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Panthers win MVC Volleyball Tournament JERRIUS CAMPBELL Sports Writer

The UNI’s volleyball team has dominated in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) all season. After finishing the regular season with an 22-9 record as well as beating ranked opponents such as Creighton and Kentucky, the Panthers proved they can strongly compete with the best.

UNI hit the road for the MVC Tournament in Springfield, Mo. over the Thanksgiving break looking to win their first conference tournament title since 2011.

With the top seed in the bracket and a first-round bye, the Panthers took on the Valparaiso Crusaders in their first match in the semifinal round.

The Crusaders have never beaten the Panthers in their two seasons in the MVC, and from start to finish, the match was very intense. The first two sets would be split between the Crusaders and the Panthers.

UNI gained momentum in the third set, winning 25-21, and in the final set,

winning 25-22, sealing the match. Three sets to one to advanced to the conference championship match.

MVC Player of the Year Piper Thomas ended this outing with 17 kills and four blocks. Karlie Taylor led the team in kills with 21 against Valparaiso.

This season has been one to remember for the UNI Panthers volleyball team.

To determine the conference champion and the MVC’s automatic berth to the NCAA tournament, the Panthers would have to face the team that handed them their first conference loss of the season, the Illinois State Redbirds.

UNI and Illinois State split their two regular season meetings.

In the first set of the championship, the Panthers crushed the Redbirds 25-16.

The second set for the Panthers was back and forth, but UNI took the lead by three points and finish the set, 25-22.

In the third set, the Panthers were up 16-8, but the Redbirds found their way back and push their way to a 28-26 win, forcing a fourth

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The Panther Volleyball team won their first MVC Tournament Championship since 2011 and will head to the NCAA Tournament for the fourth year in a row.

set. Both teams gave it their all in the fourth set. After being tied at 22 a piece, the Panthers would rattle off three straight kills to win the match and clinch their first conference tournament championship since 2011.

Thomas led the way with

24 kills and two blocks for the Panthers. Taylor finished with a double-double of 15 kills and 16 digs. The final point would be scored by Jaydlin Seehase, who finished the match with 16 kills.

Taylor, Thomas and Rachel Koop were all named MVC

first team all-conference.

Kate Busswitz and Jaydlin Seehase were named MVC second team all-conference.

UNI will begin their NCAA tournament run tonight as they take on the Pepperdine Waves in Madison, Wis.

‘Idol’ winner Maddie Poppe to sing ‘for the kids’ COLBY WEBER Staff Writer

Some musicians perform for fame. Others for money.

Still more do it for the love of the craft.

During an upcoming concert sponsored by UNI Dance Marathon, however, ABC’s “American Idol” winner Maddie Poppe will be singing “for the kids.”

Poppe will perform on Thursday, Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center.

Proceeds from the concert will benefit the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital.

“We have it with Maddie that she’s going to be performing for 90 minutes,” said Abbey Koerperich, a senior psychology major who is the executive co-director of UNI Dance Marathon. “Then there will be 30 minutes of Dance Marathon-related information filtered throughout the entire performance, so it’s not going to be all at once. We have a couple of

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videos planned, and Mariah and I, the other executive co-director, will be on stage giving our plugs about Dance Marathon. You can donate while you’re there physically at the concert or online.”

During the concert, Maddie Poppe will be auctioning off a few items of her own. According to Koerperich, another surprise is being planned for the event

by UNI Dance Marathon.

While tickets are currently sold out, people are still able to register for Dance Marathon by emailing Abbey Koerperich or Mariah Staebell.

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raises money to benefit the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital, which mostly goes directly to kids and families in the hospital. So far, the organization has funded three different rooms within the hospital and has provided the capability to hire a second transport team. They have also helped the hospital purchase a new pediatric ambulance.

Donations for UNI Dance Marathon are divided based on need.

