Gameday: ECU Begins Final Road Trip At Tulsa

Game 28: at Tulsa Golden Hurricane
Date:	Sunday, March 3, 2019
Time:	4 p.m. EST / 3 p.m. CST
Location:	Tulsa, Okla. (Donald W. Reynolds Center)
Live Game Coverage:	Radio: WNBB 97.9 FM \| TuneIn Radio Online Video Stream: ESPNU
Internet Options:	Live Stats
Game Notes:	ECU (PDF) \| Tulsa (PDF) \| The American

ECU looks for its first win at the Reynolds Center since 2013 as it heads to Tulsa to take on the Golden Hurricane (17-12, 7-9 The American) Sunday, March 3 at 4 p.m. EST / 3 p.m. CST. The game will be televised on ESPNU.

The Pirates will then make the short drive across the Oklahoma-Kansas border for its first-ever game at Wichita State on Tuesday, March 5 at 9 p.m. / 8 p.m. CST, which will be televised on CBS Sports Network.

It'll be the second time in two weeks that ECU and Tulsa will be squaring off after the Golden Hurricane earned a 77-73 overtime win in Greenville on Feb. 17. ECU sophomore Shawn Williams made a career-high eight 3s in the game and finished with 27 points, but it was Sterling Taplin's 3-pointer with 13 seconds left in overtime that lifted TU to victory.

ECU has just one victory over Tulsa in its last 10 meetings and will be looking to snap a four-game losing streak in the series and five-game slide at the Reynolds Center.
The Pirates are coming a 99-65 loss to No. 8 Houston Wednesday, yielding a season-high 60.3 percent shooting to the Cougars, who finished 35-of-58 from the field and 13-of-28 outside the 3-point arc.

Junior Seth LeDay came off the bench to score 14 points, while the Pirates' leading scorer Jayden Gardner had 14 and Isaac Fleming had 13.

Williams, who had scored a combined 53 points in the previous two games, was held to just four points.

He has been the Pirates' hottest shooter recently, sinking 54.2 percent of 3-point attempts (19-of-35) the last five games. Williams' ranks fifth in The American with 2.5 3-point made field goals per game.

Gardner, who has scored 30 points in a game three times this season, stands 31 points shy of surpassing Lester Lyons as the school's all-time leading freshman scorer entering the contest with 463 points.

He is the only player in the conference to rank among the Top 10 in scoring (sixth) and rebounding).

Tulsa snapped a two-game skid with a 72-64 win over Tulane Thursday. Martins Igbanu and Curran Scott scored 19 points apiece and the Golden Hurricane shot 58.3 percent in the second half to complete a 16-point comeback victory.

Igbanu ranks second in the conference with a 62.1 field goal shooting percentage and has made 25-of-29 shots over the last four games.

Daquan Jeffries leads Tulsa in scoring at 13.4 points per game and rebounding with 5.6 boards per contest. Igbanu is second with 12.5 ppg followed by Taplin with 10.0 ppg.

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Players Mentioned

Isaac Fleming

Jayden Gardner

Seth LeDay

Shawn Williams

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