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nce a sexual assault survivor chooses to confide in someone close to them, it can be hard for that person to cope with the information and figure out what steps should be taken to help his or her loved one heal from the assault. A support system is often necessary in the recovery after a sexual assault, according to Drew Zaitsoff, psychology intern for K-State Counseling Services. Zaitsoff said
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supportive organizations like the Office of Student Life and Counseling Services are good allies or support systems, however, those closest to the survivor are likely to be the best supporters. “A lot of times, some of the most important, closest (supporters) are the friends and family this person already has,” Zaitsoff said. He said survivors will often confide in people who they feel they can depend on and are available to them. “The things that are important for an ally to have are being there and being available for whatever the person
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If someone is assaulted, usually there are not clear and specific indicators that an assault has happened, because the survivor has subjective responses to the incident, according to Jenna Tripodi, coordinator and advocate-educator for K-State’s Center for Advocacy, Response and
Education. “Individuals who’ve experienced sexual violence react in a variety of different ways,” Tripodi said. “Some of those ways are stereotypical, what we’d expect, like being incredibly emotional, distraught, isolating themselves. But I’ve also worked with people who, sadly two hours after they’ve been sexually assaulted, they’re laughing as they’re telling me their story. Not because they think it’s funny, but it’s a response, or self-protection mechanism.” see page
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K-State proposed a $1 million student fee increase for the next school year at the Tuition and Fees Strategies Committee meeting Tuesday. The so-called academic building support fee was proposed to cover $15 million that the university committed for the College of Business building construction, according to Cindy Bontrager, committee member and vice president of administration and finance. The business building construction totals $55 million, with $40 million coming from private donations and $15 million of university funds, according to Bontrager. Bontrager said the construction cost is about $36 million, and the rest of the funds will go toward furnishing the building and outfitting it with technology, among other uses. The $15 million was committed when the university planned for a 5 percent increase in tuition, which was the planned source of the funds. When the Kansas Legislature and Board of Regents capped tuition increases last year at 3.6 percent, the university suggested a fee increase, Bontrager said. That plan was prevented when the Board decided for the first time that the tuition cap included university-wide fees. The cap was put in place because the Legislature raised concerns that fees should be included in the total cost of attendance, Pat Bosco, committee member and dean of student life, said. The Legislature and Board agreed on the cap, Bontrager said, in exchange for the state not cutting funding to universities. see page
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BSU pays homage to black history at K-State RAFAEL GARCIA the collegian
The Black Student Union presented “Our Story: Black at K-State,” a history of black students at K-State, Tuesday evening at Hale Library as part of the BSU’s efforts at raising awareness and understanding of black history and culture. The BSU hosted Cliff Hight, university archivist, who spoke to the BSU about the history of black students at K-State. Although the presentation took place during a regular meeting of the BSU, it was open to the public. “When students learn about black history and culture at K-State, it gives perspective as to where African-Americans have been and where we’re going, and it helps guide us in the future,” Muenfua Lewis, senior in finance and BSU president, said. In his presentation, Hight recounted the history of black students on campus, starting with George Washington Owens, the first black graduate of K-State. Owens graduated in 1899 and later became the manager of the dairy herd and creamery of the Tuskegee Institute. Hight said that Owens faced adversity as the first and only black student on campus at the time, but many of his personal struggles were not recorded in Owens’ autobiography draft, which the university has in its possession. Minnie Howell, the first female black student to graduate from K-State, graduated only a few years later in 1901, with a degree in domestic science. After her time at K-State, Howell was a teacher at Virginia State
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During the “Our Story” event at Hale Library on Tuesday, the Black Student Union had the chance to look at old yearbooks and newspapers of the black history at K-State. College and Southern University, Negro A&M College. Howell later returned to Manhattan and taught at the Douglass Community Center. Hight also presented on the origins of the BSU at K-State in the late 1960s. Originally, two black student groups, the Black Student Association and the K-State Community Sisters, existed on campus, but the groups combined in 1970 to address issues and struggles that arose from the Civil Rights movement. The resulting group would become the current
BSU. “It’s about representation, Takara Brownridge, senior in elementary education and BSU secretary, said. “Knowing that there were people here before us. It’s about knowing that there were black students that went here, that graduated from K-State, and were successful. It’s so that whenever a black student is struggling and doesn’t feel like they can make it through college, they can see that there have been people before them that have succeeded, and they can,
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too.” After the presentation, students in attendance had the chance to browse several items in the university’s archives that pertain to black history at K-State. These included theses from early black graduates, personal correspondence between Booker T. Washington and K-State President E. R. Nichols, works by photographer Gordon Parks and copies of Black Panther newsletters.
