East Carolina women’s basketball players and coaches have talked for weeks — maybe months — about the team’s schedule and how some nonconference tournament games were scheduled to test the Pirates and hopefully strengthen their NCAA tournament resume.
This is one of those tournaments.
After ECU, which received a vote in the latest USA Today Top 25 coaches poll, rolled to five relatively easy wins to begin its campaign, the Pirates begin to ramp things up today with three games in three days in Austin, Texas, against teams with similar postseason aspirations. As part of the Lone Star Showcase, ECU plays Creighton tonight at 8:30 p.