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Debate teams brings home national awards

By Allen Huddleston The Collegian The Fresno state debate team made a strong push to close out its season, ending with multiple accolades and awards at the national tournament in late March.

In the Cross Examination Debate A s s o c i a t i o n ( C E DA ) N a t i o n a l Tournament at Idaho State, Fresno State debaters Pritpal Randhawa, Sier ra Holley, Jamila Ahmed and Emma Wheeler ear ned awards as National Debate Scholars.

Candis Tate was elected to the AllAmerican debate team, which features the top 30 debaters in the country.

Wheeler was selected as “Novice of the Year” among all the first-year debaters in the country.

This past season marked one of the best the debate team has had in a while.

Tate and Holley beat teams from the US Military Academy, the University of Puget Sound, Rochester and others, fighting their way to a 5-3 record and becoming the first team from Fresno State in several years to clear at a varsity tournament.

The debate program at Fresno State was discontinued in 2003, only to be revived in 2011.

This past season the Fresno State debate team had 18 students go to tournaments and debate, said Kevin Kuswa, coach of the Fresno State debate team.

The Fresno State debate team brought home multiple awards from the Cross Examination Debate Association National Tournament.

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The team is open to anyone who is interested and is considered a very diverse team, he said, opposed to many teams on the East Coast. The team is also relatively young compared to most others.

“We figured it would take three or four years to get us to the varsity level, but Candis [Tate] and Sierra made this great run,” Kuswa said.

Randhawa, Ahmed, Andre Mitchell and Christian Ybar ra won three rounds at the varsity level of the CEDA National Tour nament. Ahmed and Ybarra’s performance qualified them for the elimination rounds in novice.

They beat Johnson County, Kan., in the quarterfinals before losing to Rochester, N.Y., in the semifinals. The pair ended

the competition by tying for third place in the country on the novice level.

Ariana Willingham and Tate earned awards as National Debate Scholars at the cum-laude level during the tournament as well.

Wheeler and Willingham won two debates on the varsity level during the Idaho event. Both intend to return to the debate team at Fresno State next year.

The Fresno State debate team is one of the more diverse teams that compete on the national level, he said, with a majority of the teams it debates against being comprised of mostly males.

The team has many of its members entering their second year of debate, leaving much room for improvement.

Fresno State’s Candis Tate holds one of the many awards earned by the debate team.

This past year was the second year that Tate has debated. She has now received a scholarship to coach the debate team at California State University, Northridge.

Kuswa believes that since the season is over, first-year debaters can now take this time to develop positions on different topics.

Most debates are policy debates, See AWARDS, Page 3

USDA hopes to settle discrimination suits by Hispanic, female farmers

By Michael Doyle McClatchy-Tribune

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Fresno State grows many varies of nuts on its campus farms, such as these pistachio trees.

Fresno State’s JCAST gets pistachio endowment University Communication The California Pistachio Research Board pledged $1.5 million to establish an endowed faculty position with Fresno State’s Jordan Colle ge of Agricultural Sciences and Technology.

The endowed Professorship in Pistachio Physiology and Pomology assures dedicated faculty expertise to help solve industry challenges, while training the next generation of agricultural professionals. The position

will focus on applied research in pistachio physiology and teaching courses in pomology, the science of cultivating fruit produced by flowering plants.

When hired, the newly selected faculty member will work closely with the pistachio board to prioritize research, and as a teacher and adviser connecting students to the industry.

Board chair and pistachio grower See PISTACHIOS, Page 3

WASHINGTON _ Hispanic farmers in Texas and California’s Central Valley planted the seeds for a billiondollar payout when they charged the Agriculture Department with discrimination.

Their lawsuit has struggled in court, but it scored politically.

Now Agriculture Department officials are scrambling to distribute some $1.33 billion to Hispanic and female farmers with discrimination claims.

Hoping not to miss anyone, officials have extended the deadline for applications to May 1.

“We’re trying to make sure we leave no stone unturned,” Lillian Salerno, the acting administrator of the department’s Rural Business-Cooperative Service, said in an interview Tuesday.

“We feel like we’ve done a good job of outreach, but you’re never completely sure.”

