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Effort to override MAP grant veto fails

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Sanders supporters bring campaign to Carbondale, plan rally for Sunday

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An effort to override Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of an appropriation bill that could fund higher education failed Wednesday in Springfield. The legislation would have given Rauner authority to spend $721.5 million on Monetary Award Program grants and operational costs for community colleges. The Illinois Senate passed the motion 37-17 but it fell two votes shy of three-fifths majority in the Illinois House of Representatives. All representatives and senators from districts that encompass SIUC voted with their respective political parties. “We applaud House Republicans and [Rep. Scott] Drury for standing up for taxpayers today,” Rauner press secretary Catherine Kelly said. “We continue to urge Democratic leaders not to recess until the General Assembly passes a bipartisan proposal to fund MAP and higher education.” Public universities and community colleges have received no state money in fiscal year 2016, as Illinois lags into nine months without a budget. Chicago State University sent layoff notices to 900 of its employees last month. Eastern Illinois University and Western Illinois University are putting administrative staffers on furlough and conducting layoffs. Rep. Jack Franks, D-Woodstock, who initially voted against the bill and was expected to do so again by the Rauner administration, said legislators “have to stop the bleeding” as Illinois universities undergo severe financial hardships. He also pointed out that the bill is not legally binding. “All we’re doing when we pass this bill is giving the governor the option to spend this money,” Franks said. Please see VETO | 3

Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Jessica Feller and Tony Farace, graduate students in anthropology from Brooklyn, Mich., and St. Louis, respectively, complete the sentence “I support Bernie because…” on pledge cards. The cards were distributed at a meeting of about 30 volunteers Wednesday at the new Bernie Sanders campaign office in Carbondale. Farace said the main reason he supports the Democratic presidential candidate is for his attacks on Wall Street. “Bernie’s bringing together people who are young, people who are from different races, people of different sexual orientations, people that are from different parts of the country and bringing them together to take on what’s ruining our country right now — the establishment,” Farace said.

ANNA SPOERRE | @AnnaSpoerre

Carbondale may soon feel the Bern. An official Bernie Sanders campaign office opened Sunday in Carbondale. The one-room office, located at 715 S. University Ave. next to Blend Tea and Crepe, is mostly empty aside from a couple of tables and dozens of posters covering the windows. Walls sporting blue signs for the Democratic presidential candidate say, “A future to believe in.” Volunteer Kimia Memar said despite

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being a small city, Carbondale’s liberal student presence made it an opportune destination for Sanders. Supporters have planned a Sanders rally at the office on Sunday, where attendees will have the opportunity to sign up to volunteer, make phone calls to potential voters and get fired up about the election, Memar said. Even though the office has been open for less than a week, Memar, a doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering from Missouri, said more volunteers

are coming in each day. She said volunteers come in at all hours to make phone calls and organize additional volunteers in preparation for the March 15 Illinois primary. Memar said the goal is to collectively make 200 calls a day through their volunteer phone bank. Beginning Thursday they will start going door to door talking to people in the community about the election. Ben Woolard, who organized the rally, said he wanted to get

the word about Sanders out in a predominantly conservative region. Woolard, who graduated from SIU in May 2012 with a degree in radio television, said more than 150 have RSVP’d for the event on Facebook. “When you don’t get involved, you pay a cost,” Memar said. He said the state’s budget impasse and exponential cuts to higher education-funding make this election all the more important to students. Please see SANDERS | 3

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Aidan Osborne | @AidanOsborne_DE Martell Mosley, a freshman from Chicago who is undecided on a major, focuses while attempting to balance pieces of wooden fruit Monday during the “Alice in Berryland” health and nutrition fair held in Grinnell Hall. Shauna Switzer, a University Housing employee, said the purpose of the game is to share the importance of fruit in a balanced diet. “I’ve been trying to get back in shape, but it’s hard to stay healthy,” Mosley said. “There are long nights, and sometimes you don’t even sleep.” He said it is especially difficult on the weekends because he doesn’t want to be a downer when his friends want to go out.

