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Proponents of landmark ban hope to ‘lead the way’ for others | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALBANY, N.Y. — Jumping out ahead of Washington, New York state enacted the nation’s toughest gun restrictions Tuesday and the first since the Connecticut school massacre, including an expanded assault-weapon ban and background checks for buying ammunition. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Common sense measure into law less than an hour after it can win. You can won final passage in the Legislature, with overpower the supporters hailing it as extremists with a model for the nation and gun-rights activ- intelligence and ists condemning it as with reason and a knee-jerk piece of legislation that won’t with common make anyone safer and sense. is too extreme to win support in the rest of ANDREW CUOMO, the country. Democratic governor “Common sense can win,” Cuomo said. “You can overpower the extremists with intelligence and with reason and with common sense.” Owners of an estimated 1 million previously legal semiautomatic rifles, such as the Bushmaster model used to kill 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Conn., a month ago, will be allowed to keep their weapons but will have a year to register them with police. The sale of any more such weapons is prohibited. “When there’s a pileup of events, when the federal government does not do it, the state of New York has to lead the way,” said state Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, a Brooklyn Democrat and co-sponsor.
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From left, Hannah Lindgren, MacKenzie Cox and Sarah Fischer pose with books written by John Green on Tuesday. All three students consider themselves part of the Nerdfighter community, a concept created by fans of the author and his brother.
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eadheads, Trekkies, Potterheads. Each of these represents a person who claims to be a super fan of something, whether it’s music, television or books. Another term that can be added to this is Nerdfighters.
We don’t fight nerds,” said MacKenzie Cox, a sophomore secondary math education major. “We fight for nerds. We fight for the acceptance of nerds.” Nerdfighters can simply be described as fans of brothers John and Hank Green. John Green is an award-winning novelist of books such as “Looking for Alaska” and “Paper Towns.” His most recent novel, “The
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Fault of Our Stars,” released Jan. 10, 2012, was named TIME Magazine’s No. 1 Fiction Book of 2012. Hank Green is a musician and the creator and executive producer of “The Lizzie Bennett Diaries,” a webseries modernizing Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.”
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For the first time in the university’s history, immersive learning projects are receiving awards for excellence in student development. Ball State instructors from 24 departments in all seven colleges met in L.A. Pittenger Center to award outstanding immersive learning projects Tuesday night . “This is the first of what we believe will be an annual celebration of immersive learning,” Ball State President Jo Ann Gora said. Provost Terry King said 31 projects were completed throughout the past two years and were nominated for awards. Five awards were given out, a number that King said was
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Five immersive learning groups were given an award for their projects Tuesday evening in L.A. Pittenger Center. Twenty-four departments in all seven colleges met to honor the immersive learning courses.
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NEW YORK — Why wait on Washington when there’s Wal-Mart? Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer and the biggest private employer in the U.S. with 1.4 million workers here, said Tuesday that it is rolling out a threepart plan to help jumpstart the sluggish U.S. economy. The plan includes hiring more than 100,000 veterans in the next five years, spending $50 billion to buy more American-made merchandise in the next 10 years and helping its part-time workers TWEET US
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Timothy Berg, an assistant professor of history, right, talks to students Erin Bretz and Matthias Dorau about the study abroad options available to all students on Sept. 12, 2012. This semester’s study abroad fair is open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today.
