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MEN’S BASKETBALL 1. Texas Tech forward Zach Smith scores two points by dunking the ball during the second half of the Red Raiders’ game against TCU on Tuesday, Feb. 23, in the United Supermarkets Arena.

2. Texas Tech forward Aaron Ross gets pumped up during the starting line-up announcements before the Red Raiders’ took on TCU on Tuesday.

3. Texas Tech guard Toddrick Gotcher drives past a TCU defender during the second half of the Red Raiders’ game on Tuesday.

4. Texas Tech forward Justin Gray looks to pass the ball during the first half of the Red Raiders’ game against TCU on Tuesday.

5. Texas Tech guard Keenan Evans celebrates the two points he scored by dunking after a fast-break during the second half of the Red Raiders’ game against TCU on Tuesday.

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he Texas Tech men’s basketball team saw its chance at an NCAA Tournament bid and winning streak threatened in an 83-79 victory over the TCU Horned Frogs Tuesday night in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Tech coach Tubby Smith said a quick turnaround after playing at Oklahoma State on Saturday night showed in the Red Raiders’ slow defensive start to the game.

“We had to match their intensity, and I thought early in the game it wasn’t so much we weren’t playing hard,” Smith said. “A lot of guys logged in a lot minutes, it was a different routine for us.”

For a chunk of the first half, the

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Horned Frogs scouted the perimeter and nailed six of their first seven attempts from long range. Basking in the shooting spree from outside, junior guard Brandon Parrish kept TCU’s confidence from the 3-point lineup as he made four of his first five attempts.

The Horned Frogs’ solid shooting gave the team a 33-23 lead on a 11-0 run, but sophomore forward Zach Smith began to hammer down TCU’s lead. After dunking in a pair of points, junior forward Aaron Ross blocked TCU junior guard Michael Williams on a drive to the rim, passed it to sophomore point guard Keenan Evans who lobbed the ball to Smith for an alleyoop two-handed dunk.

TCU called a timeout soon after Smith’s dunk and adjusted the scoreboard with an

8-0 run fueled by sophomore Chauncey Collins, who scored six of the run’s points. The run gave TCU a 41-29 lead with less than two minutes left in the first half.

At halftime, TCU appeared in command to end Tech’s four-game winning streak as it closed out the first 20 minutes with a 47-35 advantage.

Tech recorded a 42.9 shooting percentage from the court and made three of eight 3-point attempts. At the other side of the court, TCU shot for 55.9 percent from the field and 7 of 11 from outside.

Ross led Tech in scoring with 13 points and Collins manned the Horned Frog offense with 17 points in the first half.

Opening the second half, Smith started to dig the Red Raiders out of the double-digit hole with a jumper at the

left baseline. Following a jumper from Parrish, senior guard Toddrick Gotcher let up a three, and a basket from Evans right after snipped the deficit to 49-42 after a steal and run for a layup.

The 7-2 run by Tech in the first three minutes of the second half forced the Horned Frogs to call a timeout to settle in, but Tech’s defense kept forcing off-target shots. By the 14-minute mark, the halftime 12-point deficit vanished as Smith made a right-handed hook shot with his back turned to the basket to knot the game at 49 each.

Beginning the second half, Ross said Tech took away the offensive weapons the Horned Frogs made a use of in the second half.

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Early voting Executive candidates participate in forum ends Friday

By KRISTEN BARTON

The number of registered voters in Lubbock County this year is 155,575.

Of that number, 11,563 have participated in early voting as of Monday.

According to the Lubbock County Elections office, the day with the most early voters so far was the first day, with 2,039 voters at the polls.

So far the day with the least voters was Sunday, with 588 people voting.

In 2008, the most voters came to the polls on day 11 of early voting, with 5,617, according to the elections office.

In 2012, the day with the highest early voter turnout was day 12 with 3,122.

The early voting subtotal was 25,512 in 2008 and 17,991 in 2012, according to the elections office.

Early voting continues through Friday, and students can vote on campus from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. through Friday in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. @KristenBartonDT

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John Michael Getz, a junior accounting and finance dual major from Lubbock and OneTech presidential candidates listens to his opponents initiatives.

On March 8 and 9, the Texas Tech student body will vote on the new Student Government Association. On Tuesday night, the executive candidates faced off in a forum for the first time.

The candidates discussed a variety of topics with input and questions from students and the current SGA executive team.

“Being in this group is already elite enough,” Holton Westbrook, current SGA president, said. “Know that your service to student government and the school in general is really appreciated.”

The forum opened with the graduate vice presidential candidates. Kevin Koestler, a STEM business graduate student from Carrollton, is running with the Strive bloc. Chelsea Clark, a senior biology major from Round Rock, is running with the OneTech bloc.

When it comes to graduate students, much of the population is made up of international students.

To help with outreach, Clark said she wants to get a bus route in front of the student mosque.

She said she also wants to increase halal and kosher food options on campus.

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Benjamin Sharp, a junior economics major from Borger and Strive bloc candidate addresses the room at the SGA candidate forum. Voting for the new SGA members will take place on March 8 and 9.

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Feb. 11 was the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, which brings up the discussion of women in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics field.

Women make up 48 percent of the U.S. workforce but only 24 percent of STEM workers, according to Unit-

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Women in the STEM field feel like they have to work twice as hard to prove they are capable of being in that field because of the misconceptions of it being a purely male field, according to the website.