Community, faculty to host vigil Saturday to protest budget impasse ANNA SPOERRE | @ANNASPOERREnes_DE

Concerned community members will gather downtown Saturday to continue protesting the state budget crisis. The Peace Coalition of Southern Illinois, as part of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, is holding its monthly Vigil for Peace and Justice from noon to 1 p.m. at the corner of Main Street and Illinois Avenue. This month’s vigil theme is an “end to the Illinois Budget Crisis.” Holly Hurlburt, a history professor and

member of the event’s cosponsor -- SIUC Faculty Association -- said the purpose of the vigil is to raise awareness about the state financial crisis not only among the Carbondale community but also among state representatives. Those present will have the opportunity to sign a petition asking for gov. Bruce Rauner and state legislators to pass a fair budget. “If people care at all about the quality of their education and what their money is paying for they need to understand that things are going to change drastically in southern Illinois and

at SIU without a budget,” Hurlburt said. Former Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon will also be present to address the crowd about her reflections on the budget stalemate. “I think we’ve gotten a little complacent in this state thinking that things are going to keep working,” said Georgeann Hartzog, a member of the Peace Coalition who helped organize the event. “We’d like people to really start putting some pressure on our legislators.” Anna Spoerre can be reached at aspoerre@dailyegyptian.com or 618-536-3325

Correction In Tuesday’s edition of the DAILY EGYPTIAN, the story “Africana studies department faces uncertainty as enrollment remains low” should have read that the chemistry department’s enrollment was not below Illinois’ requirements.

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The wolf inside

Yenitza Melgoza | @YentizaM_DE Savannah Palmer, a graduate student in communication studies, performs during a rehearsal for “The Wolf Inside” on Tuesday in Marion Kleinau Theater.

2016 Chicago has most homicides since 1990s JEREMY GORNER, PETER NICKEAS AND LIAM FORD | Chicago Tribune

Amid a spike in shootings, the city of Chicago has witnessed its deadliest start to the year in nearly two decades, according to crime statistics. With January and February complete, the Chicago Police Department counts 95 homicides, the same as in 1999. There hasn’t been a deadlier start to the year since 1997, when the city had 101 homicides in the first two months and 761 for the full year. The official police count includes only violent deaths considered criminal. This year’s toll rises to at least 102 if all violent deaths are counted, including a man shot by police and two alleged robbers killed by a shop owner in a shooting considered justified by investigators. By that same measure, there were 52 violent deaths by Feb. 28 last — about half this year’s total, according to data compiled by the Tribune. The rise in violence this year has been concentrated mostly through neighborhoods on Chicago’s South Side and West Side that for decades have been stricken by poverty and a lack of investment from the city, and that are

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Memar said getting younger people registered to vote is often challenging, so they’re trying to get students to vote before spring break. Right now,

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Illinois GOP lawmakers criticized proponents of the bill for taking a piecemeal approach to the state’s fiscal crisis and pushing “feel-good” legislation meant to further political

plagued by gang activity and drug sales. The surge in violence comes at a tumultuous time for the department as it tries to move past fallout over the court-ordered release late last year of a dashboard camera video showing a Chicago police officer shoot Laquan McDonald 16 times as the teen walked away from police with a knife in his hand. The video, which was starkly at odds with the police account of the shooting, led to murder charges against Officer Jason Van Dyke, weeks of street protests, the firing of longtime police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, calls for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign and the launch of a U.S. Justice Department investigation of the department. Police officials blame the uptick in homicides on intensifying gang conflicts that often lead to retaliatory violence, including disputes that start on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. “While the Chicago Police Department is taking action to keep our communities safe, gun violence driven primarily by gang conflicts remained at an unacceptable level in February,” department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a

statement. “The level of violence is unacceptable and CPD continues to aggressively target those responsible, especially in neighborhoods where gang activity is most active.” Meanwhile, officers within the department have told the Tribune the McDonald shooting has made them less aggressive on the street out of fear that doing even basic police work will get them into trouble. They say criminals are taking advantage of their passive approach. Criminologists, though, say there’s no evidence to suggest criminals are exploiting officers’ reluctance to do their jobs. This past weekend, in which Chicago experienced spring-like weather, at least two people were killed and 24 wounded in shootings throughout the city. One of those killed was Shari Graham, a 30-yearold mother of three young children who was shot Friday night as she sat in a cab about two blocks south of U.S. Cellular Field. Graham, who had returned to Chicago from Texas at Christmastime, was looking for work as a nurse.

