East Carolina 82, at Texas-San Antonio 81

SAN ANTONIO (Interstat) — In a game defined by chaotic final seconds and a parade to the free-throw line, the East Carolina Pirates escaped the Convocation Center with a razor-thin 82-81 victory over the Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners in American Athletic Conference men’s basketball action Wednesday night. The contest, witnessed by 1,037 fans, was ultimately decided in the last three seconds as East Carolina’s Demitri Gardner calmly sank three consecutive free throws to erase a one-point deficit. The sequence was set up when Gardner was fouled by UTSA’s Dorian Hayes on a three-point attempt with the Pirates trailing 81-79. Gardner, a… Read more...