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Here is the Morning Spin, a weekday feature from the Tribune that catches readers up to what’s going on in Illinois government and politics.

Gov. Bruce Rauner has publicly stayed out of the Republican presidential primary and did so again Monday.

Asked if Donald Trump’s vague comments about the Ricketts family were inappropriate, Rauner remarked that the presidential race “has been a very wild process,” but he would not comment further.

A poll done by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute found that Illinois’ Republican voters picked Trump more than any other GOP candidate. Hillary Clinton led the Democrat field.

Rauner’s communications chief just left the adminisration to work on Gov. John Kasich’s campaign, but there are some special circumstances as he’s joining his twin brother.

Rauner’s 2014 campaign manager, Chip Englander, was working on Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s campaign, and when that ended he jumped aboard Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s campaign.

Meanwhile, House Republican leader Jim Durkin, who spoke at a City Club of Chicago lunch, said he’d back the party’s eventual nominee, even if it’s Trump.

Durkin isn’t publicly backing anyone in the presidential race either. *Rauner on MAP grant veto: Gov. Rauner vetoed a Monetary Award Program grant funding bill Friday as promised, saying the state doesn’t have the money to pay for it. On Monday, the governor tried to blame House Speaker Michael Madigan for the situation.

Asked Monday to explain why college students have been left out of his education spending agenda, Rauner pointed at Madigan.

“They’re not out of luck, they’re out of Speaker Madigan control right now,” Rauner said of college students. “I could get them the money right now, if we could do the reforms and free me up,” to cut spending elsewhere in the budget.

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Aidan Osborne | @AidanOsborne_DE Azarra Lee, left, a junior from Waukegan studying fashion design merchandising, and Savannah McCord, right, a senior from St. Louis studying business management and psychology, watch as Aaron Downs, a graduate student in ceramic studies, demonstrates how to properly shine a shoe on Tuesday in the Student Center.

Tariq Collins, a senior from Munster, Ind., majoring in university studies, stopped by the shoe shining station on his way to the University Career Fair. “It’s my first career fair and I’m excited, but it’s nerve-wracking,” Collins said. “Now that I have my shoe game on tight, it makes me feel so serious.”

Kirk, Duckworth lead poll for Senate primaries BILL LUKITSCH | @Bill_LukitschDE

A statewide poll conducted by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute shows Republican Sen. Mark Kirk and Democratic Rep. Tammy

Left: Lane Christiansen

Duckworth are early frontrunners in the race for incumbent Kirk’s U.S. Senate seat.

Both candidates polled at above 50 percent of surveyed registered voters who are likely to vote in

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(Pictured) Left: Republican Sen. Mark Kirk Right: Democratic Rep. Tammy Duckworth

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the upcoming primary election on March 15. Duckworth is contesting the Senate seat held by Kirk, who has been subject of recent criticisms from within his own party.

“These results provide just a snapshot of public opinion in Illinois at this juncture, but it is a good indicator of where the races stand with three weeks to go before the race,” John Jackson, a visiting professor who helped design the poll, said in a press release.

Kirk was the pick for 53 percent of registered Republican survey respondents who are likely to vote in the primary. His Republican challenger James Marter, a conservative Oswego businessman, polled at 14 percent. One third of the total 306 Republican registered voters were undecided. The reported

margin of error for the Republican sample was plus or minus 5.6 percentage points.

Although the poll indicated a strong lead for Kirk to win the primary, 39 percent of respondents approve of the job he is doing and 31 percent disapprove. An “unusually larger number” — 25 percent — of voters did not know whether he was performing well in his duties as a senator, Jackson said.

“This is probably indicative of why he is being challenged by his own party,” he said.

Comparatively, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, who won re-election in 2014 and has four years left in his term, received a 51 percent jobapproval rating and a 34 percent disapproval rating.

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Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Guest musician Otis Murphy, a classical saxophonist and saxophone professor at Indiana University, teaches John Bridgman, a senior from Mahomet studying music business, during a masters class Monday in Altgeld Hall. Murphy said he fell in love with the saxophone when he was in high school and since then the instrument has taken him to 25 countries, both teaching and performing. “In my traveling I have learned that we are all really the same no matter where we come from or where we live,” Murphy said. “We all were children, we all have cried, we all have experienced pain and so I try to bring those experiences as much as possible into my teaching because it’s those common experiences that show we are all really one.”

