East Carolina’s basketball team will have to beat Tulane tonight in order to avoid the longest losing streak of the Jeff Lebo coaching era.
ECU (10-17, 2-12 American Athletic Conference), which takes on the Green Wave in New Orleans at 8 p.m., dropped its sixth consecutive game on Sunday at then-No. 21 SMU, giving the Pirates two six-game skids in American play this season. Lebo has never lost more than six straight during his six-year East Carolina career.
Tulane (10-17, 3-11) has won two of its last three, and it needed at least one overtime to record each victory.