Memar said the team is just focused on getting Sanders nominated and wants people to “know Bernie better” so they can make an informed decision at the voting booth. “Sanders is the most authentic politician I’ve ever heard,”

Woolard said. “I think he’s the only candidate that really feels strongly about equality for all.”

careers. Accusations were also made of a refusal to negotiate multiple Republican-backed bills lingering in committee. “This is not a ‘feel-good’ bill,” said Rep. Kelly Burke, D-Oak Lawn, who was the bill’s House sponsor. “I don’t feel good about

having spent six months to get some sort of resolution for our students, our community colleges or our universities.”

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Opinion

THURSDAY, MARCH, 3, 2016

Hey, SIU where is the outrage? DAILY EGYPTIAN EDITORIAL BOARD

As budget impasse closes centers on campus and jeopardizes the future of college students, Saluki students seem apathetic Illinois’ eight-month budget impasse has handicapped programs, underfunded community services and put all public universities in a proverbial chokehold while state legislatures wait to see who will blink first. It’s a game of politics between the governor and Democratic-led Legislature that has nothing to do with people or policy. As university administrators gasp for air, student financial aid is just one pawn in a chess game no one is winning. And students at SIU could not be more uninterested. Aside from a handful of dedicated and vocal students and faculty, some of whom traveled to Springfield to watch Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s fiscal year 2017 budget address, Salukis seem to be collectively shrugging as the university chugs along without the tens of millions of dollars it needs in state aid. The campus’ students and staff appear defeated. After years of budget cuts and the dissolution of services, the Saluki community seems too depressed to fight back. However, Holly Hulburt, a history professor, said that is not the case. She is a part of a faculty group organizing

a gathering for SIU personnel and community members to voice concerns. “I am a child of the 20th century. The way I get involved is I hold a sign and I yell and I shake my fist,” Hulburt said. “I think 21st century students do things a little bit differently.” She said some students care. Instead of missing class to go to the state capitol to protest, a handful of chancellor’s scholars created the #INeedABudgetBecause social media campaign. #INeedABudgetBecause, which allows students to explain why funding higher ed is so important, is a nice addition, but we can do more. We, the young adults who will deal with these legislators as we look for postgraduation jobs and build families, must do more. Students at Chicago State University and Eastern Illinois University have pounded the pavement demanding action. They showed up to the Illinois Capitol in droves and have been demonstrating up north for weeks. In Chicago, CSU students marched across Interstate 90/94 to bring awareness to the possibility that their university could close this year without a state budget. In Charleston, the EIU community met this week to talk about what they love about the university. Layoffs have started at Eastern, and the university’s president warns that more could come.

Stephanie Markham, editor-inchief of EIU’s student newspaper, said students been vocal on campus about getting a state budget passed and expressed support for the school’s president, David Glassman. Glassman, like SIU President Randy Dunn, will ultimately have to deal with the near-guaranteed highereducation cuts the governor is levying. “A few weeks ago, our student senate passed a resolution that would work to inform students about the budget crisis,” said Markham, a senior from Chicago. “A good portion of students are doing things to inform people and reach out to the Legislature.” While these two universities are facing more immediate peril than SIU, we are not fine. Not even close. As Dunn has stated, because SIU has multiple campuses, our reserve pool is a bit deeper than a non-system university. But the lack of state money has already began to pare off programs that are essential to a research university — especially one in an impoverished area such as southern Illinois. Grant-funded research has grinded to a screeching halt, community services have been diminished and graduate assistantships are being cut across campus. For example, local children with autism have less access to therapy. Their therapists are students and the treatment times serve as learning

