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Archie Miller is new men’s basketball coach By Zain Pyarali zpyarali@indiana.edu | @ZainPyarali

After a nine-day search, IU Athletics Director Fred Glass hired former Dayton Coach Archie Miller on Saturday. Miller will be introduced as the 29th head coach in IU men’s basketball history at a press conference at 3 p.m. Monday at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.

Miller will sign a seven-year contract in the range of $4 million per year, according to Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Glass said in an IU Athletics press release that Miller was on his short list from the beginning of the search. “The more I learned about him, the more convinced I became that he is the coach we need to meet our

high expectations for many years to come,” Glass said. “First, he has the commitments to compliance, wellness, and academics that we require at Indiana.” Miller, 38, has done plenty of winning in his first job as head coach at Dayton in the Atlantic-10 conference. In six years under Miller, the Flyers missed out on the NCAA Tournament the first two

seasons but made four in a row in his final four years including a trip to the Elite Eight in 2014. Miller’s best year at Dayton was 2017. He went 24-8 overall and 15-3 in conference play while the Flyers won back-to-back Atlantic-10 regular season titles. Dayton earned a No. 7 seed in this year’s NCAA Tournament but lost in the first round to No. 10 Wichita State.

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Emotional end IU’s season finishes with loss to Villanova in WNIT quarterfinal jjthomer@indiana.edu | @jake_the_thomer

IU Coach Teri Moren said she won’t let one game define the season for her IU women’s basketball team. Despite a 69-57 loss to Villanova in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament quarterfinals Sunday afternoon, Moren remained relatively upbeat after the game and was eager to reflect on the season as much as the loss. IU trailed throughout, but with 4,770 fans in attendance at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, each run that cut into Villanova’s lead got the fans fired up. Moren said she thinks her squad’s run to the quarterfinals has introduced many Hoosier fans to the women’s basketball team. “We’re sorry that we couldn’t allow this run to go another few weeks but really, really grateful for the support,” Moren said. A scorching start to the game had Villanova up early, while IU had to fight to keep the game close. The Wildcats made seven 3-pointers in the first quarter, but 56.3-percent shooting from the Hoosiers kept the score at 25-21. From the second quarter on, IU struggled to hit shots, however. IU entered half-

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Senior guard Alexis Gassion (left), senior guard Karlee McBride and junior guard Tyra Buss shed tears as they sing the IU alma mater for the final time this season. The Hoosiers lost to the Wildcats 69-57 in the quarterfinals of the Women's National Invitational Tournament and set a single-season record for wins with 23.

By Jake Thomer

Noting IU’s prestige for basketball and academics, Miller said in the release he’s honored to have the position and can’t wait to get started. “With peerless fan support, outstanding facilities and tradition, a beautiful campus, and located in

time trailing 41-30. In the Hoosiers’ fourth WNIT game in 11 days, their shots fell flat, and the team finished the game with just a 38.1-percent shooting performance. Moren said there wasn’t really one thing in particular that limited her team’s offense. She said the Hoosiers knew the Wildcats would present a challenge defensively, but added that she was generally happy with the looks IU was able to get throughout the game. The shots just didn’t fall, she said. “I don’t think that had anything to do with Villanova,” Moren said. “It just, to me, offensively wasn’t our day. That’s what’s so disappointing because, I thought in the second half we had an opportunity there to climb back in it.” Senior guard Amber Deane, who transferred from Dayton after graduating early last year, stepped up to lead IU’s secondhalf charge in her best performance of the season. She scored a season-high 12 points, including 10 in the second half. She started the second half on the court and played the first seven minutes of the third quarter. In the fourth, she remained a contributor for the Hoosiers and hit a 3-pointer with five minutes remaining to cut the Wildcats’ lead to six. Deane said every one of her teammates and coaches were

VILLANOVA 69, IU 57 Points Buss, 21 Rebounds Gassion, 12 Assists Gassion, 4

encouraging her throughout the game. “I think that’s honestly why some of those shots were able to go in,” Deane said. “The faith from my teammates, the faith from my coaches, and I just rode that as much as I could. I wish I could have hit more shots. I wish I could have done more, honestly.” With just under three minutes remaining, junior guard Tyra Buss, who scored a game-high 21 points, hit a shot to cut Villanova’s lead to 56-52. But a subsequent free throw parade for the Wildcats only extended the lead. By the time the game had reached its final minute, it was all but over. The only three fourth-year seniors on the IU women’s basketball team walked off the court with 14 seconds remaining. Tears ran down the face of guard Karlee McBride as center Jenn Anderson and guard Alexis Gassion joined her in a procession of hugs with each coach and member of the