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Program leaders and past study abroad participants will represent more than 250 programs at the study abroad fair today. The fair, which will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Atrium, will offer more individualized information for students interested in studying abroad. “Primarily it is just an opportunity for students to connect on a more personal level with representatives of the programs,” said John Jensen, director of Study Abroad. “Many times you are getting info via email or online; this is an opportunity to talk to past participants and program leaders in person.” The Ball State Federal Credit Union will also have representation available for students who have financial
questions. Jensen said every student should be able to study abroad and graduate in four years as long as they start looking early and prepare with academic advisers and financial aid. “Now so many careers, whether they are located here in the United States or overseas, choose to have some type of international component to them, and students have to be better prepared for the global environment they are about to enter,” Jensen said. Timothy Berg, an assistant professor of history, will represent Ball State’s Worcester, England Center for Summer 2013 at the fair. “We’re going to have a lot of different programs represented so they can kind of treat it like a study abroad shopping mall,” Berg said. “They can go from table to table and pick up brochures and talk to the faculty. They can just sort of compare and contrast what will be best for them.” Berg said the Worcester study abroad is a five-week program in which 20 to 30
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students will travel to England and focus on humanities, art and history. “Study abroad is one of those things where if you can afford to do it and make it work for you, then it is one of those things not to be missed,” Berg said. “It really extends your education beyond the classroom and teaches you a lot of life skills and life lessons like taking care of yourself and experiencing diversity and challenges. “A lot of those things are intangible — they don’t really show up on the syllabus but they are important.”
NEW YORK: Opponents claim measure is leader’s ‘political agenda,’ unsafe | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 In addition to outlawing a broader array of militarystyle weapons, the measure restricts ammunition magazines to seven rounds, down from the current 10, creates a more comprehensive database of people barred from owning guns and makes New York the first state to require background checks to buy bullets. The system will also help flag customers who buy large amounts of ammo. In another provision, therapists, doctors and other mental health professionals will be required to tell state authorities if a patient threatens to use a gun illegally. The patient’s weapon could then be taken away. Richard Aborn, president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, said Cuomo clearly understood gun violence is a complex issue requiring broader solutions than simply banning a particular weapon. “I think that’s an important message for the nation,” he said. In a statement, the National Rifle Association said: “These gun control schemes have failed in the past and will have
no impact on public safety and crime.” “While lawmakers could have taken a step toward strengthening mental health reporting and focusing on criminals, they opted for trampling the rights of lawabiding gun owners in New York, and they did it under a veil of secrecy in the dark of night,” the NRA said. New York’s law passed the state Senate, which is run by a Republican-dominated coalition, 43-18 Monday night. The Democrat-controlled Assembly approved it 104-43 Tuesday afternoon. Republicans complained the measure was rammed through the Legislature and infringes on the Second Amendment right to bear arms. “A lot of people say, ‘Why do you need these guns?’” said Assemblyman James Tedisco, a Schenectady Republican. “It’s part of the freedoms and liberties we have. ... It’s for our public safety. It’s to protect us from our own government.” He said the bill was dangerous because it would give people a “false sense of well-being.” “You are using innocent children killed by a madman for
your own political agenda,” he said. “You are actually making people less safe.” Tom King, president of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, questioned whether other states or the federal government would follow New York’s lead. Previously, New York state law on assault weapons banned semiautomatics that have detachable magazines and at least two militarytype features, such as a pistol grip, folding stock, muzzle flash suppressor or bayonet mount. The new law outlaws weapons with just one of those features. It also requires background checks for even private gun sales, except those among immediate family. In addition, it says handgun owners must renew their licenses every five years, and it increases prison sentences for using guns in various crimes or taking them onto school grounds. “By making this a priority, the governor has not only saved lives but will hopefully inspire leaders in Washington also to take swift action,” said Dan Gross, president of the national Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
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Earth in 2010. Since the $2.5 billion Curiosity mission launched in 2011, engineers have been troubleshooting an issue with the rover’s drill in which flakes of Teflon can break off and get mixed with the rock samples. Cook said the contamination should not affect the mission. “We are reasonably confident that it’s something that we’ll be able to work our way around,” he said. As the most high-tech interplanetary rover, Curiosity has been on a slow streak since its action-packed arrival. Grotzinger said the pace of the mission was “100 percent discoverydriven” and can’t be rushed. Already, Curiosity has lingered longer than expected at its current location because scientists have been captivated by the sedimentary rocks that differ from the pebbles found at the landing site. After some last-minute studies, the rover will head to the rock outcrop dubbed “John Klein” after a mission team member who died in 2011. Curiosity’s ultimate goal is to drive to the base of Mount Sharp, a six-month journey with no stops. The plan is to begin the road trip after drilling is complete with pauses along the way.
