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Lining up for renovations Chemistry-Physics Building
Wildcat Coal Lodge
Memorial Hall
Cooper House
$10.5 M
$6 M Terrell Civil Engineering Building
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$21 M
$10 M Multi-Disciplinary Science Building
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Classroom buildings vie for million-dollar upgrades By Will Wright news@kykernel.com
Of all the buildings on campus needing renovation, Physical Plant Division workers said the Chemistry-Physics Building ranks near the top. Physics professor Alfred Shapere said some rooms are too hot while others are too cold. Black particles fall from ceiling vents and float down onto students’ desks while fans from the heating and cooling system create a constant buzzing background noise. UK’s hub for physics and chemistry, constructed in 1962, is one of the campus buildings that could see renovations in the next two years. In addition to other classroom buildings and the hospital, the Wildcat Coal Lodge, the residence hall for the men’s basketball team, could get a maximum of $21 million for
renovations and expansions. Gov. Matt Bevin’s proposed budget gave UK permission to spend millions expanding and renovating buildings over the next two years. UK must ask the state for clearance before spending more than $600,000 cash on any project. But just because a building has permission to be renovated, it does not mean UK will actually find the money to finish the project. The Chemistry-Physics Building and the Taylor Education Building could each receive $10.5 million, but other classroom buildings — including Lafferty Hall, Grehan Journalism Building and Kastle Hall — were left out completely. Director of UK’s Physical Plant Division Kevin Kreide said UK has between $500 million and $1 billion in renovation projects that cannot be complet-
ed because of a lack of funding. UK allots about $6 million every year — $4 million for the academic campus and $2 million for the medical campus — to spend on this backlog of projects, according to Kreide. Blanton said the university is seeking $125 million from the state, which UK would match, to renovate and restore buildings in the campus core. That $250 million was not included in Bevin’s budget. “That would bring these old buildings up to new building standards,” Kreide said. Without that money, or without millions of dollars from some other source, UK will be continuously behind on maintenance. If UK were to continue spending just $4 million renovating campus every year, Kreide said it would take more than 100 years to complete the long
list of projects. But the number of buildings that need fixing is continuously growing, and each project can cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. Many buildings, especially in the center of campus, are becoming old, and thus more difficult to maintain. “We keep them running the best we can,” Kreide said. Blanton said renovating UK’s older classroom buildings is one of the university’s top priorities. Though the $250 million for renovations did not make it to Bevin’s budget, Blanton said administrators will continue working with legislators and the governor to move the renovation projects forward. “Projects like that are important,” Blanton said. “We’ll be talking with the legislators and governor in a cooperative spirit.”
Bumpy road ahead for state’s public universities
Likely results of budget cuts include higher tuition, less hiring By Patrick Brennan news@kykernel.com
Gov. Matt Bevin’s budget proposal is out, and it’s time to process the resulting cuts to education. While K-12 education was spared, post-secondary education took a hit. The 2017 state appropriations for public colleges and universities were cut nearly across the board by 9 percent. Northern Kentucky University
and Western Kentucky University were the only ones spared, with WKU taking just a 5.5 percent hit for 2017 and NKU getting a 2 percent increase. State appropriations are integral to the funding of Kentucky universities. UK President Eli Capilouto sent an email Wednesday describing the cuts as “significant challenges to our university.” UK professor of political science Donald Gross said UK
will likely avoid laying off staff and faculty. The university is more likely to save money by hiring fewer employees, and by not replacing staff and faculty who retire or quit. To make up for lost state funding, UK has previously increased tuition. State appropriations dropped from $337 million in the 2007-08 fiscal year to $279 million in 2014-15. Tuition rates followed suit, increasing from about $3,500 in 2007-08 to $5,390 in 201516 for in-state students. Outof-state students pay about $12,000 per semester in 2015-
16, about $4,600 more than they paid in 2007-08. “There’s only really one other good source of money you can use, and that’s tuition increases,” Gross said. “(It) effectively becomes a tax on students and the people who are paying for it.” UK made up for lost state appropriations since 2007, though. State appropriations dropped by $57 million from the 2007-08 fiscal year to 2014-15, but tuition revenue increased by about $178 million over the same time period. General funds for 2018 are
scheduled for the same cuts, but the exact allotment is still up in the air. The state will allocate one third of the general funds for 2018 based on progress toward “performance indicators” and “time-period goals.” As it stands, public universities, except NKU and WKU, could lose 40 percent of current general funds by 2018 and will fight for the remaining outcome-based allocated money. Kentucky State University in Frankfort will likely suffer the most under the proposed budget. Bevin’s recommendations met just 72 percent of the
amount requested by the Kentucky Council for Postsecondary Education, as compared to 85 percent or more for each of the other universities. This is revealed in the recommended cuts to research. While every other state university was recommended their requested amount or no cut for 2017, the budget recommended cutting Kentucky State’s research funds by 4.2 percent. The proposal may not go through with exactly these numbers, but as it stands, higher education in Kentucky will face a host of new challenges.
