EA Sports Downs East Carolina In Exhibition Game
November 12, 2002 | Men's Basketball
Erroyl Bing recorded a double-double, scoring a team-high 23 points and registering a game-high 10 rebounds, to lead the Pirates. Derrick Wiley added 13 points, while Moussa Badiane chipped in 11 points.
Vinson, who played collegiately at Georgia Tech, scored 19 of his 33 points before halftime. EA Sports connected on 9-of-21 three-point field goal attempts with former Utah standout Alex Jensen nailing the other two extra-point field goals. Jensen was the only other player for EA Sports to score double figures as he finished the game with 12 points.
The All-Stars led throughout the game building a 25-15 lead just over 12 minutes into the contest. The lead grew to 15 points at halftime, 41-26.
"It was the kind of basketball game that we needed," said Pirate head coach Bill Herrion. "We needed to play a very difficult and talented basketball team because I still think we have to find out where we are at as basketball team."
"It is early in the year and that was a heck of a team. I think tonight is going to help this basketball team."
ECU mounted a charge at the start of the second half and cut the lead to six, 44-38, less than four minutes into the period. The All-Stars then went on a 16-8 run over the next 6:15 to push its lead back to 14 and retained a double-digit lead until the game's final minute.
After a difficult first half shooting the basketball, ECU made 15-of-33 field goals after halftime and finished the game shooting 45.5 percent from the field. The Pirates outscored the All-Stars by seven in the second half, 42-35, and outrebounded them by 10, 41-31.
East Carolina opens the 2002-03 regular season at Middle Tennessee State in Murfreesboro on Nov. 22.
