An emotional, exhausting week of basketball ended for East Carolina on Saturday with the first double overtime game in Minges Coliseum in 13 years.
Houston made a few more plays down the stretch and eked out a 97-93 victory, but the Pirates enter a weeklong break between games having just played their best three American Athletic Conference games of the season.
North Carolina native Rob Gray Jr. tied his career high with 31 points and Gray’s backup, Wes VanBeck, nailed three key 3-pointers after Gray left the game with an ankle injury to seal the win for the Cougars.