Saler no said 65,000 claim for ms already had been sent to Hispanic and female farmers, who could apply for payments of $250,000 or $50,000 each.

By extending the March 25 filing deadline, officials think they can reach more potential applicants, as well as give additional time to fill out the 16-page claim forms. They also might avoid the complications that troubled a different discrimination-settlement program for African-American farmers.

In se parate lawsuits, AfricanAmerican, Hispanic, female and N a t ive A m e r i c a n f a r m e r s h ave alleged discrimination by Agriculture Department officials responsible for

loan-making and other decisions. Each lawsuit initially named individual farmers, who argued that many others shared their plight.

Two dozen of the 81 aggrieved farmers identified in a 2006 version of the Hispanic lawsuit were from Fresno, Reedley or other parts of California’s rural Central Valley. Twenty-two were from Texas, many from around the El Paso area.

“Hispanics were consistently discouraged from even applying for loans or benefits,” the farmers asserted in one legal filing, adding that “those Hispanics who nevertheless persisted in filling out an application for loans or benefits experienced long delays in processing their applications (and) they experienced a high denial rate based upon highly subjective eligibility criteria.”

A separate lawsuit was filed on behalf of female farmers, including Winter Haven, Fla.-area farmer Mary L. Brown and Palm Coast, Fla., farmer Lind Marie Bara-Weaver. Though the Hispanic and female farmers’ lawsuits haven’t been settled, the Agriculture Department is offering the $1.33 billion as an alternative to continued litigation.

Raising similar issues and winning certification as a class action, the first African-American farmer lawsuit ended in 1999, when Agriculture Department officials agreed to a $2.25 billion settlement, the largest civil rights settlement in history.

While 22,700 far mers had filed claims, another 74,000 individuals came See DISCRIMINATION, Page 3

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Eye contact: Awkwardly effective One-Finger

By Dalton Gumz Senior, majoring in mass communication and journalism Sitting at the tables outside of the Starbucks at the Henry Madden Library, we have all experienced a strange phenomenon.

Working on laptops and homework, the occasional glance up from a screen to meet someone else's gaze, and we quickly turn back to what we were doing.

This awkward and uncomfortable meeting of the eyes is just that phenomenon.

When you walk down the street past someone and your eyes meet, especially if you do not know the person, you feel a sense of awkwardness.

Eye contact is something that is feared, and oftentimes avoided, due to the weird way it makes us feel.

For as often as it occurs, why does it make us feel uncomfortable when we glimpse into another person's eyes?

For centuries, eye contact has been seen as a form in intimacy and romance. When you look into someone's eyes, that may mean you have some sort of an interest in them. According to primermagazine.com, making eye contact with someone establishes a type of personal relationship with the person you are speaking with.

This also makes the person who initiates and is able to hold the eye contact the more powerful person in the conversation.

When we do lock eyes with someone across the room, we do not necessarily have the desire to get to know them or even speak with them. It is just a random occurrence, and we look away immediately.

Eye contact avoidance is key in keeping to ourselves and maintaining our privacy.

However uncomfortable we may feel when looking into the eyes of a stranger, there is another aspect of eye contact that is incredibly helpful and essential.

When we meet people for the first time, it is crucial that we shake hands, introduce ourselves, all while looking them in the eyes.

Without the element of eye contact, conversations can be meaningless and impersonal. Face-to-face interactions require eye contact because in the American culture, it is seen as rude otherwise.

However, when using eye contact, if you stare straight at someone, it can be perceived as threatening.

A lack of eye contact when speaking has the connotation of not being honest.

Primermagazine.com also notes that this is why we have the saying, “Look me in the eyes and say that,” because it is more difficult to lie to someone while you are looking at that person directly in the eyes.

Although in our culture a lack of eye contact is seen as rude, other cultures see the aversion of the eyes as a sign of respect.

In a study done by a Berkeley professor, he found that Latin Americans make more eye contact when they speak, and it is a key point in their personal interactions.

In contrast, many Asian cultures, such as the Japanese, do not make eye contact when speaking to their superiors as a sign of respect.