“Let’s say if you were to donate to me today to the donor drive, the online bank where it goes,” Koerperich said. “They cut us the check for how much we’ve raised, and then we give that directly to the hospital. Some of the money goes into a general fund, which can buy parking passes for the families or a meal for a family. Sometimes we can do a special fund for a project, otherwise we can make it go towards the general fund for the hospital.”

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Grassley to become President Pro Tempore JOEL WAUTERS

ing session. With the new congress set to be seated on Jan. 3, both of Iowa’s Republican senators will find themselves in new roles as the term begins.

Senator Charles Grassley, a UNI alumni and resident of nearby New Hartford, has served in the U.S. Senate since 1981. Having served the past two years as the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the 85-year old politician is expected to take on a new role in the 116th Congress as the president pro tempore of the Senate.

Article One, Section Three of the U.S. Constitution designates the vice president of the United States serves as the

presiding officer of the upper chamber of congress.

However typically, the Vice President does not preside over all senate business, and a pro tempore, or placeholder, oversees the daily business of the chamber.

As the president pro tempore, this position will also place the senior Iowa senator into the presidential line of succession, meaning he would become the president of the United States in the event the President, vice president and speaker of the House of Representatives could not discharge their duties. The role traditionally has been given to the senior-most member of the majority party.

While Grassley will have

to be formally elected to the position when congress begins its new session, it is widely expected he will be elected due to the Republican majority in the chamber.

Upon election to the post, Grassley will become the first Iowan since Senator Albert Cummins in 1919 to be elected as president pro tempore, and will also become the highest-ranking Iowan in the federal government.

“This is an honor for me and the state of Iowa,” Grassley said. “The President pro tempore is one of a handful of offices specifically named by the founders in the Constitution. I may only be

three heartbeats away from the Oval Office, but my heart is and always will be in Iowa and here in the U.S. Senate, where I’ve worked for the people of Iowa and our nation for 38 years.”

In addition to Grassley, Iowa’s junior Republican senator will also have a new role in the senate leadership. Joni Ernst, who has served alongside Grassley since 2015, will become the new vice chair of the Senate Republican Conference. In this position, Ernst will be responsible of keeping minutes during meetings of the Senate Republican Conference. The post puts her as the fifth-highest ranking member of the Senate’s Republican leadership.

SYDNEY HAUER at UNI and bring the real

NISG recently announced the newly appointed members of its Legislative Liaison Team: Ann Metz, Isaak Espersen, Jacob Madden, Jacob Levang, and Joshua Dausener.

The Legislative Liaison Team visits the Iowa State Capitol building in Des Moines bi-weekly to speak with legislators on UNI’s behalf. This is the second year that NISG has sent students to the capital since re-launching the initiative last year.

“The purpose is to bring the student voice to legislators,” said Matt Johnson, NISG director of governmental relations.

“Legislators are already hearing from university administration and different university officials, along with other Board of Regents people. Students can offer first-hand experience of their time here

experiences of students.”

Johnson explained that the students chosen to represent UNI at the capitol are selected through an application and interview process by the administration and Johnson himself as the director.

“Our responsibilities will be meeting with legislators, attending committee meetings that are valuable, having a partnership with the Board of Regents and president’s office and sharing that story of UNI,” Johnson said.

According to Johnson, the university is currently asking for an additional four million dollars in funding in order to keep tuition rates where they are. There is potential medical amnesty legislation also in the works.

These are two main issues that the team will be advocating for.

The funding to send students to the capitol comes from NISG’s operating bud-

get, which comes from student fees. Johnson, as director of governmental relations, uses his portion of the budget to fund the trips.

Espersen, a junior political science and history double-major, is entering his second year on the team.

“I very much enjoy Iowa politics and how it relates to UNI, and kind of seeing the inner workings of how that relationship is,” said Espersen.

Espersen agreed that students physically showing up and talking to legislators in person can really affect the amount of governmental attention UNI receives.

“One thing we heard a lot last year from the legislators was that it’s huge for us to go down there, because when they see us down there, just the visual, makes UNI kind of present in their mind and I don’t think otherwise it really would be,” Espersen said.