Although the gender inequality still exists in STEM, experts predict a better future for both men and women in STEM fields, according to website.

Te x a s Te c h o f f e r s a STEM MBA program that helps students learn how to become better leaders in their chosen career, Mary Frances Weatherly, director of the program, said.

“Women make up about 27 percent of the STEM program here at Tech,” Weatherly said. “In the spring of 2015 graduating group, 41.7 percent is women, and the fall of 2015 graduating group is 40 percent. These are the two groups with the highest percentage of women in the graduating class.”

The STEM MBA program was established during the summer of 2014, and it has had an estimated 65 students graduate with about 42

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “Also, campus carry education needs to be a priority, especially for international students,” Clark said, “the way that we view campus carry here, and guns in general, is completely different than the way the countries some of these students are coming from do.”

Both candidates want to lobby the government to achieve affordable health care to help international students.

Koestler said he wants to create a scholarship program so international students can afford to go home and visit their families during breaks.

When it comes to having kosher and halal options on campus, Koestler said it is important to include protein options also.

“If you don’t have protein it can become very difficult, there’s not as many options,” he said.

“A lot of our vendors are far away and we need to alleviate that by finding local vendors.”

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of those students being women, Weatherly said.

“The STEM MBA is a 42-hour degree program opened to students who have majored in some type of business, science, engineering or mathematics degree,” she said. “It is also open to some social science degrees like anthropology and psychology.”

A majority of female students who are in the STEM program have a background in engineering and medical sciences, Weatherly said.

Asha Magasi, a sophomore chemical engineer-

ing major from Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, said she wants to work with oil and gas companies when she graduates.

“After I graduate, I want to go to work first and have a family before going back and getting my graduate degree,” Magasi said. “The importance of experience is very stressed for chemical engineers. It is more important than just getting degree after degree, so I will go to work first and build that experience.”

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it is difficult for women to be successful in careers in the STEM area, she said.

However, if it is something she is passionate about, difficulty should not prevent a woman from going into a STEM field.

“Being a woman, black and a foreigner in the engineering field is going to be a challenge,” Magasi said.

“I am a minority in that area, but the challenge is something that I am willing to go through to do what I love. I think it is possible for me to be successful and I stay positive.”

Magasi said she chose to be in chemical engineering because of her love of and proficiency in chemistry.

“I also chose to be in chemical engineering because I did not want to do something that would not be beneficial. I want to do something that will be beneficial for my home country and to be beneficial on the worldwide scale,” Magasi said. “I want to make changes in the world and finding solutions to problems on a worldwide scale.”

presidential candidates took the stage. Larken Lundgren, a junior restaurant, hotel and in stitutional management major from San Antonio, is running with OneTech.

Witt Westbrook, a junior energy commerce major from Stephenville, is running with the Strive bloc.

“We are made up of the students, for the students,” Westbrook said.

“It doesn’t need to just be the changes the senators want to see.”

Westbrook said as part of running the senate he wants to be sure senators are going out and talking to students and finding out what they want changed.

“Transparency is something we always talk about as internal vice president,” Lundgren said.

Transparency in the senate is a tradition Lundgren said she would want to continue, including increasing mobile offices for senators.

The forum then shifted to the external vice presidential candidates.

Alex Derossi, a senior energy commerce major

from Flower Mound, is running with the Strive bloc. Christopher Mitchell, a junior chemical engineering major from Highland Park, is running with the OneTech bloc.

When it comes to increasing safety on campus, Mitchell said he wants to use the same system that reads license plates at campus entrances on all external parking lots at campus. With this in place, almost all cars coming on and off campus will be recorded and Tech can find perpetrators on campus.

Additionally, Mitchell was part of the Define your Line campaign, which is geared toward sexual assault awareness, he said.

“I think that is becoming a much bigger national headline and I think that is something I would love to continue working on,” he said. “Safety is the number one importance on this campus and no expenditure should be left out.”

Derossi also said safety should be of the utmost importance and students should be able to feel safe on campus.

When President Obama started the national It’s On Us campaign, Derossi was involved in bringing

it to Tech’s campus, he said. He has also been campaigning with sororities on campus.

“They feel very unsafe on campus when they’re walking home at night from the library or their dorm and they say it’s super dark,” he said. “I think that’s just as simple as lighting the campus up.”

The presidential candidates wrapped up the forum. John Michael Getz, a junior accounting and finance dual major from Lubbock, is running with OneTech. Benjamin Sharp, a junior economics major from Borger, is running with Strive.

With Tech expanding t o , p o t e n t i a l l y, 4 0 , 0 0 0 students soon, there will need to be accommodations made on campus.

“They say the only things constant in life is death and taxes, and i n m y t i m e a t Te c h a constant has been Tech breaking enrollment records,” Sharp said. “But I think rather than focusing on 40,000 students we need to focus on protecting the experience of every single student.”

Sharp said he wants to ensure this by reforming the advising system so it is more efficient by lowering the student-to-adviser

ratio. He also wants to represent students who are struggling to pay for college and by not causing their student fees to increase to accommodate the influx of students.

Sharp said it is also important to hear the concerns of all students as the campus population increases, including LGBTQ and black students.

Getz said as the campus population increases, so do the different groups of students on campus.