The study also noted that children have a better chance of learning some-

thing when eye contact is present.

Whenever eye contact is initiated, people have a better chance of listening more intently to what is being said, and flirting is also better received.

Eye contact is very underrated in today's society. People who do not utilize it are missing out on two very important things: awareness and confidence, according to primermagazine. com.

It also offered tips on how to use eye contact efficiently, because it has become so underrated.

It noted to remember that eye contact is not staring, and not to lock eyes with the person you're speaking with because it will be threatening.

Effective eye contact can help you in a variety of ways. It shows you have a more personal interest in the conversation and can make you a better listener. Making eye contact shouldn't be an awkward experience or make us feel uncomfortable.

If we just all practice the tips for better interpersonal communication, then it will be a much easier thing to deal with when it occurs unexpectedly.

And next time, instead of instantly looking the other way when we meet someone's gaze, we can give them a smile instead of an uncomfortable shudder.

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Margaret Thatcher — politician, freemarket evangelist, labor antagonist and dominant global leader — died Monday at age 87 of a stroke. In 1992, Thatcher was appointed a peeress in the House of Lords with the title of Baroness. She continued giving speeches and lectures across the world. She also founded the Thatcher Foundation, which aimed to advance the cause of political and economic freedom, particularly in the newly liberated countries of central and eastern Europe. In 1995 she became a member of the Order of the Garter, the highest order of knighthood in England.

Thumbs up Young adults can kick smoking Researchers studying new methods to help young adults to quit smoking report that physical activity may actually have an effect on smoking rates. Scientists from George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services report that young smokers who upped the number of days they exercised for 20 minutes didn’t light up as much as those who weren’t as active. Some who participated in both smoking cessation and fitness programs were able to kick their habit for good.

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PISTACHIOS: Rapid growth in industry has spurred increased research CONTINUED from page 3 Tom Coleman said the endowment comes at a pivotal time.

“During the past 20 years the California pistachio industry experienced rapid growth and we have relied on researchers from across the state.

Unfortunately many of these academic researchers recently retired or will retire soon.

“Fresno State is the ideal location with respect to our growers. It is one of the top agricultural universities in the country and is deeply committed to supporting the agricultural community,” Coleman said.

Richard Matoian, executive director of American Pistachio Growers, echoed the sentiment, noting the Jordan College’s reputation for producing well-trained students and conducting cutting-edge

agricultural research.

The Califor nia Pistachio Research Board is composed of pistachio producers dedicated to researching pistachio propagation, production, harvesting, handling and preparation for market. The board also provides educational opportunities and material for pistachio growers.

Andrew Anzaldo, director of Grower Relations at Paramount Farms said, “This e n d ow m e n t d e m o n s t r at e s unanimous industry support for a long-term research solution to combat the dwindling state support of higher education.”

The Jordan College offers students a comprehensive, hands-on educational experience. Students train at the 1,000 acre farm laboratory, of which 25 acres are dedicated to pistachios.

News Briefs Fresno State students seek books for Bulldog Pantry Associated Students Inc. (ASI) Community Revitalization is hosting a book drive ending 5 p.m.

Friday, April 12. The drive benefits the Service Means Impacting Lives through Empowerment (S.M.I.L.E.) Center of the Bulldog Pantry.

Donated books will be given to children who attend the Bulldog Food Pantry with their parents. The drive seeks new or gently used children’s books for children ages 3 to 10 years old.

Drop off locations include the ASI Office (USU 317), University Student Union, H e n r y M a d d e n L i b r a r y, Student Recreation Center and the Peters Business

Building second floor.

INFO: Jordan King, 559278-8861.

Bipartisan support for bill connected to Prop. 30 Assembly Bill 67, a joint ef for t between Assemblymembers Kristin Olsen, (R-Modesto), Rocky Chavez (R-Oceanside) and Jeff Gorell (R-Camarillo) passed out of the Assembly’s Higher Education Committee with bipartisan support.

To ensure that Proposition 30 tax dollars are actually used to protect higher education as the voters intended, Assembly Bill 67 would freeze tuition at all UC and CSU campuses for four years.

