocked back by the unexpected departure of current leader Jeff Compher. Now it appears that the Pirates are […]
UNC Wilmington’s Devontae Cacok is averaging 17.5 points and leads the nation in rebounding at 13.4 per game and yet, it took until now to be recognized for the first time as the Colonial Athletic […]
The accomplishments Kevin Keatts had at UNC Wilmington this year were more than enough to earn him serious consideration for our Coach of the Year award. The Seahawks won their third straight Colonial Athletic Association […]
GREENSBORO — It hasn’t been that long since Roy Williams, his former assistant C.B. McGrath and their former player Wes Miller were all on the same basketball court coaching at the same time. Back in […]
GREENVILLE — Like everyone else associated with the East Carolina basketball team, B.J. Tyson was blindsided Wednesday by the unexpected resignation of coach Jeff Lebo. But once he got over the initial shock of the […]
North Carolina boasts both the NCAA defending champions and the 2017-18 season’s preseason No. 1. It’s no surprise to see the former, UNC, and the latter, Duke at the top of the heap, but each […]
CHARLOTTE — It’s an annual rite of fall, along with the changing of the leaves and the first morning frost. For the 19th time since the ACC began picking a preseason basketball poll in 1970, […]
Four in-state basketball teams have announced they will participate in a preseason exhibition “jamboree” on Sunday, Nov. 5 to raise money for Gov. Roy Cooper’s North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund. North Carolina will host the […]
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