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Celebrating civil rights
Hampton, Beshear address issues facing Kentucky By Cheyene Miller news@kykernel.com
UK welcomed two of the state’s top elected officials Wednesday morning to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1966 Kentucky Civil Rights Act. Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton, the first black person to hold statewide office in Kentucky history, recalled memories of watching the civil rights movement unfold and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. when she was 10 years old. “I remember seeing the news footage of the civil rights marchers,” Hampton said to a crowd of students and professors in the Law Building during the day-long symposium. Hampton grew up in Detroit. She earned an engineering degree before joining the U.S. Air Forceand achieving the rank of captain. Hampton said her faith in the U.S. Constitution motivated her to enter politics, a career she had never considered. “I knew that I could be
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a part of the process if I so chose,” said Hampton, noting that King would likely be disappointed in the low level of voter participation in the U.S. Hampton said she hopes students at UK appreciate the history of civil rights in Kentucky, as well as the leaders who paved the way to make campus more diverse. Also speaking at the symposium was Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear, who said the state played a
grants in response to terrorist attacks in Paris and the U.S. “We have political leaders running for president, that loudly and publicly condemn entire groups of people simply over their religion,” Beshear said. “Those voices incite intolerance, division and hatred, and are exactly what the Kentucky Civil Rights Act was meant to combat.” He also took the opportunity to criticize the policies of Hampton’s running mate, Gov. Matt Bevin, who has promised to dismantle Kynect, the state’s online insurance market. Jenean Hampton Beshear Kentucky Lieutenant Governor called access to quality “historic role in our country’s health care “a basic human civil rights movement.” right,” and said 60,000 peoKentucky was the first ple in West Louisville, who Southern state to enact civil are mostly minorities, gained rights legislation, and the sole health care for the first time dissenting opinion in Plessy v. through Kynect and the state’s Ferguson came from former Medicaid expansion. Kentucky Attorney General “If we are ultimately going John Marshall Harlan. to grow up in a world that is During his speech, Bes- equal with equal opportunity, hear referred to Republican we have to ensure that we presidential candidate Donald stand up for that basic human Trump, who has advocated right of health care,” Beshear for a ban on Muslim immi- said.
I remember seeing footage of the civil rights marchers.”
OPINIONS
Cost of being a woman Female products cost 7 percent more than male JAMILYN HALL Opinions Editor
College students are no strangers to buying generic brands at the grocery store. But what if I told you just for choosing feminine products your price tag will almost always be higher? According to the Washington Post, the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs compared nearly 800 products with female and male versions. The DCA report, “From Cradle to Cane: The Cost of Being a Female Consumer,” released in December 2015, found that women’s products cost 7 percent more than similar products for men. The “general toys” category marked an 11 percent difference between gender-based toys in a sample of 20 toys. The average girl’s toy was $29.49, whereas the average boy’s toy was $26.49. While pink paint may be expensive, it certainly shouldn’t drive up a $3 price difference. “There is an idea that there is money that women are willing to put towards to do the
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work of maintaining gender,” said Srimati Basu, professor of gender and women’s studies and anthropology at UK. But the price difference only gets worse as an adult. In the beauty section of the report, the DCA found that, out of 16 products tested, women’s shampoo and conditioner cost an average of $8.39, and men’s shampoo was $5.68 — a 48 percent difference. “Who is imagined as a female consumer? And what kinds of things are imagined? That I would go to the store and pick the product that said ‘women’s shampoo?’” Basu
gest women are paying thousands of dollars more than men for similar products over the course of their lives. But why do we continue to pay for our gender? “We should think about exactly what the difference is. What exactly does it contain extra, or is that even necessary? Or is it just pink packaging?” Basu said. Shouldn’t we, as adult women, have the common sense to pick up the men’s deodorant over the gender-marketed women’s version? Well, it isn’t that simple. As the report says, individual consumers do not have control over the textiles or ingredients used in the products marketed to them —they must make purchasing choices based only on what is available in the marketplace. While men’s deodorant may be cheaper, why would a woman, with any self-respect, want to smell like “Old Spice Swagger?” So next time when out shopping, you can forget the coupons as long as you have male genitalia. Jamilyn Hall is the opinions editor of the Kentucky Kernel. Email opinions@ kykernel.com
Budget winners Financial aid
Rape kit backlog
Fighting heroin
Bevin promised that the money raised by the Kentucky Lottery will go towards college scholarships as it was intended, instead of into the General Fund of the state budget. Need-based financial aid, however, would remain the same. The lottery money would go to a new scholarship program to help students attend workforce programs. The lottery gave $221 million to the state government last year.