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Libraries: more than a study area, a place for everyone EMILY LENK the collegian
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iffany Bowers, freshman in marketing, and Adam Carr, freshman in human resources, are eager to go to work at Hale Library every day, where they spread their passion of learning with others, according to Bowers. “People think of libraries as a place to just study and check books out at, but until you work here and see all of the time, research, energy and effort that goes into it, it is endless,” Bowers said. “It’s actually really interactive and fun.” Bowers said she dove right into the library when she arrived at K-State this year and became a Libraries Student Ambassador. “I’m like a library nerd,” Bowers said. “Libraries have always kind of been my place. I have been really actively involved with libraries for a long time. In my hometown, I volunteered at the public library for six summers straight. I was also involved in the middle school and high school library.” Carr said he remembers what it was like to not know anything about the library. He said he takes pride in being able to help other freshmen learn about the library. “K-State is a great place to work at,” Carr said. “Out of all the universities I’ve visited, K-State has always had that family atmosphere. You feel like you belong to the community, and that’s especially true with the library. We’re one big family. We like what we do.” Both Bowers and Carr worked at public libraries in their hometowns before coming to K-State and said they have never experienced a library like Hale before. “I especially love Hale because it’s so unlike any other
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Adam Carr, freshman in human resources, and Tiffany Bowers, freshman in marketing, both have prior experiences in working at libraries before joining the Hale Library staff.
library I’ve been in, because it’s a research library,” Bowers said. “I get to help students, my fellow peers, with any and every research question that they have. I get to work in an enormous, beautiful building that has so much history. It’s really hard not to fall in love with it.” Bowers said she has had a passion for libraries since she was young, and she spreads her passion by helping other students see how interesting Hale can be. “Hale is huge; it’s such a big library,” Bowers said. “My favorite question is when people come to me and they’re like, ‘I have never used this place be-
fore. Where do I even start?’ I love helping answers their questions and making them feel satisfied in the end. We try to push to have people leave with no questions left.” Carr said coming to the library can be an interactive experience, and there is a very positive and energetic atmosphere. “I think that for us, we get along and our positivity reflects back on to people,” Carr said. “We like to show people how fun and interactive our library is.” Bowers said both her and Carr spend time putting away books, clearing book returns,
answering questions and helping run the online chat on the libraries page of the K-State website. “I’m very passionate about working here,” Bowers said. “I really want to help everybody and make them love libraries as much as I do. It’s a hard thing to do, but I’m just so happy I’m working here and that I could get on board as early as I did.” Hale has 3 million books that are mostly kept at a warehouse by the airport, and on the third and fourth floor of the li-
brary, according to Bowers. “People walk in, and they’re like, ‘Is this the library?’” Bowers said. “I still can’t pinpoint an exact book location. We always tell people that finding books is all about having the call number and the stacks guide. We have librarian professionals on every level, but most of them work behind the scenes and aren’t on the floor, but they know so much.” Charissa Powell, undergraduate experience librarian, works behind the scenes and
said she enjoys interacting with students and sharing her vast knowledge of the library with them. “I love working with students,” Powell said. “They are the highlight of my job. Whether that’s helping someone during a shift at the reference desk, one-on-one during a research consultation or giving tours.” Powell said she believes everyone has a place at the library, and they should never be ashamed in asking for help. “If you ever have questions about finding a book on the shelf, ask the students at the second-floor Help Desk,” Powell said. “They are the nicest, friendliest people. I myself have struggled with finding a book before, so there is no shame in asking for help.” According to Bowers, she and Carr aim to have the same knowledge that Powell has one day as they continue to keep the library active and inviting for other students. “If we can’t find something for someone, we’ll find someone who can,” Carr said. “We have unlimited resources. There is usually always an answer and there are no such things as stupid questions.” The librarians at Hale are always working to improve the library, Bowers said, whether it be renovations on the first floor or by researching the latest books to help students. “I want to be able to answer some of the hardest research questions that students ask, but I’m not at that level yet,” Bowers said. “We get trained well and we get a lot of practice and I can’t wait to be at that point. I want people to see how amazing libraries can be, for studying, for research and for learning something new.”