“We’re smaller than Iowa State and Iowa, and as far as

that goes, it’s very important that the legislators kind of remember that we are there, especially now, Walt Rogers is gone and he was a big advocate for UNI.” Espersen also emphasized that UNI receives less fund-

ing than the other two state schools and the importance of retaining existing funding and advocating for more.

“It’s very important for us to go down there and make sure that our voices are being heard.”

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3 key points from climate report JACK AVE

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“Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS - Whatever happened to Global Warming?”

@realDonaldTrump 11/21/2018 Last Friday, the United States government published the National Climate Assessment, a report that measures the development of climate change backed by thirteen federal agencies.

This extensive report tracks the effects of climate change on the United States.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), one of the thirteen agencies who authored the report, released a press statement detailing the assessment as, “A new federal report finds that climate change is affecting the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation and human health and welfare across the U.S. and its territories.”

It seems that the current administration’s attempt to bury the report the day after a Thanksgiving failed. The hash tag #ClimateFriday gained popularity over the holiday weekend, picking up

momentum from tweets by incoming Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Former Vice President Al Gore.

Two days before the release of the report, President Donald J. Trump preemptively tweeted an attack on climate change believers. However, the Associated Press found on Saturday, Nov. 24 that the report from his own administration “frequently contradicts” Trump.

While the report faces criticisms of being inaccessible and hard to read for the average citizen, there are three key take-a-ways that every person should be aware of.

1. Climate change is caused by human activity.

While a vast majority of the scientific community believes that climate change is anthropocentric, critics of environmental protection claim that any extreme heating or cooling is rather caused by natural weather cycles.

Seth Borenstein from the Associated Press debunked this when he reported that, “Citing numerous studies, the [National Climate Assessment] says more than 90 percent of the current warming is caused by humans. Without green-

h o u s e gases, natural forces — such as changes in energy from the sun — would be slightly cooling Earth.”

2. Extreme heat will b e c o m e more comm o n ; extreme cold will become less TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE likely.

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Students to enter tractor design competition ANNA FLANDERS Staff Writer

As harvesting season draws to a close for many Iowa farmers, one UNI student organization is just beginning to design and build their very own small-scale tractor.

The UNI chapter of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) is preparing for their third year at the International 1/4 Scale Tractor Student Design Competition, hosted by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. UNI’s SME team goes by “Panther Pullers” in the competition.

“It’s a competition of design,” said Kyle Schick, a sophomore majoring in manufacturing engineering technology and technology management, as well as the president of UNI’s SME chapter.

“You have to build, fabricate and fundraise. You have to sell [the tractor]. You have to present. You

have to write a paper on your whole entire process of making this.”

This competition will be held in June in Peoria, Ill. Other teams that regularly compete come from Iowa State University and Purdue University. Since the contest is international, there are also participants from Canada and even countries overseas who ship their parts to Peoria and assemble their tractor on site.

“A lot of it now is we’ve seen things that have gone wrong, so we focus on those,” Schick said.

“It’s never gonna be perfect. So, if we just keep improving upon that, it will get somewhat close. We just broke last year. [. . .] If we did better on our paper, our presentation, we could end up being really a threat to the whole entire competition. It’s just since we’re new, we’re still running into every mistake. But [other teams] have been in there for 20 years.”

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The team hopes to complete their tractor design by the end of November. The first step will be to take apart their tractor from last year since they recycle parts from year to year. SME will then create 3D models for their project.

Each person on the team contributes with their unique skill set.

Sometimes SME uses additional resources on campus, such as the art department’s lab, to turn their tiny tractor visions into realities.

Although ASABE provides the engine and the tires for the teams, the rest of the tractor is funded by sponsors. Because SME uses full-scale parts such as truck axles, they need to cut them down to the quarter-scale size for the competition.