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Duckworth is leading the threeway contest for the seat, winning 52 percent of surveyed Democrats.

Andrea Zopp, head of the Chicago Urban League, and State Sen. Napoleon Harris, D-Harvey, trailed Duckworth, garnering 6

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That’s a reference to Rauner’s request that lawmakers grant him the authority to unilaterally slash spending in order to make the books balance.

Rauner proposed a budget last week that contained a hole of at

and 4 percent, respectively.

There were 422 registered voters who said they would vote in the Democratic primary of the 1,000 surveyed, and the poll shows a margin of error of plus or minus 4.7 percentage points.

Jackson said Kirk and Duckworth were widely considered

to be the leading candidates for the party nominations.

“So far they are living up to those expectations,” he said.

least $3.5 billion, and said that if Democrats aren’t willing to grant him his pro-business, unionweakening agenda in exchange for a tax increase to fill the deficit, they should let him make spending cuts instead. Rauner did not spell out where he would make those cuts, and Democrats aren’t willing

to give him that authority anyway.

But he told reporters Monday that they should “study” his budget proposal of last year, which would have cut spending on Medicaid and slashed the amount of income tax dollars that are shared with local governments, among other things.

Bill Lukitsch can be reached at blukitsch@dailyegyptian.com or (618) 536-3329.

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Preparing for kindergarten

Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Megan Fults, a graduate clinician in behavior and analysis therapy from Ava, and Valerie Boyer, an associate professor in communication disorders and sciences, help Ta’Shawn count rubber ducks during therapy Tuesday at the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders in Wham Education Building. Ta’Shawn has been receiving therapy at the center for a year and a half to help ease his transition to kindergarten. Boyer, director of SIU’s Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders, said Ta’Shawn has made a lot of progress and the clinicians are excited to have finally seen language emerge. “The center gives children with disabilities the opportunity to not only have social interaction with peers similar to them, but also multiple opportunities to really engage and learn and make progress,” Fults said. The center has been forced to make significant cuts to its program as a result of Illinois’ budget impasse.

Is Bruce Rauner getting the Obama treatment from Democrats in Springfield?

MATT DIETRICH | REBOOT ILLINOIS

In an interview in October 2010, then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., made what would become one of the most repeated and embellished quotes of the Barack Obama presidency.

"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president," McConnell, now the Senate majority leader, told the National Journal.

As the Washington Post explained in fall 2012, McConnell's words and the date they were spoken often have been inaccurately represented in the years since, generally by Democrats eager to present evidence of unyielding partisan opposition to Obama's every move.

But as the Illinois state budget battle kicked into high gear last summer and fall, I've heard references to McConnell's famous quote in a different context. This time it was invoked in defense of a

Republican — Gov. Bruce Rauner — who has had limited success with a Democrat-led Legislature.

The logic was along these lines: How can Democrats excoriate a Republican Congress for not bending to the wishes of President Obama while at the same time applauding a Democratic Illinois General Assembly for not cooperating on Rauner's reform agenda?

The question ignores one fundamental nuance in the Illinois debate, where the gridlock comes from Democrats opposing Rauner's use of reforms as leverage for negotiating a budget. House Speaker Michael Madigan has stated, ad nauseum, his pledge to work "professionally and cooperatively" with Rauner on the budget, but only if Rauner leaves his reform agenda for another day.

To a lot of Illinois Republicans, that position misses the entire point of Rauner's argument.

It's the Illinois equivalent of

McConnell's "single most important thing" quote.

Following a press conference in Springfield last week in which students and college administrators called on Rauner and the General Assembly to fund higher education, I asked U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin if he saw parallels between Obama's treatment in his first term in Washington and Rauner's in Springfield thus far.

Here's his answer.

Durbin faults Rauner for not recognizing his own inexperience in politics and failing to differentiate between success in governing and success in the business world. Rauner's approach on unions and in his dealings with Madigan, Durbin said, have not created a "conducive atmosphere for negotiating."

Given Madigan's statements about Rauner's reforms being "non-budget issues," though, one has to wonder whether such an atmosphere ever could exist.

