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Henry Lum, lead guitarist for U of M metal band Shallow Waters, uses distortion to create the group’s signature sound.
BY Chris Daniels News Reporter
University of Memphis sophomores Alex Berretta and Henry Lum may act like quiet college students when they’re on campus, but once they get in the studio, things get loud. Berretta, psychology major, and Lum, philosophy major, are members of metal band Shallow Waters, which debuted in December at the Abbey.
Lum, Shallow Waters’ lead guitarist, said the band’s music falls in the genre of “melodic metal,” a combination of soothing melodies and heavy riffing.
Berretta, the group’s bass guitar player and singer, said Shallow Waters’ sound is “beautiful.” “It’s pretty major as far as metal goes,” he said. “We use dissonance to establish more heaviness. It just sounds nice rather than sounding angry.” “It’s something that we try to make appealing to our peers that they will enjoy hearing,” Lum said. Lum said that Shallow Waters strives for a good balance of melody and dissonant metal that’s pleasing to the ear. Shallow Waters sound could be described as “djent,” said Lum. The djent sound has distorted riffs and ambient sounds, while the word itself is onomatopoeia for the sound the guitar makes, as opposed to “chugga-chugga” or “dun-dun-dun.” “I think (melodic metal band) Before the Fallen Dreams is really close to what we’re kind of striving for,” Lum said. “(They) have a good balance of melody and metal and can get really
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The Arts
Exhibition exposes talent of UM students An annual exhibition of student artwork in the Art Museum at The University of Memphis may have some viewers running home with their tail between their legs. The entries submitted for selection include paintings of a man hanging from a noose and several nude photos. One shows the naked lower halves of a man and woman, legs intertwined and the man’s genitals exposed. The woman, positioned on top of the man, has a striped animal tail emanating from her bare backside. In a separate photo by the same photographer, the top half of their bodies were displayed — this time with the man on top of the woman and no tail shown. Lisa Abitz, assistant director of the Art Museum, said similar artwork featuring nudity has been shown before in the museum, which she called “contemporary.” “We have to allow freedom of expression,” she said. Julie Hoffman, senior political science major, said that while she thinks the racy photograph is art, “we have to consider age-appropriateness of the art” when showing it in The University’s museum. “There are a lot of elementary schools that go on field trips to that museum,” she said, “and I am just not sure it is appropriate.” According to Abitz, more than 10,000 school children visit the museum each year to see its Egyptian and African
collections. She said mature images are placed where the children won’t see them when touring other parts of the museum. Museum employees also notify teachers of the images beforehand and encourage them to preview the exhibit before touring it with their classes, she said. A collection of the work submitted for this year’s Annual Juried Student Exhibition will be chosen by guest judge and artist Don Gregorio Antón, Humboldt State University professor, to be shown Feb. 13 through March 13. Richard Lou, professor and chair of the art department, said these yearly exhibits benefit the students.
“Students are exposed to a variety of judges of national stature over the years,” he said, “and it is to prepare them for competitions regionally and nationally.” Lou said he chose Antón as the judge because he is “one of the most dynamic artists” he knows. “He has lectured extensively throughout the country at universities and inner city schools in an effort to inspire students to realize their own unique, expressive nature,” he said. Antón will speak tonight at 6 in room 100 of the Meeman Journalism building. Four awards to be given, also to
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Benjamin Netterville, second-year art graduate student, installs his unique sculptures, which will become marionettes representing the idea of allowing outside forces to control us.