The competition itself begins with a safety inspection. If the judges find something wrong with the tractor, the team is given the opportunity to fix the problem. The judges then grade each team’s design report, which they are required to submit ahead of the competition. They present to judges as if they are selling their tractors.

“Last year, the goal was just to get through it without getting disqualified,” Schick said. “Now, it’s ‘let’s get through it without breaking and improve overall.’”

Next, the tractors go through a durability competition where they must endure obstacles such as logs and bumps while pulling a trailer.

There’s also a tractor pull portion of the contest.

The rule book to which teams must adhere is nearly 80 pages long. The top five teams receive prizes of $1,500, $1,200, $900, $700 and $500 respectively.

UNI’s SME chapter is comprised of students majoring in technology and engineering education, business and of course, manufacturing engineering. In addition to the tractor competition, the group tours local businesses to get real examples of what their future careers might look like. In the first month of the school year, they attended a trade show in Chicago with their senior chapter.

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Students in UNI’s SME chapter are designing a tractor that will be entered in the International 1/4 Scale Tractor Competition next summer.

“It’s helped a lot academically, even though it’s kept me busy,” Schick said. “It’s such a very involved and very hard-core thing — we’ve been there in the building at like 3 a.m. building things. So, it’s a lot of work, but I like the work.”

The organization meets regu-

larly every Monday and Tuesday at 5 p.m.

“It’s in the ITC. Most people don’t know where that is,” Schick said. “We’re over there in the garage room. We have our own little workspace there. If you find the tractor, you’re in the right place.”

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SOFIA LEGASPI

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Those lunching in the Maucker Union on Tuesday, Nov. 27 enjoyed their meals with music from Maucker Union Live performer Shannon Jones.

A junior vocal music education major, Jones accompanied herself with an acoustic guitar while singing a set of 11

songs. These included “Rise”

by Katy Perry, “No Diggity”

by Blackstreet, “She Used To Be Mine” by Sara Bareilles and “Put Your Records On” by Corinne Bailey Rae. Jones said she felt excited after her performance. “[It] wasn’t perfect, but I had fun and received so much encouragement and support from friends and people I

didn’t know who were listening in Maucker,” she said.

Jones has been singing and performing since she was three years old.

“It is something that I have always been passionate about,” Jones said. “What I love most about it is that I’m able to share my gifts with others while being myself, letting go and getting lost in the music.”

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Institute helps clients plan and strategize ANNA FLANDERS Staff Writer

Those who dare venture beyond the beaten path of UNI’s campus and wander south of University Avenue will find the Business and Community Services building. On the first floor is the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center, inside of which operates the little-known Institute for Decision Making (IDM).

The organization has been active for over 31 years.

The Institute for Decision Making started back in 1987 during the farm crisis.

At the time, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad decided to give funds to all three state universities so they could help communities in need through economic development. Originally, the institute was headed by Robert Waller, the dean of the College of Business.

“We’re basically consultants here at [UNI] that help those communities and those organizations around Iowa with planning such as strategic planning and research,” said IDM director Andrew Conrad.

IDM works closely with faculty, employs students and even sometimes helps students with their projects.

For example, IDM has been working with professor of mathematics Mark Ecker since approximately 2000 on an annual project IDM does for the state of Iowa and the Iowa Workforce Development. The institute also regularly works with students from the geography department.

“We’re taking that expertise not only that of our staff has but also that of others in the university, whether it’s other programs like ours, faculty members and then also students,” Conrad said. “Also, by doing that, we’re helping faculty with opportunities to research and stuff like that.

That helps with their academic endeavors. And with students — there’s a lot of our former students that

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Poppe recently accompanied Koerperich and other Dance Marathon members on a tour of the hospital to visit patients. Poppe was moved by the children as she visited them. One patient, a little girl, asked Poppe for her guitar. She gave it to her as a present and the absence of her guitar was a surprise to the others who went on the tour with her. By visiting the hospital, Koerperich and

worked with us that are now in our field that work in economic development.”

