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Texas Tech coach Tubby Smith reacts to a possession’s outcome during the game against West Virginia on Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena. Tech lost 80-76 to the No. 6 Mountaineers.

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The Texas Tech men’s basketball team was outscored 8-0 in the final minute of play and fell short of an upset against the No. 6 West Virginia Mountaineers in an 80-76 defeat Saturday afternoon in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Tech coach Tubby Smith said West Virginia made the plays it needed to make and executed defensive plays to keep its drives alive in the final minutes.

“They did what they had to do to win the game, made the shots they had to make, got the stops they needed to

make and unfortunately we didn’t,” Smith said. “It’s a tough loss for us, and it was a hard fought game. I thought our kids played hard. I don’t know if we always play smart, but we played hard today.”

Early on, West Virginia created chaos for the Red Raiders by forcing four turnovers in the first four minutes of play.

Foul trouble and a strong opening from the Tech bench kept the Mountaineers from building a significant lead. Of Tech’s first 18 points, 16 came from its reserves.

A two-handed slam from sophomore guard Zach Smith followed by a 3-pointer from senior guard Toddrick Gotcher pulled the Red Raiders within

four with 2:23 left in the half.

Past the one-minute mark, Gotcher served Smith with another lob and Smith caught and jammed the ball onehanded, drew a foul and tied the game at 40 each with the follow-through free throw.

Freshman guard C.J. Williamson scored the final points of the half and gave Tech a 43-40 lead by picking the ball from the Mountaineers near half-court and drawing a foul on a two-handed breakaway dunk. To end the half, freshman guard Jordan Jackson preserved the Tech advantage with a block on a West Virginia 3-pointer.

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Three West Virginia players jump to guard Texas Tech forward Aaron Ross’s shot during the game Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena. Tech was outscored 8-0 in the final minute.

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Students compete in Polar Bear Swim

Fire departments discuss safety tips

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Texas Tech Recreational Sports hosted its annual Polar Bear Swim from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Leisure Pool on Saturday.

Although the pool is normally closed in the winter months, it was open during the morning for students to compete in challenges in the pool’s cold water.

The Polar Bear Swim has been happening for three years, Kevin Pearson, unit assistant of aquatics at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center, said.

The spring semester has begun on Texas Tech’s campus, and regardless of whether a student lives on or off campus, the Tech and Lubbock Fire Marshal’s offices have tips to reduce the risk of fires in students’ homes.

Fires are made up of heat, fuel and oxygen — the fire triangle — and when combined in the creation of fire, these also involve a chemical reaction resulting in the fire tetrahedron, Alan Martin, a fire inspector and fire/arson investigator with the Lubbock Fire Marshal’s office, said.

One of the most pertinent

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Students warm up in the hot tub at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center after participating in the Polar Bear Swim on Saturday morning. Students competed to see who could stay in the water the longest and who could swim 50 meters the fastest, and the water temperature was 45 degrees at 9 a.m.

issues for students, specifically those just starting to live on their own, is basic awareness, Martin said.

Students who live on their own have to remember lessons from grade school, such as proper use of smoke detectors.

Both offices collectively cited examples such as overloaded outlets, misused appliances including curling irons and candles near curtains as common fire hazards, and often the simplest mistakes are what create the conditions for a fire.

Houses are not the only places in danger of electrical fire hazards as vehicles are also susceptible to potential fires when charging devices

are left plugged inside of a vehicle, Andy Lawson, a Tech Fire Marshal and veteran of the Lubbock Fire Marshal’s office, said.

According to both offices, one of the important defenses against building fires that do occur, whether on or off campus, are installed sprinkler systems.

“We are very fortunate.

All of our residence halls are 100 percent protected by fire sprinkler systems. We were the first university in Texas to accomplish that, and we take great pride in that,” Walter James, director of the Tech Fire Marshal’s Office, said.

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Hover boards banned in residence halls While hover boards have increased in popularity within the past few months, the amount of places they are actually allowed has decreased.

Hover boards are being banned all over the country, including many universities’ campuses, because they are prone to catching fire and capable of causing damage, which is a risk to students. According to a USA Today article on Jan. 9, hover boards have been

banned on more than 30 college campuses because of safety concerns.

