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Baptist Memorial Hospital constructs new, larger facility

Byron Murillo, a project assistant superintendent, explains the groundwork construction for the new Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi.

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Increased population, high enrollment rates and continued growth in local business and housing prompted Baptist

Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi to build a replacement hospital between South Lamar Boulevard and Old Taylor Road.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Oxford has grown by 15.3 percent

since 2010. In 2012, Forbes magazine deemed Oxford the 15th-fastest-growing small town in America.

William Henning, administrator and chief executive officer of Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi, said the

replacement hospital was the most logical choice to accommodate the accelerated growth of the Oxford community.

“With the growth our area has experienced in the last decade, building a newer, updated hospital to serve the

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community became an easy decision,” Henning said.

The replacement hospital, Henning said, will contain the same number of beds as the current facility: 247. Although

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UM professor communicates Southern complexities LASHERICA THORNTON thedmnews@gmail.com

Ted Ownby knew early on that history was a part of his identity. After receiving a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and a master’s and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, Ownby joined the UM faculty as a history professor in 1988. No one, including himself, imagined or predicted he would be directing the Center for the Study of Southern Culture 27 years later.

In 2008, as a man who initially only wanted to be a professor teaching and writing history and PHOTO BY: LIZZIE MCINTOSH “wouldn’t dream of heading the Amidst scattered papers and pens, Ted Ownby, professor of history and southern stud- department,” Ownby served as ies, grants an interview from his office in Barnard Observatory. interim director and member of

the search committee for a new director. When the search didn’t work out, Ownby had realized how exciting the position could be.

“I worried that the director job was too much about paperwork and money — things I didn’t get into academia to deal with — and it is that sometimes,” Ownby said. “But it’s also about partnerships and working with all sorts of interesting people— both faculty, staff and students and people outside the center.”

Focused around teaching, scholarship and research, the Center for the Study of Southern Culture (CSSC) formed in the 1970s as the first center to study the lively culture that is prevalent around the South.

Before his time at UM, Ownby said the University was at a low point, which resulted in establishers looking directly at issues such as race, religion, literature, music, art, economics and the South in general. Also at that time, Jimmy Carter, a Southerner, had been elected into the presidency, resulting in a profound fascination with the Southern accent, religion and family life.

In the past, the unique aspect of the center was not necessarily what participants studied, but the opportunity to receive a bachelor’s and master’s in the field and the attempt to relate wide-ranging subject matter.

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Stop projecting your insecurities on Disney HANNAH GAMMILL

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Lately, I’ve noticed this trend of people writing half-hearted listicles on things dealing with Disney princesses possessing the traits of “real women.” They get into Pulitzer Prize-worthy reporting on big questions like, “What would Disney princesses look like without makeup?” or “What would Disney princesses look like with no faces?”

And I ask myself, “Do these people need counseling?”

To which I reply, “Yes. These people need help.”

Artists and journalists are actually spending their precious time on Earth photoshopping the hell out of cartoon characters. And what, THE DAILY

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dare I ask, would compel you to do so? Many claim it’s for the sake of female empowerment, but let me ask you something. How is Ariel with leg hair supposed to empower me? Why should we care what Snow White would look like without eyebrows?

Why should we care what Elsa would look like with bags under her eyes?

And you know what the answer to that is?

It’s because you, dear Buzzfeeder, feel ugly. And Disney princesses, who are totally made up cartoon characters, make you feel ugly. And you want us to love you for who you are. And the ugliness in you is so overwhelming, the only way you can cope with it is to scream out into the cold, dark void that is the Internet for hugs in the form of likes

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and website traffic.

I’m sorry you feel this way, dear Buzzfeeder. I really do.

But how does one feel so poorly to the point of spending hours (or maybe 30 minutes, I don’t know) giving Elsa a poochie-pudge for a belly?

It seems as if y’all think Disney princesses are, quote-unquote, perfect women, and that they set up impossible beauty standards. Of course, you would have to be blessed

by God or by Kylie Jenner’s doctor to have such naturally cinched waists and big doelike eyes and little button noses and eyebrows that never lose their fleekness.

But Disney princesses aren’t real women. They’re cartoon characters. They’re fake. They’re faker than Regina George’s friendship with Cady Heron. They’re faker

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than these Converse knockoffs I got from Wal-Mart for $10. They’re faker than that girl with the Hawaiian Silky weave’s Hispanic heritage from the “Good Hair” interlude on Outkast’s ‘Stankonia.’

Let me say that any functioning human being can tell the difference between fiction and reality. If they couldn’t, then we would probably be extinct by now because no living woman out there that I know of looks and walks and talks and doesn’t hemorrhage from her vagina like Jasmine.