The budget allotted $4.5 million to address the backlog of more than 3,000 untested rape kits in Kentucky. The process has been known to take as long as eight months per kit. “We’re going to do it as quickly as we can to eliminate this backlog and put these rape kits to bed for once and for all and allow our law enforcement officers to do their jobs,” Bevin said at the budget announcement.
Senate Bill 192, which allocated more money for addiction treatment, was signed into law by former governor Steve Beshear in 2015, and will receive full funding in Bevin’s proposed budget. Bevin said he would fully fund the southeastern Kentucky anti-drug task force Operation UNITE and give $6.4 million to the KASPER system, a program that tracks prescritions to prevent controlled substance trafficking.
Budget losers Higher education
Non-STEM students
Kentucky Arts Council
President Capilouto announced in an email to students, staff and faculty that the university’s state appropriation for the rest of the fiscal year (ends June 30) would be reduced $12.6 million (4.5 percent), and the state’s appropriation for the first year of the new two-year budget will be reduced $25.2 million (9 percent). The budget for 201718 will be reduced $84 million and distributed to Kentucky’s universities based on performance.
“I want funding that incentivises outcomes that are specific to the things people want,” Gov. Bevin said at the budget breifing to reporters prior to the announcement. “There will be more incentives to electrical engineers than French literature majors, there just will. All the people in the world who want to study French literature can do so, they’re just not going to be subsidized by the taxpayers like engineers will be.”
Though the Kentucky Arts Council wasn’t completely cut in Bevin’s proposed budget, the agency’s budget will be reduced by $170,500 (16.4 percent), according to the Lexington HeraldLeader. In addition, the agency falls into the 9 percent state agency cuts, which will go into affect in the next two years. Rumors that the council would be cut completely brought the state’s art community together.
So next time when out shopping, you can forget the coupons as long as you have male genitalia.” said. “So does it imagine me as kind of a dupe?” While this may not seem like a big deal it discriminates by encouraging a principle of being charged more for buying a product specific to one’s gender. It is the principle of being charged more for femininity. Isn’t it bad enough that society says women need to shave their legs 365 days a year, but our razors costs 11 percent more? The study’s findings sug-
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Giving helping hand while growing up Big Brother Big Sister program allows students to teach, learn from being mentor for local kids
ules,” Thompson said. “Student volunteers are an integral part of the program.” As important as having a There are two ways to be a mentor can be while in college, big brother or sister in Lexingit can be equally as important to ton. Volunteers work with famibe a mentor for someone who lies through a community-based needs it. program to plan weekly outings, Few know this better than and they tutor little brothers Charles Burns III, a psychology and sisters in weekly meetings and community leadership and through the School-Plus prodevelopment gram at William junior. Wells Brown Ele“I would mentary. The prorecommend all gram also offers students to get internships. involved with A 1994 study any mentorby Public/Private ing program,” Ventures, a naBurns said. tional research “From expeorganization CHARLES BURNS III, psychology senior rience, Big headquartered Brother Big in Philadelphia, Sister is an excellent one.” said. “Throughout the years compared children in the proBig Brothers Big Sisters of my big brother has watched me gram to those who were not. the Bluegrass is the local branch grow from a child to a well-de- Researchers found that, after of the organization. BBBS is a veloped man. I feel like he has a 18 months of spending time international charity founded perspective on what it’s like to with their mentors, 46 percent in 1957, including chapters in come from a place and strive to of the children in the program all 50 states of America and 12 grow to somewhere better.” were less likely to begin using different countries, according Many “big brothers” and illegal drugs, 27 percent were to the organization’s website. “big sisters,” in Lexington are less likely to begin using alcoThe organization’s mission is undergraduate and graduate hol, 52 percent were less likely “to help children reach their po- students. Natalie Thompson, to skip school, 37 percent were tential through one-on-one rela- program director of Big Broth- less likely to skip a class, and tionships with mentors that have ers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass, 33 percent were less likely to hit a measurable impact on youth,” encouraged more students — someone. and it claims to help more than especially those at UK — to “What we do is change 500 children through its mentor- support their local community lives,” Thompson said. “We ofing efforts each year. by becoming menotrs. fer specialty services that give Burns enrolled as a “little “We have options for vol- our kids the best one-on-one brother” when he was 9 years unteering that suit most sched- mentoring options available.” By Destiny Witherspoon features@kykernel.com
