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No. 7 A&M men’s basketball upsets No. 2 UNC for trip to Sweet 16 By Ryan MacDonald @Ryan_MacDonald2 In a game where everything needed to go right for the Aggies to upset the defending national champions and go to the NCAA Sweet 16 for the fifth time in program history, everything went right. The seven-seed A&M men’s basketball team (22-12) defeated two-seed North Carolina 86-65 on Sunday night. The Aggies started the game with a nearly flawless first half. Freshman guard T.J. Starks got the Aggies on the board first with a threepoint shot. The Tarheels soon responded with an 11-4 run and held an 11-7 lead at the first media timeout. Sophomore forward Robert Williams said the Aggies took the game chunk by chunk and didn’t get too concerned with the game as a whole. “We all told each other every media timeout ‘let’s win this media timeout, let’s win this half’ and that’s what happens,” Williams said in a video on the team’s official Twitter account. The Aggies struggled to get into an offen-

sive rhythm and trailed 20-13. The maroon and white began to gel starting at 11:37 mark when the Aggies went on a 15-0 run. Junior center Tyler Davis led Aggies in scoring during that run, netting nine points and giving the Aggies a 28-20 with just over six minutes remaining in the half. “We know we have the advantage on the inside against most teams so we just do what we do everyday just go to wore on the inside and eat glass,” Davis said. Junior forward D.J. Hogg caught fire near the end of the half, netting seven points in the last six minutes. Usually very strong from behind the arc, North Carolina struggled in the first half, making just eight percent of their three-point shots (1-of-13) in the first half. Led by Starks’ two made three-point shots, the first and last shots of the half, the Aggies sunk 46 percent (5-of-11) of their shots from deep. UNC missed their last six shots of the half and the Aggies held a 42-28 lead at the half. The 42 points the Aggies scored tied the school record for most points scored in the M. BASKETBALL ON PG. 4

No. 4 women complete 17 point comeback to defeat DePaul By Alex Miller @AlexMill20 Everyone in Reed Arena knew Chennedy Carter was going to take the final shot. Texas A&M’s freshman point guard had indeed nearly single-handedly led the Aggies back from 17 points down to defeat DePaul. And with 3.2 seconds left, Carter drained a three-pointer from the right side of the key in transition to put A&M ahead 80-79. “For once in my life, I zipped it,” A&M head coach Gary Blair said. “I didn’t tell her take the three. I really would have wanted the drive, but I didn’t tell her one thing on that last shot. When she was on the roll, I don’t know how many shots she made in a row in that last quarter; but it was pretty special.” Then, with 1.5 seconds to go, forward Jasmine Lumpkin stole the Blue Demons’ inbound pass to seal the victory, sending A&M (26-9) to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2014 with the win Sunday afternoon. “I know my role is defense, so they wanted me on the ball and they’re confident with me doing that,” Lumpkin said. “I knew last year

around this time, too, I got a big steal. I’m just happy to get that steal for the team, so we can keep it moving.” In the second half alone, Carter scored 32 points on 11-of-21 shooting, including a 7-of-8 mark from three-point range. It was an exceptional turnaround for Carter, who went 1-of-8 from the field in the first half. “We had a good talk in the locker room,” Carter said. “The thing that brought us together was coach [Blair] got us really hunkered down.” Down the stretch, Blair was yelling at his players to get the ball to Carter. DePaul knew what was coming, but was unable to stop Carter. “She’s just a great player and so she could get to the the rim,” DePaul head coach Doug Bruno said. “She still was very much on fire. We didn’t do anything to stop it.” Additionally, A&M forward Anriel Howard scored 18 points, adding 19 rebounds. Her efforts were needed, as A&M center Khaalia Hillsman was stifled all game, finishing with just six points on 1-of-4 shooting. M. BASKETBALL ON PG. 4

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The winning piece depicts a phoenix being reborn.