DISCRIMINATION: Some lawmakers call claims overly generous

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in late. Under political and legal pressure, the Agriculture Department provided an additional $1.25 billion in 2010 for the African-American farmers who’d missed the first claims deadline.

A class-action discrimination lawsuit filed in 1999 on behalf of Native American farmers was settled for $760 million in 2011.

Conservative lawmakers call the settlements overly generous and politically moti-

vated.

“The proof is so low that all an applicant has to do is allege that there was discrimination and then find someone who is not a close family member who will attest that they complained about being discriminated against,” Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, asserted during a 2011 debate in the House of Representatives.

The House, though, rejected King’s effort to stop the additional payments to AfricanAmerican farmers.

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AWARDS: Young team makes big progress CONTINUED from page 3 meaning that before the actual debate, the competitors are already assigned to their topic. “ Fo r p o l i cy d e b at e, we debate the same topic all season long,” Kuswa said. “This past year we debated a lot on environmental policies, dealing with global warming, solar panels. Basically a really indepth energy policy.”

In single tournaments, the debate team will enter six preliminary rounds, each round being different. Some rounds will be affirmative, while other rounds will be negative. At the end of the preliminary rounds, the team with the best record out of six rounds will receive the top seed, set to play the bottom seed.

The team as a whole won second place in the nation for public debate advocacy for the public forum debates at Reedley College and earned an undergraduate travel grant for the Madison Cup being held at James Madison University this month. Randhawa and Tom Boroujeni will be representing the team.

Kuswa is very excited about the direction that the debate team is headed, especially after it finished in the top 32 teams in the country. He understands that his team is young and has room to grow.

“The community decides what we debate on. One of the topics that I am pushing for is economic inequality, which would be good for the Valley,” Kuswa said. “I’m excited for people that have started off as novices on junior varsity and seeing how they will develop into the next season.”

The team will be bringing back many of its key debaters, including Ahmed, Ybarra and Holley, who are looking forward to the next debate season.

This past season these debaters were able to get experience that will carry over.

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By Lauren Jenkins Special to The Collegian Fresno State instructor Neal Spiro takes a different approach when teaching his classes, not only teaching with great passion for the dairy industry, but also with a realistic point of view on life.

A staple of the Fresno State animal sciences department, he has decided to retire at the end of the semester and move on to greener pastures.

Spiro, already a veterinarian, began working as a professor at Fresno State in 2007, where he teaches dairy science and pre-veterinarian classes, such as anatomy and physiology.

Though he enjoys teaching, Spiro said he never thought he would become a professor.

“It was a huge culture shock for me when I started teaching,” Spiro said.

He said there are special qualities to both his veterinary practice and teaching.

“Working with students is always the best part about teaching,” Spiro said. “I really enjoyed being a veterinarian.”

Prior to becoming a professor, Spiro went to Cal Poly, where he received a bachelor’s degree in dairy science and continued on to Ross University for his doctorate of veterinary medicine. He began as a herdsman, and then worked at a mixed-animal practice and later, a dairy.

Spiro moved back to California in 1989, and in July of 1990, he started his own veterinary practice. He still has his practice, although it is much small-

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Fresno State instructor Neal Spiro teaches classes in the animal sciences department. He uses his experience from owning his own veterinary practice to prepare students for graduation.

er than it used to be. His focus is mostly on dairy cows, but he also works with some equines.

Spiro said his greatest personal achievement was starting his veterinary practice.

“I was always blessed to have excellent clients to work with,” he said.

Though he loved the work, he had to cut back on his veterinary practice because it is a physically demanding career, he said.

“I did mostly large-animal [practice], and physically it starts taking a its toll

on your body, especially with the dairy practice,” he explained.

Spiro’s job is not only to teach, but also to prepare his students for the work environment. He said obtaining work in the students’ desired areas is very important and feels it is part of the faculty’s job to help with that.

Spiro uses his classes as a time to prime students with the skills that will be needed in the workforce.

“It’s really important to try and bridge the gap between academia and, for lack of a better word, the real

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world,” Spiro said. “I think the two need to stay connected, and students need to be made aware of what’s going to be expected of them when they leave college.”

