BCA INVITATIONAL: OPENING LOSS FOR PEPPERDINE E. CAROLINA 80, PEPPERDINE 58.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services RALEIGH, N.C. - The Pepperdine men's basketball team got off to a good start in the first half of its season opener. The second half was another story. The Waves shot only 21 percent in the second half against East Carolina and lost 80-58 Wednesday in the first round of the BCA BCA Business Case Analysis BCA Building Code of Australia BCA Boeing Commercial Airplanes BCA Board of Contract Appeals BCA Boston Center for the Arts BCA Billiard Congress of America BCA Bureau of Criminal Apprehension BCA Breast Cancer Action Invitational at RBC Center Current arenas in the National Hockey League Western Conference Eastern Conference . The Waves led 39-33 at halftime but were outscored 47-19 in the second half. Pepperdine freshman Kingsley Costain, who played for the Canadian National Team Canadian National Team or Team Canada can mean various things:
Mike Cook scored a career-high 21 points and freshman Josh King made three 3-pointers during a decisive run, helping East Carolina rally past Pepperdine. The Waves made just 4 of 22 3-point attempts. Tom Hammonds
Tom Edward Hammonds (born March 27 1967 in Fort Walton Beach, Florida; nicknamed "Hambone" and "The Terminator") is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Washington added 14 for the Pirates (1-0), who play Oregon State, a 69-67 winner over Siena on Wednesday, in the second round. Pepperdine next plays Siena. East Carolina took the lead for good on a 3-pointer by Hammonds that started a 25-8 spurt midway through the second half. King added his shots from beyond the arc in a span of about 3 1/2 minutes, and Hammonds finished it off with an off-balance 3-pointer just before the shot clock expired. That made it 70-53, and Pepperdine never recovered. The Pirates played without center Moussa Badiane, who was suspended for one game because he played in a summer league that wasn't certified by the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association . He has 239 blocked shots in his first three years, 53 behind the Conference USA Conference USA, officially abbreviated C-USA, is a college athletic conference whose member institutions are located within the Southern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I in all sports. record set by Kenyon Martin Kenyon Lee Martin (born December 30, 1977 in Saginaw, Michigan), is an American professional basketball player. Nicknamed 'K-Mart', he currently plays at power forward for the National Basketball Association's Denver Nuggets. (Cincinnati). The Waves made only 2 of 13 shots while falling behind. Pepperdine had 17 turnovers and didn't score in the final 3:24. Senior forward Yakhouba Diawara Yakhouba Diawara (born August 29 1982 in Paris) is a French professional basketball player currently with the Denver Nuggets of the NBA. He is 6 ft 7 in and 225 lb (102.1 kg). , who averaged about 19 points a game last season, struggled with foul trouble and finished with only nine points. Senior Glen McGowan also was in foul trouble in the first half. He scored 11 points in 28 minutes and had a team-high eight rebounds. East Carolina completed the victory with a flourish as Corey Rouse got loose for powerful dunks on consecutive possessions. After the second one, Pepperdine coach Paul Westphal called a timeout and cleared his bench. Rouse scored 12 points and King had 11 points in his first game for the Pirates. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Pepperdine's Russell Hicks (33) defends against East Carolina's Jonathan Hart. Chuck Liddy/Associated Press |
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