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Consolidation issue central to student debate
The University of Memphis and Rhodes College, along with the Memphis Urban Debate League, will host a pair of debates for high school students in the Memphis City Schools system on the consolidation of MCS with Shelby County schools. Rhodes is hosting a debate between students of Kingsbury and Whitehaven High Schools on Sunday at 3 p.m. in the McCallum Ballroom in the college’s Bryan Campus Life Center. Feb. 4, The U of M will hold a debate between Carver High School and Middle College High School at 4 p.m. in the Psychology Auditorium. The topic of the debates is “Resolved: The voters of the City of Memphis should vote to transfer the administration of Memphis City Schools to the Shelby County Board of Education.” Kingsbury and Carver will be on the side of transfer, while Whitehaven and Middle College will be arguing against it. The Memphis Urban Debate League Advisory Board is sponsoring the event. President James Sdoia said getting local students debating is key to ensuring they stay engaged. “One of the reasons we’re holding these debates is because they’re educational for the
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Lifestyle
Weekend warriors: out and about in Memphis For most college students, Friday night brings the desire to have weekend fun without breaking the bank. In an attempt to keep you from burning through your student loans three weeks into the semester, here’s a list of free and cheap things to do this weekend. Renowned Photographer Don Gregario Anton will hold a lecture in the Meeman Auditorium, located in the journalism building, at 6 tonight. Anton’s cryptic work has been featured in photography magazines including Diffusion and 180 Magazine. Anton will also be judging The U of M’s 2011 student art competition Feb. 11. If photography isn’t in the picture for your Friday night, head to the University Center at 7 p.m. for SAC’s screening of the Michael Jackson documentary, “This Is It.” The film follows the controversial singer during preparations for his sold-out 2009 London tour, shortly before his death. Finally, end your night by checking out student rock group The Swagger, which features sophomore Recording Engineer
major Christopher Sharp. Selfdescribed as “Your favorite band’s new favorite band,” The Swagger ’s influences range from The Stooges to Link Wray. Scotty Love, who shares lead guitar responsibilities in the group with Sharp, said students would have a good chance of meeting a potential love interest at the show. “We mix old school rock and roll with elements of modern rock and that makes the chicks love us,” Love said. The Swagger is performing at Neil’s at 1835 Madison Avenue at midnight. The cover charge is $3. Start your Saturday by checking out the Greenlaw Skateboarding Competition on 1900 Mill Avenue, downtown. Two divisions of skaters, beginner and advanced, will participate a mini-ramp competition with two divisions at 12:00 p.m., with first, second and third place prizes for both divisions. The U of M men’s basketball team goes for its fifth straight win Saturday as they take on Marshall at 3 p.m. The Student Activity Council’s watch party the game has been canceled, as it will not be televised, so be sure to follow the Tigers on the your phone, computer or radio.
Saturday night brings more at 6 p.m. this June. music as Memphis-based Goner Daniel Brown, a 2010 recordFinally, end your weekend Records’ artists Overnight with more music performed by ing technology graduate of U Lows take the stage midnight U of M students. of M, said that playing The at Murphy’s at 1589 Madison Lightajo, a local rock group Classic is the biggest show yet Avenue. Goner store manager that boasts two U of M alumni for Lightajo. John Hoppe said the Overnight and three current students, “Being able to play Wakarusa Lows live show is sloppy, but play the Wakarusa Winter would be great,” Brown said. highly entertaining. Classic at 10 p.m. at the Hi-Tone “A lot of people would get “The Lows are a classic 70’s at 1913 Poplar Avenue. The the chance to see us and our style punk band. You know, Classic features five Memphis music would get out to more the real kind,” Hoppe said. area bands competing for the people.” “Their live show is dumb, chance to play the Wakarusa The cover charge for the fun and highly energetic.” Music Festival in Ozark, Ark., show is $5. The cover charge for the show is $5. Sunday evening the Wo m e n ’ s basketball team plays their second to last game in FedExForum this season. Students are encouraged to wear pink as the Tigers play for Breast C a n c e r Aw a r e n e s s against the University of Southern Goner Records-backed band Overnight Lows perform at Murphy’s, on Madison in M i s s i s s i p p i Midtown, in late October. The punk rockers will play at the venue again Saturday night.
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Wilco forms own label, severs ties with majors Margherita. Distribution will go through Anti- Records, an offshoot of Los Angeles punk powerhouse label Epitaph. Wilco took another step In recent years Anti- has Wednesday toward becoming released albums by a wide a self-contained music comrange of acclaimed artists, including Tom Waits, Neko Case and Mavis Staples. Staples’ 2010 album, “You are Not Alone,” was produced by Wilco singer Jeff Tweedy, who expressed his admiration for the label in an interview last year with the Los Angeles Times’ Todd Martens: “I think they’re pretty smart. I think they’re music lovHeaded by former Uncle Tupelo member Jeff Tweedy (center), Wilco previ- ers. I really respond
pany when the Chicago band announced it was forming its own label, dBpm Records. The label will be based in Easthampton, Mass., and run by the band’s manager, Tony
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to it. It’s very similar to the way I am. It’s a lot more like the way the world exists now than when I was growing up. There are less lines drawn in the sand between genres.” The move severs Wilco’s ties with the major-label system. All of Wilco’s previous albums since its 1995 debut, “A.M.,” have been released by labels affiliated with Warner Brothers: Reprise and Nonesuch. By creating its own label, Wilco brings virtually all facets of its operation in-house. “Wilco’s independent streak is well documented and nothing new,” Margherita said in a statement released by the band, “and this is the culmination of what we’ve been working towards for the last 15 years. As we reached the end of our last deal, it felt
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like it was time for a change and the one thing we were certain we did not want to do was to sign another traditional recording agreement. Our discussions with Anti-, coming on the back of a great experience working with them on the Mavis Staples record, led us to thinking we might be able to come up with something quite different from the norm that could potentially be better for us and, frankly, a lot more interesting.” The sextet is working on its next studio album in its rehearsal space on Chicago’s North Side. No release date has been set. The band’s 2011 tour dates include an appearance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and a reprise of its Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, Mass., on June 24-26.
