Pirates Look to Rebound at Wichita State Saturday

Game 17: East Carolina (10-6, 2-1 American) at Wichita State (3-13, 0-3 American)
Date	Saturday, January 10
Time	3:00 p.m. (ET)
Location	Wichita, Kansas (Charles Koch Arena)
Media Coverage	Live Stats: StatBroadcast Streaming: ESPN+
Game Notes	East Carolina
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GREENVILLE, N.C. – The East Carolina women's basketball team travels to the Sunflower State on Saturday as they take on the Wichita State Shockers in a 3 p.m. contest in Charles Koch Arena.

The game will be available for streaming on ESPN+.

Last Time Out
The Pirates saw a close game at the half turn into a route in an 87-63 loss at North Texas on Tuesday night. Both teams led by as many as five in the early going but the Mean Green were able to get up by as many as nine before the halftime break before taking a five-point margin into the half. The second half saw things get away from ECU with a 13-2 run for North Texas opening the game up for good. The margin got up to as many as 28 in the fourth quarter.

Scouting Wichita State
The Shockers enter the game with a 3-13 record and riding a four-game skid following a 70-50 loss to Temple on Tuesday evening. Individually, Jaila Harding leads the group with 13.1 points per game with Abby Cater also scoring in double figures. No Wichita State player is averaging north of five rebounds per game and as a group, the team is only mustering 59.6 points per game on the season. That scoring output places them 294th in the NCAA, but where the team truly struggles is in the turnover battle with a whopping 19.2 giveaways per game. That ranks 301st in the nation.

Series History
The Pirates and Shockers have met a dozen times since first matching up as American Conference foes back in 2018. ECU leads the series, 8-4, including the last five in a row. Last season, the teams met only once, a Jan. 29 affair in Minges Coliseum which ended in a 72-62 Pirates victory. Amiya Joyner notched a double-double with 17 points and 13 rebounds in that game; while returning players Jayla Hearp and Anzhané Hutton both posted 15 points. Hutton also grabbed six boards in the game.

ECU versus...
ECU is 78-108 all time in American Conference regular season play and 36-56 in the McNeill era. ECU is 116-149 all time in games against current members of the American Conference.

ECU is 8-5 all time against schools from the state of Kansas (Kansas State, 1973) and 6-3 in the McNeill era.

Weekly Honors
After averaging 21.5 points and 8.5 rebounds last week, Keanna Rembert earned American Conference Player of the Week accolades on Monday. She scored a career-high 27 points with 11 rebounds and the game-winning three in overtime against UAB to highlight the week before putting up another 16 points in a win over Memphis.

North Texas Game Notables

Redshirt-junior guard hit three three-point shots to record the seventh game of her career with three-or-more made threes. Her career high remains five makes from just her fourth career game back on Nov. 16, 2022 in a win over High Point.
Senior guard Savannah Brooks had four steals for the second consecutive game. Brooks has four-or-more steals in three games this season.
North Texas forward Megan Nestor grabbed a game-high 17 rebounds while Chania Price also notched a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds.
Freshman forward Zaniah Zellous led ECU with seven rebounds. It was her third time leading ECU in rebounding this season.
ECU had three-or-more scorers in double figures for the 10th time this season.
ECU has made multiple three pointers in 23 consecutive games dating back to Feb. 15, 2025 vs. Charlotte.
North Texas grabbed 17 offensive rebounds in the game and out rebounded ECU, 48-33.
Both teams shot 64 times from the field with North Texas making 30 to ECU's 23. Both teams made six threes.
North Texas bettered ECU from the foul line, 21-27 to 11-18.
North Texas had 46 points in the paint to ECU's 28.

At the Helm
2025-26 is the Pirates' seventh under the tutelage of Kim McNeill. The program has an 97-97 record under her leadership.

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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Players Mentioned

Savannah Brooks

Jayla Hearp

Amiya Joyner

Keanna Rembert

Zaniah Zellous

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