Good morning! Happy NCAA Regionals Eve to all who celebrate!

As a reminder, in case it hasn’t consumed your every thought since Selection Monday like it has us, East Carolina takes on Oklahoma tomorrow at 7:00pm ET!

What are we serving up in today's Brew?

🏈 Kick times
⚾️ Throwback Thursday
​🏴‍☠️ And much, much more!

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 Let’s Kick It. East Carolina football’s schedule is coming into focus!

The American Athletic Conference announced select kickoff times and television assignments on Wednesday, with four Pirate games impacted:

📅 Saturday, Sept. 2 at Michigan: kickoff at noon ET on Peacock

📅 Saturday, Sept. 16 at Appalachian State: kickoff at 3:30pm ET on ESPN+

📅 Thursday, Oct. 12 vs. SMU: kickoff at 7:30pm ET on ESPN

📅 Saturday, Nov. 18 at Navy: kickoff TBD on an ESPN network

🔼 History Lesson. Before the chaos starts tomorrow in Charlottesville, let’s take a moment to appreciate just how much success East Carolina baseball has had lately.

🏴‍☠️ 33 NCAA Regional appearances

🏴‍☠️ Qualified for 19 of the last 24 NCAA Tournaments

🏴‍☠️ Cliff Godwin has made a Regional in seven of his eight seasons

🏴‍☠️ 40 wins for the fifth consecutive year

🔼 Throwback Thursday. We picked a random East Carolina baseball game from last year to reminisce on this morning, and we landed on June 4, 2022 against Virginia in the Greenville Regional, which the Pirates won 4-2.

ECU got five strong innings of one-run ball from C.J. Mayhue, and then stellar relief outings from Garrett Saylor, Carter Spivey and Zach Agnos.

Josh Moylan hit a two-run homer in the second inning to give the Pirates the lead, and Justin Wilcoxen added on with a round-tripper of his own to make it a 3-1 ballgame.

What’s that, East Carolina and Virginia are again in the same NCAA Regional? What a coincidence!

🤔 PIRATES TRIVIA

Under Center. Mike Houston needs to replace Holton Ahlers at quarterback this fall, after the lefty put together quite the career for the Pirates.

How many games did Ahlers start over his career for ECU?

Think you got it? Scroll on down to the bottom of this email for the answer!

⏪ ICYMI

We like our Brew hot n’ fresh. But we’re not opposed to you reheating your cup. Here’s some news you may have missed recently…

🏴‍☠️ Literacy Grant: A national library foundation grant will help ECU health sciences librarians conduct research about seasonal and migrant workers.

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📅 UPCOMING SCHEDULE

Friday 6/2

⚾️ Baseball vs Oklahoma - NCAA Charlottesville Regional @ 7:00pm ET | on ESPN2

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: 50!

Ahlers was a four-time team captain and set 10 school records during his time in purple and gold.

Have a great Thursday, y’all.