There is more than $1 billion in infrastructure on campus planned for the next 10 to 15 years to accommodate this population increase.

Getz wants to go to the state legislature to have family and gender neutral bathrooms on campus. He also said he wants to add a prayer room on campus.

“There is a correlation between an increase in population and an increase in cost,” he said. “Cost is something important to every single student.”

Getz wants to have tax-free textbooks to help students deal with an increase in cost because of this expansion, he said.

When elections begin on March 8, students will be able to vote on SGA’s website.

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McConnell shuts door on Senate action on Barack Obama court pick WASHINGTON (AP) — Majority Leader Mitch McConnell emphatically ruled out any Senate action on whoever President Barack Obama nominates to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, an extraordinary step that escalated the partisan election-year struggle over replacing the late Antonin Scalia. Democrats promised unremitting pressure on Republicans to back down or face the consequences in November’s voting.

After winning unanimous public backing from

the 11 Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, McConnell told reporters that that panel would hold no hearings and ruled out a full Senate vote until the next president offers a nomination. Such steps would defy many decades of precedent that have seen even the most controversial choices questioned publicly by the Judiciary Committee and nearly always sent to the entire chamber for a vote, barring nominees the White House has withdrawn.

“In short, there will not be action taken,” McConnell told reporters.

The Kentucky Republican said he wouldn’t even meet with an Obama selection should the White House follow tradition and send the nominee to Capitol Hill to visit senators. Such a snub could generate campaignseason television images of a scorned selection standing outside a closed door.

“I don’t know the purpose of such a visit,” McConnell said. “I would not be inclined to take one myself.”

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Liberal Supreme Court justice should be appointed

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he death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has many conservatives worried a new wave of liberalism will be ushered in to the judicial branch of the federal government with an appointment by President Barack Obama to replace him.

Republicans in the Senate have already vowed to prevent President Obama’s nomination, with Senator Ted Cruz threatening a filibuster, the Huffington Post reported on Saturday, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declaring, “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice.

Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president,” shortly after Justice Scalia’s death, Politico reported on Feb. 13.

Justice Scalia was a favorite of the Republican Party for his stance on gun rights, abortion, the death penalty and originalist in-

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terpretations of the Constitution. He was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. This was the president who sold arms to Iran to help fund the Contras, a counter-revolutionary group that committed human rights violations in Nicaragua and helped fuel the crack-cocaine epidemic in the U.S., according to Garry Webb’s book “Dark Alliance.” If you did not know this about President Reagan, then go back and check your facts because this was a major scandal that should have you questioning every act this president did in office.

Justice Scalia was not concerned with problems that arose from the death

penalty, such as wrongful convictions or disproportionate sentencing of minorities, because he was too busy upholding the principle of an outdated interpretation of the law.

He unequivocally supported the prison industrial complex, which disproportionally incarcerates African-American and Latinos and houses 25 percent of the entire world’s prison population, according to statistics from the NAACP “Criminal Justice Fact Sheet.” In the Death Penalty Information Center ’s “Statements on the Death Penalty by Supreme Court Justices,” Justice Scalia was quoted as saying, “(the Constitution) means today not what current society (much less the court) thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted. For me, therefore, the constitutionality of the death penalty is not a difficult, soul–wrenching question.”

Justice Scalia was also

responsible for overturning campaign finance limits when he voted with the majority in Citizens United v.

Federal Election Commission in 2010. “The justices’ ruling said political spending is protected under the First Amendment, meaning corporations and unions could spend unlimited amounts of money on political activities, as long as it was done independently of a party or candidate,” Gabrielle Levy wrote in the article “How Citizens United Has Changed Politics in 5 Years.” The landmark case opened up the floodgates to unlimited campaign financing by special interest groups and super PACs, or political action committees, basically allowing politics to be controlled by the wealthy. “Of the $1 billion spent in federal elections by super PACs since 2010, nearly 60 percent of the money came from just 195 individuals and their spouses,” Levy wrote.

The Supreme Court’s decision defined corporations as having “personhood.” As ridiculous as this may sound, it effectively gives corporations legal protections, such as not having to publicly disclose how much money they pour into a candidate’s political campaign. According to research by the Brennan Center for Justice, the Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission decision has done away with the “cornerstones of transparency and contribution limits” in the U.S. political system and has contributed to “giving the wealthiest few Americans more and more control over the political process.”

When asked by Brian Lamb on C-SPAN on July 19, 2012, “As a person, do you worry at all that there’s too much money in politics?” Justice Scalia responded, “You know, I really don’t. I forget what the figures are, but I think that we spend less on our

presidential campaigns each year when there’s a presidential election than the country spends on cosmetics.”

However, OpenSecrets. org says of the campaign spending for the 2016 presidential election that, “Constellations of groups working on behalf of each of the most serious White House hopefuls — including leadership PACs, super PACs, 501(c)(4) dark money outlets and more — cropped up like spring flowers, all but inviting spending records to be broken.”

Hillary Clinton has already raising a whopping $188 million, followed by Ted Cruz at $104.2 million, according to Feb. 22 New York Times article, “Which presidential candidates are winning the money race.”

This is the legacy that Justice Scalia leaves behind, and conservative politicians don’t want that to change. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Virtual reality companies need to boost marketing efforts

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t is no question that virtual reality technology is ready for consumer use, but if investors and innovators truly want the public to accept the new devices, they need a severe marketing boost.

