East Carolina’s men’s basketball team is thin at power forward, and it has nothing to do with the number of players at the position.

Junior transfer Maurice Kemp has been brilliant since becoming ECU’s starting four-man, but both he and backup power forward Robert Sampson have been overmatched, at least from a physical standpoint, in the Pirates’ first two Conference USA games this season.

The opposition dominated the offensive glass in ECU’s losses at Southern Miss last Wednesday and at home to Central Florida last Saturday and it’s due in large part to the fact that Kemp and Sampson were responsible for guarding players who outweighed them by a considerable amount.

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