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old, grew up through the program and eventually graduated from it. Now 21 years old, he considers himself a success story. “My mother felt that I needed a role model because my father wasn’t there for me. I grew up in a bad neighborhood and I didn’t want to get involved in the negative activity,” Burns
Throughout the years my big brother has watched me grow from a child to a well-developed man.”
PHOTO BY MICHAEL REAVES I STAFF William Cooper said he stresses the importance of public speaking because students will have to sell themselves during job interviews and presentations.
Overcoming one of life’s most common fears Lecturer helps classes with art of public speaking By Cheyene Miller features@kykernel.com
PHOTO PROVIDED BY CHARLES BURNS III Burns joined the Big Brothers Big Sisters program when he was 9 years old. He and his mentor have remained close as he has entered adulthood.
One of the most common human fears is public speaking, but UK faculty lecturer William Cooper stresses it is a skill that students will use time and again. “You’re going to have to sell yourself … at some point in life,” said Cooper, who called public speaking a skill and a craft. “In one semester or two semesters we’re not necessarily going to produce great orators, but if you find that your comfort level is higher or your discomfort level is lower, then we’ve succeeded.” Despite spending decades at the front of a classroom, Cooper still gets butterflies occasionally when he speaks publicly, particularly on the first day of the semester.
He said one of his biggest goals is to seem approachable and relatable to students. “On the first day you’ve got to find some way to get their attention,” Cooper said. Originally from Chatham, New Jersey, Cooper is in his fifth year at UK after teaching high school for 14 years in New Jersey and Massachusetts. He came to Kentucky when he had the opportunity to become executive director of the Kentucky High School Speech League. “I’ve seen the way that focused public training and public speaking … really can help people develop their own voices,” Cooper said. “This opportunity, coupling both running the statewide league and teaching (at the college level), seemed like a really good opportunity, so I went for it and got it.”
Cooper’s years at UK have been his first teaching college students, and he said the biggest difference is that he’s “teaching people who actually want to be in the seats.” According to Cooper’s UK profile, his motto is “How forcible are right words.” He said this means using the right words for the right situation can make all the difference when communicating. “You go out with somebody who you’re interested in — the first date you’re probably not going to tease them about their frizzy hair,” Cooper said, “You find the right words to say what you mean to say.” For Cooper, sometimes a four-letter word is the right choice.
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EDITORIALS
Bernie Sanders
Donald Trump
Martin O’Malley
Marco Rubio
Hillary Clinton
Ted Cruz
Sanders famously supports free tuition for public colleges and universities as well as cutting student loan interest rates by 45 percent, tripling the federal work study program, allowing current student loan holders to refinance, and stopping the government from making money on student loans. The $75 billion a year program will be paid for by a tax on Wall Street speculations.
Trump has presented no specific policy for higher education. However, he has said that he wants to cut the Department of Education, “way, way, way down.” Also, he stands for what is considered to be a more liberal position: stopping the government from making money on student loans. According to thinkprogress.org, Trump is poised to deregulate for-profit colleges.
O’Malley said he would make colleges debt free within five years and increase completion rates by 25 percent within 10 years. He also advocates for refinancing student loans, tying tuition rates to median income, increasing Pell Grants, making childcare more affordable on campuses, graduating students sooner, and setting strict accountability targets on for-profit colleges.