Don’t get me wrong, it is hard not to be excited for virtual reality — each reporter or writer who tries it describes it as revolutionary. And while this has been used before in marketing gimmicks, such as for 3D televisions, Google Glass and other countless failed technologies, virtual reality technology actually sounds like it can be revolutionary. From the article “Virtual Reality is Journalism’s Next Frontier” from the Columbia Journalism Review to the CNN’s article, “How Virtual Reality Could Change Moviegoing,” it appears VR technology could revolutionize several parts of the news, education and entertainment industry.

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However, I am limited to reading reports and articles to figure out how awesome the emerging virtual reality technology is, as no one I know has experienced the hardware itself, and judging by the technology’s enormous price tag, not many of us will be able to experience it soon.

The Oculus Rift, which is probably the most popular emerging piece of virtual reality, is selling at $599 on the Oculus website. The HTC Vive, another rising virtual reality technology, was announced to cost $799, according to a Sunday Fortune article.

According to the CNET article, “Reality check: Your computer is most likely too

weak to run VR headsets,” most consumer computers will have to spend a few hundred more dollars just to get a computer that can run the technology. This virtual reality technology may be revolutionary, but for now it is not cheap.

If Oculus and HTC want to show consumers their virtual reality technology is worth purchasing, they must show the technology is more than just entertainment. The implications of virtual reality are huge — by combining motion-sensing technology and virtual reality headgear, it can act as an incredibly useful tool for education. According to the Jan. 23 Tech Crunch article, “When Virtual Reality Meets Education,” a surge of companies are working to provide educational software for astronomy, anatomy, geology and astronomy.

The article shows that the technology has immense potential, such as classes being able to participate

in virtual field trips in foreign countries (think “The Magic School Bus” in the virtual space) or immersive, educational simulators for countless professions.

Unfortunately, these fantastic possibilities are being overshadowed by other virtual reality sectors, such as video game and adult entertainment industries, which may turn shoppers off.

As shown in the Tuesday article, “Virtual Reality Pornography is the latest adult entertainment innovation as this behindthe-scenes footage shows,” the adult entertainment industry is making great strides in producing virtual reality films. The Jan. 5 Fortune article, “Virtual Reality Video Game Industry to Generate $5.1 Billion in 2016,” also shows the virtual reality video game industry to be booming.

With the large amount of erotic and video game virtual reality content be-

ing produced as well as the large price tag, this technology will likely first be restricted to the technology enthusiasts and entrepreneurs. Oculus, HTC and other virtual reality technology producers need to market heavily on the fact that the technology can be for everyone and is worth the heavy price.

Lastly, while this virtual reality technology is certainly revolutionary, it needs quite a bit more marketing until people find it attractive. This week, virtual reality enthusiast Eva Hoerth posted a video called “This is the future,” to YouTube, featuring a man using a virtual reality headset, flailing his arms around while a girl stares him down with disdain. The video quickly circulated around the web, appearing on various articles such as Mashable’s “How virtual reality looks to people standing around you.” As cool as virtual

reality may seem to the user, it has a certain ability to make the user look extremely ridiculous.

Because of how users may look while using it, it is up to marketers to make the product looks appealing. There currently exists a large gap between luxury commercials, which feature beautiful people driving expensive cars and generally being sexy, and virtual reality technology videos, which usually show a bunch of guys sitting in a basement, waving their arms around wildly.

I truly hope that virtual reality technology becomes more mainstream, as it has the ability to innovate the ways we consume information and entertainment. However, now that the virtual reality technology is here, technology firms need to spend some much-needed time on marketing. jmiller@dailytoreador.com

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2016 proving great year for hip-hop music, only getting better

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ith Rihanna’s release of “Anti,” it has been a great time for pop and R&B music. The album was released through Tidal, JayZ’s music streaming app, and it features a total of 16 diverse songs. With this new album, we see a different side of Rihanna, which is probably where the name “Anti” comes from.

Don’t get me wrong, Rihanna is still fierce as ever in this album, but in my personal opinion her vocal range and the different genres of each song succeed anything she has ever done before. The album was well worth the threeyear wait since her last album, “Unapologetic,” which featured hits like “Pour It Up,” “Diamonds,” and the love song that’s

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personally my favorite, “Stay.” Rihanna’s album drop came a little while after she announced her world tour for “Anti,” featuring Travis Scott.

If you’re a fan of hiphop and rap, then you should know that Scott is from Missouri City, Texas, and received massive attention from his iconic mix tape, “Days Before Rodeo.”

Shortly after Rihanna released “Anti,” Kanye West dropped his eighth studio album, “The Life of Pablo.” In short, this

album is a masterpiece.

This album is one of the greatest albums of all time and my second-favorite West album after “Graduation.” When some heard the name “Pablo” in his album title, many questioned if he was referring to Pablo Escobar, the notorious drug lord who has made a resurgence into pop culture because of the hit Netflix show “Narcos.”

In “No More Parties in L.A”, West raps, “I feel like Pablo when I’m working on my shoes/ I feel like Pablo when I see me on the news/ I feel like Pablo when I’m working on my house/ Tell ‘em party’s in here, we don’t need to go out.”

On the other hand, “The Life of Pablo” could’ve been named after Pablo Picasso, a famous Span-

ish artist, in all aspects.