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“This is just what we do,” Daehn said. “We got together to create this thing. My partner said it can help kids so I said, ‘Well we had better do it then.’” Gora said the most important aspect of immersive learning projects is taking what students learn in the classroom and putting it to work in the community. “What immersive learning projects do is require students to work in a team and do something of value,” Gora said. “That is, in a sense, what the workplace is all about.” Adam Vaughn, a senior philosophy major and an associate editor of Stance, a philosophybased publication that received an award Tuesday, said working entirely with undergraduates and within groups gave him management skills he had never used before. “This experience allows me to know how to work with philosophy rather than just do philosophy,” Vaughn said. Judy Huhn, who works for Building Better Communities, an office that helps community businesses partner with immersive learning projects, said she sees students working in the very businesses they had formerly volunteered with. “Students say, ‘I just got out of an interview and the only thing I
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talked about was my immersive learning project,’” Huhn said. Huhn said the best part of these projects, and why students should become involved, is the sense of community and the ability for students to help grow the
community they work in. “When you can see young talent going into non-profit organizations and those organizations are helping to build up the community or stimulate the economy, that is an incredibly powerful feeling,” Huhn said.
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Blevins’ friend Jimmy Guerrero finds his glove joke just as amusing. It has even rubbed off on him. Skyler Blevins loves lost gloves. “I send a picture to Skyler He even has a Facebook album anytime I see a glove,” Guerrero dedicated to them. said. “I say, ‘Hey, there’s your The sophomore glove!’” telecommunication sales major’s Although it started as an adoration of entertaining people entertaining encounter, Blevins through video blogging and said it has become more of a hobby. YouTube videos has formed Whether it be biking gloves, into a creative pastime. Rather half gloves, mittens or children’s than strolling by a stray glove on gloves, Blevins doesn’t have a the ground, Blevins captures a preference. He has come across cellphone picture and documents all types whether physically or it on social media sites such as virtually. Facebook and Twitter. “I was playing Words with “It puts a smile on my face,” Friends and somebody wrote Blevins said. “I can bring ‘glove,’” Blevins said. “I happiness to people by thought it was funny, so just posting pictures of I had to put that in my gloves.” Facebook album.” Blevins’ glove antic Recording 50 gloves started two years ago in his Facebook album, while walking with a Blevins estimates friend. He found a glove finding more than 100 on the ground and gloves. shouted, “Oh, there it Although he does not is! I’ve been looking for SKYLER BLEVINS keep these hand warmers that!” The joke has been sophomore who or give them to missing ongoing ever since. documents lost item collections, he has “I don’t go out gloves just for pondered the thought. searching for them,” the fun of it “I don’t know where Blevins said. “If I see one they have been,” Blevins I just take a picture. In said. “Most of them the winter months, I see at least are dirty and you never know one everyday.” if someone left it there for a This one-time occurrence turned reason.” into a consistent amusement for Walking on a busy campus, this member of Ball State’s improv Blevins has discovered other comedy group ABSO. miscellaneous items like scarves, “It has become a part of my hats and even a thong. humor,” he said. “Some people While strolling to his car one are kind of weirded out by it but I day, Blevins realized his own don’t care what they think.” glove was missing. Blevins posts the pictures in “I found it very ironic,” Blevins his Facebook album titled, “Oh, said. there’s my glove.” Although there is no rhyme or Aside from physically “liking” reason for this glove detector, he these missing glove photos on compares it to stumbling upon social networking sites, Blevins’ something most people search for. Facebook friends enjoy his “When I’m not looking, they humorous act and often tell him normally pop-up,” Blevins said. how it brightens their day. “Just like love.” CONSTANCE HARCOURT STAFF REPORTER cmharcourt@bsu.edu