“Hover boards are not allowed to be ridden in Texas Tech dorms,” two-year Community Adviser and junior Marisa Hohensee said. “We treat it such as skateboards and bikes that you can ride around.”

According to the Texas Tech housing policies, bicycles are to be left in either the bicycle racks

provided adjacent to the buildings or in your room with your roommate’s consent (note: bicycles cannot be hung in rooms).

“They can cause damage to the floors if you hit the walls or somebody’s room,” Hohensee said about the hover boards.

“We don’t allow you to ride them around the hallways.

You can use them out and around on campus but the minute you come in through a door you have to pick it up

much like a skateboard.”

Freshman Odalis Cardenas said the rule against hover boards in the residence halls is annoying.

“If you spend all of that money on a hover board, you should be allowed to ride it wherever you want and whenever you want, especially inside because it is cold right now,” she said. “I understand the rules and concerns, though. I see how they could be dangerous and mess up

the carpets. It doesn’t really affect me.”

Junior Ashley Cruz said the rule also bothers her.

“I would not want to be inside if it ever caught on fire though so I understand wanting them to be used outside only,” she said.

A ban on hover boards has not been instituted across Tech’s campus yet, Hohensee said.

volves closing a door to the fire to contain it to allow more time for emergency services to respond.

“It’s not rocket science,

but it is something that you do need to do at least once to become familiar with it,” Martin said about proper use of fire extinguishers.

Another matter both offices pointed out as a serious issue is fires caused from cooking. The National Fire Prevention Agency

states that approximately six out of seven fires in dormitories are started by cooking.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 The campus has gone to a standard ABC-type fire extinguisher in all of the residence halls, James said.

Approximately 165 community advisers and housing staff have been trained in fire safety, including the proper use of fire extinguishers, he said.

According to both offices, people do not have to use a fire extinguisher if they are intimidated by it or feel uncomfortable using it. The main issue is getting people out of the building.

Martin said when training people on how to use fire extinguishers, they give them the acronym R.A.C.E., which stands for Rescue (calling 911), Alarm, Confine and Extinguish. Confine in-

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Tech student found dead Texas Tech meat judging team wins at ULofts apartments season opener, top overall competitor On Friday morning, a 22-year-old Texas Tech student was found dead in the ULofts apartment complex.

“He was found deceased (Friday, Jan. 22) in his apartment,” Ray Mendoza, a Lubbock Police Department Lieutenant,

said. “We don’t suspect foul play.”

The name of the student will not be revealed until his family has been notified and has time to notify his extended family as well, Mendoza said. @KristenBartonDT

The Texas Tech meat judging team won its 12th national championship last fall and started this season with that same momentum.

On Jan. 17, the team won its season opener at the American Meat Science Association national Western Col-

legiate Meat Judging Contest in Greely, Colorado, according to a Tech news release.

The team earned 4,198 points, Colorado State won second place earning 4,159 points. According to the release, the top overall winner was Tommy Fletcher, a soph-

omore from La Vernia, with 1,068 points. He won first place in meat grading, overall beef and specifications.

According to the release, the team is coached by professor Mark Miller and assisted by instructor Lori Lucherk. @KristenBartonDT

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Are professor review websites beneficial?

Professor review websites give Anonymity, bias make websites students important information unreliable for picking professors

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s the semester starts up and classes are added and dropped, many students are probably using Rate My Professors, a website that grades each professor enrolled at any university using an easy to read scale.

On the website, the professor is graded on the most important qualities that matter to a student, including helpfulness, clarity, class difficulty and hotness. The ratings that are present on the website can influence the student’s decision to enroll in that professor’s class.

This is extremely beneficial to the student. If the student uses Rate My Professors before registering for classes, the student could learn more about how the professor teaches the class and what the student should expect. If the reviews are low, the student has reason to avoid registering for the class.

If a student does not use Rate My Professors before signing up for classes, the student could be paired up with a professor he or she does not like.

This unwanted pairing could lead to the student having a bad learning experience for the entire s e m e s t e r, w h i c h c o u l d ultimately lead to the student earning a bad grade in the course.

Another factor included in Rate My Professors is the ability for anyone to comment about the class.

This allows the student to find out more about their professor, giving a more in-depth description, rather than a simple number rating.

Brian DeFilippis is a sophomore electronic media and communications major from Flower Mound.