In 2014, Rubio proposed a Student Investment Plan which would allow investors to pay for student tuition and be repaid by a certain percent of the person’s income over a period of time. Current loans should move to income-based repayment. He also stands for restructuring the accreditation system to allow more online courses and equipping students with more data to make informed college choices.
Clinton advocates the New College Compact, a plan that would cost $35 billion a year, with the goal of preventing students from having to borrow money for tuition or fees to attend college, making tuition free at community colleges, relieving student loan debt by refinancing current loans, promoting college completion, and holding states accountable for continued investment in higher education.
Cruz plans to abolish the Department of Education. The Department of Treasury would issue Pell Grants, and federal education grants will be block-granted rather than incentivized. Cruz is against affirmative action, voted against legislation to refinance student loans, and thinks students can be best helped by strengthening the economy and employment opportunities.
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Sanders college solution most sensible
With the rising costs of tuition, mounting student debt, and Gov. Matt Bevin’s hefty proposed UK budget cuts, many issues surrounding higher education are on the table for this year’s election cycle. Among Republicans, Marco Rubio led the discussion about higher education in November when he garnered attention for
saying, “We need more welders and less philosophers.” Rubio has also argued that income-based repayment loans would be better for students, but he has yet to prove this claim. For Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, student loans are an issue because the economy is weak. With better employment opportunities, students will be able to
take care of their loans. Donald Trump’s campaign has been scant on details, especially concerning higher education. Trump did give at least one detail for his policy platform: cut the Department of Education “way, way, way down.” The Democratic candidates, on the other hand, will likely strengthen the Department of
Education with their more robust proposals. Martin O’Malley describes his goals with fewer details than Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton, only naming his proposals without a clear path. Both Sanders and Clinton put forward full plans for providing higher education, and the real crux of their difference
is in funding. Sanders would fund his plan through a tax on Wall Street speculations. He hosts an article on his website from economists with the Political Economy Research Institute as support of his plan’s viability. Clinton, being more ambiguous, says her plan will be fully paid for “by limiting certain tax
expenditures for high-income taxpayers.” Furthermore, she wants income-based repayment, like what Rubio proposes, as an option for students. Overall, Rubio, Sanders and Clinton have the clearest visions, and Sanders makes the best argument. Email opinions@ kykernel.com
Bevin’s budget threatens higher education
All eyes were on Republican Gov. Matt Bevin Tuesday night as he unveiled his first proposed budget to the Kentucky General Assembly. The proposal revealed baseline cuts of 9 percent to state spending, with exemptions to a few state funding recipients, including K-12, state police, social workers and Medicaid. The budget would increase spending by more than $5 mil-
lion toward curbing heroin abuse, an admirable move in a state where heroin overdoses are plaguing emergency rooms. Bevin also increased funding for state advocacy centers, which provide counseling and resources for victims of abuse and neglect. Kentucky has one of the highest rates of child abuse, so it is right to allocate more funds to this division of state government.
However, if Bevin is serious about getting young college students out of their parents’ basements, as he said in his speech, then cutting higher education is not the way to go. In the past, public universities like UK have raised tuition after cuts from state government. In 2014, UK increased tuition 5 percent after a 1.5 percent cut to higher education. Student financial aid was
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exempt from spending cuts, but only time will tell if this will compensate for potential future tuition hikes. And though it might seem like beating a dead horse, there is no logic or reason behind Bevin’s dismantling of Kynect. It is widely regarded as the most successful example of a state establishing its own exchange under the Affordable Care Act, and it allows Ken-
tucky citizens to enroll in insurance at a lower fee than the federal exchange. As Bevin said in his speech, the nearly 100,000 Kentuckians who enrolled in Kynect will still have insurance; they will simply default to the federal exchange. Ultimately, they will pay a 3.5 percent fee on insurance plans rather than a 1 percent fee. Bevin’s motivation for dismantling Kynect
can only be for ideological purposes. Admittedly, Bevin has very little room to work with considering the state’s pensions system crisis (which is estimated to cause a $500 million shortfall). College students and low-income Kentuckians might be in for a few tough years if the proposal passes. Email opinions@ kykernel.com
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 He tells members of the high school speech league to cut profanity from their speeches when possible but to “use the word that counts.”