According to a transcript from Complex Magazine, West was quoted saying ,“My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Pic a s s o o r g r e a t e r. T h a t always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much.

That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.”

Many also believe that West is referring to Paul the Apostle, as West tweeted on Feb. 14, “Paul…The most powerful messenger of the first century… Now we stand here 20 centuries later… Because he was a traveler.” As “Paul” translates to “Pablo” in Span-

ish, the album title would make sense. From what we know about West, however, he could be referring to all three. You never know with Kanye.

Rumors have been circulating around the Internet for months now that the long waited “Views from the 6” album will be released this upcoming April, according to a Jan. 30 The Verge article. If you are a Drake fan like me, you know that this album is going to be epic. His last few albums, such as his 2013 album, “Nothing Was the Same,” have proved Drake is at the pinnacle of his career.

Lastly, later on this semester, presumably in April, according to a Tuesday Fact Magazine article, we will be blessed with

another album from Beyoncé, commonly known as Queen Bey. Along with her album comes the Formation World Tour, which was shortly announced after her Super Bowl 50 performance.

After Beyoncé separated from Destiny’s Child, we have seen her grow with each album musically. The Internet went into mayhem several years ago when Beyoncé secretly dropped her self-titled album, “Beyoncé.” There have even been rumors that after her solo album, she will release a joint album with her husband Jay-Z. All in all, it has been a great year for rap music, and it is only going to get better. jward@dailytoreador.com

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Carson questions Obama blackness in fading campaign, says Obama was “raised white” WASHINGTON (AP) — Ben Carson is trying to reinvigorate his campaign for Republican presidential nomination by becoming the latest to question Barack Obama’s blackness ahead of critical upcoming votes.

The retired neurosurgeon, hovering near the bottom of the GOP field, said in a series of recent interviews that Obama was “raised white” and doesn’t represent the “black experience” in the United States.

“He didn’t grow up like I grew up,” Carson, the only black major party candidate in the 2016 presidential race, said on MSNBC. “Many of his formative years were spent in Indonesia. So, for him to, you

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He also told Politico’s “Off Message” podcast released Tuesday that the president

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Carson has come under racial criticism himself, but his comments helped him break through the cacophony of speeches and interviews by provocative front runner Donald

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Millennials impact presidential election

By JESSICA GUEDEA Staff Writer

The millennial generation is defined as anyone born after 1981, which means most college students would fall under the “millennial” category.

The millennial generation consists of approximately 82 million people, according to research conducted by the National Conference on Citizenship.

Multiple studies show millennials played a notable role in Obama landing his position in 2012, so it is no surprise many millennials are planning to vote again in this upcoming election.

This young, technologyfocused generation is increasingly involved in politics and social media is being credited as the reason for that. According to research conducted by the Pew Research Center, millennials overall are more likely than older generations to receive their political news via social media.

Victoria Larriva, a sophomore mathematics major from Anna, said she more or less pays attention to politics and plans on voting for her first time during the upcoming election.

Some millennials are excited about the 2016 elections and have many concerns that they would like their future president to address and take care of.

According to studies conducted by Benenson Study Group in 2015, those concerns included health care, education, budgets, immigration/ border control, foreign policy, help for the middle class, terrorism, gay marriage, defense, student loans and debt, gun rights, taxes, environment, climate change, energy/ gas prices and equality.

The economy and jobs were ranked as the most important issue, though, according to a Benenson Study Group study.

Larriva said it is important for young people to vote to fix the things they have an

issue with.

“The election is important,” she said. “These are the people making decisions, you want to have some sort of input.”

Alexander Hernandez, a sophomore electrical engineering major from

Fort Worth, said he agrees with Larriva.

“I do think the election is important but nothing has ever directly influenced me as a result of an election,” Hernandez said.

“Anything could happen with this one, though.”

Other students, however, do not feel the same way when it comes to the election and voting in it.

David Espinoza, a junior computer engineering major from El Paso, said he does not plan on voting in the election because he does

not think his vote matters, but he thinks voting is still somewhat important.

“It is important but we make up such a small percentage of votes,” Espinoza said. “We are young and nobody cares about our vote.” @JessicaGuedeaDT

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Department of Nutritional Sciences hosts new study The Texas Tech Department of Nutritional Sciences’ Martin Binks, associate professor of Nutritional Sciences and director of nutrition and metabolic health initiative, is doing a study with his coinvestigator, Chanaka Kahathuduwa, and they are working to analyze the brain’s responses to food cues in the

environment.

Binks said the patients will be placed in what is called a functional MRI scanner and then shown images of different types of food, so the brain’s response can be analyzed. In addition, the subjects are going to be placed on a low-calorie diet for a total of three weeks.

“The study is taking a look at how the brain is involved in influencing ingestive behavior,” he said. “Specifically, how we respond to food cues in the environment.”

This study is open to anyone between the ages of 19 and 60 who falls into the category of obese. Obesity is considered to be a body

mass range between 30.0 and 39.9. Additionally, Binks said participants cannot have been involved in any sort of weight-loss program in the previous three months and are not allowed to be addicted to smoking or alcohol.

Before each subject is chosen, Binks said, every individual is required to

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Trump notches another win in Nevada

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Donald Trump notched a win in Nevada’s Republican caucuses on Tuesday as Marco Rubio bid to elbow out Ted Cruz for second place in an increasingly urgent effort to slam the brakes on the Trump juggernaut.