This website should be used before anyone registering for classes so students can get the best experience possible while taking the class. If a student does not like the professor teaching the course, it is substantially harder to pay attention in class.

Rate My Professors not only helps the student, but also helps the university. Since the website is free to use, anyone with an Internet connection is able to log on and view reviews. Professors can look up how other students view their class, which can help professors understand what their students are thinking.

While students are able to give a course evaluation at the end of the semester, these evaluations are not available to the public.

With the Rate My Professors reviews available to the public, the student has the added benefit of not having to take the class before reading up on student reviews.

In the future, the university could also use this website to check if the student ratings are concise with the course evaluation forms handed in at the end of the semester. While I personally have not heard of professors rigging the course evaluation forms at the end of the semester, Rate My Professors can be used as a check on power.

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Yes: 60% classes Rate My No: 40% without Professors ever learnis that ing their back cover professor’s name. for college professors and The problem with review courses throughout the websites like Rate My ProfesUnited States. sors is not in the dishonesty The benefit gained from of any review, but how we as visiting Rate My Professtudents are not able to tell sors could improve a stuthe integrity of the other student’s academic life, as dents posting. For example, I well as help them get on would be much more willing the right track to get their to trust a middle-aged studream job. dent who takes night classes bdefilippis@dailytoreador.com than an 18-year-old who skips

Jarrod Miller is The DT’s opinions editor and a senior French major from Lubbock.

classes and buys some notes from StudyBlue to pass a test. The problem is that on professor review websites, I am incapable of telling who is who.

Even if I could tell what type of student posts which review, there is a large bias in the way consumers post reviews. According to an April 15, 2013, report by Marketing Charts, a publication specializing in marketing information, consumers are much more likely to share bad experiences online than good experiences. Having more bad reviews carries a significant impact — the report claims “86 percent of respondents who have read negative reviews claimed that the information impacted their buying decision.”

Not only can students be biased in when they decide to rate professors, but also in the way they see diversity.

In the New York Times column, “Teacher Evaluations Could Be Hurting Faculty Diversity at Universities” Carla D. Pratt, associate dean for academic affairs and educational equity at Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law, says student’s reviews can be skewed by their professor’s race and level of attractiveness.

For how students see race, Pratt references a study published by Hein, a law journal, which shows that when a white reviewer rates a person of color to a third party, they consistently rate lower than

they would rate a white person.

As for how students may be biased toward physical attributes, Pratt references a book called, “The Beauty Bias” by Deborah Rhodes, which proves evaluators are more likely to rate physically attractive performers better than the less-attractive performers.

Students should be aware of the multitude of inherent biases reviewers carry with them when they review professors and should just steer clear of these websites.

These professor review websites may carry the flaws of other popularity-based ranking websites (such as goodreads.com, a popular book-rating website that ranks “The Hunger Games” higher than “A Tale of Two Cities”), but they discuss much more costly choices than what book to buy or restaurant at which to eat.

As college prices today continue to push students to spend depressingly large amounts of money, the choice of what professor to choose increasingly carries more weight. If students choose professors using the criteria of easiness or attractiveness, they are simply not getting their money’s worth of education.

Once we graduate from college, we will not be able to select our supervisors, nor our bosses. We will not be able to read reviews on team leaders or coworkers, nor be able to choose whom we will work with. Until then, we students should avoid websites like Rate My Professors, whose results are untrustworthy anyways, and focus on adapting to the professors the university has provided. jmiller@dailytoreador.com

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Billionaire donors helped Cruz rise in GOP bid WASHINGTON (AP) — Four of America’s wealthiest businessmen laid the foundation for Ted Cruz’s now-surging Republican presidential campaign and have redefined the role of political donors.

With just over a week until voters get their first say, the 45-year-old Texas senator known as a conservative warrior has been ascendant.

The $36 million committed last year by these donor families is now going toward broadcast and online advertisements, direct mailings and get-out-the-vote efforts in early primary states.

The donors’ super political action committees sponsored Saturday rallies in Iowa featuring Cruz and conservative personality Glenn Beck. The state holds the leadoff caucuses on Feb. 1.

The long-believing benefactors are New York hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, Texas natural gas billionaires Farris and Dan Wilks, and private-equity partner Toby Neugebauer. They honed their plan to help Cruz before he began his steady rise in polls — before he even announced his presidential bid in March.