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Ball State is moving along in the digital-era, with a the addition of a new interactive tablet magazine that promotes the university’s online and distance learning programs. ILearn Magazine debuted Friday and is available for the iPad, downloadable for free from the Apple App Store. ILearn is meant to spotlight online and blended classes at Ball State, and developments in online learning. It can serve as a resource for faculty and students involved with teaching or taking distance learning classes. “I think you can learn a lot from reading on the tablet,” said Ellen Collier, the lead designer for the app . “There are different elements you can’t get with a newspaper, interactive elements. [There is information] about online education and I think stu-
dents should be able to get something out of it.” Collier, a sophomore journalism major and former chief designer for the Daily News, was selected as part of her job with the Digital Publishing Studio. For this project, she worked with marketing and communications to learn how to design in Ball State’s style, created designs to match the content and learned how to put together interactive elements. The Integrated Learning Institute developed the magazine as a communication tool to open up the conversation about what it does — serve faculty members developing and teaching online classes. Ball State is gaining attention with more than just the iLearn magazine. On Monday, U.S. News and World Report released the rankings for best online bachelor’s programs, ranking Ball State at No. 20. The rankings were generated based on graduation rates, student debt post-graduation and academic and career support services. Nancy Prater, director of Marketing and Communica-
tions, Online and Distance Education, said iLearn magazine is trying to communicate Ball State’s success in integrated learning — success that was reaffirmed with the ranking. “We are doing a lot in the state, even in the nation that is cutting edge for online education,” she said. “This magazine is to help tell our stories. Within that ranking, we scored 11 for faculty training and credentials and that speaks well to the Integrated Learning Institute.” The issue is the first of what will be a biannual magazine, published in the winter and summer. Collier is going to work on the next issue, which will be released in May. “It was a great learning experience. It’s a great clip for my portfolio; I can show someone that I have an app in the Apple store. It was all worth it,” she said. The summer issue, which will focus on analytics and the online classroom, will also be available on the Android Marketplace. Prater said iLearn is geared toward a specific audience
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and for that reason, it may not reach a large following, but the right audience could benefit from it. “This isn’t something for everyone, but for faculty members who might be interested in online and blended learning,” she said. “We’re going into a niche audience so if we had 2,000 eyes, the right kind of eyes [that would be great].”
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Ball State alumnus Paul Weller,, left, and Hannah Lindgern pose for a photo during Vidcon held June 26 to 30 in Anaheim, Calif. Weller regularly works with Lindgern on cinematography projects.
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Together, they are known as the Vlog Brothers. The duo creates videos for a YouTube channel under this name for both educational and entertainment purposes. According to a Nerdfigther fan site, the brothers began the project in 2007 as a way to reconnect with each other, even though John lives in Indianapolis and Hank lives in Montana. Six years later, their channel is still running with about 1,000 videos, more than 900,000 subscribers and nearly 300 million video views. “Being a Nerdfighter means completely different things to each individual person,” said Hannah Lindgren, a senior film and TV studies telecommunications major. Lindgren said the label can be put on people who are fans only of John’s books or only of the VlogBrothers channel. But for some it goes far beyond that, she said. “[It] involves who you are as a person. Nerdfighters are caring, empathetic, giving and want to help Worldsuck,” Lindgren said, referring to a term coined by the Greens as the amount of “suck” in the world.