Trump now has three straight victories — in the West, the South and Northeast — a testament to his broad appeal among the madas-hell voters making their voices heard in the 2016 presidential race.

Six in 10 caucus goers said they were angry with the way the government is working, and Trump got about half of those angry voters, according to preliminary results of an entrance poll.

Nevada was a critical test for Rubio and Cruz, the two senators battling to emerge as the clear alternative to the GOP front-runner. Rubio was out to prove he can build on recent momentum, while Cruz was looking for a spark to recover from a particularly rocky stretch in his campaign.

Rubio, already campaigning in Michigan as caucus results rolled in, was projecting confidence that he can con-

solidate the non-Trump voters who have been splintering among an assortment of GOP candidates, saying, “we have incredible room to grow.”

Cruz, a fiery conservative popular among voters on the GOP’s right, finished a disappointing third in South Carolina after spending much of the past two weeks denying charges of dishonest campaign tactics and defending his integrity. Another disappointing finish in Nevada would raise new questions about his viability heading into a crucial batch of Super Tuesday states on March 1.

“There’s something wrong with this guy,” Trump said with his usual measure of tact during a massive Las Vegas rally Monday night. The former reality television star tweeted on Tuesday, “He used him as a scape goat-fired like a dog! Ted panicked.”

Nevada’s caucusing played out in schools, community centers and places of worship across the state — a process that’s been chaotic in the past.

Count Tracy Brigida, fed up after her husband was laid off from his mining job, among those caucusing for Trump.

“I want a businessman to run the biggest business in the world,” Brigida said as she caucused at a Las Vegas high school.

Jeremy Haight drove straight from his marketing job to caucus for Marco Rubio at the same high school.

“He’s the most level-headed.

He hasn’t said anything stupid or crazy ... which is really what I think the country needs,” Haight said.

It was Cruz for Megan Ortega, who declared: “He’s consistent, he’s bold and he’s a class act.”

Preliminary results of the entrance poll found that about 3 in 10 early caucus goers said the quality that mattered most to them in choosing a candidate was that he shares their values, slightly more than the quarter who said they want a candidate who can win in November. About a quarter said they want a candidate who can bring change. About 2 in 10 want one who “tells it like it is.”

Nevada state marks the first Republican election in the West, the fourth of the campaign. And it’s not one that’s gotten much attention from the GOP candidates.

Through Tuesday, the Republican candidates and the super PACs supporting them had spent a combined $3.8 million on television and radio advertisements in Nevada — less than a tenth of the $39.3 million spent ahead of last weekend’s South Carolina primary, according to Kantar Media’s CMAG data.

That primary reduced a GOP field that included a dozen candidates a month ago to five, with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush the latest to drop out after a disappointing finish in South Carolina. Ohio Gov. John Kasich and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson remain in the race and could play spoilers as the trio of leading candidates, Trump, Cruz and Rubio, battle for delegates with an increasing sense of urgency.

Trump’s rivals concede they are running out of time to stop him.

The election calendar suggests that if the New York billionaire’s rivals don’t slow him by mid-March, they may not ever. Trump swept all of South Carolina’s 50 delegates, giving him a total of 67 compared to Cruz and Rubio who have 11 and 10, respectively.

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Scalia suffered from many health problems before death DALLAS (AP) — Antonin Scalia suffered from coronary artery disease, obesity and diabetes, among other ailments that probably contributed to the justice’s sudden death, according to a letter from the Supreme Court’s doctor.

Presidio County District Attorney Rod Ponton cited the letter Tuesday when he told The Associated Press there was nothing suspicious about the Feb. 13 death of the 79-year-old jurist. He said the long list of health problems made an autopsy unnecessary.

Ponton had a copy of the letter from Rear Adm. Brian P. Monahan, the attending physician for members of Congress and the Supreme Court. The letter was to Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara, who conducted a death inquiry by phone and certified Scalia’s death.

The letter dated Feb. 16 said Scalia’s many “significant medical conditions led to his death,” Ponton said.

In the letter, Monahan listed more than a halfdozen ailments, including sleep apnea, degenerative joint disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and high blood pressure.

Scalia also was a smoker, the letter said.

Ponton declined to provide a copy of the letter, saying an open-records request must be made to Guevara.

The AP filed a records request with the judge last week, but she did not provide the letter or respond to a reporter’s phone message Tuesday. The Texas Department of State Health Services has declined to release a copy of the death certificate.

Scalia was found dead in his bed at the Cibolo Creek Ranch, not far from the Mexico border, where he had gone on a hunting trip.

Dr. Mark Hlatky, professor of cardiovascular medicine at Stanford University, said a 79-year-old man with those conditions, especially

coronary artery disease and sleep apnea, would be at risk for a potentially fatal heart arrhythmia.

“A lot of people do die in their sleep, and they’re found the next day.”

The conditions are also associated with pulmonary embolism and stroke, which could also “kill somebody

very suddenly.”

Scalia’s death, he said, was unexpected, “but it sounds like it wasn’t suspicious.”

The justice’s many ailments, taken together, were “quite dangerous,” said Dr. David Zich, a physician of internal and emergency medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

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Theater shooting victim’s dad enters state Senate race GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. (AP) — The father of a man killed in the Colorado movie theater shootings said Tuesday he is running for a state Senate seat so he can bring his personal campaign for middle-class values and gun control to the Legislature.

