Friday, November 11
Greenville, N.C.
5:30 PM
East Carolina University
vs
Greensboro
Gameday: ECU Hosts Macy's Alma Mater In Season Opener Friday
November 10, 2016 | Women's Basketball
| Game 1: East Carolina vs. Greensboro College | |
| Date | Friday, November 11 |
| Time | 5:30 p.m. (ET) |
| Location | Greenville, N.C. (Williams Arena in Minges Coliseum) |
| Coverage | Live Stats \\\ Watch Live \\\ WZMB Radio |
| Social Media | Twitter: @ECUScoreboard \\\ @ECUWomensHoops |
GREENVILLE, N.C. - The East Carolina women's basketball team will open its 2016-17 regular season at home for the first time in three seasons when it hosts Greensboro College on Friday, Nov. 11. Tip-off is scheduled for 5:30 p.m., at Williams Arena.
FOR STARTERS
Head Coach Heather Macy begins her seventh season leading the Pirates, who have averaged just shy of 20 wins per year since the start of the 2012-13 campaign. ECU returns four players from its 2015-16 roster and welcomes eight newcomers, including four freshmen.
MACY MEETS HER ALMA MATER
Tonight's game will be Macy's first against her alma mater after she graduated from Greensboro College in 2000. She was a four-year letterwinner for the Pride and ended her career 11th on the Pride's career scoring list and in the top 10 for assists. Macy and her teammates on the 1996-97 squad earned induction into the school's Hall of Fame in 2011.
NON-CONFERENCE HOME WINNING STREAK
East Carolina has won 19-straight regular-season home games in non-conference play, a stretch that began following a 72-62 defeat against College of Charleston on Nov. 17, 2012.
PIRATES PICKED SIXTH IN AMERICAN PRESEASON POLL
ECU was picked to finish sixth in the American Athletic Conference for the 2016-17 season according to a preseason poll of the league's head coaches. Connecticut was chosen as the unanimous preseason favorite with 100 points, ahead of Temple in second place (87) and USF in third (86). Tulane accumulated 73 points for fourth place, while SMU rounded out the top five with 50. East Carolina received 49 points in the poll and was ranked ahead of Memphis (47), UCF (41), Tulsa (33), Cincinnati (23) and Houston (16).
MACY ASCENDING ON ECU ALL-TIME COACHING WINS LIST
Macy needs just three wins to move into a tie with Catherine Bolton (1969-78) for the second-most wins by a head coach in program history. With 20 more victories, she will surpass Sharon Baldwin-Tener (2002-10), who tops the list with 126.
TOP-50 SIGNING CLASS ARRIVES
Freshmen Dominique Claytor, Alexis Cortez, Raven Johnson and junior Thais Oliveira, signed National Letters of Intent to play for the Pirates in November 2015, comprising the No. 49 overall class nationally, according to the Dan Olsen Collegiate Girls Basketball Report. The quarter marked ECU's first top-50 signing class in program history.
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