Since its inception, IDM has helped over 850 organizations and communities, working with at least one organization in all 99 Iowa counties. Their most common type of client is a small community’s economic development organization.

Many of these communities continue to work with IDM on and off for decades.

Conrad admits that determining IDM’s success with helping a client can sometimes be a challenge.

“In economic development, often the focus is on jobs and capital investment,” Conrad said. “But for us, particularly on the planning side, it’s more our clients created a strategic plan that meets their needs.

Then, later down the road, are they successfully implementing it? Those are the big measures that we focus in on.”

Conrad considers planning to be the gateway into the work IDM does. They also help their clients with researching, solving organization issues, marketing and developing marketing plans.

Although headquartered in Iowa, IDM has worked all over the country, including Minnesota, Wisconsin and Kansas City. IDM’s community clients report 1,500 to 2,000 new jobs each year because of IDM’s assistance, according to IDM’s annual report to the Board of Regents. IDM has also trained over 950 economic development professionals.

“We’ve done strategic planning for both the city of Waterloo and Cedar Falls,” Conrad said. “So, in total, probably 20 plus organizations over the years that we’ve worked with [in the Cedar Valley]. We facilitated a UNI strategic planning process, which was done two years ago. We just helped the College of Business with their strategic plan. We’ve helped the athletic department here at UNI with their strategic

Poppe felt as if the work that they had been doing was put into a new perspective.

“We really hope that people remember that Dance Marathon proceeds go to the hospital,” Koerperich said. “You may think that it doesn’t affect you, but you probably know at least three people affected by a children’s hospital. We’re excited to jam out with Maddie Poppe, but we want people to know that the proceeds go directly to the kiddos in our community.”

plan. Obviously, being local, we do a lot of work here, and plus being at UNI, we do a lot of work where we can.”

In the Cedar Valley alone, IDM has helped Cedar Falls Community Main Street Program, the Waterloo Main Street Program, Cedar Falls Tourism Bureau, United Way, the Salvation Army, Grout Museum District and others.

Conrad believes IDM has been able to help so many organizations because most of these groups need a neutral third-party to help them. Since IDM is a federally-funded service, it’s also a more inexpensive option compared to hiring some other private business or

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Founded in 1987, the Institute for Decision Making is housed in the Business and Community Services building.

consultant.

“We’re practitioners in our field [. . .] and we also have the technical knowledge in community and economic development,”

Conrad said. “We’re very unique compared to other universities. There are not very many universities the size of UNI that have a program like ours.”

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Ground game pushes UNI past Lamar JOEL WAUTERS Sports Editor

The Panthers wish of a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) postseason berth was granted after UNI completed their 2018 regular season with a 37-0 home win over the Missouri State Bears on Saturday, Nov. 17.

Despite having five losses during the year, the FCS playoff selection committee gave the Panthers the nod into the 24-team field based on UNI’s strength of schedule, which is among the toughest in the nation, and the Panther’s three wins against ranked opponents.

At the selection show on Nov. 18, UNI found out their first opponent would be the Lamar Cardinals (7-4) out of the Southland Conference.

This was the second time these two teams met on the gridiron, with the Panthers defeating Lamar in 1964 during the Pecan Bowl, 19-17.

Things didn’t start well for the Panthers. On the second play from scrimmage, Lamar wide receiver Kirkland Banks went 73 yards to the end zone on a catch and run pass from quarterback Darrel Colbert.

The Cardinals fumbled the snap on the extra point, resulting in a failed attempt to convert.

UNI responded with a 21yard field goal from Austin Errthum two minutes later to pull within three points, trailing 6-3. Lamar, known for their aggressive run attack, also stunned the Panthers with highly mobile quarterback

The Panthers will take on UC-Davis this Saturday in the second round of the FCS National Football Playoffs.

play from Colbert, who had the ability to make a play out of next to nothing. Colbert’s mobility helped him find tight end Case Robinson for a 25yard touchdown pass to go up 13-3.