Tom Sullivan, who became a face of anguish in the 2012 massacre that killed his son Alex, announced he is running as a Democrat in the heavily Republican Denver suburb of Greenwood Village.

With his wife, Terry, and daughter Megan beside him, Sullivan pledged to fight for paid family leave, gun control and “leveling the playing field” when it comes to economic opportunity for the middle class.

He also attacked the dis-

trict’s Republican incumbent, Sen. Jack Tate, for supporting restrictions on abortion rights and voting against limits on background checks for gun buyers.

“When you vote in favor of a bill that would outlaw all abortions, even in case of rape, you are too extreme to represent our community,” Sullivan said.

“It does not bode well for his candidacy that he negatively involves himself in mischaracterizations of my record from the very start,” Tate said.

Sullivan was referring to a bill last year that would have made the killing of a fetus a homicide. Tate voted for the bill, which was rejected by Democrats who said it could be used to restrict abortions.

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STUDENT HEALTH

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Positive body image important for students

By MALLORY BARNETT Staff Writer

Members from the Student Counseling Center and other departments at Texas Tech gave out samples of food and information on healthy habits at the Feed Your Body Fair on Tuesday afternoon.

The event was part of Feed Your Body and Soul Week, a week of events promoting healthy eating habits and a positive body image for students.

Kyle Schindler, a doctoral intern at the SCC, said the Feed Your Body Fair was set up to spread awareness about how important it is to have healthy eating habits in college.

“This event and the events going on this week were designed to promote healthyeating habits, a healthy body image and positive mental stability to improve students’ performance in school,” he said. “The Feed Your Body Fair is an educational experience that basically helps improve your quality of life by focusing on your own personal health.”

Schindler said he believes it is crucial for students to have a positive body image while in college, especially when certain societal expectations try to create body negativity.

“A lot of students come

here and have these expectations societally about what they’re supposed to look like,” he said. “It gets very difficult for them to compete with a person that they don’t even know or to achieve a body type that is not similar to theirs. They are trying to be attractive and likable by those standards.”

Schindler said he hopes to change attitudes and educate students about what it means to feel comfortable in their own skin and be healthy at the same time.

“Providing an opportunity to think in a different way about what their body means to them and what their health means to them is our ultimate goal this week,” he said.

Schindler also said there are resources that provide further information to students beyond the Feed Your Body and Soul Week.

“We have apps for mood and mental stability, as well as pamphlets for healthy eating behaviors,” he said. “We also have information on eating disorders and something called teaching compliment, which teaches students to focus less on appearances and more on who you are as a person and the qualities that you have.”

Mindy Diller, the campus dietician for Hospital-

ity Services, said having a healthy diet and a positive body image are very important to a student’s success.

“This is the time for students to learn how to control their food intake, their finances, their studies and they’re really learning to be 100 percent accountable on their own,” she said.

“Having all those demands can be overwhelming and stressful so it is very important because if we have healthy body images with ourselves, we can project that to our future families and children, and be positive around other people.”

Diller said there are many benefits to having a positive body image.

“We all need that positive reinforcement, whether it’s internal or external,” she said. “If we are more comfortable with our internal bodies, we can be more supportive, active, encouraging and even just perform better.”

Ashley Hernandez, a junior human development and family studies major with a minor in psychology and a pre-profession in nursing from Houston, said body positivity and healthy eating habits are important for every student’s overall well being.

“It originally wasn’t important to me until I started having problems with

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my thyroid,” she said. “I was overeating sodium and carbs that I didn’t need. It is so easy to access things like pizza and burgers on campus, and this event and this week is a huge help to those of us who need to make better diet decisions.” @MalloryBarnettDT

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Students compete in National Engineers Week Olympics This week is National Engineers Week, and the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering is hosting Engineers Week Olympics for students to compete in.

The purpose of the events is to highlight en-

gineering at Texas Tech, according to a Tech news release, and student teams of eight to 10 members are accumulating points throughout the week by participating in the events.

The teams competed in engineering math, gi-

ant jenga and trivia night events on Monday, according to the release, as well as an engineering lifeboat, twisted key and engineering pool on Tuesday.

They will compete in a three-point competition from 9 to 10:30 a.m. and

2 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Engineering Key, according to the release, as well as an engineering back to basics event from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

The events for Thursday will be a Super Smash Brothers competition from

9 to 10:30 a.m. and 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Engineering Opportunities Center, according to the release, and an obstacle course from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Engineering Key. The last event of the week will be the Bridge

Bash competition from 5:30 to 10 p.m. on Friday, according to the release, and the winners will be announced after at the Rock the Key closing ceremony.

The ceremony will have free food for students. @JenRomeroDT

COLLEGE OF HUMAN SCIENCES

Fourth Retail Management Symposium to be hosted in March The Texas Tech Retail Management Program will host its Retail Management Symposium from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 29 at the Overton Hotel and Conference Center.

This is the fourth year

the program has hosted the symposium, according to a Tech news release, and it allows students to network with different company representatives.

There will also be a variety of keynote and panel

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speaker events during the symposium, according to the release.

“The speakers are typically chosen on a rotational basis and who show a great deal of interest in the Retail Management Program,” Deborah Fowler, director of the Retail Management Program, said in the release. “This year, one of the panels is made up of our recent graduates.”