Spiro is also an assistant coach for the Dairy Challenge team, the Pre-Vet Club adviser, the department representative and is on the Institutional and Animal Use Committee.

W h i t n e y E t c h e ve r r y, a D a i r y Challenge team member for three semesters, said the challenge is a competition between schools to give consulting advice to different dairies. The team travels to various dairies and evaluates them to find ways to make them more efficient.

April Chabala, a senior in the animal science pre-veterinary program at Fresno State and the Pre-Vet Club president, said Spiro is adept at relating class work to the actual industry.

“Spiro is excited when he teaches,” Chabala said. “He teaches with a realist aspect that helps us implement it in real life.”

Chabala said that Spiro doesn’t cut corners and teaches with a straightforward approach. She said Spiro supports the Pre-Vet Club and makes sure the students know it is a competitive industry.

“He brings forth the realization that not everyone gets into vet school,” Chabala said. “He teaches us it is important to have a plan B.” Like many of his graduating students, Spiro is not sure where he will end up after the semester, but looks forward to the next stage of his life.

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Professor enters a new chapter

By Zack Edwards The Collegian Every writer hopes to one day find his or her name on the cover of a novel.

For one professor in the Fresno State English department, those long held hopes of becoming an author have materialized into a career.

Born in Tijuana, Mexico, and raised in Southern California, Alex Espinoza has always wanted to write. The youngest of 11 kids said that he never imagined himself doing anything else.

He began the process of writing his first novel, “Still Water Saints,” as an undergraduate student at UC Riverside.

He worked on it little by little, as he continued his education, earning his Master of Fine Arts in writing from UC Irvine.

“Still Water Saints” was published in 2007 and received rave reviews.

Espinoza said a big reason why was the outpouring of help he received from fellow writers.

“I managed to have lots of friends who were writers, who managed to navigate me through the process and also be very supportive — writers who gave me blurbs, writers who endorsed what I was doing,” Espinoza said. “So the publishing world appreciated that and responded to that positively.”

The same year his first novel came out would also be the year he would join the faculty at Fresno State. Espinoza said he was just following the advice given to him by one of his professors.

“She said you have to put yourself in a place where you can now help young writers find their voice,” he said. “Just like I held the door open for you, now it’s your turn to hold the door open for other people.”

Brandon Baker is one of Espinoza’s M.F.A. students. He said that having the chance to study under the tutelage of a published author has been immensely helpful.

“It lends a lot of credibility to his

teaching, to his advice,” Baker said. “I mean he’s a published author, and we get to ask him all kinds of questions every week, so it’s fun.”

Espinoza said it is tricky to be both a writer and professor, but it is possible to be successful at both.

“I found that, early on, I needed to make sure that I was really regimented in terms of the hours that I spent dealing with my classes and doing stuff for the university and then the time that I spent sitting down and writing,” he said.

That scheduling has paid off for Espinoza, because he once again gets to see his name on the cover of a novel. His second book, “The Five Acts of Diego León: a Novel,” came out in March.

“Now with the second one, it’s cultivating that platform,” he said. “It’s really sustaining the reputation that you’ve built as a writer.”

However, just because he has gone through this once before, does not mean that the publication process does not make him anxious.

“It’s a very different experience, but you still have that sense of apprehension,” Espinoza said. “You still get really, really sort of nervous. I feel like I’m about to have a child. The baby’s about to be born, and I’ve been in labor for like five years.”

For students who wish to become authors, Espinoza has a few pieces of advice. First of all, he suggests the importance of reading.

“Oftentimes, I encounter people who want to write but don’t like to read, and that doesn’t work,” he said. “You have to be willing to read — a lot.”

However, Espinoza’s biggest piece of advice for students is for them to show their writing to others.

“For me,” Espinoza said, “the whole purpose of writing is that we write something with the hope of changing the world a little bit, and the only way we can do that is by sharing what we’ve written.”

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CHAMPS: Fresno State captures title with eight-man roster "Well, who's gonna drop off next? Whoever’s left, we’re the survivors. We’re the tough ones who were able to stick it out.

