East Carolina Pirates vs Rice Owls

American Athletic Conference Championship - Final

19-14, 9-9 American

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Rice RICE	18	16	12	15	61
East Carolina ECU	3	14	12	12	41

East Carolina PiratesEast CarolinaECU

19-14, 9-9 American

Rice Owls

starters
Malia FisherM. Fisher#1
Sussy NgulefacS. Ngulefac#35
Trinity GoodenT. Gooden#32
Emily KlaczekE. Klaczek#2
Destiny JacksonD. Jackson#5
bench
Fatou SambF. Samb#33
Kennedy CliftonK. Clifton#23
Layla ConleyL. Conley#12
Pace RickardP. Rickard#4
Jazzy Owens-BarnettJ. Owens-Barnett#30
Hailey AdamsH. Adams#20
Maya BokunewiczM. Bokunewicz#14
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
26	13	5-13	3-5	0-0	8	2	2	0	0	1	7	4
34	15	6-9	0-0	3-4	11	0	2	1	0	4	7	3
28	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	2	3	1	2	1	1	1	4
39	14	5-12	4-8	0-0	7	2	1	0	0	1	6	1
33	10	2-9	0-0	6-8	8	4	4	4	0	2	6	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	6	2-3	2-2	0-0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2
19	0	0-4	0-0	0-0	2	4	0	0	0	0	2	0
7	3	1-3	1-2	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	61	21-55	10-18	9-12	43	16	15	8	1	10	33	16
		38%	56%	75%

East Carolina Pirates

starters
Tatyana WycheTat. Wyche#2
Amiya JoynerA. Joyner#23
Khia MillerK. Miller#11
Karina GordonK. Gordon#3
Danae McNealD. Mcneal#22
bench
Taliyah WycheTal. Wyche#00
Bobbi SmithB. Smith#14
Kimora JenkinsK. Jenkins#24
Morgan MoseleyM. Moseley#12
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
24	4	1-4	0-0	2-2	3	0	2	0	3	2	1	2
30	6	3-8	0-0	0-0	8	2	4	0	2	1	7	4
34	2	0-7	0-3	2-2	2	3	0	1	0	1	1	3
34	5	2-5	1-3	0-0	6	1	2	1	0	0	6	1
35	14	4-14	0-1	6-11	3	1	2	2	2	0	3	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
19	8	4-5	0-0	0-3	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
15	2	0-3	0-0	2-2	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	1
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
8	0	0-3	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
	41	14-49	1-8	12-20	29	7	11	8	7	7	22	15
		29%	13%	60%

Rice wins American tournament, NCAA tournament spot

1:40

Malia Fisher nails it from behind the arc

0:16

Taliyah Wyche gets the And-1

0:22

Game Information

Fort Worth, TX

Referee:Maj Forsberg

Referee:Karen Preato

NCAA Division I

American Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Rice	17-1	-	29-6
East Carolina	14-4	3	22-10
South Florida	13-5	4	20-12
Tulsa	11-7	6	19-12
North Texas	11-7	6	19-14
UTSA	9-9	8	18-16
Temple	8-10	9	15-17
Charlotte	8-10	9	14-18
Florida Atlantic	7-11	10	14-18
Tulane	6-12	11	11-20
Wichita State	5-13	12	8-23
UAB	4-14	13	11-19
Memphis	4-14	13	10-21

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