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Several copies of Uhuru, a short-lived black student newspaper at K-State in the 1970s, were on display. Hight said it was interesting to note the differences between Uhuru’s coverage of issues on campus at the time and The Collegian’s coverage of the same issues. “You might consider Uhuru and what was being reported in it versus what was being reported in The Collegian at the same time,” Hight said. “We can do an analysis of this paper and see if it was really structured in a way that addressed news and issues that were not being reported as effectively as they should have been.” Hight also said the university is working with BSU to ensure that current events
are captured digitally and archived. Currently, the library has worked to archive the BSU’s Twitter feed and website using the archiving service Archive-It. “It helps us to preserve for future generations some of the things that have been done online recently,” Hight said. Lewis said it is up to current members of BSU to impact their legacy in K-State’s history. “We can continue to be advocates for social justice, to fight for opportunities for everybody, looking at what’s disadvantaging certain people within society at a deeper level,” Lewis said. Demetrie Thomas, junior in business, said he enjoyed the presentation. It’s good seeing black people rise up and learn more
about their heritage,” Thomas said. “It’s good to see people actually wanting to do more for themselves instead of waiting around or waiting for the next generation.” The presentation was a part of the BSU’s campaign to increase awareness of black history and culture at K-State during Black History Month. Last week, the BSU hosted the third annual Black Student Union Leadership Conference, a leadership conference that encouraged black high school students from across the state to pursue higher education. Earlier this month, the BSU hosted Maggie Anderson, author of “Our Black Year.” Anderson spoke about her experience after she exclusively shopped at black-owned businesses.
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Modern languages useful for future career prospects KALIN WATSON
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tudying a modern language can benefit future job prospects and offer more opportunities for students. “There are specific career tracks for students in modern language, but at the same time it is a great complement to whatever program of study a student has already decided upon,” Derek Hillard, head of the department of modern languages, said. “It brings a communicative linguistic component to what that student is doing.” Majoring in a modern language brings an international dimension and allows students to function not only in this culture, but in a global context, according to Hillard. “It opens up more possibilities at an international level as well, because it can give a leg up over the other guy who might not have the other language,” Patrick Riggin, senior in French and political science, said. “I think it just makes you a more well-rounded person in general.” According to Laura Kanost, associate professor of Spanish, students majoring in a modern language share common interests in communication, culture and international issues, but are not all focused on the same employment, which is something that
could make them different from other majors. There are many job opportunities available to students who are majoring in a modern language. According to the “What can I do with a major in…?” page on K-State’s Academic and Career Information Center website, jobs for someone majoring in a modern language range from foreign correspondent to translator to intelligence specialist. Kanost said data she collected from LinkedIn on jobs that her students have obtained over the past nine years ranged from marketing and different types of business jobs to lawyers and medical or dental-related fields. “So it is a career foundation in many ways if someone wants to go into law or medicine,” Hillard said. Studying abroad is something encouraged to students majoring in a modern language or interested in using their modern language in a career, according to Hillard. He said it is recommended to students because it really allows them to commit to the language they are learning and the culture. “There is plenty to do even in this region with the language communities here,” Riggin said. “You can use your language in a variety of settings, even if you are not in a place where it is the national language.” Riggin said students wondering if this is really something for them, or are hesitant about learning a lan-
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Derek Hillard, professor of German and department head of modern languages, works at his desk in Eisenhower 105 Tuesday. Studying modern language has many career opportunities and learning languages “brings two sides of the world together,” Hillard said. guage, need to know that if they put in the effort from the beginning and really try to learn it, it will begin to get easier. Paige Wiley, career specialist for the Academic and Career Information Center and junior in communica-
tion studies and international studies, said the first step for students interested in a degree in a modern language and are curious about what job opportunities exist, is to stop by the Academic and Career Information Center and take the career assessments, which will
show the student related career titles. “I would just say to ask yourself what you are passionate about,” Wiley said. “There are a lot of options. It’s just the decision students have to make at some point about what they want to do.”
