The ECU men’s basketball team picked up an impressive victory over Delaware State on Saturday.
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Brycen Blaine scored a season-high 22 points as East Carolina defeated Delaware State behind a complete team effort, 72-48, inside Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum on Saturday.
Kaden Cooper added a season-high 11 points and grabbed eight boards for the Pirates (3-1) who opened the game with an 11-0 run and led wire-to-wire. Maxim Klitschko and Trevor Best both added eight points while Cian Medley recorded nine assists and Kaseem Watson tallied seven points and seven rebounds.
Nehemiah Reedus was the lone scorer in double figures for Delaware State (1-3) with 10 points.
After ECU opened the game on an 11-0 run, Delaware State closed the deficit to three with a 9-1 run capped off by a three-pointer from Reedus. The Hornets would not get any closer as ECU countered with an 11-4 spurt to extend its advantage to 23-13 with just under 10 minutes to go.
The Pirates went into the half in front for the fourth time in as many games and the lead ballooned to 20 early in the second half as Blaine drilled back-to-back threes and ECU maintained control of the game the rest of the way.
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