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from page 1 heavy when needed.” Berretta said though metal music culture tends to be viewed in a negative light, many metalheads are accessible people and typically open-minded when it comes to music. “Once you listen to metal, you usually aren’t as close-minded,” he said. “We don’t listen to super heavy death metal all the time.” Kevin Gibson plays rhythm guitar in Shallow Waters. He said working with Lum and Alex is fun, and the atmosphere is lighthearted. “It’s a good environment to be around,” he said. “We joke around a lot, but we still get stuff done.” Gibson said both Lum and Berretta’s musical talents have improved since their last band, Choking on Clarity. “(Lum) has come a long way since the last band we were in, and his stuff now is actually just very, very good,” Gibson said. “Alex’s singing and bass playing have also come a long way. He got away from four chord progressions, and now he has stuff he actually has to play.” Shallow Waters plans to release a three-song demo,to be recorded at NoiseFactory by engineer Dave Cowell, before the summer and is currently working on a full-length album. Berretta said the demo is going to be “very-well produced, not just us chillin’ in a garage or something.” Both Lum and Berretta expressed their desire for a tour — to play on stage with the bands that influenced them — and dream of playing in the United Kingdom. “Every band dreams of getting huge and doing that thing,” Berretta said. “But it’s just about having fun, having a good time and enjoying life.” Shallow Waters’ next show is Monday at 5 p.m. at T.H.A.T. Church in Memphis. “We do our best really to have a good time and put on a good show,” Berretta said. “We try to match our live show as much as we can to the recordings. People can dance. People can stand there and do nothing or ‘push-pit’ everywhere.”
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Film
‘Rite’ stuff: Film is based on real priest trained in exorcism For the last four years, Father Gary Thomas has served at the Sacred Heart parish in Saratoga, Calif., a bucolic suburb of San Jose. But the 53-year-old Roman Catholic priest does a lot more than say Mass and listen to confessions — he is also one of about 14 Vatican-certified exorcists working in the U.S. and the real-life counterpart to the character played by newcomer Colin O’Donoghue in the new thriller “The Rite,” which opens today. Thomas became certified to practice exorcisms after completing 40 hours of study at the Vatican’s Athenaeum Pontificium Regina Apostolorum in Rome. During his time there, he met a fellow student, journalist Matt Baglio, who ended up chronicling Father Gary’s journey in the book “The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist,” which served as the basis for the film. “I believe in the personification of evil,” Thomas said. O’Donoghue plays Michael Kovak, a skeptical seminarian sent to Rome to become an exorcist who ends up hooking up with an eccentric Welsh priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who performs exorcisms. Kovak ultimately must perform an exorcism on his mentor when Satan takes possession of the elderly cleric after one of his subjects — a demonically possessed young woman (Marta Gastini) who’s carrying her own father’s child — dies. Thomas spent a week on the set of the movie, serving as an adviser to the film from director Mikael Hafstrom. He drew on much of the personal experience for the consulting job; in the last four years, he has seen about 100 people who felt that they were possessed by the devil. “I have exorcised five,” he said. “There are probably another two or three or four who I have been praying over regularly.” Just as is the case with the young woman in the film, Thomas said that 80 percent of the people who come to him have been physically or sexually abused. Every time he’s called about a person who might be possessed, he asks what kind of help the individual already has received. If he agrees to a meeting, he sits with the person for an interview about how the “demonic attachment” began and asks questions about family history. “A lot of times it is mental health (issues),” he acknowledges. If Thomas determines the person has a demonic attachment, he has a number of methods to free him or her before resorting to an exorcism. “You never try that first,” Thomas said. “You use other means of protection — sacraments, prayer, the Eucharist. What you want the person to do is say (the demon is) not welcome, it is not wanted, so go away. The person cooperates by staying close to God through prayer, through the sacraments.” The best way to agitate a demon, Thomas said, is to pray over the subject; the person’s face, he explains, will begin to distort as the demon manifests itself, some-