Cinderella shouldn’t have to validate your existence, so stop this nonsense. It’s sad, and most of all, it’s not cute.

Hannah Gammill is a sophomore English major from New Orleans.

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Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi is constructing a new facility.

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continued from page 1 the hospital will not be increasing its bed space capacity, it will be creating a larger, more robust space.

“We will have the space to add new services, the flexibility for future changes in patient care and the infrastructure for new technology,” Henning said.

The size of the replacement hospital will differ greatly. The new hospital will be sitting on a 150-acre campus, whereas the old building was located on a 13-acre lot. Henning said the construction of this facility is projected to cost roughly $300 million. Its primary goal is to offer a more contemporary, technologically advanced hospital with a larger space to serve the Oxford community and bring additional physicians to north Mississippi.

“Everyone wants to be in Oxford,” Henning said. “As Baptist brings more physicians and adds specialties to the area, it reduces the need for locals to travel outside of Oxford.”

According to Jondi Roberson, director of marketing and provider relations, Baptist should open its doors in December 2017.

“We are projected to take our first patients as of Dec. 1 of 2017,” Roberson said. “As far as when we will shut this hospital down, I am not sure when we will be completely out of this hospital. I assume sometime shortly thereafter.”

An official decision has not

been made regarding the use of the current facility once the replacement hospital has been built.

“The current hospital is slated to be sold,” Roberson said.

“However, if there is not a buyer, the contract with the city and county states that Baptist will be responsible for tearing the current hospital down for green space.”

The hospital currently provides a myriad of services, including a 24-hour emergency room, neurosurgery, cardiovascular surgery and the Baptist Cancer Center. Alex Spivey, junior biology major and former Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi intern, said she hopes the replacement hospital will offer greater opportunity for student workers and interns.

“Hopefully with more space and increased technology, the replacement hospital will offer additional opportunities for students to learn,” Spivey said.

“I think it’s a great learning experience and more students should have the opportunity to gain valuable experience.”

The administration and staff said they are excited about the new facility and believe the replacement hospital will provide them with the opportunity to effectively serve Oxford and the surrounding area.

“The future looks bright,” Henning said. “We are committed to providing the high quality healthcare that our community deserves.”

Ownby believes the department became beneficial to the University by providing classes on the South. CSSC is an institution that seeks to address topics in a broad way.

“It’s our job, always, to say everybody matters, every question matters and new academic movements matter. Every political, social and cultural movement are all what we can study,” Ownby said. “That’s all a way of saying we can fight any attempt at stereotypes that the South is only one thing, one group-that the South is all about tradition or all about pride, or no, it’s all about problems or poverty. Let’s study all those things.”

At present, under direction of Ownby, CSSC continues to pursue ways to communicate beyond academia with the use of encyclopedias and magazines encourages documentary-making, photography, film and audio that has a grounding in history, sociology and anthropology, to name a few. Other than mere encouragement, Ownby mentioned how the center offers new classes on topics such as foodways and tourism and how they relate to Southern culture.

In fact, Ownby presented a new class this past semester. Frustrated over the large and small acts of violence over the summer, he addressed the wrongs of violence in his class.

Ownby then went on to discuss how CSSC has to continually adapt to implement new methods of educating.

“We’re trying really hard to make scholarship and documentary work available in creative ways,” Ownby said. “We have a new journal called ‘Study of the South’ that is entirely online that uses not just words, but video, audio and photography that is a part of every story. What’s important to say is CSSC has been around long enough that it tries to keep up with scholarship as it changes and keep up with the South as the region changes.”

In addition to the movements the center is making, another intriguing component of CSSC is the graduate program. According to Ownby, UM’s program was, for a long time, the only place to get a M.A. in Southern

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Using one of his own catchphrases to describe the program, he said, “Students are willing to go through life with a degree that they have to explain. A lot of those students are rule-breaking characters to begin with. We never know what they are going to do with their degrees. Year after year, there are fascinating individuals coming in wanting to not simply draw conclusions about the South, but study Southern people.”

As mentioned, Ownby is not only the CSSC Director, but also a professor. As director, he takes part in everything the department does, from helping to schedule classes to representing the CSSC to the College of Liberal Arts and handling a relationship between the center and the world.

With this role, he has to talk positively about the center’s strengths and address things it needs to fix and improve as well.

In contrast with his role as a professor, Ownby holds a responsibility of always being around others and trying to think of new ideas, at times bigger or better,

that no one ever imagines. People willing to experiment on a large platform surround him as head of the department; for instance, there are upcoming projects that will include clothing and its connection to Southern history.

