Sunday, December 14
Greenville, NC
4:00 p.m.
East Carolina University
vs
UNC Asheville
Women's Basketball Hosts UNC Asheville in ECU Hoops Double Header Sunday
December 13, 2025 | Women's Basketball
|  Game 11: East Carolina (5-5) vs. UNC Asheville (3-7)  | |
| Â Date | Â Sunday, December 14 |
| Â Time | Â 4:00 p.m. (ET) |
| Â Location | Â Greenville, N.C. (Minges Coliseum)Â |
| Â Tickets | Â Purchase Here |
|  Media  Coverage |
 Live Stats: StatBroadcast  Streaming: ESPN+ |
|  Game Notes |  East Carolina | UNC Asheville |
|  Social  Media |
 Twitter: @ECUWBB  Instagram: @ECUWBB |
GREENVILLE, N.C. – The East Carolina women's basketball team takes on the second game of a Sunday hoops double header with a 4 p.m. contest against UNC Asheville. Tickets are available for purchase and for those unable to attend the game will be available for streaming on ESPN+ with Evan Budrovich and Brittany Hoyt on the call.
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Last Time Out
The Pirates earned a 64-53 win over Elon last Sunday. The team used a strong defensive effort and a 21-point outing by Taylor Barner to pull away in the second half for the win. Kennedy Fauntleroy also scored in double figures with 14 but the story of the game might have been the efforts of the ECU second unit, keyed by Bobbi Smith, who entered the game in the third quarter and played with a frenetic effort to help the Pirates go up by as many as 19 points. Smith finished the day with six points, three rebounds, four assists, one block and one steal.
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Scouting UNC Asheville
The Bulldogs enter the game at 3-7 after dropping a 10-point loss to East Tennessee State in their last outing. Away from home, the team is just 1-3 entering Sunday, with a slightly better clip at home. Individually, Aileen Marquez and Nia Green are averaging in double figures with 12.1 and 11.7 points per gme with Green also leading the group with 6.0 rebounds per game. Contributing to their 3-7 record, the Bulldogs so far this season have negative margins in rebounding and turnovers per game with an assist/turnover ratio of 0.6.
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Series History
In a grand proximity anomaly, the Pirates and Bulldogs have played just twice ever. Both meetings came in the 1992 calendar year, once on March 3, then again on December 3. ECU won both games by scores of 83-63 and 92-58. In the spring '92 meeting, Rhonda Smith led the Pirates with a double-double on 22 points and 12 assists while Tara McMinn posted a very similar line for the Bulldogs with 22 points and 13 rebounds. In the next season's game, it was smith once again with a 26-point outing while Kim Samuels hauled in nine rebounds.
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ECU versus...
The Pirates are 50-12 all time against current members of the Big South and 9-3 in the McNeill era (1-2 High Point; 4-0 Charleston Southern; 1-1 Gardner-Webb; 1-0 Longwood; 2-0 USC Upstate).
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ECU is 221-150 all time against schools from the state of North Carolina and 15-10 in the McNeill era.
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Major Milestone
With a layup at the 9:03 mark of the third quarter, senior guard Savannah Brooks scored her 1,000th career point. Brooks has now scored 97 points as a Pirate. She scored 380 points for Coastal Carolina and 528 for Delaware State.
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Weekly Honors
Kennedy Fauntleroy earned another American Conference Weekly Honorable mention nod after averaging 15.5 points and two assists per game last week.
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National Rankings
Through 10 games, the Pirates rank 39th in the NCAA in turnover margin (+6.10) and 37th in turnovers forced per game (21.8). Individually, Kennedy Fauntleroy ranks 26th in the nation in steals with 30.
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Elon Game Notables
- The two teams combined for 19 turnovers in the first quarter (11 ECU; 8 Elon) — ECU had just two turnovers in the second quarter.
- 19 points allowed in the first half were the fewest allowed by ECU since Feb. 22, 2025 in a 75-73 2OT loss to North Texas.
- ECU assisted on six of eight made field goals in the first half.
- ECU used a 10-0 run in the fourth quarter to take the largest lead of the game (19) with 4:17 remaining in the game, 58-39.
- Taylor Barner led ECU in scoring with 21 points on 7-10 from the field and 7-7 free throws.
- Barner is now 24-28 (.857) from the foul line this season.
- ECU assisted on 16 of 21 made field goals.
- ECU forced 25 turnovers, the eighth time in 10 games forcing 20-or-more.
- ECU turned the ball over 29 times, the most since 34 on Dec. 29, 2024 at Tulsa.
- ECU has made multiple three pointers in 17 consecutive games dating back to Feb. 15, 2025 vs. Charlotte.
At the Helm Â
2025-26 is the Pirates' seventh under the tutelage of Kim McNeill. The program has an 91-97 record under her leadership.
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Reclaim
Each season the Pirates choose an important word, meaningful to the team, to put on the back of their practice jerseys. In 2025-26, the team chose the word "Reclaim", signifying the group's goals after a turbulent 2024-25 of returning to their roots as a defensive minded team, getting back to their standards as role models in the community and striving for excellence in the classroom.
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