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Opinion

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Understanding Sanders’ brand of socialism JOSEPH BETZ THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

The correct way to understand Bernie Sanders' socialism is to relate it to the United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

A human right is the justified claim of all people to what they need, not only to live, but to flourish and develop their unique potential. The first 21 articles of the declaration list civil and political rights, including rights to life, property and equality under law. Such rights are basic to democracy, requiring some governmental protection but also governmental non-interference in our lives.

However, to flourish, a person also needs rights in which the government goes beyond not interfering to helping. These social and economic human rights — Articles 22 to 27 — include food, clothing, housing, a job, medical care, a living wage, the ability join a union and free but compulsory basic education.

Politically speaking, a government that guarantees civil and political rights is democratic; the opposite sort is autocratic.

Economically speaking, a government that guarantees social and economic rights is socialistic; its opposite is capitalistic. The latter counts on the free market to provide the opportunity to compete for a job and medical care to those who buy it. Thus capitalism does not violate social and economic human rights, but it doesn't guarantee them.

In this context, socialism does not mean Karl Marx's government ownership of the means of production. It simply means that, even in a capitalistic economy, if the free market cannot provide

jobs, housing, education, and medical care for all, the government will. It can do all this democratically, for example by taxing free-market transactions.

We have, then, four types of government, based on the rights that each guarantees: Democratic socialism. The best kind because it safeguards both civil and political rights, as well as social and economic ones. Scandinavian governments are an example.

Democratic capitalism, which guarantees civil and political rights and allows the taxation of the free market to provide a safety net to ensure a certain level of social and economic rights for all.

This is the United States.

Autocratic socialism, also known as communism, where an authoritarian government denies the civil and political rights, but claims, often insincerely because it can't be democratically examined, to guarantee social and economic rights. This is the Soviet Union.

Autocratic capitalism violates civil and political rights, and doesn't guarantee social and economic rights, but tends to have only crony capitalism. This was pre-Castro Cuba.

Bernie Sanders is a democratic socialist, because it is the best guarantor of both political and economic rights. This form of government is widely realized in Europe, especially in countries like Sweden and Denmark.

Social democratic parties, which are usually the governments instituting democratic socialism, tend to co-exist with socialistic and communist parties to the left of them. However, the socialism of these parties is not the Marxist version in which the government owns all the factors of production.

This socialism is simply achieved

Erin Hooley | Chicago Tribune Vermont Sen. and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks to a crowd at the Village Leadership Academy during a campaign stop in Chicago on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015.

through legislation that democratically regulates and taxes capitalistic free markets.

European democratic socialism is really only capitalism in a welfare-state. This would look like, first, capitalism for everyone, with socialism only for those failing in the free market. Social democratic parties are not communist because they are democratic and open in their socialistic controls.

Michael Moore's new movie, "Where to Invade Next," is a tour of capitalist countries where democratic socialism has done wonderful things — France, Italy, Germany, Finland, Portugal and Tunisia.

Sanders' socialism is just an extension of what his favorite president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, did to preserve capitalism after it caused the Great Depression.

Roosevelt's New Deal was aimed

at relief, recovery and reform.

He began the march to the full guarantee of social and economic rights by strengthening unions, creating jobs, providing pensions through Social Security, and ensuring a minimum wage, welfare, rural electrification, and assistance to farmers.

Left unrealized in the New Deal are proposals now advocated

by Sanders: free public college education, free universal health care, free child care for working parents, making the minimum wage a living wage, increased taxes on the rich and financial bailouts to those who lost homes in the 2008 mortgage crisis, rather than to the Wall Street firms that caused the catastrophe (which, incidentally, is an example of socialism for the rich).

So, Sanders is not a communist or a Marxist socialist. He is not

undemocratic, nor a threat to a capitalism regulated to achieve the common good.

Jeanne Kirkpatrick, President Ronald Reagan's ambassador to the United Nations, once called the Declaration of Human Rights a mere "letter to Santa Claus." But during the same Reagan presidency, the U.S. Catholic bishops of the United States offered a contradictory opinion in Economic Justice for All, and it is roughly the opinion of the present Pope Francis.

