PONTE VERDA BEACH, Fla. — The East Carolina men’s golf team finished the JU Invitational in fourth place.

ECU carded a final score of 901 to finish the event four strokes ahead of fifth-place Charleston Southern and Liberty.

David Watkins led the Pirates with a 12-over par 228 to tie for 15th.

Coyne earns C-USA honor

East Carolina sophomore Meghan Coyne has been named Conference USA Co-Diver of the Week along with Houston’s Anastasia Pozdniakova.

Coyne and Pozdniakova both captured first-place finishes in the 1-meter and 3-meter dives.

Coyne set an East Carolina pool record on the 1-meter dive with a score of 272.78 and earned first-place honors in a dual meet against William & Mary on Saturday. As an encore, the sophomore also won the 3-meter dive with a score of 260.50. This is her fifth Diver of the Week award this season and sixth of her career.

Moore scores 25 for Purdue

EAST LANSING, Mich. — E’Twaun Moore scored a season-high 25 points and JaJuan Johnson added 19, lifting No. 6 Purdue to a 76-64 victory over No. 10 Michigan State on Tuesday night.

The Boilermakers (20-3, 8-3) have won six straight, while the Spartans (19-6, 9-3) have lost three in a row to lose their commanding lead in the Big Ten.

Kalin Lucas played after missing a game with a sprained right ankle. He gave Michigan State a three-point lead with 13:16 left in the first half.

, then Purdue scored twice as much as the Spartans the rest of the first half to take a 47-33 lead.

Michigan State trailed by 18 points early in the second half, but pulled within three with 4 1/2 minutes left.

Heels host Duke tonight

CHAPEL HILL — Ed Davis walks to class wearing headphones like a shield against the negative vibe hanging over the North Carolina campus. Teammate Deon Thompson goes one better, rarely venturing out into public any more than he has to these days.

“I just try to stay out of sight,” the senior said. “It’s just tough to be around people when you’re losing.”

That’s never supposed to be a problem at a storied program that boasts five NCAA championships, 18 Final Fours and nearly 2,000 total victories. Yet when the defending champion Tar Heels host rival Duke tonight, they’ll be in a position few could have imagined: unranked, near the bottom of the Atlantic Coast Conference and hurtling toward the NIT.

North Carolina (13-10, 2-6 ACC) has lost seven of nine games since the start of 2010 after earning a No. 6 preseason ranking and entering the year as ACC co-favorites with the eighth-ranked Blue Devils (19-4, 7-2).

In the past month, the Tar Heels have twice set the record for their worst loss under Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams, lost their past two home games by double figures to unranked opponents and trailed by at least 19 points in five games.

Things have gotten so bad that Thompson joked that he’s ordering delivery food under an assumed name.

“Like coach said,” he said, “how much worse can it get, you know?”

Games tonight

Tulane at East Carolina, 7 p.m.

Lenoir CC at Pitt Community College, 7 p.m.