"And it kind of just galvanized us. It brought us closer together. We’re the ones that have stuck it out and we’re going to make the best out of what we have left."

Knight, a Bullard High grad-

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And then the chemistry kicked in.

"At that point, when everyone quit, it just kind helped bring us closer and closer together," Knight said.

uate is one player who plans to pursue playing the sport at the professional level – a feat several seniors from the 2009 national championship team achieved.

And as for the club program’s future?

Tsukimura hopes to fill holes at the middle blocker and at setter – a position vacated by Burriss, a senior.

The club sports program helps coordinate the City/ County All-Star high school volleyball game in June – an annual match that features the Central Valley’s top performers.

Tsukimura said he’ll reach out to potential incoming Fresno State freshmen at the game – a usual routine of his.

“It’s all about the play-

ers who want to be there,” Tsukimura said.

Knight has high aspirations for the future of the program.

“Hopefully we can get a scholarship team someday,” said Knight.

“That would be awesome.

But until that happens, I think Fresno State is going to have a good club volleyball program for years to come.”

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They dominated the first four rounds of the NCAA Tournament, but were pushed

by Wichita State in Saturday’s semifinal, winning by four.

Hancock came up big in that game as well with 19 points.

Guard Peyton Siva came up big with his scoring and playmaking. He finished with 18 points, 14 in the second half.

Forward Chane Behanan made a big difference in the middle with 15 points and 12 rebounds, including seven offensive boards.

Michigan guard Trey Burke, who has won a lion’s share of national player of the year awards, tried to keep the Wolverines in it, but his 24 points weren’t enough.

As the final moments tickets away, Louisville players came to hug Ware. He got to help cut down nets as the backboard was lowered.

The first half unfolded at a frenzied pace with unlikely

recruit and not just a younglooking kid playing a prank.

“He may not win the look test, but he can play,” Burke said. “He has a bright future.

I wasn’t surprised by this. We see it happen in practice a lot.”

Albrecht cooled of f in the second half, coming up short on his only three-point attempt, and he didn’t score after halftime.

But the true dif ferencemaker of the first half was H a n c o ck , wh o p e r s o n a l ly kept Michigan from jetting away. With Michigan leading 33-21 with 3:56 left in the half, Hancock scored his team’s next 14 points, including four three-pointers in a 1:59 span.

Hancock had 16 by halftime.

L o u i s v i l l e, w h i c h a l s o trailed by 12 in the second half against Wichita State, caught Michigan on a vicious slam by Montrezl Harrell off a lob from Peyton Siva.

The game had changed — and Louisville was on its way to a title — thanks to Hancock.

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Michigan inched ahead 38-37 on a pair of free throws with 2.5 seconds remaining, but the half will forever be remembered for Spike.

Spike Albrecht, the Wo l ve r i n e s ’ s e l d o m - u s e d reserve, played the half of his wildest dreams with 17 points.

Entering the night, he hadn’t scored seven in a game, and when he made two three-pointers in the semifinal victory over Syracuse, they were the most he had in a game.

But Albrecht went nuts Monday, making all four of his three-pointers. He tossed in a couple of drives for variety, and the only shot of the first half he missed was blocked.

A l b re ch t w a s p l ay i n g because he was hot and Burke, who scored Michigan’s first seven points, collected his second foul after nine minutes.

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8:48 to play.

It was UConn, 29-14.

And in the most literal sense, the torch was officially passed to Stewart and Mosqueda-Lewis, who for the next two seasons will try to help Auriemma reach Wooden.

Au r i e m m a i s n o w t i e d w i t h Tennessee's Pat Summitt for the most titles in Division I women's basketball history. And he's only two from tying the great John Wooden for the most ever.

UConn (35-4) had five players in double-figures. Mosqueda-Lewis, the All-American and UConn's greatest three-point shooter in history, added 18 points, including five threes. She had nine rebounds.

Kelly Faris, the fundamentally fabulous one, who transformed herself from a team player to a team leader, scored 16 points with four three-pointers. She had nine rebounds and six steals.

Bria Hartley, whose season was seriously uprooted in August by an ankle injury suffered playing for USA Basketball in Greece, added 13 points.

