East Carolina (3/3/24)

[CMJ]

Probably need to win this to assure us no worse than the 7 seed.

[Matt from A700]

As I've harped on a lot already, I'll take the 7 seed with its 6 p.m. tournament game starts on Thursday and Friday. Right now, we'd play #10 Tulsa in the second round (first game).

Last weekend home game of the regular season... everyone #GetToThePit and bring a friend!!

Edited February 29 by Matt from A700

[Big Z]

8 hours ago, Matt from A700 said:

As I've harped on a lot already, I'll take the 7 seed with its 6 p.m. tournament game starts on Thursday and Friday. Right now, we'd play #10 Tulsa in the second round (first game).

Last weekend home game of the regular season... everyone #GetToThePit and bring a friend!!

It's not about what you want! 

[UNTLifer]

11 hours ago, Matt from A700 said:

Last weekend home game of the regular season... everyone #GetToThePit and bring a friend!!

We currently have 8 coming Sunday.

 

[NT80]

ECU hosts Memphis tonight, 6:00pm CT on ESPN2...

[NorthTexasWeLove]

Biggest game of the season. It separates the team from .500 and into the realm of respectability. It basically cements a seeding at the conference tourney. And it's the last home game before spring break, I believe. A big turnout would be nice. 

Check that, we get FAU at home. 

Edited February 29 by NorthTexasWeLove

[Big Z]

1 hour ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:

Biggest game of the season. It separates the team from .500 and into the realm of respectability. It basically cements a seeding at the conference tourney. And it's the last home game before spring break, I believe. A big turnout would be nice. 

Check that, we get FAU at home. 

Bro...what do you even know about UNT basketball? 

[CMJ]

1 hour ago, NT80 said:

ECU hosts Memphis tonight, 6:00pm CT on ESPN2...

That's a tough one to know who to root for to be honest.  Losses by either team could help us.

[NorthTexasWeLove]

53 minutes ago, Big Z said:

Bro...what do you even know about UNT basketball? 

Uhhh

[Shark84]

56 minutes ago, CMJ said:

That's a tough one to know who to root for to be honest.  Losses by either team could help us.

It would be better for us if East Carolina won against Memphis and then we beat them on Sunday. We would catch up with Memphis. We would have the tie breaker with both schools. 

[CMJ]

Or a loss by ECU would give us cushion should we lose to them in the rematch.  Like I said, both results could benefit us.

Edited February 29 by CMJ

[BigWillie]

14 minutes ago, CMJ said:

Or a loss by ECU would give us cushion should we lost to ECU in the rematch.  Like i said, both results could benefit us.

Yeah, this one worries me. They might have had it circled on the calendar since last time when their coach punched the wall.

[Matt from A700]

What I like about staying put as the 7 seed besides the tournament game start times is right now we'd be facing Tulsa. We only played and beat them once. The natural anger and motivation to beat us would not be as strong in my opinion as a team who we've played and beaten twice like a Tulane and possibly ECU. The 6 seed would currently face the winner of Tulane/UTSA.

The one benefit of being the 6 seed is if we beat Tulane/UTSA is that right now we'd play No. 3 Charlotte instead of the No. 2 FAU in the quarterfinal like the 7 seed would. Charlotte and FAU have the same conference record but Charlotte's been trending downwards lately and I would give more confidence in FAU to claim the second seed.

The longer we can go before facing FAU, Memphis, and UAB the better. The thought of playing SMU also makes me nervous naturally although I know with a good start time we could triple their turnout.

[NT80]

43 minutes ago, Matt from A700 said:

The longer we can go before facing FAU, Memphis, and UAB the better. The thought of playing SMU also makes me nervous naturally although I know with a good start time we could triple their turnout.

You won't have to worry about any $mut turnout at Dickies Arena in the AAC Tourney...

[Big Z]

Memphis just took a massive dump in East Carolina's mouth winning 82-58

[Matt from A700]

Some good news on the attendance front: it looks like the storm that was previously being forecasted for Sunday has cleared up.

[Big Z]

28 minutes ago, Matt from A700 said:

Some good news on the attendance front: it looks like the storm that was previously being forecasted for Sunday has cleared up.

How’s the pollen in the air looking ?

[Matt from A700]

1 hour ago, Big Z said:

How’s the pollen in the air looking ?

High for Sunday. 🤧

[ZacSr]

18 hours ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:

Biggest game of the season. It separates the team from .500 and into the realm of respectability. It basically cements a seeding at the conference tourney. And it's the last home game before spring break, I believe. A big turnout would be nice. 

Check that, we get FAU at home. 

There will be a lot of fans, I have no doubt about that. It's an important game. And I think there's every chance to win it.

Hello, everyone!

[Ross Hodgeson]

2 hours ago, ZacSr said:

There will be a lot of fans, I have no doubt about that. It's an important game. And I think there's every chance to win it.

Hello, everyone!

Welcome!

[Matt from A700]

Another perspective: my season tickets are front row on the baseline, and the closest they could get the three extra tickets I requested was Row K.

[CMJ]

NT 4 ---------- ECU 2

 

16:00 to go

 

Took awhile to score.  Both squads playing well on the defensive end.

Edited March 3 by CMJ

[flyonthewall]

Anybody know where rondel is?

[CMJ]

ECU 21 ---------- NT 20

 

8:30 to go

 

Offenses have exploded the last few minutes - Jones leading the way for us.

[Matt from A700]

It's not Spring Break yet is it? Where are the students?