Errthum split the uprights midway through the second quarter with a 44-yard field goal to pull within seven points, 13-6. After Lamar punted on the following possession, quarterback Eli Dunne found wide receiver Jalen Rima for a 32-yard touchdown. Errthum’s extra point was good and the Panthers tied the game at 13 with just under two minutes to go in the first half of the game.

The Panthers were able to

prevent the Cardinals from adding any additional points to the scoreboard, when Isaiah Nimmers intercepted Colbert in the waning seconds of the first half.

The third quarter of play saw little action from either side. Lamar fumbled early in the period, where UNI was able to recover, but couldn’t capitalize on the possession.

Minutes later, a pass by Dunne was tipped for an interception, which led to a missed Cardinal field goal from 32-yards, wide to the right.

With the ball and momentum starting to shift their way, Errthum drilled a 35-yard field goal to give the Panthers their first lead of the game with two minutes to

go in the third quarter.

In the fourth, Lamar fumbled the ball inside the UNI 20-yard line for the second time in the game. UNI was forced to punt the ball away after failing to convert after the turnover. This set up a 36-yard field goal attempt for Lamar kicker Elvin Martinez.

With the chance to tie the game with under three minutes to play, Martinez missed his second straight field goal of the game to preserve the Panther lead.

UNI would keep the ball on the ground for much of the remainder of the game and prevented a miracle play in the final seconds to hold on for the 16-13 win to advance

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to the second round of the FCS playoffs.

“We stuck to the plan and played good football,”said head coach Mark Farley.

“These guys played their tails off. They earned this win.”

Running backs Trevor Allen and Marcus Weymiller both tallied over 100 yards on the ground with 112 and 128 yards respectively. Linebacker Duncan Ferch recorded 10 total tackles on defense and wide receiver Jaylin James led UNI with 55 receiving yards on four catches.

Next, the Panthers (7-5) will head out west to California to take on the University of California, Davis Aggies (9-2) out of the Big Sky Conference on Saturday, Dec. 1, at 6 p.m.

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ELIOT CLOUGH

Associate Sports Editor

The UNI men’s and women’s basketball teams took to the court over Thanksgiving break. The Panther men competed in the Paradise Jam Invitational in the Virgin Islands, while the women also took an outof-conference competition in the Beach Classic in Long Beach, Calif.

For the men, the University of Pennsylvania halted their attempts at a win. Despite leading at halftime, UNI fell 78-71 in the first round of the invitational. AJ Green had his highest scoring game of the season thus far, tallying 23 points in the loss.

The Panthers returned to their winning ways to close out the invitational, tallying two straight over the Eastern Kentucky Colonels 90-85 and the Old Dominion Monarchs, 54-53.

Green matched his season high in scoring with 23 points against Colonels and 15 against the Monarchs.

In another regular season competition against Old Dominion, the Panthers headed to Norfolk, Va. The Monarchs avenged the previous loss, defeating the UNI men 72-65. Green once again led the Panthers in scoring with 18 points.

The Panther men take on the South Dakota State Jackrabbits on Saturday, Dec. 1, in Minneapolis, Minn.

Prior to competing in the Beach Classic, the UNI Panthers hosted and defeated the Creighton Bluejays in the McLeod Center, 65-55.

Megan Maahs led in scoring with 17 points and also grabbing 11 rebounds in the contest. Ellie Howell also scored 15 points and hauled in seven rebounds for the Panthers.

In a matchup with the hometown team, Long Beach State University, the UNI women claimed victory 7164. Several Panthers scored in double figures with Karli Rucker leading the way at 19 points. Maahs garnered 11 as Mikaela Morgan tallied 10.

In their most recent match-up with the Boise

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State Broncos, the Panthers fell 61-60 after leading for a majority of the contest.

Rucker once again led UNI

in scoring with 22 points.

The Panther women will face IUPUI in Indianapolis, Ind. on Friday, Nov. 30.

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