In response to industry changes the Indiana Daily Student will alter its news distribution model. Starting this fall, instead of printing five days a week, the IDS will print twice weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, while continuing to expand its digital presence. In a Friday press release, IU Student Media Director Ron Johnson said the move will facilitate plans to “get content where readers and advertisers need it.” As the current IDS editor, I say kudos to our professional staff for making this leap. When IU fired Tom Crean, our sports, photo and web editors immediately convened and planned holistic digital coverage, which included a photo gallery, Periscope video and a Snapchat story. Because the news broke during spring break, there was no choice but to be strong and effective storytellers on the internet. Most days, however, our efforts to be more digitally-focused are stifled by the demands of a print-focused work day. Yes, we produce multimedia, but we do not have a rigid workflow system in place for web content. Yes, we have a web editor who oversees digital storytelling, but he cannot access our content until around midnight, after a print designer has sent the print page off to the printer. I don’t know the percentage of IU students who read the IDS in print versus online. I do know what I see: students roving campus, eyes glued to their phones, walking past IDS newsstands that will remain full by day’s end. The IDS needs to learn to balance traditional journalistic principles and ethics with meeting readers where they are — online. We need not completely abandon the past. The print IDS will continue to be a cherished source for well-reported and welldesigned content. We are grateful for our print readers and advertisers and we will not abandon you. But we must re-connect with our digital audience. The IDS will seek innovative digital ideas. Some of these ideas will work better than others. The IDS invites you to contact us with feedback and ideas for how we can better serve you. A more in-depth note and the IU student media press release can be found on our website, idsnews.com.

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IUSA elections result contested by different campaigns

SEE WNIT, PAGE 6 By Jesse Naranjo jlnaranj@indiana.edu | @jesselnaranjo

Donnelly, Booker visit town for fundraiser By Alexa Chryssovergis aachryss@indiana.edu | @achryssovergis

Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, was in town Saturday for a fundraiser, but despite the enthusiastic crowd responses he received inside the Fountain Square Ballroom, a couple angry Hoosiers protested outside. Booker was invited to attend a fundraiser for his legislative friend, Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Indiana. Organized by the Monroe County Democratic Party, the event was packed with people, including Mayor John Hamilton and former Bloomington Mayor John Fernandez. Outside the entrance to the Fountain Square Mall, Bloomington resident Jenny Robinson stood with a few others with two posters hung around her front and back. “Union (Public Schools) or Secession (Vouchers)? Which side are you on, Joe Donnelly?” one of her

signs read. “Public Schools = the common good. Vouchers = I -got-mine education” said the other. Robinson was protesting Booker’s apparent support of school vouchers and charter schools. She passed out salmon-colored signs with Indiana Coalition for Public Education Monroe County’s logo on the top right corner. “Senator Donnelly, where do you stand on school privatization?” the paper asked. “Bringing Cory Booker to Indiana is a slap in the face to your constituents who care about public schools.” The paper listed examples of Booker’s advocacy for school privatization. He was a featured speaker at Betsy DeVos’ American Federation for Children summits in 2012 and 2016, it says. It also mentions how, as mayor of Newark, New Jersey, he used a $100 million gift from Mark Zuckerburg to expand

other things. “Did you know that Senator

While many students on campus recovered from Little 500 qualifications, IU Student Association election front-runner Empower IU’s Dan Niersbach, junior, sat in his room in Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house. To his left sat seniors Yumiko Siewenie and Will McElhaney. Siewenie, Niersbach’s girlfriend, is the current speaker of IUSA Congress and served as chief of internal affairs for the Empower IU ticket. McElhaney helped the ticket craft policy but did not run for office. Niersbach said many on his campaign are hesitant to celebrate the election outcome. The night the results were released, staff from his ticket and that of second-place Focus went out together, but after finding out the intentions of other tickets to file complaints, Empower got to work filing their own. He said many, him included, on his ticket did not have a chance to celebrate the qualification rounds. His house placed fifth in the starting grid of the Little 500.

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IU freshman Raegan Davis introduces herself to Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, at Saturday’s fundraiser for Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Indiana. Members of College Democrats at IU came to the event to show support for their party.

charters in Newark and says he joined DeVos on a board that advocated using taxpayer money for charter and private schools, among

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