“It’s really a question of learning the circumstances of when you can say stuff and when you can’t,” Cooper said. In some situations, the best thing to do is use no words at all, according to Cooper. For example, when a friend gets a call informing them that they lost a family member,
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just letting them know they have support can be the difference maker. “There’s not much you can say. Frankly, the best thing to say is, ‘I’m here, let me know what I can do for you,’” Cooper said. “How can I help’ are words I think everyone needs at some point.”
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PHOTO BY MICHAEL REAVES I STAFF Junior Derek Willis started for the third straight game in a row. Head coach John Calipari credited the forward and Kentucky native for helping lead the team, along with sophomore Tyler Ulis.
Willis, Ulis seal UK’s third straight win By Anthony Crawford sports@kykernel.com
Overlooking SEC bottom-feeder Missouri could have been a likely outcome with all eyes looking ahead to No. 4 Kansas this weekend, but UK did just the opposite. The Cats handled their business as they should in an 88-54 rout. Missouri won the tip and scored on its first possession. That would prove to be the Tigers first and only lead of the game. From there UK proceeded to pull away com-
pletely with a 20-0 run. The Cats were able to run away with the lead mostly thanks to some hot shooting from junior Derek Willis and sophomore Tyler Ulis. The forward out of Mt. Washington, Kentucky took full advantage of being in the starting lineup for the third straight game in a row as he hit his first three shots from behind the arc. Following Willis’ lead, Ulis also started the game 2-for-2 from deep, and he was also able to score at every other level, whether it
was driving in or pulling up for the midrange-jumper. While those two fueled UK’s offense, it was freshman Skal Labissiere off the bench who spearheaded the defense. The Haitian-born forward provided an instant impact with five blocks, his highest since his collegiate debut, and a steal. “It makes our team different,” Calipari said. “When he blocks shots, you can’t go in there and he goes and blocks one.” When he wasn’t denying the Tigers on defense, Labis-
siere was rolling on offense. The freshman is steadily building his confidence, and it showed as he went 4-for4 from the field in the first half showing no hesitation, taking long jumpers and capping his first half performance with a two-handed dunk. Labissiere finished with 12 points on 6-of-8 shooting. The freshman’s confidence keeps rising with each game, and UK is definitely going to need him if it wants to reach tonight’s level of play again.
The Cats were in firm control of the game going into the second half, but Ulis kept his foot on the gas and UK’s offense followed. Outside shooting has been a weakness throughout the season for freshman Isaiah Briscoe, but he was able to drain multiple long jumpers. The 34.5 percent freethrow shooter even brought the crowd to a roar when he hit a pair at the line, and he finished 5-for-6 from the charity stripe. The win marked the Cats’ third straight for the
first time since November, and it all goes back to when Calipari put Willis in the starting lineup. He added a career-high 18 points and 12 rebounds tonight while going 4-for-5 from deep. Willis’ ability to stretch the floor has opened up the offense, but he is also averaging double-digit rebounds since being named a starter. “I’m going to be honest with you, a big part of it is putting Derek Willis in the role that he’s in,” Calipari said. “It’s just changed our team.”