labs. Research on coal — which is a contributor of the area’s economy — has slowed. SIU’s Small Business Center has not received essential funding and could close this month. More than 600 businesses have been aided by the center, including ones students love, such as El Greco and Saluki Screen Repair. A service like this has a profound effect on not only the university but Carbondale and the region in general. There is no other entity that can provide these necessities to people and industries in the area. These may not sound like important issues to the average 19-year-old on campus. If you spend most of your time and money on campus, you may not be empathetic to these problems. But soon, students will be forced to experience the problems this budget impasse is causing. Slashed staffs mean bigger class sizes and fewer courses. Reduced maintenance staff means fewer people to clean up messes by other students and a slowed response to on-campus housing issues. It will take more than our coverage of these pressing issues to get our university the money needed to give us the college experiences we expected when we enrolled. It will take more than picket signs and tweets — but those are a great start. “If you use all the resources at your disposal — use social media, if

Sloan Marion | @SketchingBear A depiction of SIU president Randy Dunn, foreground, holding a sign in front of Gov. Bruce Rauner, left, and House Speaker Michael Madigan.

you use traditional ways of rallying and protesting, if we keep writing letters and making phone calls to our legislators, if we do all of those things — then I think we stand a chance,” Hulburt said. We need hundreds, preferably thousands, of young, informed voters to let our state’s leaders know that we cannot accept this purposeful negligence of higher education. We have the power to elect capable, active leaders who reflect our interests, and right now those are not the people in Springfield. We have the power to let our governor and our legislators know they will not have our vote if this is not resolved — soon. We have the power, so let’s act like it.

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Saluki seniors no strangers to adversity THOMAS DONLEY | @TDONLEYDE

A roller coaster of a career for the seniors on the SIU women's basketball team is slowing down. Three of the four seniors on this year's team — center Dyana Pierre, forward Azia Washington and guard Cartaesha Macklin — have been with the program through losing seasons, a coaching change and a couple of redshirt seasons. Guard Blair Stephenson joined them last season as the Salukis made a historic turnaround. "We've surpassed a lot of adversity," Macklin said. "This team has really been through a lot, and being able to conquer something above that has been remarkable. I'm proud of that as a whole." All that remains for them is the final two games of the regular season and the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament next weekend. The Salukis are in a three-way tie for second place in the MVC with Drake and Missouri State, half a game behind Northern Iowa. SIU hosts UNI and Drake with a chance to earn the top seed in the tournament. Such an accomplishment would be a fitting for a team two years removed a 5-25 season in 2013-14. The Salukis won 17 games last year — the best turnaround in school history. This year,

SIU is 19-9 overall and 12-4 starting 58 of 60 games in her in the MVC. sophomore and junior seasons. "We were really Nagging knee problems have struggling," Washington limited her to six starts and career said. "So, to do the things lows of 3.7 points and 10.3 we've done in the amount minutes per game this season. of time we've done it and "Last year, I would've told go through the things we've you [my career] was exceeding been through, it's amazing." everything I thought I would've Losing has not been the accomplished," she said. "With only pain the seniors have my injury, it's a little more endured. Recruited by former frustrating. My career is ending coach Missy Tiber's staff, on a more sad note because I Pierre and Macklin joined wasn't able to do what I had the Salukis in 2011. Pierre planned on doing, especially redshirted that season with coming off a great junior year." knee injury. Macklin took a Stephenson has averaged 1.2 medical redshirt in 2013-14, points per game for SIU since Stein's first season at SIU, being recruited out of Lake when she was pregnant with Land College to be a defensive her son, Carson. specialist for the Salukis. "I’ve excelled at a level that "[The 5-25 record] wasn't a I didn’t expect at all," said factor," Stephenson said. "This Macklin, a native of Mayo, coaching staff recruited me Fla. "I came in as a freshman, tough. They let me know that and I was a little shy in a they wanted me to be a part of Jacob Wiegand | @JacobWiegand_DE different atmosphere, but the change." I really set myself into the Clockwise from top-left: Forward/center Dyana Pierre, Coach Cindy Stein said each forward Azia Washington, redshirt guard Cartaesha program." Macklin and guard Blair Stephenson, the seniors of the woman's ability to move past Once a shy freshman women’s basketball team, pose for a portrait Tuesday at her trial is a testament to her more than 700 miles SIU Arena. character. from home, Macklin left the nearly-empty SIU Arena. "From day one, they have the gym Tuesday by smacking a Washington had stayed healthy been into everything we wanted to do," practice team player on the rear in her Saluki career until this season, she said. "They embraced our goals. end hard enough to echo through averaging 24.6 minutes per game and They embraced our standards, and