“No one wants to lose,” Neugebauer told The Associated Press when asked why he and others bet big on Cruz.

“We didn’t miss that an outsider would win. I think we’ve nailed it.”

The groundwork laid by Neugebauer and other major

donors began roughly two years ago, first in a casual conversation with Cruz at a donor’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, then in a more formal way over the 2014 Labor Day weekend at Neugebauer’s ranch in East Texas.

That October, big-data firm Cambridge Analytica — in which Mercer is an investor — began working to identify potential Cruz voters and develop messages that would motivate them. Alexander Nix, the company’s chief executive officer, said the importance of this early work cannot be overstated. He credits Cruz for understanding this.

“Money never buys you time,” Nix said, drawing from his experiences with campaigns worldwide. “Too often clients will come to you just before an election and expect you to work miracles. But you cannot roll back the clock.”

Key donors soon came up with a novel arrangement: Each family would control its own super PAC, but the groups would work together as a single entity called Keep the Promise. They keep in touch through weekly strategy phone calls.

That’s not how super PACs usually work. More typically, multiple donors turn over their money and leave the political decisions to professional strategists. For example, Jeb Bush’s super PAC counts more than two dozen million-dollar donors.

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Should steroid users be allowed in the Baseball Hall of Fame?

Steroid-era players should Steroid users should be not get Hall of Fame nod allowed into Hall of Fame

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ince the BALCO scandal and Jose Conseco’s tell-all book, Juiced, linked some of baseball’s biggest names in the 90s and early 2000s with performance enhancing drugs making clear-cut paths to baseball’s hall of fame uncertain. Barry Bonds’ 762 home runs now appear dubious, and Mark McGwire’s home run race in 1998 versus Sammy Sosa no longer brings in the feeling of excitement and wonder it once did. The BALCO scandal forced major league baseball to implement new PED testing procedures, and it created doubts for baseball fans speculating if some of their favorite players would one day make it into the hall of fame. Even worse, fans now wonder if PED users already appear as one of Cooperstown’s immortal figures.

Racists, womanizers and heavy drinkers have made it into the hall of fame.

Cooperstown doesn’t fill its halls with straight-edged angels, it fills its halls with players who played baseball in a way few can ever replicate. Ty Cobb halted integration for decades, but he made it to Cooperstown as one its first five candidates. Mickey Mantle went

LOSS

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 At the end of the first half, Tech shot 52.6 percent on 19 attempts, 4-6 from behind the arc and recovered nine rebounds. West Virginia shot for 48 percent on 25 attempts, 5-11 from the 3-point line and brought in 12 rebounds.

Tech started the second half on a cold streak by making just one of its first six attempts.

West Virginia coach Bob Huggins said the Mountaineer defense hesitated guarding Tech players because of their winded foul numbers.

“It’s hard because you want your guys to guard,”

Diego Gaytan is a junior English and technical communications dual major from Austin.

through his career downing alcohol, but he made it without much opposition.

Baseball doesn’t take one’s character into account when it chooses its hall of fame candidates. It chooses candidates based off their work on the field and how they achieve it. I don’t know. No one knows if players like Alex Rodriguez or Jason Giambi could have played the way they did without some assistance from steroids. The doubt they leave in a baseball fan’s mind and an elector’s mind disqualifies them from further consideration, or at least it should. We want to believe a player achieves greatness through hard work and determination, but a world like this doesn’t exist. The human body has physical limitations, and for players who used PEDs, steroids kept them performing well in a business with little patience.

B a s e b a l l c a n ’t e r a s e its murky history. Baseball can’t erase the home he said. “I’ve always emphasized being able to guard, but you don’t want to foul.

We still got to guard.”

By the final three minutes of the game, West Virginia and Tech had tied the score on 12 occasions and traded the lead 11 times.

Smith, who had a careerhigh 18 points, gave the Red Raiders a 70-67 lead with a put-back dunk and followed through on the defensive end by blocking a shot attempt by Mountaineer sophomore forward Elijah Macon. Sophomore guard Justin Gray gave Tech its largest lead of the game with a jumper near the free throw line following Smith’s dunk, but West Virginia drained a 3-pointer to

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runs by Bonds, Rodriguez or the strikeouts by Clemens. It can, however, postpone the induction of high profile players like Clemens, Bonds and Sosa.