After praising our founding fathers for their successful "experiment in the protection of civil and political rights," the bishops continued: "We believe the time has come for a similar experiment in securing economic rights ... for every person."

Bernie Sanders now offers to lead us in designing this experiment.

Opinion: Getting an education on politicians and Illinois public colleges MADELEINE DOUBEK | REBOOT ILLINOIS

Our politicians appear to be hellbent on destroying our Illinois public colleges.

If you have a child or grandchild in Illinois, you need to read this. If you don't have a child or grandchild you love, you still need to read this.

Our lives are intertwined. Our communities are intertwined. Our futures are intertwined. Wrecking our public college systems is about the dumbest move possible, but that's what just the Democrats and Republicans are doing.

They've proven they don't care about anything but raw political power and the next election. It's a riveting lesson in political science.

But while they're teaching us, they're destroying Chicago State University, Eastern Illinois University, Western Illinois University, Northern Illinois University, Southern Illinois University, University of Illinois, all the community colleges and all

the rest.

Here's the simple math: Public colleges have not gotten any taxpayer dollars since last July. They will get $0 for 2016 and take a cut if there's a 2017 budget approved at less than the 2015 level.

Gov. Bruce Rauner's budget plan shows $1.95 billion for higher education in 2015 and $1.75 billion in the year that starts in July.

Rauner said all the 2016 money has been spent. Court orders and other legal mechanisms mean 90 percent of state government has been funded at 2015 levels when income tax rates were higher, putting us on course to spend $6.2 billion more than we take in.

The 10 percent getting nothing are colleges and not-for-profit social service agencies. That means the most vulnerable in our state and those associated with higher education get zilch, zero, nada, nothing.

Rauner vetoed a Democratic bill that would have provided

$721 million in aid to community colleges and to the Monetary Assistance Program that gives small grants to needy kids who were promised the money. Republicans have their own bills to send $1.6 billion to students and universities.

They would find the funding by changing the way the state purchases things and by giving Rauner wide power to cut spending and move funds around.

Of course, neither party will help the other as both sides point and blame each other for the spilled milk like preschoolers.

"I'm disappointed in the governor," Illinois Senate President John Cullerton said. "He had a chance to back up his promises with funding. Instead, he let those students down again."

Monday, Rauner said, "I, personally, am a big advocate for our university systems. I want the best in America. I want a fully funded MAP grant program. I'm a huge supporter of scholarships for low-income kids."

Universities are under House Speaker Michael Madigan's control, he said.

"He won't do any reforms.

We should be doing that today," Rauner added. "So far, the Speaker says no. He's blocking virtually everything we're trying to do."

Madigan has been in control of the House for most of the past 30 years. He and Cullerton have been passing unbalanced budgets for the past several years while refusing to put up votes themselves to raise taxes.

Rauner expects to win a few changes after taking the governorship. It's all about political power. The people be damned. Are there too many administrators and some who are too well-paid at our state schools? No doubt. That's the complaint Rauner has with Chicago State.

I'm a proud graduate of Eastern Illinois University and I know from experience, it's still a community where students can get personal attention, caring and

a strong education.

I spent some time Saturday with about 300 college journalism students from all over Illinois. Every one of them was accompanied by one or more advisers who sacrificed most of a weekend. Yet now we have high school counselors telling kids to pick out-of-state colleges.

When you kill a college community like Eastern, you're hurting generations of future entrepreneurs, farmers, teachers and politicians. You're hurting dedicated support staff and instructors who give up nights and weekends to help their students. You're creating higher unemployment. You're hurting restaurants, bars, landlords and other businesses. You're hurting business owners and their families who depend on the colleges and students in places like Charleston and DeKalb and Carbondale.

I learned long ago that that's like cutting off your nose and poking out your eyes to spite your face.

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Polish pro tennis player adjusting to college game TED WARD | @TedWard_DE

SIU men’s tennis, which was comprised of four foreign players compared to two domestic coming into the season, added another nonnative.

Junior Piotr Baranski arrived from Poland and joined the team Feb. 12 with an impressive resume. He joins three other Europeans, two Americans and a South American on the tennis team, which is 5-1 so far this season.

Baranski turned pro when he was 19 years old and was ranked as high as 1,210th in the world in doubles and 1,856th in singles. He has won 18 championships in his home country.