thing that the filmmakers utilized for a sequence in “The Rite.” “There is a point when Anthony Hopkins, you see his head look very unnatural in the way it is turning,” Thomas said. “That’s very normal. When you pray you hurt the demon, and the demon oftentimes will manifest itself in a very serpentine way.” Thomas recalled an occasion when he was visited by a young Venezuelan woman who had been involved in palm readings for several years. “I was beginning to do some deliverance prayers. Within a few minutes she began to tremor and her facial countenance began to change. You saw a snake. She began sticking her tongue out like a snake and hissing and rolling her eyes. She coiled herself up. “Her mother and father began to restrain her a bit. I went to get the Eucharist. The woman almost jumped out the window (at the
sight of the Eucharist). Her parents held her down. One minute you could see the demon, the next minute it was her. She kind of came back. I said, ‘Can you take the Eucharist?’ She said, ‘I’m not sure, but I’ll try.’ As I offered it to her, she resisted. I said, ‘Just open your mouth.’ All I had to wash Anthony Hopkins stars as Father Lucas in New Line Cinema’s psychological it down was thriller “The Rite,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. holy water.”
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At the University of California at Irvine, a careless culinary choice led to outrage when the school’s cafeteria served chicken and waffles on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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said Wednesday. The meal was served at Pippin Commons on the first night of UCI’s 28th annual Martin Luther King Jr. symposium, a three-day campus event themed “Uniting our Voice for Change.” Past speakers have included Dick Gregory, Julian Bond and the late Yolanda King, the civil rights leader’s eldest child. The Jan. 17 menu — and a sign in the dining hall reading “MLK Holiday Special: Chicken and Waffles” — were pulled together at the last minute by a chef and other staff members at the cafeteria, a culinary choice that was made without any oversight from the university, said UCI spokeswoman Cathy Lawhon. UCI student Ricardo Sparks, the 20-year-old co-chair of the university’s Black Student Union, lodged a formal complaint with the administration after seeing the sign and the entree. Sparks said the insensitivity
of the decision has sparked outrage within the student union and other ethnic student organizations on campus. “It’s just another in a long line of small events on our campus that aren’t meant to be taken in a certain way, but are at least questionable in their cultural legitimacy,” said John Murillo III, 21, director of communications for the Black Student Union. The fact that the incident occurred during the symposium was especially disappointing, Murillo said. “It takes all the radicalism and activism that we tried to do with the symposium and then (the cafeteria) serves chicken and waffles and takes away from all the stuff that we did,” Murillo said. Officials at the university agreed Wednesday that serving chicken and waffles at a campus cafeteria on Martin Luther King Jr. Day was not in “good taste.” Lawhon said the intention
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behind the menu was to offer comforting food for students in conjunction with the MLK Day holiday. “But it probably wasn’t the most sensitive thing,” Lawhon said. Thomas Parham, vice chancellor of student affairs, tried without success to schedule a meeting with Sparks and another student who had filed a complaint, Lawhon said. Sparks said he had waited to respond until he rallied other students to attend to meeting. University officials said they are now trying to set up a meeting with Sparks and others next week. No disciplinary action has been taken against the chef, and it was unclear if any action would be taken in the future, Lawhon said. Officials with Aramark Corp., which provides dining services for student housing, said they will conduct cultural sensitivity training for all managers and chefs. Sparks and other students on campus said that racially inappropriate incidents have been dealt with lightly in the past. “I understand people have prejudice and ignorance,” Sparks said. “But this is out in the community and nobody is saying anything about it.” Last week, the Thalia Surf Shop in nearby Laguna Beach was criticized for offering 20 percent off black-colored items for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The shop’s owner later apologized.
