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Next up: Panthers face Vols Chris Puzia Staff Writer
Despite the attention that senior point guard Brianna Kiesel’s performance commanded all season long, a freshman led the way on Saturday. Forward Stasha Carey scored 16 points and grabbed 13 rebounds — both team highs — to guide her Pitt women’s basketball team to a 51-40 first-round victory over No. 7-seed University of Tennessee at Chattanooga over the weekend. But Carey, playing in her first career NCAA Tournament game, said the team always had aspirations past just Chattanooga. “We’re looking at staying in Tennessee until Monday, and taking the ride as far
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Dancers perform at the 35th annual Latin American and Caribbean Festival in Posvar Saturday. Nate Smith | Staff Photographer
Bus strikes Pitt student near Cathedral Dale Shoemaker Assistant News Editor A Port Authority bus struck a female Pitt student on campus Sunday morning. The 71B bus was traveling outbound toward Shadyside and Hamilton when it struck the 19-year-old woman at the intersection
of Fifth Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard, next to the Cathedral of Learning. Port Authority spokesman Jim Ritchie said the young woman sustained injuries to her face and shoulder at the scene and responders rushed her to the UPMC Presbyterian emergency room. Pitt spokesman John Fedele confirmed that the young woman was a Pitt student and
that an ambulance took her to the UPMC Presbyterian emergency room, but said the University would not release her name. The cause of the pedestrian accident, to which Port Authority police and Pittsburgh Emergency Medical Services responded at 11:25 a.m., is currently under investigation, Ritchie said.
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Best of the best: WPTS Radio wins national award Abbey Reighard Assistant News Editor
WPTS Radio beat nine other college radio station finalists to win a national award over the weekend. MTV’s sister station catering to college audiences, mtvU, awarded WPTS 92.1 — Pitt’s student radio station — the College Radio Woodie during the 2015 mtvU Woodie Awards on Friday, March 20. Since the first show in 2004, mtvU has awarded the College Radio Woodie every year to “pioneering stations dedicated to bringing students the best emerging music,” according an MTV press release. Jack Antonoff, lead singer and songwriter for the Bleachers and lead guitarist for the band Fun., hosted this year’s award show, which was part of the South by Southwest music, film and interactive festivals that ran from March 13 to March 22. This year’s win was WPTS’ first Woodie. Last year another Pennsylvania college radio station, East Stroudsburg University’s WESS 90.3, won the award. The radio sta-
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extra push the station gave to Pitt students to vote for WPTS. Members of the station’s staff reached out to students through an Instagram, Twitter and Facebook campaign. Listeners voted on the mtvU website. Voting opened Feb. 18, the same day the station learned they made the list of nominees, and closed March 10. WPTS hosted unique events throughout the year, including a 24-hour radiothon, which consisted of speciality programming such as yoga, karaoke, live band performances, a guest appearance by Carnegie Mellon University’s WRCT station and a play-by-play of the station’s staff playing Mario Kart. During the event, which lasted Jan. 9 to Jan. 10., Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto also made an hour-long appearance during the radiothon. He compiled a playlist of his favorite songs for the show, which included Andrew Bird’s “Near Death Experience Experience” and the Pixies’ cover of “Head On.”