And Stefanie Dolson, the AllAmerican junior center, who played in so much pain for the last month because of a stress fracture and plantar fasciitis, had 12 points and six rebounds.

Stewart, last season's high school player of the year, who struggled so mightily in the middle of the season, became just the fourth freshman in the history of the women's tournament to be its Most Valuable Player. The last time it happened was in 1987.

In vanquishing the Cardinals, the Huskies ended the tournament's rousing run. Louisville, the first No. 5 seed to play for the title in tournament history, beat Baylor and Tennessee and California to reach Monday.

A win would have given the school a sweep of both men's and women's titles, Only UConn in 2004 had ever done it.

Louisville men's Rick Pitino, to be inducted into the next Naismith Hall of Fame class, delivered a pep talk to Walz' women before the game.

Pitino arrived about 30 minutes before tipoff and sat in the Louisville cheering section, right behind his bench. He was besieged by cameras and well-wishers, stopping to shake hands with many, including NCAA President Mark Emmert.

The Cardinals seemed to be packing enough emotional fuel to run through three overtimes, if necessary. But after eight minutes, the engine began to sputter.

Louisville came out of the box assertively, sophomore Sara Hammond (15 points) opening the game with a three.

With 14:41 to play in the half guard Monique Reid, the only remaining member of Louisville's 2009 Final Four team, scored to give the Cardinals a 13-8 lead.

And that was that.

Stewart was exceptional, just as she has been since the final Big East tournament started in Hartford one month ago.

She drained threes with the gentle snap of her wrists. She soared to tip in an offensive rebound. She was everywhere and seemingly capable of anything. And she exasperated her opponent with the effortlessness of it all.

A n d wh i l e s h e t o o k ove r t h e game, Louisville's star junior Shoni Schimmel, whose firecracker style fired the Cardinals to New Orleans, struggled to keep up. And she never did.

Her first basket brought the Cardinals to within 41-25 and she was 1-of-8 in the half. She was 3-of-15 with nine points.

And in the second half, as if to call attention to what lies ahead for the program, Auriemma fielded a team for a long stretch that featured the three freshmen, Stewart, Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck, and MosquedaLewis.

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THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM

UConn women win 8th national title

By John Altavilla McClatchy-Tribune

Photo courtesy of Fresno State club volleyball team

The Fresno State men's volleyball team poses with the national championship trophy after Saturday's straight-set win over UC Santa Barbara in Dallas.

Program rides team chemistry to third national championship

By Ricardo Cano The Collegian Fresno State men’s volleyball coach Brian Tsukimura and the team were faced with a grand dilemma throughout the season.

Fresno State captured its t h i rd n at i o n a l ch a m p i o n ship in nine years after its 25-21, 25-16 straight-set win against UC Santa Barbara in the Collegiate Club Volleyball Championships final Saturday in Dallas.

But throughout their journey, players were quitting – leaving the team due to a number of reasons.

Part of it could’ve been the late practices. The team’s typical practice schedule would run from around 8:30 to 12:30 at night, said fifth-year senior Hunter Knight.

“When everything else is basically over, then we go in

and practice,” Tsukimura said.

The time commitment, the fees, the practices, the inconvenient scheduling – all that might’ve had its part in depleting a 16-man roster to half its size when all was said and done.

Tsukimura, a biology professor at Fresno State, saw the problem. He looked to chemistry to fix it.

“We kept shrinking as the season went on. Every time we shrank, it was an unofficial call out for everybody to step up,” Tsukimura said. “Where the kids get credit is they actually did step up. They stepped up to the national championship.”

Fresno State (29-6) finished the championship tournament 9-1. The team swept all four of its opponents on Saturday – Cal, UC Irvine, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara. Fresno State’s only loss of the tour-

NEW ORLEANS _ After all the years and countless milestones, it's hardly possible for UConn to bounce a pass anymore without making history.

Geno Auriemma, the master craftsman, and his series of master classes, have become as synonymous to their sport as Howard Johnson was to the ice cream cone.

Things just seemed vastly different in the world once they came along.

On Tuesday, after being rerouted at times by injuries and, well, you know, Notre Dame, the Huskies arrived at the place they've come to know so well.