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from page 1 be chosen by Antón, consist of a cash prize — the largest being $1,000 to a graduate student’s submission. Other merit awards will be given as merchandise certificates to local art supply stores. A list of winners will be posted in the Art Museum by 5 p.m. today. Benjamin Netterville, secondyear graduate student studying sculpture, has already been selected as a winner of the Art Lab award for his interactive installation art. His setup displays several boxes and stuffed animals hanging from the ceiling. Viewers can peer into the boxes through lens-like windows and see 3D pop-up scenes that Netterville created. One scene shows a group of children chasing another tearyeyed child. “It creates multiple perspectives of universal experiences,” he said. “Most people have dealt with bullying or being laughed at.” The stuffed animals, hung between the boxes, complement the piece, Netterville said. He said they give the work a “childlike approach.” “The boxes are inviting to look at,” he said, “but then when you look inside, there’s a scene that isn’t as inviting.” He added that the annual showcase is valuable to students in the art department. “The experience of showing and submitting is key to every artist,” he said.
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Education
Debate
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feeling more overwhelmed and have lower emotional reserves to deal with that stress,” said John H. Pryor, lead author of the report and managing director of UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute, which operates the survey. First given in 1966, the annual survey is considered the nation’s most comprehensive assessment of college students’ attitudes. This year ’s report was based on the responses of more than 201,000 incoming freshmen at 279 four-year colleges and universities around the United States. Pryor said he was struck this year by the gap between young men and young women in discussing whether they frequently felt overwhelmed by all they had to do at school, home and jobs as high school seniors. Nearly 39 percent of women said they were often overwhelmed, more than twice the share of the men. Overall, more than 29 percent said they had felt such stress, up 2 percentage points from the year before. The gender gap, Pryor speculated, may be attributed to what young people do at home. “The guys are spending more time in stress-relieving activities, like watching TV and playing video games. The girls are more likely to be help-
students. It’s a very important issue for them,” Sdoia said. “They are going to be directly impacted. We thought it was important that they are able to give their opinions.” Sdoia said no Shelby County Schools are participating because none of them have policy debate teams. “They have other speech teams, but not policy debate teams,” he said.
BY Larry Gordon Los Angeles Times This year ’s college freshmen report feeling higher levels of emotional and financial stress than their predecessors did, according to a national survey conducted by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles. The annual “American Freshman” report, released Thursday, showed that only about half of current first-year students, 51.9 percent, rated their emotional health above average or higher, down from 55.3 percent last year and the lowest since the question was first asked 25 years ago. Just 45.9 percent of women in the class described themselves as emotionally strong, compared with 59.1 percent of the men. In addition, nearly twothirds of this year ’s freshmen, 62.1 percent, said the recession had affected their choice of college, and 73.4 percent, up from 70 percent last year, are depending on grants and scholarships to help them through. The young people, interviewed just before they started classes in the fall, also reported relatively high rates of parental unemployment. “What it means is that going into college, students are already feeling more stress and
ing out with chores at home,” he said, citing responses to other questions in the survey. But on the positive side, record high proportions of the freshmen said they expected to participate in clubs and community service in college and to receive good grades. A strong majority, 57.6 percent, said there was a “very good chance” they would be satisfied with their college experience, the highest share since 1982. Pryor said he found that optimism to be heartening. The report also looks at political attitudes of students, finding that 46.4 percent describe themselves as middle-of-the-road, 30.2 percent liberal or far left and 23.5 percent conservative or far right. Researchers say that shows a modest shift from the liberal and left side of the spectrum to the middle, and may indicate a slight waning of the enthusiastic youth activism surrounding President Barack Obama’s election in 2008. In a new question this year, the survey found solid support among students for the legal right of gays and lesbians to adopt children, with 76.5 percent agreeing strongly or somewhat. That included a majority of freshmen who described themselves as conservative or far right politically.
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University of Memphis senior midfielder Vendula Strnadova has signed a free agent deal with the Atlanta Beat of Women’s Professional Soccer, the club announced Thursday. Strnadova will join the 2011 Beat roster. Strnadova had an illustrious four-year career at The University of Memphis as a four-year All-Conference USA selection. She is tied for fifth in school history in both goals and assists. Strnadova was a part of the winningest four-year group in U of M women’s soccer history. “I am really happy to get this chance and I can’t wait to get started with the Atlanta Beat,” she said. “I am excited to go back to Memphis and train with the team that helped me get this far and then I will move on to begin my professional career.” With Strnadova on the roster, the Tigers won four straight C-USA tournaments and, as a result, earned berths to four straight NCAA tournaments. WPS is the highest level of professional soccer for women.