Who will win the MVC title? Wednesday 5:36

@AMiller_DE Hey guys, who do you think will win MVC this weekend? I’m going with Wichita.

@brentmeskeDE Is Mizzou an option? Kansas is better but I think I am going Evansville. @tdonleyDE Wichita State @SCarleyDE Northern Iowa @TedWard_DE Northern Iowa @EvanJones_DE

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Salukis a hole before they took an at-bat. Two of SEMO's first three batters walked, and both came around to score. Senior first baseman Ryan Rippee broke the scoreless tie with an RBI double down the left field line. Junior centerfielder Dan Holst drove home another run with a single on the next pitch. The Redhawks scored two more runs on a throwing error by Blackfan. Holst was able to score from first on the play after no Saluki retrieved the ball. "That was just one of those things where you've got to put it

behind you," Blackfan said. SIU got a run back in the bottom of the first when Blackfan extended his hitting streak to eight games with an RBI single. He drove in two more with a third-inning single to cut the Redhawk lead to one. SIU tied the game in the bottom of the seventh on back-toback RBI groundouts by Blackfan and sophomore leftfielder Greg Lambert. "We're learning how to win," coach Ken Henderson said. "It's the same group of guys, but they're not the same guys, because they've matured. We weren't ready to play in the first inning, and they knew it. Even though we were down,

they've really just been a great group to work with." Once their Saluki careers are over, the seniors have divergent plans for the future. Washington will finish graduate school and move back home to the Kansas City area to find a job and "find out what life is like after basketball." Stephenson and Pierre plan to continue their education at undetermined locations; Stephenson in social work and Pierre in athletic training. Macklin will feel out opportunities to play professionally overseas or turn to coaching. Junior point guard Rishonda Napier, who came to SIU the same year as Washington, said the four departing seniors will always be tied by their time in Carbondale. "I'll remember just the little things — the times in the locker room, struggling together during conditioning," she said. "I came up with Azia, Cartaesha and Dyana, and Blair got here last year, but she quickly became part of the family. The everlasting friendship between the five of us is never going to change." Thomas Donley can be reached at Tdonley@Dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3307 from the second inning on, we were ourselves." Junior right-hander Anthony Shimkus (2-0) picked up the win with two innings of scoreless relief. Redhawk senior righty Brady Wright (0-1) took the loss. Holst led SEMO with three base hits. Blackfan's five RBIs Wednesday doubled his season total to a team-high 10. The Salukis host Iowa at 3 p.m. Friday in the first of a three-game series. Junior lefty Joey Marciano (1-1, 2.61 earned run average) will take the mound for SIU. Thomas Donley can be reached at Tdonley@Dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3307

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Charges against Saluki athletes dropped EVAN JONES | @EvanJones_DE