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Breakin’ it down: Brazil Nuts hosts cultural festival
a Brazilian city in the Amazon, to improve the quality and accessibility of health care in the region. Amizade trains and pairs doctors with the Abare, a hospital facility on a boat that treats people living along the Amazon River. Many of the attendees were members of Pittsburgh’s Brazilian community, many of whom sported bright yellow Brazilian soccer jerseys. “That’s one thing about Brazil. They love their fútbol,” said member Erik Bauer, a junior global management major who visited Brazil twice in the past year. To kick off the event, Kenia, a popular Brazilian singer, sang the Brazilian national anthem, but she wasn’t the only one singing. Many of the event attendees sang along in their native Portuguese. After the opening anthem, the first performance was a Samba dance routine of young girls, led by choreographer Luciana Brussi, a Brazilian-born dance teacher based in Pittsburgh. Samba is a traditional Brazil-
Richard Koppenaal Staff Writer A crowd sporting Brazilian soccer jerseys, bearing a strong resemblance to last year’s World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, filled the William Pitt Union Assembly Room this weekend. Brazil Nuts, a student group that promotes the Portuguese language and Brazilian culture, held its 14th annual Brazilian Festival Sunday afternoon. The club treated students and the Pittsburgh community to an afternoon of Brazilian song and dance and traditional Brazilian dishes. The event, which attracted roughly 350 people according to club president Kaitlyn Livingstone, ran from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The organization collected donations at the event, which it will donate to Amizade, a Pittsburgh-based, nonprofit organization that does charity work around the world. The group was not able to provide an estimate of donation totals by time of publication. Amizade has partnered with Santarém,
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Young dancers pay homage to their Brazilian roots. Theo Schwarz | Visual Editor
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BRAZIL ian dance form that features rhythmic, lively movements. The audience cheered as the dancers worked to match the upbeat tempo. Kevin Rieth, Brazil Nuts’ business manager, later took the stage with the club’s Grupo De Música Popular Brasileira, playing a 10-string instrument called the charango. “The charango is kind of a cross between a mandolin and a ukulele,” Rieth said. “It
March 23, 2015 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com adds an interesting texture. It’s more of a Bolivian, Peruvian instrument.” While the performers danced, the attendees sampled some authentic Brazilian foods. Dishes included pão de queijos, which are cheese-flavored rolls; brigadeiros, which are chocolate truffles; and feijoada, which is a black bean stew with various meats, like pork and beef. The Brazilian cuisine and the other attractions allowed students to “experience a little bit of Brazilian culture, without having to go to Brazil,” Bauer said.
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Lee Daniels to lecture at Pitt
Other top contenders this year for the College Radio Woodie awards included stations from Boston University, University of California, Berkeley and Arizona State Harrison Kaminsky University. News Editor “I’m ecstatic that we won,” Mauer said. “We work hard every year, but we worked Academy Award-winning director and especially hard this year. I’m very proud producer Lee Daniels will visit Pitt this of my staff.” spring to speak to students in the William Pitt Union. Pitt Program Council will host Daniels’ lecture about his life and career on Thursday, March 26 in the Assembly Room at 8:30 p.m. Free tickets — with a maximum of two per person — will be available March 26 in the PPC ticket office on the ground floor of the WPU, according to a PPC release. Doors open at 8 p.m. Daniels, an American actor, film producer and director kickstarted his career with the 2001 film “Monster’s Ball” — a romantic drama about a poor Southern woman’s love for a widowed prison-guard, which starred Billy Bob Thornton, Heath Ledger and Halle Berry. In 2009, he directed and produced “Precious,” a drama based in Harlem in 1987 that won two of the six Academy Awards for which it was nominated. Daniels was also the first AfricanAmerican to be nominated for a Director’s Guild of America Award for “Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film.” In 2013, Daniels directed and produced “The Butler,” which grossed $113 million worldwide. Most recently, Daniels produces “Empire,” a new television series on Fox starring Terrence Howard, Taraji Henson and Gabourey Sidibe. According to PPC lecture director Lindsy Steinberger, Daniels’ lecture will focus on his experiences throughout his career and later open for attendees’ questions. Due to Daniels’ extensive film career, Steinberger expects the lecture to sell out. “Daniels has written and directed films and TV shows that are devoted to social and racial inequality issues,” Steinberger said. “[PPC] believes that Daniels’ lecture will be educational and inspirational to students on campus.” Read the rest online at Pittnews.com.
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EDITORIAL
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Video applications show clearer picture of students You don’t need to pull an Elle Woods from “Legally Blonde” and create a larger than life production to get accepted into school — you just need to create a visual that shows — rather than tells — where your values lie. You can write to a college admissions board about your die-hard dedication to rugby, but it doesn’t mean its members understand the early morning practices and the ambition it took to start your own league. That’s why Mitchell Moran-Kaplan opted to show his story to college admissions officers through a video actively depicting these feats. Moran-Kaplan used his two-minutelong video to apply to Goucher College, which is a small, private, liberal arts school in Baltimore County, Md. Goucher College accepted 49 students, including MoranKaplan, solely through the merit of their video submissions. These innovative video applications are a less rigid, low-stress option in the college admissions process that help to modernize the entire practice.