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According to Bontrager, Shane Bangerter, chair of the Board, said at a recent meeting that “he would consider going over on fees the cap that’s set for tuition, but we better have really good justification.” Bontrager said she thinks K-State has enough justification to increase fees above the cap. Individual college fee increases, such as the proposed Arts and Sciences fee increase, do not count toward the cap. Kurt Lockwood, committee co-chair, SGA speaker of the senate and senior in agricultural economics, asked Bontrager why a student referendum was not proposed for a fee increase. He cited how a referendum was used before raising fees for the K-State Student Union renovation. Bontrager said for a referendum to be required, an academic building must be built using bonding authority, meaning it would be built with debt. The Union renovation used debt; the business building did not. “For me, it’s an unsettling feeling that students are going to be paying for a building that they did not have a say in and that, for me, is why the referendums are important,” Lockwood said. “It’s kind of a safeguard for students to have their voice heard. It’s always bothered me that students are paying $15 million. If I was around next year, I would be paying for a business building that I personally don’t feel like I should be paying for.” Bosco said since the fee has not been approved by the Board, students are not paying for the construction yet. “The university has a $15 million commitment, and (Bontrager) is trying to figure out a way to cover an obligation,” Bosco said. “This committee is a recommending body, and that’s your role, to recommend how we’re going to solve university-wide prob-
lems.” Bosco said the university is trying to be transparent amid the difficulties plaguing the issue. Bontrager also talked about the proposed budget for next year, which would include a tuition increase of 3.6 percent, or $3.6 million. She said the committee will have to determine recommendations for the uses of the funds. K-State’s primary sources of revenue for the budget are state funds and tuition, Bontrager said. The roughly $160 million of general funds from the state will probably be frozen for next year, she said. “Tuition is the resource that we have available to help fund some of these initiatives that we have going on,” Bontrager said. The chilled plant expansion and Mid-Campus Drive work are two of the major money issues for the university, Bontrager said. Others, she said, were detailed in President Kirk Schulz’s Feb. 19 letter in K-State Today. In his letter, Schulz announced that a “2 percent general use callback will be instituted for each administrative and academic unit at K-State for the remainder of fiscal year 2016.” The 2 percent cut equates to about $6 million. This was due to, Schulz said, a stagnant state general fund budget, the legislative tuition cap, the decrease in institutional reserve fund balances, increased utility costs and university enrollment and credit hour decline. Part of the difficulty, Bosco said, is due to the nature of planning a university budget. “To maintain our quality, to keep prices down, to keep costs down, sometimes you
have to make multi-year investments,” Bosco said. “We did the best job we could with the information we had available.” Fred Guzek, committee member, Faculty Senate president and professor of business at K-State Polytechnic, put the effects of the tuition cap a different way. “If you’re expecting a 5 percent increase, and you get a 3.6 percent increase, you have lost 28 percent of what you expected,” Guzek said. He also compared K-State to a business. “We’re a business that provides services,” Guzek said. “And you can’t fix a cash flow problem in a service business by cutting costs. Because when you cut costs, you cut service, which cuts your revenue, and you’re right back where you started.” Enrollment at K-State has declined the past year. The drop in enrollment was a concern of Bosco’s. “I lose sleep over the total cost of attendance,” Bosco said. “It’s the number one reason why students cannot continue their education.” Trenton Kennedy, committee member, SGA senator and sophomore in entrepreneurship, asked if private donations could be used to fill in the gap. “(It would require) educating donors that are compelled enough to want to give to the operating budget of the university,” Bosco said. “That’s not very sexy.” Bontrager said the budget climate will make budget planning difficult for the university. “We’re trying to plan and do the enhancements that we really think is going to bring value to our students’ degrees and for your experiences here,” Bontrager said.