Their names have turned into representations of a tainted legacy. Their names appeared in the Mitchell Report and they met before Congress for their alleged involvement. Much like a trial verdict, a player of the steroid-era who enters the hall of fame ballot must prove beyond a reasonable doubt of never taking PEDs before they can seriously come into consideration for the hall of fame. This seems like a hefty task to take, but enough evidence exists to suggest these players didn’t achieve their accomplishments on an even playing field.

With steroid-era players like Bonds and Clemens still on the ballot, electors should not rush to elect them into the hall of fame.

We still don’t have enough proof to relieve them of guilt or to cast a ban on them.

Their legacies remain in limbo for now, and until enough evidence presents itself, they should continue to stay this way. @DGaytanDT

keep the Red Raiders from building a run.

With almost a minute left and trailing 74-72, the Mountaineers had to finish the game without their starting forward Devin Williams after he committed a foul on Smith on drive to cross the half-court line and fouled out of the game.

After Smith converted two free throws, West Virginia made a 3-pointer to make it a one-point game.

Junior guard Tarik Phillip took the lead for West Virginia with a layup and free throw with less than 30 seconds left. Phillips scored a layup after stripping the ball from Tech with three seconds left to end the game on an 8-0 run and stop the Red Raiders from recording its first ranked win of the season.

Tech’s loss dropped the Red Raiders to a 12-6 overall and 2-5 Big 12 record.

West Virginia senior guard Jaysean Paige led the game in scoring with 22 points and Smith led Tech with 18.

In the second half, Tech shot 41.7 percent on 24 attempts and made none of its nine 3-point attempts.

West Virginia shot 54.2 percent on 24 attempts and made three of its eight 3-point attempts.

Second half shooting for the Red Raiders, Gotcher said, changed with West Virginia’s closure of open outside shots.

“They just forced us to drive to the basket,” Gotcher said. “They just ran out on the shooters and tried to make us drive, and they did a good job with that.”

Tech continues its search for a ranked win in Oklahoma as it faces the Sooners at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Lloyd Noble Center. @DGaytanDT

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very year when voting results are released for the Baseball Hall of Fame, debate begins anew about the big elephant in the room — steroid use. Should suspected or confirmed performance-enhancing drug users be allowed into the Hall or should they be kept out?

The debate has been raging for a few years now, and the general result is that suspected and confirmed users are not getting in. Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa are languishing on the ballot, nowhere close to being elected. Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro and Jose Canseco have already fallen off the ballot, either exhausting their 10 years of eligibility or not garnering the 5 percent of votes necessary to remain on the ballot the following year.

There are a multitude of problems with this, not the least of which is that players who have only been suspected of PED use, but not proven to have used them, are falling short, the prime example being Jeff Bagwell. Bagwell has never failed a drug test or been named in any PED scandal, but he is automatically suspected by many of using PEDs simply because he was a power hitter during the steroid era.

Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy was quoted in the Houston Chronicle about his decision not to vote for Bagwell because of PED suspicions, and his reasoning is nearly unbelievable.

“I know that’s unfair.

There’s no positive test, no Mitchell Report. He’s done everything he can publicly, and I understand how unfair that is. But we are assigned a difficult decision, and that thus far is my decision.”

So Shaughnessy admits it’s not fair, but because it’s a difficult decision, his meritless suspicions are apparently justified. Makes perfect sense, right?

Thankfully, this sort of amazingly flawed logic is slowly dissipating. Mike Piazza, who was dogged by similar suspicions, was voted into the Hall this year, and it looks like Bagwell is almost a lock to get in next year.

The same cannot be said for Clemens and Bonds, however. Clemens garnered 45.2 percent of votes this year

Andrew Gleinser is The DT’s editor-in-chief and a third-year law student from Kingwood.

while Bonds got 44.3 percent, both falling well short of the 75 percent necessary. Their chances of getting into the Hall look to be slim at best.

Bonds and Clemens should both be in the Hall, and my reasoning is this. Major League Baseball did not begin leaguewide drug testing until 2003, while Bonds and Clemens were using them in the late 1990s and early 2000s. So if MLB did not see fit to enforce a ban on them until then, why should players who used them prior to that point be punished?