Drawn together ArtFest exhibit showcases student creations in MSC By Jane Turchi @janeturchi The walls of James R. Reynolds Student Art Gallery are lined with 135 pieces of work crafted by current students, celebrating talent across the university. All of the work was submitted for ArtFest, an annual student art competition and exhibition sponsored by the Memorial Student Center’s Visual Arts Committee. ArtFest winners were announced at the exhibition’s opening reception on March 8. Winning submissions and other student-made pieces will be on display until April 21. Julie Choi, visualization freshman, was the first place winner with her piece “Phoenix of Immortality” and said while this is her first year participating in ArtFest, she has enjoyed entering art competitions. “It’s kind of fun to put your work in and if you are lucky enough to get ARTFEST ON PG. 2

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Texas A&M University used South by Southwest as an opportunity to show the effect A&M has around the world.

Texas A&M displays global impact at SXSW Four day long exhibition showcases university with virtual reality booth By Brad Morse @BradSMorse53 AUSTIN, Texas — In the heart of the state capital, Texas A&M stood tall among thousands of exhibitions at the annual South by Southwest media and technology festival. With an exhibition booth in the Austin Convention Center, panels hosted in the Courtyard Marriott and a student making a pitch for her patented idea to potential investors, A&M showed its prowess in Austin over the course of the week. A&M’s main attraction took place from March 11-14 in the Austin Convention Center, where the university set up its exhibition booth. The aim of the booth was to showcase the impact A&M has on a global scale, according to Michael Green, manager of Emerging

and Interactive Media at A&M and Class of 2011. “There are so many people here from outside the United States, and so most of those people have no idea what Texas A&M is,” Green said. “So they leave the trade show booth knowing that we’re a university in Texas, but that we have a global impact, we’re not just doing stuff for Texas. That’s what we want to push, that A&M is a global university.” The worldwide impact of A&M was displayed primarily through virtual reality. Green said several Aggies working around the globe were selected to be filmed and the videos were then played through a VR headset, allowing festival-goers the chance to see each Aggie’s work unfold around them. “We just are finding stories of incredible Aggies, whether they are faculty doing incredible research or former students that are doing incredible things,” Green said. “For instance, we have a former student who engineered the expansion of the Panama Canal. This year, we

went to some really cool study abroad locations that we’ve sent our students to. So we’re using the medium of virtual reality and immersive storytelling to show people these A&M stories.” The booth was staffed by current students, including Mariam Harutunian, urban and regional planning senior. Harutunian said she came to work with the exhibition via the Office of Admissions and hoped to show her appreciation for A&M to any festival-goers. “I’m here to support A&M’s marketing and communications, but also to advocate for A&M,” Harutunian said. “Showing how much I love the school, showing them our global impact. I’ve loved just showing what A&M does. Meeting a whole bunch of really cool people from different backgrounds … so it’s really interesting to see all these different people come by.” Harutunian said the most interesting interSXSW ON PG. 3

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Electrical engineering junior Adam Curtis was a member of team Illumi-Nite, which won the national Invent for the Planet competition and will team up with a group from Myanmar to bring their invention to reality.

Lighting the way for young scholars Aggies unite with team from Myanmar to create light source By Jane Turchi @janeturchi After winning the global Invent for the Planet competition, a group of Aggies plan to take their first place invention to investors. From Feb. 16-18, Invent for the Planet challenged students from around the world to create and assemble an invention to address various needs statements based on major global issues. The winning team, Illumi-Nite, chose to focus on the needs of children with little or no access to electricity by building a lightweight, easy-to-use lighting system for reading. The second place team, composed of students from the University of Technology at Yadanabon Cyber City, Myanmar, arrived March 18 to allow the two teams to collaborate for a week, perfecting their integrated design. Finally, Illumi-Nite will attend a startup fair in Austin, Texas, on March 24 to pitch their product to investors. The Illumi-Nite team members consist of electrical engineering junior Adam Curtis, landscape architecture senior Adriana Hernandez, mechanical engineering graduate student Sarojeet Deb, industrial engineering senior