Reminiscing about his own history, Ownby, as a graduate student, assumed that he would wind up in a small school teaching the US history survey countless times. He instead ended up surrounded by faculty, students and topics of southern history that give him a far more interesting life. Ownby said he is a part of a staff where “what we study and what we teach about is far more interesting than our lives.”

Over his tenure as director and innumerable encounters with students, he modestly hopes the Southern studies program itself causes life-changing experiences.

“I hope the program does, whether I did or not,” Ownby said. “The goal is making sure that students get classes that they are interested in, rather it’s from me or someone else.”

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Peri Schwartz brings bold strokes to UM Museum ALEXIS NEELY

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Peri Schwartz of Far Rockaway, New York is one of many artists to showcase their talent within the University of Mississippi Museum in an exhibition that highlights her talents in several different media.

“Peri’s practice of constantly finding new compositions of the same space and subject matter with repetition relates to every level, as it is a foundation for all art — whether a child who is beginning to draw or an accomplished artist,” said Marti A. Funke, the museum’s collections manager. “This is just one reason her art resonates with visitors of any age.”

It all began when Peri Schwartz stumbled upon an ar-

ticle on the Complex Art & Design website, listing the University of Mississippi Museum as number 17 on a list of 20 of the best college campus art museums. Schwartz then contacted Funke in the fall of 2013.

“Peri has had exhibitions or has art in collections at many of the museums that were on the list, and she was very interested in exhibiting at ours,” Funke said. “Once we saw the educational and programming opportunities of this exhibition and of Peri’s work, we selected this timeframe of 2015 for her exhibition.”

Her artwork professes her expertise of each medium she uses, as well as in working with elements of light, color, line and shape. Schwartz’s hard work is evident in the detail of her pieces in the exhibit, which

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span an entire wall of the museum, ranging from completion dates from 1988 up until 2015.

Located in the center of the exhibit is an oil on canvas self-portrait of Schwartz, done in varying shades of brown. The largest of the works, “Studio Self-Portrait” was completed in 1996 and aesthetically serves as the exhibit’s focal point.

Surrounding this piece are works that demonstrate her mastery of different media, from the colorful watercolor

pigments in “Bottles & Jars” of 2012 to the darker and more monotone charcoal in “Studio #1” of 2004. Schwartz’s artwork and its notable uses of line and light create beautiful depictions and capture the essence of her artistry.

From her studies in art at Boston University and Queens College, where she received a master of fine arts, Schwartz is certainly well versed, with experience in painting, printmaking and drawing. She has a deep

love for each medium that does not trump another.

As for the success of her work and seeing it displayed in public museums, Schwartz said the feeling is surreal.

“I often feel like I can’t believe I did it,” Schwartz said. “I feel connected. It’s like looking at an old photograph of yourself.”

There is often great anxiety that comes from choosing art as a profession, from rejection to comparing your work to another artist’s, but Schwartz has advice that can be applied to more than this field.

“That’s the point when you really have to be disciplined.

That can’t stop you from working,” she said. “Keep working at it.”

Though Schwartz is now experiencing steady success with her art, which is being shown in museum collections in the United States and Europe, the journey to where she is now was no walk in the park.

“I had to keep the faith,” Schwartz said. “Our culture doesn’t necessarily encourage people to be artists because of financial uncertainty. It’s not considered a profession.”

Around the year 2000, while caring for two children and living in the suburbs, Schwartz became very proactive in getting her work out to the public and living her childhood dream of becoming an artist.

“It was a lot of perseverance and being willing to be rejected,” Schwartz said. “You’re very vulnerable because it is subjective. Everybody’s art is subjective.”

Peri Schwartz’s exhibit of paintings, prints and drawings will be displayed in the UM Museum until Jan. 3, 2016 as part of the Oxford Arts Crawl.

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Safe Ride returns just in time for the bye weekend DIXON SMITH

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Start your weekend tonight by supporting the comeback of everyone’s favorite means of Square transportation.

Students for a Safe Ride will be hosting a fundraising event, coined Back2Back, tonight and tomorrow from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. to support the SafeRide program, the reformed and rebranded RebleRide.

SafeRide is a student lead initiative which proves students with free transportation to the downtown Square as a means of discouraging unsafe driving. The old RebelRide began to reform into SafeRide two years ago under the direction of the ASB and Davis Rogers.

“When we changed from RebelRide to SafeRide, we incorporated a whole new mindset,” said co-president Natalie Truong.

“Now the organization is truly student lead and student geared.