It can be argued PED bans should have been enforced sooner, and that’s probably true. But MLB looked the other way for years as fans poured through the turnstiles to watch McGwire, Sosa and Bonds break records, only finally testing players when it absolutely had to.

Bonds’ single-season and career home run records don’t officially have asterisks next to them, and neither do Clemens’ Cy Young Awards or wins and strikeout totals.

They were never disciplined

by MLB, yet they’re not in the Hall of Fame.

It’s also not a very sound way to admit players into the Hall when sports writers are appointing themselves the moral policemen of the game.

There are a multitude of different standards writers are using to determine whether PED users should be admitted into the Hall, and there’s no guidance coming from the Hall or MLB. Plus, how do the holierthan-thou writers who refuse to vote for suspected PED users know there aren’t already PED users in the Hall? We know who a few of the juicers are, but we certainly don’t know all of them, and in all likelihood, some PED users already have their busts in Cooperstown. Do we kick them out if and when we find out they juiced, or let them be?

It’s not as if everyone in the Hall is squeaky clean from a non-PED standpoint either. Gaylord Perry, who

was notorious for doctoring baseballs with petroleum jelly and other substances, is in the Hall, despite the fact that what he did had long been banned. It’s awfully hypocritical to say Perry deserves to be in Cooperstown but Bonds, Clemens and other PED users don’t.

The Hall is home to players from all eras of the game.

Dead-ball era players are represented along with liveball era players, even though the game was vastly different between the two. There’s no distinguishing between pitchers who pitched before the mound was lowered in 1969 and those who pitched after, even though pitching from the higher mound was a clear advantage. The steroid era is just another period in the history of the game, and its players should be given the same treatment as all the rest.

I’m not saying it’s good that players took PEDs, but clean or not, many of them were the best players of their generation. Voters are doing fans and the Hall itself a disservice by depriving it of players who were doing something MLB willfully ignored for years and that was immeasurably widespread.

An entire era of the game will be sorely underrepresented at this rate.

For the record, if I had a vote, my ballot would have included Ken Griffey Jr., Piazza, Bagwell, Tim Raines, Trevor Hoffman, Curt Schilling, Clemens, Bonds, Edgar Martinez and Mike Mussina.

There are more players I would like to vote for (such as Fred McGriff and Billy Wagner, for example), but you can only put up to 10 players on your ballot — yet another mechanism for keeping deserving players out of the Hall.

It’s time for the self-appointed morality police to get out of the way and let the best players have their day.

The Hall doesn’t belong to the voters; it belongs to the fans of the greatest game ever played. Whether we like it or not, the steroid era is a part of the game’s history, and not letting its best players into the Hall is affront to the game itself and to the fans who love it. editor@dailytoreador.com

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Texas Tech forward Aaron Ross stretches his jersey out before a Tech inbounds play was run on Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena. The Red Raiders lost to No. 6 West Virginia 80-76.

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Harden’s triple-double leads Rockets over Mavericks HOUSTON (AP) — James Harden had 23 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists, Trevor Ariza scored a season-high 29 and the Houston Rockets rallied for a 115-104 win over the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday.

The Rockets trailed by one entering the fourth quarter, but they used 14-4 run, highlighted by consecutive 3-pointers by Ariza, Jason Terry and Josh Smith, to take

a 98-89 lead with about nine minutes left.

Chandler Parsons made a layup for the Mavericks before Houston scored five straight points to push the lead to 103-91. Terry started that stretch with a 3-pointer and Smith juked Dirk Nowitzki to get open for a hook shot, and the Mavericks didn’t threaten again.

Parsons had a season-high

31 points for the Mavericks, who dropped their second straight game.

Smith, who was acquired in a trade with the Clippers on Friday, scored a season-high 16 in his second game back with the Rockets.

Houston led by 13 midway through the fourth quarter when the Rockets scored four points in a row, including a two-handed dunk by Ariza,

to make it 112-95 with about four minutes remaining.

Harden collected his second triple-double of the season and eighth of his career when he dished to Clint Capela for an alley-oop dunk with 1:26 remaining, putting the Rockets up 115-102.

Houston played without Dwight Howard, who missed his second straight game with a sprained left ankle.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Lady Raiders fall to Kansas State, 65-53

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

The Texas Tech women’s basketball team struggled to make shots in the first half and never recovered in a 65-53 loss to Kansas State on Sunday afternoon at the United Supermarkets Arena.