This attention to technological advancement better reflects today’s evolving education system and mirrors the technological demands of the job market. Goucher President José Antonio Bowen said the college admissions system is broken — applicants feel a hunger for new ways to show their abilities to colleges. “We will be seeing more alternative applications,” he told the Washington Post. This hunger, then, is a result of the wealth disparity between students who can afford extensive SAT training or consultants to help them write their admissions essays. Through video, you are seeing the applicant genuinely, not through a filter. Technological progress — such as video applications — is a step in closing the gap between privileged and less fortunate students. The videos illustrate the multifaceted personalities of applicants without the pressure of having to eloquently word it in an essay. Colleges who have tried switching from one-page essays to videos have expressed
concern that this new application technology isn’t adding much more substance to the application than what they contrive through other means. A representative from Tufts University told the Washington Post that the videos “weren’t adding substantially to what candidates were telling us about themselves.” For this reason, students should have the option to either write an essay or submit a video — but colleges should not require both. It’s unlikely that selective colleges will ever completely switch to the video application because transcripts and SAT scores remain a significant portion of an applicant’s profile. The Common Application, a Web portal for processing college materials, is employed by more than 500 colleges to process more than 3.45 million student applications a year. Featuring a five-second frame in a video with an image of a transcript is not enough, then. Universities cannot standardize this version of a transcript or run it through a
processing system — this indirect form of submitting a transcript would only create more work for admissions officers. For this reason, these video applications are a smart supplement, but not a replacement for academic materials. Goucher College is an outlier when it comes to video-only applications. Still, the videos are progressive — illustrating know-how in an era of technological upheaval can only help to diversify an applicant in a pool of prospectives. The videos actively illustrate a student’s personality and drive and can even eliminate the need for college entrance interviews for students applying somewhere far from their hometown. The SAT already tests your writing abilities, so why not make a video and show you’re more than a one-trick pony? Application essays must undoubtedly get montonous for college admissions officers. Snatch their attention in a new way — force them to see why you belong at their school through a video.
COLUMN
Awareness is key to understanding clinical depression Marlo Safi Columnist
My best friend and I spent countless hours talking on the phone when she had depression. She described feeling like studying was futile — that she wouldn’t derive satisfaction from any grade. Life was a tunnel with no light at the end. The best I could do was comfort her and let her know that she wasn’t alone. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 30 percent of students report feeling “too depressed to function.” Depression isn’t the flu or a broken limb. It’s not an illness that manifests itself through a physical scar or a fever.
You can’t go to the student health center and get a note dismissing you from class because your depression hindered you from focusing or you just couldn’t muster the motivation to study. But when 30 percent of college students — the equivalent of 5,000 undergraduate students here at Pitt — report experiencing intense depressed thoughts, their peers must make an effort to better understand depression. My anecdote about my best friend is allegorical and suggests a much larger theme: Depression — the “common cold” of mental illness — is actually a crippling, debilitating disease that affects a marked number of college students. Unfortunately, the tragic real-
ity of depression is that when people become cognizant of the agony that plagues someone who suffers from depression, it’s often already too late. Because it is so common, we should understand depression just as well as any physical ailment. We must debunk the stigmatized misconception our society has created surrounding depression. It’s imperative that we make strides to better understand those who are suffering from clinical depression through empathy and awareness. It’s essential that people know just how common depression is. People who have never suffered from depression often tell sufferers to “snap out of it,” something no one would tell
a person with a broken arm or mono. But, much like a broken arm, depression can’t magically be healed. Depression is organic in nature. It stems from abnormal brain chemistry. According to a study published in 2007 by the International Journal of Clinical Practice , depression is an illness “with significant neurobiological consequences involving structural, functional and molecular alterations in several areas of the brain.” The study also published PET scans of subjects with depression versus control subjects, which show apparent decreased brain activity.