Defensive battle ahead Cats finding new rhythm
UK Hoops look to win 10th straight over Vandy
(allowing 51.5 ppg), No. 10 in field-goal percentage (46.9 percent) and No. 14 in 3-point The No. 12 UK women’s accuracy (37.0 percent). basketball team will host the “We’re both coming off unranked Vanderbilt Commoof a Monday night game, so dores Thursday night at 7 p.m. preparation time is at a prein Memorial Coliseum. The mium, I think, for both teams. Commodores (14-5, 3-3) look And Vanderbilt is just one of to upset the Cats the tough(15-3, 4-3), who est defenhave won the last sive teams nine games against in the counthe Commodores. try,” UK Va n d e r b i l t head coach is coming off Matthew three wins in its Mitchell past four games. said. “They Matthew Mitchell Vanderbilt is 0-2 really, really UK head coach against ranked opplay hard. ponents this seaThey had 20 son and seeks its ond round of the Southeastern offensive rebounds on Monfirst win over a ranked team Conference Tournament in day night versus Alabama in since Jan. 11, 2015, when the Little Rock, Arkansas, 67-61. a big win over Alabama, and Commodores knocked off No. Although Vanderbilt is un- they make it very difficult on 14 Mississippi State. ranked, it leads the national you to score. They are doing Thursday’s game will be rankings in three noteworthy a great job in moving the basthe 50th meeting between UK categories: the team is ranked ketball and moving people on and Vanderbilt. The Commo- No. 8 in the nation in defense offense, and this will be an extreme challenge for our team.” Defensively, junior Marqu’es Webb leads Vanderbilt with 5.3 rpg, pulling down double-digit rebounds in the last two games. Helping her out is senior Rayte’a Long, who is averaging 3.8 rpg and an exceptional shooting performance so far this season averaging 67.5 percent from the floor. Makayla Epps still leads UK averaging 16.6 ppg, bringing herself to rank fourth in the conference in scoring. Evelyn Akhator finds herself ranked third in the conference in field-goal percentage at 52.3 and averaging 11.9 ppg. She is also tied for first in the SEC with 9.6 rpg. Close behind is Alexis Jennings averaging 7.1 rpg for the Cats. UK’s third player averaging double-digits in the scoring category is Janee Thompson with 12.4 ppg, while leading the SEC in assists with 5.3 apg. Vanderbilt is hoping for better luck Thursday than they PHOTO BY HUNTER MITCHELL I STAFF have had in the past against Makayla Epps still leads UK offensively, averaging 16.6 ppg, bringing UK, as it has lost four straight herself to rank fourth in conference scoring. games on UK’s home court. By Caitlin Schwartz sports@kykernel.com
dores lead the all-time series 27-22, but the Cats have been in control during the last nine matchups. The last meeting, however, is why Vanderbilt would want revenge on UK — the Cats gave the Commodores a season-ending loss in the sec-
“Vanderbilt is just one of the toughest defensive teams in the country.”
Team needs to prove ability to overcome adversity JOSH ELLIS Sports Editor
On Wednesday night when No. 20 UK defeated the Missouri Tigers 88-54, the Cats accomplished something they haven’t done since November. Something UK head coach John Calipari and his team can draw on when they’re facing adversity in late March. The Cats won three games in a row for the first time since their 7-0 start. And in that 7-0 start, UK only beat one top-100 team (Duke) in Ken Pomeroy’s current college basketball rankings. Since then, UK has five wins in the KenPom top-100. But it wasn’t a thrilling top100 victory that sparked this midseason UK run. Instead it was a loss — to a 9-10 Auburn team. After the loss at Auburn, the Cats bounced back to earn their first three-game winning streak in almost two months — allowing opponents to average 59 ppg, shoot 34.5 percent from the floor and 26.8 percent from three in that span. “If we hadn’t lost (at Auburn), I may not have been able to get this team to think more desperate,” Calipari said. “To play with a refuse to lose attitude. It may not have happened.” Despite the seven-game winning streak to begin the season, this current three-game streak should be much more valuable to Calipari. Now experiencing true road games and considerably tougher competition, the Cats have found a rhythm and run with it. But the work is far from over for UK. The team faces another demanding road test in Lawrence, Kansas on Saturday against the No. 4 Kansas Jayhawks. The momentum UK is riding could be totally diminished if the Cats can’t
PHOTO BY CAMERON SADLER I STAFF Learning to win on the road is the next step for UK to keep the ball rolling.
prove they can win in a hostile environment. Just 2-3 in true road contests this year, UK has to learn to win on the road to get the ball rolling. The Cats will travel to Kansas on Saturday, then get right back on the road for Tuesday’s matchup at Tennessee. “We are going to go into Kansas and play hard,” Isaiah Briscoe said. “Hopefully we win the game, but other than that we are going to keep doing what we do.” If UK can’t end its twogame road trip with at least one win (although two would be ideal), any momentum UK had would quickly evaporate. Calipari said he believes the source of the team’s late success comes from junior forward Derek Willis, who had a career-high 18 points
along with 12 rebounds in 25 minutes against Missouri. With Willis settling nicely into his role as not only a starter but also a contributor, UK looks to be as strong as ever. Now possessing a threegame winning streak and a team that has begun to find its identity through breakout players, stretching the winning streak to six is a key as the regular season winds down. “So, you go through a season, there are ups and downs, I’ve done this for 30 years now,” Calipari said. “My whole job is, are we playing our best in March? That’s what I do.” If the Cats can string together six straight wins, it would make Calipari’s job a whole lot easier when UK is facing adversity in March.