The state dropped charges against two SIU athletes in a Jackson County court Wednesday. Judge Kimberly Dahlen signed a motion to drop the charges against Dyanna Pierre, a senior forward on the

women's basketball team, and Andrea Estrada, a sophomore outside hitter for the volleyball team. The two were arrested Oct. 25 for allegedly scratching a car owned by Kris Grimes, a former SIU golfer. They were charged with criminal damage to property less than $300 and

resisting a peace officer. Pierre was benched for the team's two exhibition games and the first regular season game for violating team rules. This season she became SIU's alltime leading rebounder. "We are fully aware of the situation that occurred with Dyana Pierre and

the Carbondale Police," women's basketball coach Cindy Stein said in a statement released to the Southern Illinoisan in November. "Dyana made a huge mistake and goes 100 percent against what we want representing this great university and program." Estrada was benched two games

for violating team rules after she was arrested. She led the Saluki volleyball team in kills per set this season as the team qualified for its first NCAA Tournament berth in program history. Evan Jones can be reached at EJones@dailyegyptian.com

Arch Madness Preview Power Rankings The Missouri Valley Conference tournament, otherwise known as Arch Madness, kicks off Thursday at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis. Here's how the teams stack up going into the tournament according to Saluki coach Barry Hinson and the DE’s Sean Carley.

Sean’s Take The Shockers come into the tournament as the favorite again. After a rough 4-5 start with MVC Player of the Year Fred VanVleet and all-newcomer team member Anton Grady injured, the Shockers have won 19 out of 21 games. Wichita won its 16 conference victories by an average of 22 points. With the senior core of VanVleet, Grady and AllMVC First Team member Ron Baker all making their last appearance in the tournament, this team will be motivated.

The Aces are likely the most consistent team in the Valley. They have no bad losses as their six Valley losses are all against the top six teams in the MVC. But they don't have any great wins either. To summarize: Evansville generally beats bad teams, and typically loses to superior teams. Until Saturday's 54-52 stumble at home against UNI, Evansville had won four straight games. There's some momentum the Aces can carry, but they’ re not as hot as WSU or UNI.

The conference season was a tale of two halves for the Salukis. On Jan. 24 the Dawgs were sitting at 7-1 and secondplace in the conference, then a fourgame losing streak later they were tied for fourth. SIU has partially bounced back by beating four bottom-five teams, but did lose to Evansville and Illinois State on the road by double-digits. The Salukis rightfully belong in the top half of the conference, but have a lot of work to do to win it all in St. Louis.

Porter Moser's mad experiment worked: take your top three scorers, put them on the bench and win. It sounded ridiculous but after a 0-5 start in the MVC, Moser needed to try something. Going 7-4 in the Valley with the new lineup, including two wins against UNI, it appears the message was received. But the last two games Loyola went back to the old lineup and went 0-2. Loyola found a key to success, and need to get back to it to go anywhere past the play-in game.

Drake is better than its record indicates. It has the top 3-point field goal percentage in the Valley at 38.6 percent . Sophomore guard Reed Timmer is the Valley's third-best scorer at 16.9 points per game. The Bulldogs just need to learn how to play defense. Kenpom.com places Drake as the 321st most efficient defense out of 351 teams. It's hard to imagine them making a run this year, unless they find the "maturation microwave" Hinson keeps searching for.

No. 1: Wichita St. (23-7, 16-2 MVC)

No. 3: Evansville (23-8, 12-6 MVC)

No. 5: S. Illinois (22-9, 11-7 MVC)

No. 7: Loyola (14-16, 7-11 MVC)

No. 9: Drake (7-23, 2-16 MVC)

Barry Hinson’s Take

Sean’s Take

Barry Hinson’s Take

"Any time you have success in tournament and postseason play I feel it comes down to guard play. You're looking at two of the best guards not just in the league, but in the country [in VanVleet and Baker]"

The Panthers were one of the league's big early surprises starting 2-6 in the MVC. The start was even more stunning since UNI defeated then-No. 1 North Carolina and then-No. 5 Iowa State. Coach Ben Jacobson has kicked his team in gear since then, winning nine out of the last 10 games including wins at Wichita State and at Evansville. Led by All-MVC second-team guard Wes Washpun, this team has no reason to not be confident going into Arch Madness.