Coach Candi Whitaker said Kansas State played strong defense, but Tech was also missing open shots.

“We dug a huge hole in the first half, couldn’t get a shot to fall, couldn’t make a free throw,” she said.

“K-State changes defenses a lot, they run up to six different defenses that you have to prepare for. They played a big role in keeping people off rhythm.”

The game was tied 7-7 in the first quarter before the Lady Raiders shooting went cold. The Wildcats went on a 22-0 run from the first to second quarter.

In the first half, Tech made four out of 26 shots for 15.4 percent shooting compared to 44 percent for Kansas State. Tech also struggled from the free throw line, making one out of eight in the first half.

The Wildcats built a 2911 lead by halftime.

Sophomore forward Dayo Olabode led the team in the first half with six points and four rebounds.

“Our shots weren’t falling. We were getting what we wanted but our shots just weren’t falling,” Olabode said. “We just all got to

step up and be confident.”

To begin the second half, the Lady Raiders attempted to make a comeback by using a full-court press.

After being held scoreless in the opening half, senior guard Ryann Bowser hit five 3-pointers in the second half, including three of the shots in a twominute span.

Bowser ended up leading the team in scoring with 15 points and a game-high four assists.

The entire Lady Raiders shooting was improved in the second half as they made 47 percent of their shots.

Bowser said the team is what they showed in the second half. “(I have) a huge passion to win. We had more fire (in

the second half),” she said.

“We dug ourselves a hole and we needed to step up. I think a lot of us did.”

Tech was able to cut the lead down to 12 points but never bring it down to single digits.

Junior guard Ivonne CookTaylor leads the team in scoring this season but was held below her season average with 13 points.

Kansas State junior center Breanna Lewis is third in the Big 12 Conference in scoring but was limited to 10 points and turned the ball over six times.

“I thought we guarded the triangle well,” Whitaker said. “Thought we turned them over in the first half and got Lewis is foul trouble, which is something we

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Texas Tech guard Japreece Dean dribbles the ball while setting up the offense for the Lady Raiders during their game against Kansas on Sunday in the United Supermarkets Arena. wanted to do. Did a pretty good job (defensively).”

Tech is now 10-9 on the season, including 1-7 in Big 12 games.

The Lady Raiders will be back on the court against Baylor at 7 p.m. on Wednesday in Waco. @JeremyK_DT

TENNIS

Tech remains undefeated early in season

By BRANDON SOLIZ SportS editor

O n S u n d a y, t h e Te x a s Te c h m e n ’s a n d w o m e n ’s t e n n i s t e a m s both wrapped up the ITA Kickoff Weekend with the women playing at home and the men playing on the road in Austin.

The No. 17-ranked women took care of business against Oregon on Saturday defeating the Ducks 4-0. A matchup between Virginia Tech and Illinois would decide the opponent Tech would play on Sunday. In doubles, Illinois defeated the Lady Raiders and took a 1-0 advantage.

Junior Lynn Kiro and freshman Alex Valenstein

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Felicity Maltby prepares to strike a powerful forehand volley during her singles match against Oregon on Saturday at McLeod Tennis Center. dropped their match on court one, followed by

freshman Felicity Maltby and sophomore Sabrina

However, the Lady Raiders pulled through in singles competition with four straight victories to claim the match.

Maltby, Valenstein and sophomores Gabriela Talaba and Sarah Dvorak each pulled off wins in two sets.

Tech claimed a 4-1 victory and improved to 2-0 on the season. Their next matchup is on Saturday against Fresno St. and Abilene Christian at the McLeod Tennis Center.

In Austin, the No. 15 men’s tennis team faced its toughest competition of the season against No. 21 Florida.

The Red Raiders were down by a score of 3-1 until they fought their way back into the match and won 4-3.

Seniors Felipe Soares and Hugo Dojas led the Red Raiders with victories on courts one and two.

Sophomore Connor Curry and freshman Bjorn Thomson won their matches and Tech sealed the match against the Gators.