Coach Dann Nelson said when looking for players, country doesn’t matter — it’s all about where he can find the most talent.

Baranski picked up his first two collegiate wins against University of Illinois — Chicago during the weekend to get his first taste of what college tennis is like.

He said the biggest change for him has been the level of competition and the lifestyle change.

“I played pro-level players for a few years and learned a lot from the challenges I had there,” Baranski said. “The difference between Europe and America is we focus only on tennis, and here it’s more focused on academics as well as being an athlete.”

Nelson said he is excited to have Baranski at SIU and the experience he brings will help the team be even more competitive.

“We have a really solid team as it is, but adding him helps us have a better chance at meeting our goals,” he said. “We hope that he can help us to an undefeated record at home, a conference title and a national ranking.”

Junior Michal Kianicka, of Slovakia, knows about making the transition across the Atlantic. He said adding Barankski not only helps the team against the competition, but also pushes him to be a better player.

“Piotr is very competitive and can play anywhere in the lineup we have,” he said. “For me and the other top guys it challenges us to play harder and just shows you how deep as a team we’ve gotten.”

Nelson agreed saying Baranski will play in whatever spot he fits in. He has played in the No. 3 slot so far, compiling a 4-0 record. With senior Jonny Rigby, who is second in SIU in all-time wins, graduating, a No. 1 or No. 2 position next season is a possibility for the former pro. “[I] don’t know if there is any specific reason Piotr chose us,” Nelson wrote in a text. “We are very happy he is here.”

The Salukis are back on the tennis court against Austin Peay at noon Friday in Carbondale.

A IDAN O SBORNE | @AidanOsborne_DE Junior Piotr Baranski serves the ball while playing doubles with senior Jonny Rigby against Eastern Illinois on Sunday in SIU’s training facility in the Garden Grove Event Center. Sunday’s match against EIU was Baranski’s second as a member of the team.

Young outfielders make big contributions to SIU softball SEAN CARLEY | @SCarleyDE

Although they’ve donned the Saluki softball uniform for just eight games, two new members of the pack have produced in big ways.

Freshmen Eyrika Brandenburg and Hanna Porter have already made themselves at home in the outfield, leading the team in hits and home runs, respectively.

Both women said they didn’t expect to be contributing this early in their collegiate careers.

“I knew I would get chances in the field and at the plate,” Brandenburg said. “But it took a lot of stepping up to fill the positions needed.”

Coach Kerri Blaylock was not as surprised.

Before the season, she said the entire team would have to contribute, and she knew the freshmen could do so. With Meredith Wilson and Missouri Valley Conference batting champ Kalyn Harker graduating, there were two spots in the outfield for the taking.

“I knew these girls were all ready when I signed them,” Blaylock said. “It just goes to

show the type of class I brought in — these were in-demand girls.”

Their demand appears to be warranted early this season.

Of women to appear in every game this season, Brandenburg has the highest batting average for the Salukis at .385 and the fourth most triples in Division I with two. She was promoted to the leadoff role at the Florida Gulf Coast Tournament this past weekend.

“I felt very nervous [batting leadoff] at first,” she said. “But I felt like I was put there for a reason and I had to do my job.”

Meanwhile, Porter is not far behind with a .357 batting average and is the only Saluki besides junior first baseman Shaye Harre to have multiple home runs this season.

The two also have a key leader in the outfield to help guide them: junior All-MVC center fielder Merri Anne Patterson.

Porter said Patterson has eased their transition into college softball.

“She’s always there to help us with where to

throw when there’s runners on, or how many outs there are or anything like that,” Porter said. “No matter if it’s a small thing or a big thing, she’s been there to help us.”

But playing games is just one aspect incoming freshmen must adjust to.

Porter said not only the duration, but the intensity of practice increases.

“It’s never like we’re not doing anything,” she said. “It’s all very informative and helpful. Even if we’re just running bases, we get better at situational baserunning like what base do we run to, do we stop at second or go to third? Little things like that.”

For Brandenburg, practice is easier in at least one aspect: the travel time.

Hailing from Mooreland, Okla., a town of just over 1,000 people, she said she had to travel two and a half hours to Oklahoma City during club softball for practice, which limited the amount of practices she could participate in.