Where the stops are placed, day to day work to make sure there are necessary funds, student focused social media rebranding— it’s all handled by our student committee. It’s on us to make the changes and to make sure it’s

successful.”

SafeRide hopes to accomplish a series of goals by offering students a free alternative means of transportation to and from the Square.

Co-president Nina Brown commented, “Obviously our number one goal is to keep students safe. But we also hope to encourage students to continue to make smart decisions. Students need a ride to the Square for numerous reasons and parking is undoubtedly an issue on the Square, which is why the city of Oxford has gotten behind this initiative. It’s safe and affordable. Overall, we just want to spread awareness about alcohol related accidents before they happen and hopefully make safe transportation a habit.”

Students for a SafeRide has pledged to raise over $20,000 to continue the program. The committee feels that students should contribute to ensure the overall success of the service.

“We receive some funding from the University, but it’s student lead and student utilized, so we think its important that students see students raising the money. It shouldn’t be something that the University is just responsible for,” said Brown.

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For the future of the committee and its services to the University, Brown and Truong have a clear vision.

“We see this committee being the committee that students really want to be apart of. We had a ton of people apply, and we have some top-notch people this year.

We hope to increase the money to not only increase the hours that we are able to run, but also the locations. We also want to begin some programs on in-

forming students to make smart decisions.”

SafeRide will be hosting the Back2Back event in order to begin to fulfill the committees $20,000 pledge. The committee will be selling $5 wristbands in advance that will serve as a cover for each evening, with all of the wristband proceeds going to the committee. These van be purchased on Tilt or at the Union.

There will be a $10 cover at the door.

The event will be held at Rooster’s Blues House on tonight, and at Locals Restaurant and Bar tomorrow night.

“We are just really excited about the event and to work with these two businesses,” said Truong, “It’s a normal bar night, but now people can have fun for a cause, because this is something that is without a doubt near and dear to the student body.”

SafeRide has received support from the Oxford community as well.

“Several businesses, aside from Roosters and Locals, have sponsored us that we are really excited about,” said Brown.

“We’ll have banners printed that show their support. We’ll also have a banner at the Union and at the event that students actually sign, pledging to make smart decisions and to not drink and drive.”

Truing and Brown also hope that students will utilize the SafeRide service to and from the event.

Buses run Thursday through Saturday from 9 p.m. to 1a.m.

Check out SafeRide Ole Miss on Facebook or Twitter for more information about SafeRide and the Back2Back event.

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Evan Engram is a dominant presence on the football field.

The junior tight end from Powder Springs, Georgia has a 6-foot-3-inch, 227 pound frame that makes him a matchup nightmare for opposing defenses. He can be difficult to stop because, though he lines up at tight end, his skill set resembles that of a wide receiver.

Engram has compiled 84 catches and 1197 yards in his three seasons and ranks in the top four in school history in all three of those categories. He was named first team preseason All-American this season and is one of two players in Ole Miss history to be named All-SEC as a freshman. Engram’s list of off the field accomplishment’s are long and

“Crazy things are going to happen. A lot of adversity is gonna come our way. Things aren’t going to go our way,” Engram said. “It’s how we respond, and how we take it.

You’re going to get knocked down. How many times are you going to get back up?”

Engram credits Hugh Freeze and the coaching staff for the team’s strong mental toughness and ability to persevere.

“Later down the line when we have a family and things go wrong, how are we gonna respond? Are we just going to droop our heads and keep moping around,or are we going to stand up like a man and take it?” Engram said.

Hugh Freeze continuously preaches about a “New Normal” for this team and school, and according to Engram, that kind of mental fortitude is the new normal.

“Thats what this coaching staff and that’s what this university is about,” Engram said.

“Prevailing in adversity, and being strong and having faith.

That’s the new normal here.”

Engram excelling on the field has lifted him onto a pedestal so to speak, and he relishes the position that he is in and uses it in a positive manner.

“I thank God every day for the stage he’s put me on,” Engram said. “Just the amount of kids and fan base and how they look up myself and my teammates. Sometimes we take it for granted.”

On the field, Engram’s focus is helping Ole Miss win, and off of it, to help others succeed.

“Our stage that we have as athletes is how we can impact young lives and relate to other people,” Engram said. “That’s kind of the stage that we are on, to impact lives in a positive way.”

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Off of the field, his presence is just as strong. Engram is an honor roll student and is an nominee for for the All State AFCA Good Works Team, an award that honors student athletes across the country for outstanding community service. Engram is a guy that doesn’t often lose perspective on things, and that’s part of what makes him a leader.