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This is not to say that environmental stressors don’t play a huge role — they absolutely do. Depression can’t be proven through a blood test or an X-ray, so the public generally regards it as benign. It is extremely detrimental to assume that depression is just someone being dramatic, or to ignore that this very real medical condition can be incredibly crippling. According to Kathryn Roecklein, an abnormal psychology professor at Pitt, “depression can be thought of as a response to stressors that are not expected. If you think about how someone is depressed when their life is so great, that’s when you know it’s really depression — when the negative response goes beyond the response you’d normally have. Depression is very different from [an] everyday negative mood.” Depression is often misunderstood or not perceived as a real medical illness because it is such a complex disease, ACROSS 1 Spell 5 Traitor 10 Letters causing a rush 14 Property measurement 15 Flopped financially 16 Bonkers 17 Response to a drone 18 Quibble about accommodations? 20 Zeus’ beginning? 21 Forgives 22 Director Burton 23 Little bit 25 “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late” duettist 27 Marshmallow that’s been toasted too long? 33 4x4, e.g. 34 “1984” worker 35 Get used (to) 38 Assembly stage 40 Hit from a tee 42 Start of Operation Overlord 43 Scrutinized, with “over” 45 Abounds 47 Generation 48 Small group of tiny monarchs? 51 Google, say 53 Canyon part 54 “A Bug’s Life” extra 55 It might blow up
involving physiology and the psyche. “Symptoms such as worthlessness, guilt and suicidal tendencies that aren’t physiological make it a unique clinical syndrome,” Roecklein said. People grossly underestimate the anguish a depressed person experiences and how that affects daily life. Simple tasks can be agonizing. Little things
ness, and depressed students are five times more likely to attempt suicide. Four out of every five students who contemplate suicide show clear warning signs of depression, and even close friends of the victim often report not picking up on them. Many schools experience the tragedy of losing a student to suicide, so understanding that abso-
5,000 undergraduate students here at Pitt report experiencing intense depressed thoughts. that someone else may just shrug off are perturbing. Experiencing intense anxiety over something as small as having someone you know ignore you in public — even unintentionally — is not uncommon. Suicide is the third leading cause of death on college campuses, according to the National Alliance on Mental Ill-
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lutely anyone can have depression — or any mental illness, for that matter — is imperative. We’re part of an institution where we are surrounded by brilliant minds on a daily basis. Unfortunately, many of these people will suffer from depression, and empathy is greatly needed. Understanding comes from identifying
behaviors that raise red flags — such as losing interest in things that used to be pleasurable, sleeping more often than usual and expressing sentiments of self-harm. Accordingly, we should act immediately, whether by letting a friend know you are just a phone call away or contacting outside intervention. I spent countless nights on the phone with my best friend, and the pain she experienced was undeniable. I gave her everything I could — my support, my love and my understanding. I would answer a phone call for her regardless of where I was. Recognizing that depression is common is the first step to breaking the stigma and helping those who are suffering. This doesn’t seem like much, but trust me, it makes all the difference. If you are experiencing signs of depression, call the University Counseling Center at (412) 648-7930. You don’t have to be alone. Marlo Safi primarily writes about politics and public policy for The Pitt News. Email Marlo at mes260@pitt.edu.
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WRESTLING
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Wilps loses championship bout after last-second miscues Chris Puzia Sports Editor
The last 10 seconds of Tyler Wilps’ wrestling career might have been his most memorable — and his most heartbreaking. The redshirt senior, who had wrestled his way to the 174-pound national championship bout on Saturday night against Penn State’s No. 2 Matt Brown, finished as runner-up in a controversial late decision, headlining a weekend of Pitt wrestling in the NCAA Championships in St. Louis. Wilps scored a go-ahead takedown on Brown with 22 seconds remaining in the match to take a 4-3 lead. But the referees, who had already given Wilps a stalling warning earlier in the match, awarded Brown a point after determining Wilps stalled again. With only three seconds remaining before the match would move to sudden victory, Wilps held Brown until time expired. Penn State head coach Cael Sanderson officially challenged the finish, claiming that Wilps locked his hands — an illegal move, given the positions of the wrestlers. After a lengthy review, Sanderson won the challenge, and Pitt head coach Jason Peters lost his subsequent challenge that time had expired before the locked hands. Suddenly, Brown had won the 174-pound national championship. “It is what it is. It’s been interpreted differently all year, and we fell subject to it,” Peters said after the match according to a release. “I’m disappointed for Tyler.” Wilps still earned All-American status because he reached the semifinals, his second straight All-American honor. He is Pitt’s first back-to-back All-American since his older brother, Matt, accomplished the same feat in 2012-13, and the 18th repeat All-American in program history. Wilps finished his Pitt career with a 8731 record and a 19-4 mark in his final season. Two of those losses came to Brown. The last loss came in another close 6-5 decision at the Southern Scuffle on Jan. 2.