“Being focused and practicing has probably been the hardest thing,” Brandenburg said. “We learned to understand that we have to practice

every day for a certain amount of time.”

With the team in the middle of a stint where it travels to Florida three out of four weekends, Brandenburg’s traveling experience comes in handy, but it is new for Porter.

Porter said while the travel is rough, the team makes sure to use the time positively.

“A lot of us have the same classes together so we were able to study together and do the homework we missed,” she said. “We all just help each other stay on top of things.”

The change of scenery has gotten the best of the Salukis recently, as Brandenburg was one of three Dawgs to fall ill in Fort Myers, Fla., last weekend, prompting a cancellation of their final game of the tournament.

Brandenburg said the team is resting, rehydrating and should be ready to go for the Stetson Invitational this Friday and Saturday in DeLand, Fla. Sean Carley can be reached at scar@dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3307.

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Salukis prepare for final road game SEAN CARLEY | @SCarleyDE

SIU must fight through senior night in Normal before it celebrates its own Saturday.

Coach Barry Hinson said the Salukis’ mindset heading into Wednesday’s matchup with Illinois State, which is tied for second-place in the conference, is to ignore the distractions.

“This time of year you just got to go and play,” he said. “Everything’s difficult, weather is fluctuating, girlfriends are mad at you, you forget your mom’s birthday. I mean, you’re so clouded in your thoughts, things are just going to happen, you have to move on to the next game.”

A win would move the Salukis into a tie for third place with the Redbirds and give SIU the headto-head tiebreaker. A loss would cement the Dawgs into fourth place at best.

With a lot of seeding implications on the line, Redbirds coach Dan Muller foresees a hard-fought game between the two teams.

“We always expect a close game,” he said. “There’s no doubt in my mind it will be a tough battle since we all have something to play for.”

Wednesday will be the last game of SIU senior guard Anthony Beane’s career in his hometown of Normal.

Originally an Illinois State commit, Beane has struggled in his previous three games at Redbird Arena, averaging 12.3 points in those contests — below his career average 14.9 points per game.

“I think he presses himself a little too much,” Hinson said. “There’s nobody that puts more pressure on Anthony than himself. I’m anxious to see how he’ll respond.”

If Beane struggles, the rest of the team will need to take over, which Hinson said has not happened recently.

In Saluki losses, juniors Tyler Smithpeters and Leo Vincent, the

other shooting guards on the team, have shot a combined 24.4 percent.

“That’s not to point fingers,” Hinson said. “We all have to pick up the slack. Look at the Evansville game [Saturday], who scored well?

Anthony struggled, and nobody scored well. [Junior center] Bola [Olaniyan] had a double-double, but he missed point-blank shots.

Look at the Bradley game [last Wednesday], Anthony was 2-14 but the rest of the team picked up the slack, specifically [junior forward] Sean O’Brien who had 24 points.”

When the Redbirds and Salukis faced off the first time, the Dawgs faced a 12-point deficit in the second half and Vincent sparked a comeback, scoring 14 points in the period to secure a 81-78 win.

In order to prevent the Redbirds from establishing such a lead this time around, Vincent said SIU must grab rebounds to control the pace and Illinois State’s athleticism.

The Birds’ athleticism is evidenced by their third-place ranking in the Missouri Valley Conference in steals (6.5) and second-place ranking in blocks (3.7) per game.

“They’re an athletic team, we have to keep them out of the paint and crash the glass,” he said. “If you don’t take care of that on the defensive side, then you won’t get easy shots on the offensive side.”

Hinson even said the Redbirds are the most athletic team in the conference and added that is “quite an accomplishment with Wichita State in the league.”

Three-point shooting is also a concern for SIU as the Redbirds have made the second-most 3-pointers in the conference. Their shooters will be countered by SIU’s MVC-best 3-point defense, which allows just 31.8 percent shooting.

Hinson said ISU’s 3-point danger comes from the amount of shooters it has. Illinois State has six players shooting better than 33 percent from behind the

J ACOB W IEGAND | @JacobWiegand_DE Senior guard Anthony Beane soars with the ball during SIU’s 81-78 win against Illinois State on Jan. 12 at SIU Arena. Beane scored 12 points and had three rebounds in the game.

arc. SIU has just three.