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Those closest to the survivor, however, might be able to tell that there is some change in their behavior, according to Zaitsoff. “People who are close to them, can generally tell if they’re having a bad day,” Zaitsoff said. “If that bad day has been going on for quite a while, it seems different than usual.” According to Zaitsoff, there is nothing wrong with asking them about a change in their behavior, however, a supporter should let them decide if they want to talk about a problem rather than confronting them. “I feel like another important thing that allies can do is support the choices survivors are making,” Zaitsoff said. If someone has suspicions that a loved one has been assaulted, voicing their support for the potential survivor without asking them is also important, according to Tripodi. If a survivor does reveal that they’ve been assaulted, Zaitsoff said the best initial response is to listen. “The first response should be listening to what they have to say,” Zaitsoff said. “It can be difficult to talk about this at all, and if someone is talking to one of their friends, an ally, about what they’ve gone through, that’s probably a difficult thing for them just to say.” According to Tripodi, another acceptable response would be to voice in some way that the supporter believes the survivor. “You don’t even have to say the words, but just say in some way ‘I’m sorry this happened to you,’ because that’s still implying that in some way that you believe them,” Tripodi said. Jessica Haymaker, coordinator and advocate-educator for CARE, said she encourages people to avoid forcing the survivor to recall details of the event and
what led up to it. “One thing to avoid is trying to pull up details about the event,” Haymaker said. “Asking things like, ‘How much did you drink? Did you try to flirt with him or her that night? Have you guys had sex before?’ Those are questions that aren’t necessary to understand and to know that someone was assaulted and they start to feel like investigative questions. I think letting the details come out in their own way at their own time is the best thing you can do.” Asking what the survivor needs at that moment and letting them decide what to do afterward is also a good response, according to both Tripodi and Haymaker. “It’s a way of giving the power back to them,” Tripodi said. “It’s letting them know that the way they want to proceed is going to be right, as long as the way they are proceeding isn’t endangering theirselves or another person.”
HOW TO COPE AS A SECONDARY SURVIVOR OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
Friends and family who support survivors are often referred to as secondary survivors, because they are sometimes affected in the same emotional manner as the assault survivor, according to Haymaker. “When you’re there with someone quite often, then you start to, yourself, carry some of the weight, pain and trauma that they are carrying, even if you do it in a small way or a much bigger way,” Haymaker said. Coping with the aftermath of an assault can be challenging for both supporters and survivors. However, Tripodi and Haymaker suggested some things supporters should keep in mind. Tripodi said one thing to understand is that they cannot fix what has happened.
“There’s a knee-jerk reaction to ‘should’ all over the place. ‘You should go to the police. You should go to the hospital,’” Tripodi said. “A lot of those things are good intentions, because it comes out of the supporter’s own anxiety, and they feel like they want to fix this. But there’s no ‘fixing sexual violence,’ there’s supporting. Those are two very different things.” Normalizing how the survivor chooses to cope is also helpful, both short and long term, according to Haymaker. “(Normalizing) can be done in simple ways, not expecting them to be a certain way about anything that has to do with their experience,” Haymaker said. “While still knowing that sometimes our coping methods aren’t sometimes healthy.” Tripodi said supporters should understand, for a survivor, healing from the assault is not linear and survivors do not always heal in a way that is expected. “(Supports might believe) they’re going to have the initial impact of the experience,” Tripodi said. “But then they’re going to do the right things and they’re just going to keep getting better until they’re the same person again, and that just isn’t reflective of those who experience trauma.” Secondary survivors are encouraged to find help for themselves, because recovering from an assault can be hard for both survivors and their loved ones, according to Haymaker. “I think that it is important for those supporting to also get support,” Tripodi said. “If you are supporting long term, so for years, that’s also going to take it’s toll on you. That doesn’t mean you are not a good helper or a good friend. These are just really hard things to talk about, so making sure you are taking care of yourself and making sure you have the resources is important.”