Tyler Wilps received a stall penalty late in the national championship match against Matt Brown. Nate Smith | Staff Photographer
Just the day before, Wilps completed one of the bigger surprise upsets of the tournament, defeating top-seeded Robert Kokesh of Nebraska, 3-2, in the quarterfinals. After subduing Oklahoma State’s No. 12 seed Kyle Crutchmer with a sudden victory takedown, Wilps became Pitt’s first NCAA finalist since Keith Gavin in 2008. “We’re thankful for what [Wilps] has done for Pitt wrestling and I really hoped he could have finished with a national championship,” Peters said. “Unfortunately, that didn’t happen.” Wilps wasn’t the only Pitt wrestler vying for a national championship. Redshirt senior Max Thomusseit, who
entered the tournament as the No. 2 seed in the 184-pound weight class, lost in the quarterfinals to Lehigh’s No. 7 Nathaniel Brown and then to North Dakota State’s No. 6 Hayden Zillmer to miss out on AllAmerican status. The losses dropped Thomusseit’s season record to 26-3 and his career record to 93-29. The Panthers sent four more wrestlers to St. Louis for the championships as well. Freshman Dom Forys lost in the 125-pound match to No. 3 Joey Dance from Virginia Tech, and sophomore Mikey Racciato finished 1-2, dropping his final bout to No. 15 Bryant Clagon from Rider at 149.
In the 165-pound class, redshirt senior Troy Reaghard also finished 1-2, losing in the first round before Mike England from Missouri eliminated him, 12-4. Redshirt freshman Ryan Solomon finished 2-2 as a heavyweight, and he lost his third consolation round bout to Missouri’s No. 11 Devin Mellon. Pitt’s wrestling season is now officially over, and the team has seen the last collegiate competitions from standouts Thomusseit and Wilps. “Tyler has a bright future, and what he’s done for Pitt wrestling has been great,” Peters said after Wilps’ loss. “I’m thankful for him.”
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SOFTBALL
Walk off shot lifts Pitt to win over North Carolina State Jessica Boddy Staff Writer
Despite facing a deep 8-3 seventh-inning deficit, freshman Giorgiana Zeremenko and the rest of Pitt’s softball team kept calm. In the second matchup of the day at Vartabedian Field on Saturday, the efforts of senior outfielder Carly Thea, junior outfielder Ashlee Sills and freshman infielder McKayla Taylor shortened North Carolina State’s late lead to only one run. With two outs in the bottom of the seventh, Zeremenko knew it was a door-die situation when she stepped up to the plate. The freshman delivered by blasting a two-run, walk-off home run over the scoreboard. The Wolfpack’s players hung their heads and meandered off the field while Zeremenko’s teammates rushed the plate and exploded in cheers when she finished circling the bases. Pitt won the game, 9-8. “It felt absolutely amazing, considering that was the only hit I had all day,” Zeremenko said. “But it was a great one and a great team win.” This was a redemptive win for Pitt, as the previous matchup of Saturday’s doubleheader ended in a 4-0 loss. Although senior pitcher Savannah King threw an impressive nine strikeouts, the Panthers just couldn’t match the Wolfpack’s offense in game one. In the third and final matchup on Sunday afternoon, Pitt bested North Carolina State 11-4, winning the series two games to one. This improved the softball squad’s record to 25-7 overall and 7-3 in ACC play. An early lead allowed the Panthers to stay confident for the remainder of the game. Capitalizing off of the Wolfpack’s four
total errors in the second inning, three of which came from shortstop Renada Davis, Pitt scored seven runs with the assistance of homers from Zeremenko and redshirt junior Shelby Pickett. Pickett batted .426 on the day. “The early lead kind of relaxes everybody,” Zeremenko said. “Everybody can just stick to their approach, do what they know how to do and just stay relaxed and be able to play our game.” Although the Wolfpack scored three runners in the top of the third, Pitt’s junior Jenna Modic answered in the bottom by smashing a three-run homer, bringing Maggie Sevilla and Sills home with her. The play brought up the Panthers’ lead to nine runs. “That was a really big one,” Pitt head coach Holly Aprile said about Modic’s home run. “When we come back and score after they score, those are really important