Illinois State’s leading scorer, senior guard DeVaughn AkoonPurcell, missed the second half of Saturday’s game against Northern Iowa with migraine headaches, which Muller said he is still suffering from.

Hinson said he wants AkoonPurcell to play Wednesday because he’d rather beat a team while its at full strength.

“He’ll be fine,” he said. “It’s

Shaky pitching sinks SIU baseball in loss TED WARD | @TedWard_DE

A rough day for pitchers made life miserable for SIU baseball.

The Salukis gave up 16 hits Tuesday in a 13-6 loss to Austin Peay State.

Senior Bryce Sablotny (0-1) suffered the loss after giving up seven runs in four innings. Sablotny gave up two home runs and struck out two.

The Salukis (1-3) took their only lead in the first inning on junior outfielder Jake Hand’s single following junior outfielder Ryan Smith’s double.

The fifth inning turned out to be the difference maker as Austin Peay scored three runs after a basesloaded single off junior pitcher Austin McPheron and a sacrifice fly off redshirt junior Jacob Williams.

A three-run homer from sophomore infielder Hunter

Anderson shrunk the Governor’s lead to 10-6, but the Dawgs would not get closer. SIU left 12 runners on base. Anderson went 3-5 with three runs batted in to lead the Salukis.

Austin Peay’s Joe Rye (1-0) pitched three innings in the win, but gave up two runs on six hits and struck out five.

Two more freshmen made their debuts for SIU as pitcher Seth Hackett and infielder Jared Schmidt saw action in the loss. With their debuts, every true freshman on the roster has seen the field this season.

The Salukis hit the diamond again in the home opener against Western Illinois 2 p.m. Friday at Itchy Jones Stadium.

Ted Ward can be reached at tward@dailyegyptian.com or 618-534-3303.

senior night, I hope he doesn’t have the migraines. I certainly don’t want this kid to miss out on his senior night. He’s a great kid and a great player.”

Regardless of what happens tomorrow, Hinson said he will be satisfied as long as his team plays well.

“It’s not a make-or-break game,” he said. “We won 21 games, we got a winning record in the Valley, we got a great road

record, we know we’re not in the play-in game, we get to play in a postseason tournament hopefully.

Stick to the game plan, play well and do what we ask you to do.

If it doesn’t work out, the game planning is on me.”

SIU and ISU will tipoff at 6 p.m.

Wednesday in Redbird Arena.

Sean Carley can be reached at scar@dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3307.

Strong day from Cusumano leads golf team to 6th place TED WARD | @TedWard_DE

Led by junior Brooke Cusumano’s team-low round of 73, SIU women’s golf finished sixth overall at the South Alabama Invitational on Tuesday.

The team finished with a 918 score, which was a 20-stroke improvement from when it last played in the tournament in 2014. Cusumano tied for 11th, shooting 226 for the invitational.

Coach Alexis Mihelich told Saluki Athletics the St. Louis native’s performance was essential.

“Brooke really stepped it up today,” Mihelich said. “We needed one player to shoot around par, and she did just that.”

Senior Mattie Lindner said she was happy to play in her first tournament of the spring and was confident throughout the tournament. ‘’Today wasn’t as good as yesterday and that’s just how it goes,” she said. “Some days are better than others, but I was able to finish strong despite putts not falling and I just couldn’t get enough birdies like I had hoped.”

Lindner finished tied for 23rd out of 51 golfers in the match.

Sophomore Hanna Netisingha, the reigning Missouri Valley Conference Golfer of the Week, said her 27th-place finish was disappointing after a coming of a good tournament last weekend.

She tied with freshman Sun

Young Jung and sophomore Alice Ho, shooting 233.

“I struggled with my short game the last few rounds I’ve played and tried to play through light rain the best I could and it didn’t really affect me,” Netisingha said. “My mental game was stronger last weekend and I was little more patient as opposed to today because I let my play get to me, and that was what threw the rest of my game off.”

The Salukis return home for a dual match at Hickory Ridge Golf Couse on Sunday.

Ted Ward can be reached at tward@dailyegyptian.com or 618-534-3303.