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Vasant Kurvari and general engineering sophomore An Nguyen. Obtaining first place at both Texas A&M and the global level, the team coordinated to develop, design and assemble their invention in 48 hours. The invention they created together, Illumi-Nite, is a lighting system with a lamp shade made of ultra-lightweight, recycled plastic bottles used to focus the light, specifically for reading. “We each were team experts, so each of us were different majors,” Curtis said. “And so we had a really unique kind of team outlook, because each of us could claim a part of that. We were really efficient in the way that we could just divvy up our things and then give it to the other person and say, ‘Hey, I trust you enough to get that done.’” “We came up with the actual light delivery and [the team from Myanmar] came up with the power side,” Curtis said. “We should be able to just put these two together and it should be like a pretty strong collaboration.” The team from Myanmar addressed the same needs statement with their invention, Edu-Night, which was focused on a power delivery system for small electric devices. The two teams remain in contact with hopes of partnering to produce a functioning product. The Invent for the Planet winners will continue their work with experts and present their

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project at the VentureWell OPEN Minds Showcase and Reception on March 24 at the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin, Texas, where they have a chance to win up to $3,000. Illumi-Nite focuses on providing light to electricity deprived areas to allow for children to further their education after dark. These Aggies were formed into a team the first night of the competition, grouped together based on their common interest in their selected needs statement. “When we showed up at 5:00 Friday evening, none of us knew that we were going to pick that project or be on this team, so you walk around and you have to look at all the design problems and then you say, ‘I’m really passionate about this one, I have some good ideas,’” Curtis said. “And then you see who else is interested and you actually form your team.” The team consists of Aggies from various majors and colleges. Hernandez said she believes by utilizing this cross disciplinary collaboration, the team benefited from the members’ diverse perspectives. “My major’s not engineering … so I didn’t know if I was going to be able to get in,” Hernandez said. “Aggies Invent is just amazing, all the resources, the people … the needs statements, it’s really nice.”

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ARTFEST CONTINUED accepted then you get to see your work hanging [with] a bunch of other really cool people as well,” Choi said. Choi’s “Phoenix of Immortality” was drawn with pen and ink, chalk pastel and white charcoal. She said she was inspired by the meaning of the phoenix in both Western and Eastern culture. “I was doing a series at the time,” Choi said. “I was trying to see how Eastern and Western cultures were similar and one of the symbols was the phoenix. … In the European culture, it’s supposed to be a symbol of death and rebirth … while [in] Asian folklore it’s usually a symbol of immortality.” Mary Casillas, biochemistry senior, is currently the MSC Visual Arts Committee Chair and said she first got involved with VAC her freshman year. Through the years, she has helped organize events such as ArtFest to build on her love of art. “There’s no prompt for ArtFest, so really we get everything and anything from all sorts of colleges, majors, classifications,” Casillas said. “To see that no matter what major or classification they are, or what ethnic background, racial background, they all took the time to create these pieces and thought it was important to send it to ArtFest.” Three architecture and visualization faculty and staff

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were selected to evaluate all entries and select the top three winners. Winners were announced at the open reception where first place received $100 in prize money, while second received $50 and third received $25. “These are such talented people,” Casillas said “They don’t even devote their lives to art sometimes, but the work they bring in is incredible.” Second place winner Amanda Skluzacek, environmental design senior, said her piece, “Amsterdam,” was inspired by a photograph she captured of a fall day in the capital of the Netherlands. “I’ve never put my art out there before, so going into it I was pretty nervous just because I knew I was going to be there with people that I knew were going to be looking at my art,” Skluzacek said. “It was really gratifying to not only see my art on the wall but also see other people reacting to my art.” After filling out rubrics, the judges’ scores for each entry are submitted electronically and first, second and third place winners are calculated. The judges also provide feedback for the top 10 pieces of art. “When people are really excited and happy to see [my artwork], it’s really satisfying,” Choi said. “It’s your heart and soul poured into this work and [it’s] amazing and really heartwarming.”