This eighth team brought to the national championship by Auriemma did what the previous seven accomplished. It won.

Led by freshman Breanna Stewart, UConn's newest flavor sensation, who scored 23 points with nine rebounds, the Huskies drilled Louisville, 93-60, to win their eighth national championship.

UConn is 8-0 in national championship games and here is basically how this one went: With 13:51 to play in the first half, Bria Smith's free throw gave Louisville a 14-10 lead.

And then it was over.

O ve r t h e n e x t 5 : 2 5 t h e Huskies, with classic, clinical precision, sped to its championship.

UConn went on a 19-0 run, starting with a Bria Hartley field goal with 12:54 remaining, ending with a looping three by Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis with

nament was a three-set loss to Purdue in the opening round.

It was on that first day in which Fresno State – the No. 4 seed that everyone expected to roll through the first-round competition – squeaked by Cal State Fullerton and Cincinnati, both in three sets.

Fresno State hadn’t competed in about a month.

Said Knight, Fresno State’s go-to offensive weapon this season: “After our team meeting that night, our coach broke us down and gave us a good tongue lashing. And we got together as a team.

“A totally different team came to play for the rest of the tournament after that.”

Fresno State dominated the rest of the tournament.

But it wasn’t an easy road to the national championship – especially during the first half of the season, when a bulk of the players quit, and the team

was riddled with injuries at various times.

Knight was out. Chris Hughes, the tour nament’s Most Valuable Player, was out.

And so was Taylor Dildine, adding woe to the dwindling numbers.

“With each person that quit, it was really frustrating,” Knight said. “Two of the guys that quit were two of my best friends that had been playing for multiple years.

“It was a little discouraging to see some of those guys quit. It made me think that our chances of winning were going down, honestly.”

But Fresno State had the pieces to the puzzle. The team had reached the 168-team tournament's Sweet 16 the previous two years.

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some break suffered in last week’s regional final.

“They got the job done, and I’m so proud of them,” Ware said.

Hancock was one of the players whose minutes increased because of Ware’s injury and turned in the game of his life.

He came off the bench and fired away, knocking in all five of his three-point attempts, including four in the first half that pulled the Cardinals back from a deficit. His final three late in the second half allowed Louisville to keep its distance.

Hancock finished with 22 points, and his two free throws with 29 seconds remaining gave Louisville a six-point lead that allowed the team to start feeling victory.

He was chosen the Final Fo u r ’ s M o s t O u t s t a n d i n g Player.

“I tried to do whatever I could to help the team,” Hancock said. “I just hit a few

shots.”

Michigan ran out of gas in the end. The Wolverines, a No. 4 seed, pulled off some stunning victories along the tournament path, over top-seeded Kansas, No. 3 seed Florida and No. 4 Syracuse. But they couldn’t overcome Louisville’s defense and hustle in the end.

On the day he was announced as a Naismith Hall of Fame inductee, Louisville’s Rick Pitino became the first college basketball coach to win national championship with two programs. The first came at Kentucky in 1996.

“Players put coaches in the Hall of Fame,” Pitino said.

Heroes were plenty for the Cardinals, whose only loss after Jan. 28 came in five overtimes at Notre Dame. Along the way, the Cardinals finished as co-champions of the Big East and rolled through the

Louisville wins NCAA Tournament, 82-76

Mark Cornelison / McClatchy-Tribune

Louisville coach Rick Pitino hoists the trophy up in the air after Saturday's 82-76 win in the NCAA Tournament final in Atlanta.

ATLANTA — Questions were raised in late January.

Was Louisville, losers of three straight, national championship material?

The Cardinals answered the question emphatically.

Louisville, the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, finished the job Monday night with an 82-76 triumph over Michigan that gave the program its third national championship and continued a march that started in doubt.

“It doesn’t get better than this,” Louisville forward Luke Hancock said.

The Cardinals, 35-5, finished the season winning 16 straight and 19 of 20, and the title also came with an inspiration tale.

Reserve guard Kevin Ware stood at midcourt celebrating with his team, on crutches as his leg heals from the grue-

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