responses. It’s instant offense.” Both teams scored single runs in the sixth before Pitt handily closed out the game in the seventh. In that final inning, senior outfielder Jordan Fannin grabbed a sky-high pop-up to right field for the first out, and Modic displayed her athleticism by diving for a line-drive foul ball for the second. Freshman pitcher Kayla Harris seized control by striking out the final batter to secure the 11-4 win. King earned the win for her strong start to the game. The senior had the lowest earned run average of the four competing pitchers at 3.07, and she notched 41 strikes in 68 pitches. She totaled 16 strikeouts on the weekend. “It was awesome. We just have to keep winning the series, and I think its great that we’re making a name for ourselves in the ACC,” King said. “This season has been really fun, especially as a senior. I think we’re just ready to keep it rolling.”
“We’re making a name for ourselves in the ACC.” Savannah King
Giorgiana Zeremenko hit the game-winning home run against North Carolina State. Meghan Sunners | Staff Photographer
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W HOOPS as we can go,” she said before the game. Now, Kiesel and Carey face an even greater challenge on Monday when they play No. 2=seed University of Tennessee (28-5, 15-1 SEC) in Knoxville, Tenn., the Volunteers’ home court, at 6:40 p.m. on ESPN2. “I don’t know if any of us would have envisioned having the opportunity to play Tennessee on their home floor in this second round of the NCAA Tournament,” Pitt head coach Suzie McConnell-Serio said in a release. “We know that it poses a great challenge and, with that, a great opportunity.” Pitt wouldn’t have that opportunity if it was not for Carey’s dominating performance on Saturday. She gave her Panthers a late 10-point lead to seal the game by collecting a loose ball, putting it up for a layup and drawing a foul in the process for a three-point play. The performance was Carey’s — teambest — seventh double-double of the season and her second in a row. Kiesel chipped in 13 points and three assists, putting her over 1,900 assists in her career. She now needs three assists on Monday to move into fifth all-time in Pitt’s career assists list. Kiesel and Carey will both have to play as well as they have lately for the Panthers (20-11, 9-7 ACC) to reach the Sweet 16, as the Volunteers were ranked No. 6 in the country before tournament selection. The now-No. 2 tournament seed defeated No. 15 seed Boise State University on Saturday, 72-61. Junior forward Bashaara Graves dominated, scoring a career-high 24 points on an efficient 9-of-11 shooting and
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tacking on five rebounds in the win. Tennessee head coach Holly Warlick said that Graves was “an anchor” for the team in the win. “When she hits, when she plays well inside, that is how it opens up,” Warlick said. “She needs to play the way she played and we need to get her the ball. That is what we do.” Senior guard Ariel Massengale supported Graves, chipping in 18 points and five rebounds of her own. Looking ahead, Warlick said the team will plan around Carey and Pitt’s inside game. “I think Pitt gets the ball inside a little more, moves the ball,” Warlick said. “We will go back and watch the tape and prepare for them. I’m sure it is going to be a lot different than how we prepared for Boise State.” The last time the two teams met also came in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. In 2007, Pitt hosted No. 1-seed Tennessee in the Petersen Events Center and lost 68-54. Tennessee went on to win the national championship. Warlick said that though her team will come into the game as favorites and boast a home-court advantage, it will not underestimate the Panthers. “I don’t think any game is a given. I really don’t,” she said. “I think women’s basketball is getting better. There are better coaches. There are better players.” McConnell-Serio said she wants her players to enjoy the tournament atmosphere, but added that they are still focused on the next opponent. “We will play with everything to gain and nothing to lose,” she said. “We’ll still be excited for the opportunity. This will be an incredible environment. I want our players to enjoy this incredible opportunity.”
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