The Red Raiders improved to 8-0 with the victory and return home for a matchup with Clemson on Friday at the McLeod Tennis Center. @BSoliz_DT

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VOLLEYBALL

Tech hires Tony Graystone as new volleyball coach

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

Texas Tech volleyball and Tech Athletics Director Kirby Hocutt officially introduced Tony Graystone as the new head coach Friday afternoon inside the United Supermarkets Arena.

Graystone’s appointment makes him the ninth coach in Tech history as he replaces former coach Don Flora. In early December, Hocutt announced Flora’s dismissal from the volleyball program at the end of his fifth season with the Red Raiders. As Tech’s lead coach, Flora finished with a 67-87 overall record and 12-68 Big 12 record, according to a Tech Athletics news release. In his five seasons coaching the Red Raiders, Tech finished with a .500 overall record only in the 2014 season.

Nearly two decades of coaching experience follows Graystone into his new position with the Red Raiders. Graystone joins Tech volleyball after seven seasons with the Texas A&M Corpus Christi Islanders.

His achievements with the Islanders include three seasons with at least 20 wins, one NCAA tournament berth, two semifinal appearances in the Southland Conference championship and a school record for most wins in a season.

Prior to joining the Islanders, Graystone coached the Division II West Texas A&M Lady Buffs for 10 winning seasons and earned the most wins in program history, according to the Tech release. In 1997, working as an assistant coach, Graystone formed part of the 1997 Division II National Championship team

with the Lady Buffs.

Graystone’s extensive experience as a head coach and his past accomplishments, Hocutt said, make him a proven winner for the program.

On this search, we wanted to find a proven winner, we wanted to find a leader and we wanted to find the perfect fit for Texas Tech University and Texas Tech volleyball.

KIRBY HOCUTT ATHLETIC DIRECTOR “On this search, we wanted to find a proven winner, we wanted to find a leader and we wanted to find the perfect fit for Texas Tech University and Texas Tech volleyball,” Hocutt said.

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Graystone enters his role as Tech’s new tactician coming off his best season with the Islanders. In the 2015 season, the Islanders stayed perfect in their conference by earning 16 wins and zero losses to finish with a 31-5 overall record. The 2015 Islanders nearly finished with the best record in Southland Conference history but fell just one win short.

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“I keep thinking all these different things that I’ve been a part of and really what Texas Tech volleyball is looking for right now, what they need, I think I got that ready,” he said. “We’re ready to send that message forward.”

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Teams place in meet at Texas A&M

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

The Texas Tech track and field team put on a show in the Texas A&M Quad ra n g u l a r on J a n.

23 with the men’s team finishing second overall with 121.5 points and the women’s team finishing third with 121 points.

The men’s 4x400 meter relay team achieved the fifth-fastest time in the country this weekend. The team, led by senior sprinter Joseph Richards III and sophomore middle distance C.J. Jones, brought home the event win with a time of 3:07.40, the 10th-best indoor time in Tech hist o r y. R i c h a r d s I I I r a n the fastest second leg of

anyone who competed in the relay.

C.J. Jones also made a new personal record in the 800 meter at 1:50.02, placing second in the race. This time leads the Big 12 and is seventh in the NCAA this season.

Other event wins c a m e i n w o m e n ’s h i gh jump from senior Natalie Thompson and senior Shanice Stewart in the 6 0- m h u r d l e s . T h o m p son’s final attempt, at 1.76m/5-9.25, secured her the win and was her new indoor personal best.

Stewart conquered the 60-m hurdles with a time of 8.53 seconds.

Senior Chris Caldwell and junior Darien Tennon got first and second place in the men’s 60-m

hurdles with times of 8.00 and 8.12 seconds, respectively.

Freshman Brandon Bray extended his lead in the Big 12 in the pole vault event with improving from last week’s set of 5.25m/17-2.75 to this w e e k ’s a t 5 . 3 1 m / 1 7 - 5 .

He now ra nks 11 t h in the NCAA. Freshman Kaylee Hinton placed second in the women’s long jump with 5.71m/18-8.75. Senior Gionna Jackson also placed second in the women’s triple jump with 12.33m/40-5.5.

The team’s next meet is at the New Mexico Team Invitational on Saturday in Albuquerque, New Mexico. @DailyToreador

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Texas Tech Bradley Adkins jumps over the bar the during the Texas Tech Open on April 2 at Terry and Linda Fuller Track & Field Complex. Adkins finished first with height 7 feet 4 inches.