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Women’s basketball ready to end long losing streak RILEY GATES the collegian
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n 2008, Flo Rida and T-Pain’s, “Low,” was the top song on the Billboard Year End chart, “The Dark Knight,” was the top-ranked movie and former President George W. Bush was still in office. 2008 was also the last time the K-State women’s basketball team won a game in Ames, Iowa. The Wildcats, 17-9 overall and 7-8 in the Big 12, have ventured to Hilton Coliseum seven times since their last win there, and they’ve been unsuccessful every time since that 2007-08 season. “They have a good team for one, and then they have eight or nine thousand fans at every game,” head coach Jeff Mittie said. “They’re always in the top 10 in the country in attendance. It’s a good environment to play in.” Although Mittie has only ex-
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Junior forward Jessica Sheble, freshman guard Kayla Goth and junior guard Kelly Thomson all cheer on their team during the second round of the Sunflower Showdown on Feb. 13 in Bramlage Coliseum. The Wildcats beat the Jayhawks 81-67. perienced, “Hilton Magic,” one time as head coach, he’s had his
fair share of games against the Cyclones. Mittie has just a 2-7 record
against Iowa State. K-State senior guard Megan Deines will be making her first trip to Ames, Iowa, on Wednesday, but said she knows the challenge that lies ahead. “I just hear it from my teammates, how hard it is to play there,” Deines said. “I haven’t seen the gym or anything, though.” In addition to the challenge that the environment of Hilton Coliseum provides, the Cyclones, 13-13 overall and 5-10 in the Big 12, also provide a challenge on the floor. Iowa State has three players on the roster who provide a scoring threat the Wildcat defense will have to stop. Junior guard Seanna Johnson leads the charge with 16.5 points and 9.2 rebounds per game. Freshman guard Bridget Carleton follows Johnson with 11.9 points and 7.2 rebounds per game. Finally, sophomore guard Jadda Buckley provides 11.2 points per game. In the two team’s first meeting this season, a 84-79 Cyclone win in Manhattan, the trio tallied 20,
17 and 19 points, respectively. In the last outing, junior center Breanna Lewis contributed 16 points and seven rebounds against the Cyclones, which matches her total season average. “I feel like we had a good offensive game when they played here, but our defense was just not good at all,” Deines said. “They couldn’t stop (Lewis) inside, so I feel like just getting a good start on defense will be fun.” It will require a solid showing out of Lewis and the right K-State defense on Wednesday night in order to end the seven-year skid. “We’re definitely picking it up, just being more aggressive and being quicker on passes,” Deines said. “I felt like at the beginning of the year we were just a second slow and we were there, but it was always a second slow or a step too slow. So I feel like now we’re really focused on being more aggressive, and playing with effort.” Tipoff between the Cyclones and Wildcats will take place at 7 p.m. inside Hilton Coliseum.
What to watch: Battle for ACC supremacy CHRIS ROBINSON the collegian
VILLANOVA (1) AT XAVIER (5)
People really aren’t sure how good Villanova and Xavier are even though they are both top-ranked teams. The Big East is not what it used to be in basketball, so some people on the outside of the conference do not think as highly of it. The winner of this game can make a statement and show the national media if they are for real or not, because they are definitely the best teams in the conference. With a win, Xavier can pull within one game of first and Villanova can all but
seal up the conference. Tipoff is set for 6 p.m. Wednesday on Fox Sports 1.
OKLAHOMA (3) AT TEXAS (25)
The first Red River rivalry game was a dandy, with Oklahoma prevailing at home. This one should show more of the same. Texas defeated K-State on Monday to head into this showdown with Oklahoma. The Sooners won at West Virginia Saturday and play in-state rival Oklahoma State during the week leading up to this matchup. With a victory, Texas can continue to build a resume and improve seeding for the NCAA tournament. Oklahoma with a win can continue to build toward the tournament
as well and get back to winning ways after the losing slump they have recently endured. The Red River Rivalry will tipoff at 1 p.m. Saturday on CBS.
LOUISVILLE (11) AT MIAMI (FL) (12)
Louisville, while under a self-imposed postseason ban, still have their pride to play for. Miami has a chance to still win the ACC. Louisville can play spoiler and help out North Carolina, who is currently in first place in the conference. Miami is currently sitting in second, but looking to take the conference crown. This ACC matchup will tipoff at 1 p.m. Saturday on ESPN3.
NORTH CAROLINA (7) AT VIRGINIA (3)
This week’s College GameDay will feature two top ACC teams. Virginia is coming off a defeat at the hands of Miami, which set them back in the ACC standings. With a victory they can get within a game, or possibly tie for first, depending on what happens in the games scheduled for the teams ahead of them in the standings. North Carolina could really use this road victory, as they still need to play at Duke before the year is over. This game can provide huge implications on how the ACC is going to end up. Tipoff for the game of the week is set for 5:30 p.m. Saturday on ESPN.
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Texas guard Tevin Mack blocks K-State freshman forward Dean Wade’s shot as Wade attempts a layup in the second half of the Wildcats’ 71-70 loss to the No. 25 Longhorns Monday, inside Bramlage Coliseum.
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