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rebounds. It doesn’t matter, the 6-foot-9 forward said, whether the Tigers (16-4, 5-1 Conference USA) beat them by one or 100 points. For the upperclassman,
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It doesn’t matter to University of Memphis senior forward Will Coleman that the Tigers beat the
Marshall Thundering Herd by 16 points two weeks ago. It doesn’t matter to Coleman that he and freshman forward Tarik Black lit up the Herd for a combined 31 points and 20
Tarik Black will try to duplicate the effort he had against Marshall on Jan. 15 when he scored 12 points and had nine rebounds in a 77-61 win. The Tigers take on the Thundering Herd at Cam Henderson Center in Huntington, W. Va., on Saturday at 6 p.m.
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Saturday’s game at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington, W. Va., is very much a new one. “What me and (Tarik) Black and the whole team did the last time we played Marshall — that does not matter, because we’re going to their place,” Coleman said. “They’re going to have a sixth man.” On Saturday, Jan. 15, the Tigers — on the heels of an embarrassing 64-58 defeat at the hands of Southern Methodist and an indefinite suspension of junior forward Wesley Witherspoon — put together one of their best games of the season and cruised to a 77-61 victory against the Thundering Herd (13-7, 1-4) at FedExForum. The U of M, which had been struggling defensively, held Marshall to 37 percent from the floor and 22 percent from threepoint range. Since that game, the Tigers have won at the University of Southern Mississippi and UAB in dramatic fashion. Junior guard Charles Carmouche drained a 3-pointer with 1.2 seconds remaining to upend Southern Miss, 76-75, and the Tigers needed overtime to fend off UAB, 76-73. “It gives us confidence knowing that we won on the road,” U of M coach Josh Pastner said, “(but) it’s not going to be any different going into Marshall, because
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that’s a tough place to play. We were fortunate to win the game at Marshall last year.” Last season in Huntington, the Tigers trailed 72-70 with 1:11 to play before closing the game on a 5-0 run. The Thundering Herd missed two shots and two free throws in the final 34 seconds of a wild, back-and-forth contest. And the Tigers expect nothing less this time up. “It could be very different (than Jan. 15’s game),” Black said. “We’re at their house. Anything can happen. We can lose by 16 if we don’t go out there to play. It’s all about going out there and going hard.” Since their loss to SMU, the Tigers are currently on an unlikely fourgame winning streak; Marshall, Southern Miss, UAB, and UCF were four of C-USA’s top teams before conference play began. “I expected (these results),” Coleman said. “I have that much faith in my guys. Memphis isn’t a losing program, so I expected to turn that corner after we lost to SMU. I was looking forward to that, and I feel like it has happened. The clock is turning, the gears are greased up real good, and we’re going.” If Jan. 15’s win against Marshall was a corner-turning one for the Tigers, it was a lingering loss for the Herd, who have lost two of their last three games. Marshall’s current state of affairs, however, doesn’t matter to Pastner and the Tigers. “Anytime you’re going to play a road game, obviously you can multiply the toughness factor, because it’s hard to win on the road,” he said. “We’ll have to give an ‘A’ performance, there’s no doubt about that.” Tomorrow’s game is the latest of a five-game stretch in which the Tigers have faced four of the more talented — but underachieving — teams in C-USA. The U of M has won its last four games by an average of nine points. “Everybody’s tired,” Black said. “Basketball’s a sport — it’s tiring. But at the end of the day, it’s what we love to do, so every time we put on our shoes we find some kind of energy from somewhere.” The University of Memphis men’s basketball game against Marshall on Saturday will not be televised, the U of M athletic department announced Wednesday night. “We have spoken with several television affiliates and production companies over the last ten days, inquiring as to gaining television coverage in the Memphis market,” athletic director R.C. Johnson said in a statement. “We have exhausted every possibility but to no avail. We apologize to our fans and will continue in our attempts to have television coverage for all of our games.” Saturday’s game will be the second non-televised game for The U of M in three weeks. The Tigers’ 64-58 loss at Southern Methodist University in Dallas on Jan. 12 was also not broadcast in Memphis. The game will be aired on WREC-AM 600.