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Downward shift dooms optimistic Pirates

Maybe the best way to describe the East Carolina women’s basketball team’s surprisingly dismal season is to use the law of averages.

This on the heels of producing the best three-year run in school history in large part because of winning streaks, especially at home, and the Pirates’ crafty ability to carry positive momentum from game to game and week to week.

Sustaining that kind of momentum has been difficult. Once things shifted negatively — mainly during a nine-game losing streak that began in November — it evolved into a southbound train too strong to stop.

ECU (9-14, 3-8 American Athletic Conference), which plays at SMU tonight, is 1-5 in its last six games after losing 92-46 to No.