Clemson Tigers: Basketball Tonight vs. East Carolina

For a change, I decided to provide a link to East Carolina's media guide, rather than to the Tigers'. Here is the lead sentence from the ECU basketball media guide concerning tonight's storylines:

• East Carolina is hosting an Atlantic Coast Conference opponent for the time in almost 40 years Wednesday night as it welcomes the 17th ranked Clemson Tigers to Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum.

And while ad hominem arguments, or in this case, ad universitas, are generally logically fallacious, hopefully, the teaching of ordinal numbers is a skill a student of learning at ECU develops.

Now, concerning tonight's game,

The Pirates are coming off a surprising win against George Mason, as it was ECU's first win over a Div I opponent this year. And despite my earlier comments about ECU, the media squad did provide a nice chart comparing the Pirates and the Tigers:

	East Carolina	Clemson
Points Per Game	68.0	79.6
Opponent Points Per Game	67.0	62.4
Scoring Margin	+1.0	+17.1
Rebounds(avg.)	37.4	41.4
Opponent Rebounds (avg.)	37.0	36.4
Rebounding Margin	+0.4	+5.0
Field goal %	.421	.445
Opponent Field Goal 5	.418	.412
3 pt %	.336	.397
Opponent 3 pt %	.312	.279
Free Throw %	.687	.638
Assists	15.6	17.0
Steals	7.9	12.3
TO	17	16.4
TO Margin	+0.4	+5.0
Blocked Shots	3.7	6.7

If you prefer to read this information from the Clemson Site, click here.

The game is televised on CSS, which, being a TimeWarner customer, I have no idea what this channel is and nor do I get it.

So I will gametrack and listen via WCCP-online. Won't you join me?