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Lindgren is wrapping up her senior honors thesis, which is a film called “A Film to Decrease Worldsuck.” Originally, she intended to focus on the brothers, but they were unable to do interviews with her, so she changed course. “It would be the story of Nerdfighteria told by Nerdfighters, for Nerdfighters,” said Lindgren, who anticipates finishing the film by the end of March. Once it is completed, a grant she received from the Ball State Aspire program will allow her to host 10 screenings of her film worldwide. However, she’s not just talking the talk of Nerdfighters working to decrease Worldsuck – she’s helping them take a step in this direction. “Each screening will be tied to a local charity,” Lindgren said. “For example, our screening in Indianapolis in May will be to help Indy Reads, a used bookstore that helps promote adult literacy and holds classes. The admission fee to get into the screening will be a donation of a used book.” Lindgren’s project has been a worldwide collaborative endeavor. She traveled to VidCon in Anaheim, Calif., last summer to spread the word and begin collecting footage. Lindgren has been able to set up a program where she has Nerdfighters collecting interviews from all over the world. So far she has received interviews from people in places such as Boston, Washington, D.C., Ireland and Argentina. This reinforces what Cox believes is one of the core aspects of Nerdfighteria: community. “It’s being accepted in a world where there’s not much acceptance,” Cox said. “I remember the moment I called myself a Nerdfighter, and you felt like it was supposed to happen, like you’re supposed to be a Nerdfighter, like you’re supposed to
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be where you are. “You feel like you’re part of the whole that matters; you feel like the world has stopped spinning for about 30 seconds.” But Cox doesn’t think a Nerdfighter necessarily has to be a Green fan. “If you’re interested in something obscure, or weird, then I think, by definition, you are a Nerdfighter,” she said. Cox said she receives messages from friends wanting to know what John Green books they should read because they’re not Nerdfighters, but she assures them that they are already Nerdfighters because they want to read.
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On campus, people don’t need to look far to find a fellow Nerdfighter. “When you find out that someone else is a Nerdfighter, you’re like, ‘Oh, they’re really cool,’ and you know you probably have stuff in common with them,” Tara Olivero, a junior education major, said. “I have Nerdfighter friends in real life, like through high school and college, and also on the Internet, so it’s cool to have those two different places where you can have a community of people that you can talk to.” The Ball State Nerdfighter Facebook group consists of more than 40 members. Even outside of that group, Olivero said she’s seen a lot of people on campus wearing Nerdfighter T-shirts or items with the Nerdfighter slogan of sorts: DFTBA, or Don’t Forget To Be Awesome. “It’s a reminder for all of us that [we] are full of awesome,” Cox said. “We are people who are capable of being awesome, and we must live that awesomeness every day to it’s fullest; that even though we are nerds, we are just as much human as everyone else.” Although what each individual takes away from John and Hank Green is different, the brothers have ultimately created an environment for people to connect with one another on a deep level while still feeling safe. “Meeting Nerdfighters has shown me how much [John] and Hank have affected the lives of others, and seeing how much of an inspiration they are to others has inspired me,” Lindgren said. “Nerdfighters have given me hope for my generation and the generations just below mine.”
