Graduate student Justice Gee kissed a three-pointer off the glass with seven seconds left to lift the ECU women’s basketball team to a thrilling 54-51 win over Virginia Sunday inside John Paul Jones Arena.
Bailey Hockman hit Emeka Emezie with a 26-yard go-ahead score early in the fourth quarter and connected with Thayer Thomas for three more scores through the air and NC State rallied to defeat Syracuse 36-29 Saturday.
Jericole Hellems scored 17 points on 7-for-12 shooting to lead four double-figure scorers and NC State raced away from North Florida 86-51 Friday night.
Devon Daniels scored a career-high 29 points and had 10 rebounds as North Carolina State rolled to a 95-61 victory over Charleston Southern in a season opener on Wednesday night.
Freshman Day’Ron Sharpe added 13 points and 10 rebounds and No. 16 North Carolina ran off 17 straight second-half points to beat College of Charleston, 79-60.
North Carolina State blocked Alex Barbir’s 39-yard field goal attempt with 1:18 left to beat No. 21 Liberty 15-14 on Saturday night, handing the Flames their first loss this season.
The Atlantic Coast Conference says this weekend’s game between Duke and Wake Forest won’t be played due to coronavirus issues and injuries within the Demon Deacons' football program.
No. 12 Miami had its remaining three games postponed because of COVID-19 cases in the program, forcing the Atlantic Coast Conference to reschedule a total of six games over the last month of the season.
Bailey Hockman threw for three touchdowns and ran for another against his former team as North Carolina State defeated Florida State 38-22 on Saturday night.
Grant Wells threw a season-high five touchdown passes and No. 16 Marshall commemorated the 50th anniversary of the worst disaster in U.S. sports history with a 42-14 victory over Middle Tennessee on Saturday.
Sam Howell threw for program records of 550 yards and six touchdowns, and scored the go-ahead rushing TD with 4:11 left to help North Carolina rally past Wake Forest 59-53 on Saturday.
Kinston's Dontrez Styles and Farmville Central's Terquavion Smith highlighted the first day of college athletics' early signing period Wednesday afternoon across Eastern North Carolina.
Get ready for ECU football’s seventh game of the season against No. 7 Cincinnati at Nippert Stadium on Friday, Nov. 13 (7:30 p.m. on ESPN2) with WITN Sports coverage throughout the week.
Holton Ahlers threw for 351 yards and three touchdowns. Thirteen of his 27 completions went to Blake Proehl for 182 receiving yards and two scores, one of which was a 75-yarder with 5:07 left to play.
Javonte Williams scored four first-half touchdown and UNC steamrolled rival Duke in a 56-24 victory Saturday afternoon, rebounding from a devastating loss a week earlier.
D’Eriq King threw five touchdown passes, the last a go-ahead 54-yard catch-and-run play with Michael Harley with 2:43 left, and No. 11 Miami rallied to beat North Carolina State 44-41 on Friday night.
Get ready for ECU football’s sixth game of the season against Tulane at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 7 (12 ET on ESPN+) with WITN Sports coverage throughout the week.
Mataeo Durant and Deon Jackson both scored on a pair of touchdown runs as Duke, aided by short scoring drives, defeated Charlotte 53-19 on Saturday night.
The American Athletic Conference said Saturday that replay officials in the East Carolina-Tulsa game erred when overturning a fumble call that would have ended what turned out to the the Golden Hurricane’s game-winning drive.
Tulsa’s 11-play, 75-yard final drive was aided by two questionable replays — a fumble that was overturned and a fourth-down catch that appeared to hit the ground.
Javonte Williams ran for 160 yards and three touchdowns to help No. 14 North Carolina beat No. 23 North Carolina State 48-21 in Saturday’s renewal of the longtime state rivalry.
The ECU athletic department will be temporarily furloughing some employees and implementing salary reductions for its entire staff, ECU Director of Athletics Jon Gilbert announced Monday in his “From The Helm” online message forum to Pirate Nation.
ECU freshman Mason Garcia made his first start in place of Holton Ahlers, who, along with a handful of other Pirates, had to sit following COVID-19 contract tracing.
UNC QB Sam Howell led three second-half touchdown drives to pull to 31-28. The Tar Heels (3-1) drove into Florida State territory but had drops on third and fourth down in the final seconds to end the comeback bid.
Cary Angeline and Thayer Thomas had second-half touchdown catches to help North Carolina State beat Duke 31-20 on Saturday despite losing starting quarterback Devin Leary to injury.
Kenneth Walker III had 123 yards rushing and three touchdowns, including the go-ahead 75-yard scoring, run, and Wake Forest beat Virginia 40-23 Saturday.
The ECU men’s basketball team held a virtual media Thursday to provide some insight into how the 2020-21 college basketball season could look like from the Pirates' perspective.
Michael Carter ran for a career-high 214 yards and two touchdowns -- including a 62-yarder midway through the fourth quarter -- to help eighth-ranked North Carolina beat No. 19 Virginia Tech 56-45 on Saturday.
Chase Brice threw for two touchdowns, Mataeo Durant rushed for 163 yards and two more scores, and Deon Jackson rushed for a career-high 169 yards and Duke finally won a game, holding off Syracuse 38-24 on Saturday.
Devin Leary threw two touchdown passes and Zonovan Knight ran for 101 yards and two scores, leading North Carolina State to a 38-21 victory over Virginia on Saturday.
Sam Howell completed 14 of 26 passes for 225 yards and two touchdowns, including a 41-yard score to Wallace-Rose Hill's Javonte Williams, in UNC's 26-22 win over Boston College Saturday.
Devin Leary hit Emeka Emezie for the go-ahead touchdown with 23 seconds remaining and North Carolina State stunned No. 24 Pittsburgh 30-29 on Saturday.
Holton Ahlers was 29-of-50 passing for 242 yards with no scores and three interceptions for ECU (0-2), which rushed for only 50 yards. Tyler Snead made 11 catches for 111 yards.
Christian Beal-Smith ran for three touchdowns and Donavon Greene returned a kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown as Wake Forest won for the first time this season by defeating Campbell, 66-14.