“There are people in this world that don’t have anything to eat when they wake up. There are people that lose loved ones every day,” Engram said. “There are a lot of unfortunate people in this world and unfortunate things and sometimes we are so lucky and blessed that we take things for granted.”

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Rebels to face Murray State in NCAA tournament

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Gretchen Harknett defends the ball during a recent game this season. The soccer team has qualified for the NCAA tournament and will play its first round on Friday.

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The Ole Miss soccer team just completed one of the best regular seasons in program history and were rewarded with an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.

The first round begins Friday night, when the Rebels host the Murray State Racers. The Racers won the Ohio Valley Conference championship.

The Rebels are back in the tournament after missing out in 2014. The last time they were in the tournament, in 2013, the Rebels also hosted a game in the first round, and they defeated Jackson

State 9-0 before falling 3-1 to Florida State, who made the national title game but lost to UCLA. The Racers began the season 5-4. Since then, they’ve won 11 straight games, including going 10-0 in OVC play and took the automatic bid with a 1-0 overtime victory over Southeast Missouri State.

The Racers are led by OVC Offensive Player of the Year Harriet Withers, a sophomore forward from Murwillumbah, Australia. Withers, the first Racer to be named Offensive Player of the Year, led the league with 24 points on the season, scoring nine goals and registering six assists.

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Vanderbilt and seven against Texas A&M. “We need to be cleaner against whoever we play in the NCAA tournament,” Matthew Mott, Ole Miss head coach, said after the loss to the Aggies in the SEC tournament. “If we pass the ball that poorly, it will be one and done. We have to get cleaner and get ourselves sharper and ready to play.”

The Rebels should be able to shake off their struggles and get past the Racers, who rank 94th in the RPI to Ole

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The draw was not kind to Ole Miss. With a victory, the Rebels would likely meet Clemson, a team that has been ranked in the top 10 all season but is coming off a 5-0 blowout loss to Virginia in the ACC tournament semifinals.

Should the Rebels advance to the Sweet 16, their opponent could be North Carolina, who has created arguably the biggest dynasty in college sports, winning 20 ACC titles and 22 national championships, the latest coming in 2012.

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Rebels use bye week for mental, physical recovery CODY THOMASON

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Although the bye week provides an opportunity for the Ole Miss football team to get physically rested,it also gives the coaches an opportunity to host a scrimmage between the scout team players.

The Rebels hosted a scout team scrimmage on Wednesday, allowing the coaches to see many different player’s performance.

“Anyone that’s on the scout team can play. It was a domination by the offensive unit, so they had some fun for sure,” Freeze said. “We probably worked the defensive scouts a little harder in the tempo stuff. They looked a little more gassed, but it was fun to see everybody get to play around for sure.”

Freeze said several young players stuck out to him in the scrimmage.

“D-Lodge (Damarkus Lodge) and Van Jefferson. We know

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With its bye week, the Ole Miss football team will have extra time to prepare for the LSU game on Nov. 21. that they’re talented, (Jason) Pellerin and DK Buford really looked good, as did Alex Givens,” Freeze said. “I thought Austrian (Robinson) played hard on the defensive side and

Shawn Curtis kind of flashed a few times.”

Defensive Coordinator Dave Wommack also complemented Julius’s play, along with Curtis and defensive back Montrell

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Custis. Wommack also talked about the team’s physical and mental need for a bye week.

Wommack said he couldn’t remember the last time a team he’s coached on has played in 10 straight games.

“You don’t want to come off with a loss, especially a loss like that, but we need a bye week,” Wommack said. “We need the rest, they need to recover.”

Husky Tony Conner returned to the field for the first time since week three after tearing his meniscus in the Alabama game.

“Been off for a long time, rusty a little bit, wasn’t totally like Tony normally is, but that’s kind of the way the whole defense looked to be honest,” Wommack said.

Multiple juniors on the team, including Conner, are projected to be NFL draft picks this April.

“I don’t think that’s even a consideration in Tony’s mind right now,” Freeze said. “I think maybe the media talks about it, but Tony and I have talked and I don’t think he’s even thinking in those terms. He’s thinking let me get myself well and have a great senior year.”

Freeze said he would gather all the facts on Conner’s draft status and talk to him before any decision was made, but that based on his conversations with Conner, he seemed to be leaning towards staying for his senior season.

With the regular season getting closer and closer to its finale, Freeze talked about the impact that the program’s seniors had on the team during their time here.

“Very much indebted to them.

We went through the lean times here and didn’t have much to smile about some days,” Freeze said. “Their buy-in to us asking them to do certain things combined with certain core values, without that you don’t get the results that we’ve gotten in the short amount of time.”