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Over the past two Mid-American Conference games, Eastern Michigan and Kent State have put extended pressure on Ball State ball handlers, seemingly preying on the team’s biggest problem all season long: turnovers. The Cardinals escaped Ypsilanti, Mich., with a win last week despite tying a season-high with 19 turnovers. On Saturday, they weren’t so lucky. Ball State trailed 35-20 at halftime to Kent State, and the team’s inability to take care of the ball — 18 more giveaways — derailed a second-half comeback attempt. “I think a lot of times our turnovers are forced action, or we’re not all on the same page in terms of communication and organization,” coach Billy Taylor said. “In practice we’re not trying to force things because we’re comfortable saying no, I can get the next one. Sometimes in the game, we get a little anxious and think, I’ve got to get it back right now. We need to have that mindset that one mistake doesn’t become two.” When the team plays at Akron (11-4, 2-0 MAC) today, Ball State (7-7, 1-1 MAC) is hoping one loss doesn’t become two. To do so, Taylor said his team needs to withstand physical defense similar to Kent State’s, coupled with full-court pressure. “Akron will do run-and-jump trapping more along the lines of VCU,” Taylor said. “They really try and turn you in the back court and get you to pick your dribble up or play passive with the ball. They trap hard and really rotate for steals.” Throughout the season, Cardinal players have said they enjoy playing up-tempo basketball, and the Zips pressing style will force them too. Taylor said Akron is most dangerous when the team gets
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After two hard-fought, tough wins against Mid-American Conference opponents, the Ball State women’s basketball team still hasn’t gotten a break. It will travel to Bowling Green (10-5, 1-1 MAC) tonight for its third conference game of the season. Ball State coach Brady Sallee knows challenging Bowling Green will be difficult. “Knowing that program, and knowing the way they play, we’re going to have to be good
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at our ball screen defense,” Sallee said. Sallee singled out one player that his team will have to focus on. “They’ve got a great player in Alexis Rogers,” Sallee said. “We’re going to have to come up with some sort of game plan to slow [her] down.” Rogers is a 6’1” inch forward who is averaging 10.3 points per game. After five straight doubledigit scoring games to go along with impressive rebounding totals, she won the MAC East Player of the Week award two straight weeks, on Dec. 24 and Dec. 31. Over those five games, Rogers averaged 18.8 points, 5.8 rebounds and four steals per game. In the last two games since
that mark, Rogers has averaged just 4.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.5 steals per game. When Ball State played against Bowling Green last season, Rogers had just five points and four rebounds, but was hampered by foul trouble. Despite her pedigree, Rogers isn’t the one who leads her team in scoring. That would be senior guard Chrissy Steffen. Steffen, a native of nearby Carmel, Ind., is averaging 11.7 points per game this season. Last season against Bowling Green, Ball State guard Brittany Carter led her team with 11 points, but on 4-of-16 shooting. She went just 2-of-8 from 3-point range. “The biggest thing is we’re going to have to be tough on the road, and that’s one of the
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steals and can get the ball in the hands of its junior point guard Alex Abreu. “He really does everything well in transition,” Taylor said. “In the half court, if you’re able to stop their break, he can really dominate the offense playing pickand-roll basketball. He really just breaks your defense down.” When Abreu gets into the teeth of a defense, Taylor said his willingness to get others involved — 5.6 assists per game — is what makes the Zips’ offense so dangerous. Abreu’s unselfishness to throw lobs to preseason All-MAC East Division center Zeke Marshall or set up shooters like Jake Kretzer and Brian Walsh drives the MAC’s top scoring offense that’s averaging 76.5 points per game. “Last year’s team came from the bench with a wave of athleticism,” Taylor said. “You were almost shocked by their power and speed coming off the bench. This year, you’re more shocked by their 3-point shooting that comes off the bench. It’s something we’ll have to be prepared for because it’s unlike any other team we’ve faced.” Today’s game at Akron rounds out arguably Ball State’s toughest stretch of conference games this season. Before Saturday’s loss to Kent State, Ball State was 2-14 against MAC East Division teams in the last two seasons. Despite the Zips’ league-leading record and all the odds against them, junior forward Chris Bond believes limiting the Cardinals’ 14.8 turnovers a game gives them a chance against anyone. “It’s just our turnovers,” Bond said after the loss to Kent State. “Like Coach said, just taking care of the ball and executing our game plan, and we’ll be a good team.”
FOUR-GAME LOSING STREAK POINTS PER GAME Ball State Opponent
59.25 65.5
FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE Ball State Opponent
40% 43%
TWO-GAME WINNING STREAK POINTS PER GAME
Ball State Opponent
59.5 55
FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE
Ball State Opponent
40% 37%
toughest places to play in the league,” Sallee said. “We’ll be anxious to get up there and match ourselves up against one of the best in our league and see what we’re about.”
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Sophomore guard Brittany Carter prepares for an attempt against Miami on Thursday. Ball State will travel to Bowling Green to take on the Falcons today.
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