"Obviously the hottest team in the league. All I have to say is four things: [Wins against] North Carolina, Iowa State, at Wichita and at Evansville. We are literally playing the hottest team in the league."

"You got the Valley's leading scorer D.J. Balentine, Egidijus Mockevicius is averaging a double-double and everyone knows their role. All their offense runs through those two guys ... but the key to success is not what those two do, it's the others around them."

Dan Muller's team was in contention for the hottest team in the Valley award two weeks ago. They had won eight of nine games with wins against UNI and Wichita State at home. Then two of their last three games were against those two teams on the road, and the Redbirds lost both. Since they score 67.5 points per game — eighth-best in conference — the Redbirds will only go as far as their defense carries them.

"I think the biggest thing for us is how we responded to adversity. We had our leading scorer [Anthony Beane] on the bench and we needed to make a run, and we did. I think that'll provide us with a bit of a spark heading into the tournament."

Missouri State has been as up and down as any team in the MVC. The Bears have wins against Oklahoma State, UNI and Illinois State. They also have losses to Southeast Missouri State and Loyola at home. MSU defeated Drake and played well for 30 minutes against SIU. With MVC Newcomer of the Year junior guard Dequon Miller, senior forward Camyn Boone and all-freshman forward Obediah Church left, the pieces are there for a run, but it'll be tough for the Bears.

"This is a team that was picked in the top half of the league, and at times has played like it. But come tournament time, we all have fresh hope. This is still a team picked in the top half of the league and could make a run."

The Sycamores take the cake as the coldest team in the Valley, losing seven of its last nine games. Its two wins in that time were against the bottom two teams in the Valley: Drake and Bradley. Indiana State ended the season with a win against Bradley to get back in the win column after a six-game losing streak. Indiana State has talent with guards Brenton Scott, Devonte Brown, Khristian Smith and all-newcomer member Everett Clemons, it just needs to execute.

"Drake is probably the surprise team of the league to me. I am shocked where they are. They got a group of young men that are extremely talented and at any moment these guys can erupt and beat anybody."

Bradley has the same problem as Drake, just the end result is different. The Braves only have two upperclassmen that play among 10 freshman. What makes Bradley different from Drake is that the Braves are abysmal on offense. They're next to last in the nation in field goal percentage and last in scoring. I like the Braves, I really do. I feel that the team will get better with time, but its a couple years of maturation away from competing for conference titles.

No. 2: Northern Iowa (19-12, 11-7 MVC)

No. 4: Illinois St. (18-13, 12-6 MVC)

No. 6: Missouri St. (12-18, 8-10 MVC)

"Without question, the most athletic team in the Valley. They have length. They have quickness. They have athleticism. Sometimes, their best offense is a missed shot."

"If you don't hit shots this time of year, you're not advancing. Missouri State has certainly made that tougher for people. They have committed to the zone and make you take outside shots."

"I think they have two of the most explosive guards in the league with Brown and Scott. As they go, so do the Sycamores."

No. 8: Indiana St. (14-16, 8-10 MVC)

No. 10: Bradley (5-26, 3-15 MVC)

"I think Bradley's biggest opponent is youth. I mean, they got 10 freshmen out of 13 scholarships. Their biggest opponent is just maturation."

Salukis walk off Redhawks THOMAS DONLEY | @TDONLEYDE

SIU sophomore first baseman Logan Blackfan started the game with an error, but atoned for his

mistake with a career day at the plate. Blackfan drove in a careerhigh five runs, including one on a walkoff sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth as the Salukis (5-3) beat

Southeast Missouri State (4-4) 6-5. Blackfan came to the plate with one out and runners at first and third in the bottom of the ninth and drove a pitch from SEMO senior lefty Jake

Busiek into right field. Sophomore second baseman Connor Kopach beat the throw home to score the game-winning run. "It was a slider," Blackfan said. "I

think I hit it off the end of the bat a little bit, but I was just trying to get a good pitch, get a good swing on it, and hit something into the outfield." Please see SALUKIS | 5