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SXSW CONTINUED esting interaction she had while working the booth came when she met two workers from Disney, both of whom she said left impressed with A&M’s body of work. “I met two guys who work for Disney, but neither one graduated from A&M,” Harutunian said. “The only thing they had heard about A&M was A&M playing UCLA [in football] so that was it. It was really cool talking to them. I hope they took away a sense of what A&M stands for, our different views on outreach, how global we are. It was cool talking to them about our visualization program … I hope they got a little taste of that.” Subjects for the videos were selected at the recommendation of A&M’s several colleges, according to Green. Green said selecting VR as the medium to tell these stories was an obvious choice. “VR is a cool way to transport the viewer,”

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W. BASKETBALL CONTINUED “We had to have it,” Blair said of Howard’s efforts. “We said before the ball game, our 1s, 2s, 3s and 4s had to get the defensive rebounds because as many 3s as they were going to shoot, they were going to shoot 30 no matter if they were playing us or Connecticut. … Anriel Howard, she’s done it all year.” For the first time in his 46 years of coaching, Blair gave the game ball to a player. “I gave a game ball for the first time in my career to one of our players, and I gave it to Anriel Howard because of how she played the game,” Blair said. “She refuses to let us lose. There isn’t a player like her in the country.”

While Carter carried the Aggies, Bruno said A&M’s ability to tighten up on defense allowed the team to make the double-digit comeback. During the second-half run, the crowd at Reed Arena progressively got louder, fueling the Aggies. “Every time we came back or we would get a bucket, we would come back on defense and you could just hear them screaming, and I think that really affected DePaul,” Howard said. “For us, it just gave us the motivation, knowing right there they’re supporting us. Maybe they’re not on the court, but they’re supporting us through the whole thing.” DePaul dominated the first half, taking a 43-28 lead at the break. The Blue Demons were stellar in the second quarter, outscoring the Aggies 27-14 while shooting 64.7 percent from the field. “We’ve had many revivals all year with this team because we’ve not been a second-quarter team all year long,” Blair said. “We find a way in the third and fourth quarter.” A&M advances to the Sweet 16 and will face Notre Dame next Saturday in Spokane, Washington. In 2011, A&M took down the Fighting Irish to win the national championship. “The pressure is off,” Blair said. “We will be totally relaxed once we go to Spokane. And odds are, we’ll be back on the TV screen watching tonight the Notre Dame game.”

Aggies coughed up the ball four times in a span of a little over three minutes starting at the 7:01 mark. The Tar Heels were unable to convert the turnovers into points and the Aggies still held onto a commanding 71-51 lead with just under six minutes remaining. Williams squandered any chance of a Tar Heel comeback with a windmill dunk, similar to the one he slammed in A&M’s first round matchup against Providence. The Aggies held an 85-63 lead with 1:28 remaining. Kennedy subbed his starters out and used his bench players to ice the game. North Carolina hit a late dunk, and the Aggies held on to clinch the 86-65 win. The win gives the Aggies their fifth Sweet 16 trip in program history and their first since 2016, when Davis was a junior. “We’re back,” Davis said. “I’ve been here before, so I’m not way in over my head right now, but I’m extremely happy for everyone. It was an excellent team win and we had to pull it together and we did.” Aside from shooting, the biggest difference in the game was rebounding. The Aggies outrebounded the Tar Heels 50 to 36, with and Williams grabbing 13 of those rebounds. Starks led the Aggies in scoring, netting 21 points, tied for a game-high. Davis was a bestial presence throughout the game and finished with 18 points and nine rebounds. The Aggies will now advance to play Michigan in the Sweet 16. The game will be played at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Thursday. Tipoff is slated for 6:37 p.m. and will be televised on TBS. “It shows the kind of team we are and what we’re capable of,” Davis said. “We’re an extremely confident team. We know what we have in this locker room, and we ran with it all year. We’re just going to keep our jobs, study up on Michigan and get better.”

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M. BASKETBALL CONTINUED first half of an NCAA Tournament game. The Aggies opened the second half by netting three three-point shots before the first media timeout. North Carolina, however, showed some signs of life and was able to break the A&M defense down and score a couple of easy baskets in the low post. North Carolina point guard Joel Berry II was dominant down the stretch and dished it to his teammates who had some open looks. However, the Aggies were quick in getting a hand in the face of the Tar Heels and forcing them to take contested shots. “Our goal was to defend the free throw line and make them take tough twos,” A&M head coach Billy Kennedy said. “When you block eight shots, that means they were shooting a lot of tough twos.” The Tar Heels showed signs of life, initiating a full court press which lured the Aggies into making some turnovers. The

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