The alumni panel is made up of Kristin Cartwright, the women’s manager and a buyer for all

women’s departments for Drest by Scott Malouf, Ellie Schultz, the modular manager supporting the fabrics and crafts business for Wal-Mart, and Kelsi Shuey, the category and space analyst within the space planning department for Academy Sports and Outdoors, according to the release.

This panel will take place at 12:30 p.m., according to the release, followed by the opportunity for the attendees to participate in speed interviews

with retail professionals.

“One or more professionals will sit at a table,” Fowler said in the release.

“We will ask students to move to the tables like a reverse panel interview; the professionals ask them questions and give them feedback on their responses and resumes.”

Students will then move to another table for the second round, according to the release, and the event will include four rounds.

The symposium will close with a keynote

speech by Tom Petersen, senior director of space planning at Academy Sports and Outdoors, according to the release.

Registration for the event is now open, according to the release, and it is free for anyone to attend.

“We welcome any students or professionals who are interested in attending,” Fowler said in the release. “We encourage registration so that we have good numbers for the seating, coffee and meal.” @JenRomeroDT

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The University of Oklahoma has agreed to return a painting that the Nazis stole from a French family during World War II, a lawyer and school officials said Tuesday in announcing a settlement of a drawn-out dispute over the artwork’s ownership.

Under the settlement, the ownership of impressionist Camille Pissarro’s 1886 “Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep” will be transferred to Léone Meyer, a French Holocaust survivor whose father owned the painting when it was

stolen, her New York attorney, Pierre Ciric, told The Associated Press. Going forward, the painting valued in its last appraisal at $1.5 million will split its time being displayed at the university’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in Norman and a museum in France.

University President David Boren said in a statement that the school is pleased the painting will still be accessible in Oklahoma and available for educational purposes.

He said the agreement also recognizes “the good faith and generosity” of the

Weitzenhoffer family, who bought the painting in 1956 from a New York gallery and donated it in 2000 to the university.

Boren and the school had opposed the lawsuit on largely procedural grounds, saying prior to the settlement agreement that the school had sovereign immunity. They also argued that Meyer hadn’t been diligent in pursuing her claim and that she originally sued in New York rather than Oklahoma as a “forum shopping strategy” to avoid Oklahoma’s more restric-

tive statute of limitations.

Oklahoma House Rep. Paul Wesselhoft, a Republican from Moore, had been an outspoken critic of the university’s decision not to immediately return the painting.

“It’s immoral,” Wesselhoft said. “I love OU, and it’s embarrassing when my school doesn’t do the moral thing.”

Meyer maintained that she was entitled to the artwork because it belonged to her father when it was taken by the Nazis as German forces occupied France during World War II.

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Trial begins for Texas oil driller sued over polluted water wells SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Two families who accuse one of the largest natural gas drillers in Pennsylvania of polluting their well water are trying to persuade a federal jury to hold the company accountable.

Opening statements were made Tuesday in a

bitter and long-running federal lawsuit that pits homeowners in the village of Dimock against Houstonbased Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.

Dimock was the scene of the most highly publicized case of methane contamination to emerge from the early days of Pennsylva-

nia’s natural-gas drilling boom. State regulators blamed faulty gas wells drilled by Cabot for leaking combustible methane into Dimock’s groundwater.

Cabot has consistently denied responsibility.

The rural community became a national battle-

ground in environmental activists’ fight against fracking — the technique that allows drilling companies to extract huge volumes of oil and natural gas from rock formations deep underground — and its plight was featured in the Emmy-winning 2010 documentary “Gasland.”

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Tech prepares for No. 8 Texas

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

After playing its last two games on the road, the Texas Tech women’s basketball team will return home to take on No. 8 Texas at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Texas has won the last five games against Tech. The last time the Lady Raiders won was on Feb. 17, 2013, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

The Lady Raiders will attempt to snap a five-game losing streak on Wednesday.

They have also lost eight out of their last nine games.

With the losing streak, their overall record this season is 11-15 and 2-13 in Big 12 Conference games.

Te c h c o a c h C a n d i Whitaker said each player should still have much to play for, including who is going to be a leader for Tech moving forward.

“At this point, it is about who’s going to compete, who’s

going to play, who’s going to be a part of this program and do the things that we need them to do,” Whitaker said.

“That’s going to dictate a lot of our decision making.”

The Longhorns have won eight out of their last nine games and are 24-2 overall this season with a 13-2 conference record.

Texas defeated Tech earlier this season in Austin by a score of 86-62.

“They’ve hit the February grind. They’re still winning games but you see them, like many teams, kind of have some better performances here and there,” Whitaker said. “I felt like earlier, they were really clicking on all cylinders and putting up big numbers.”

Freshman guard Japreece Dean scored a team-high 21 points and three assists in the losing effort. Since then, Dean has continued to be one of the most productive freshmen in the Big 12.

Among conference freshmen, Dean ranks second in

scoring, first in free throw percentage and first in assists per game.

Junior guard Ivonne CookTaylor leads the Tech offense with 13.8 points per game, which is ninth in the Big 12.

As of late, freshman forward Zuri Sanders has seen a slight increase in minutes. Despite not starting any games this season, she is averaging the third most rebounds per game on the team. “(Rebounding) is always one thing the coaches try to emphasize with me,” Sanders said. “That’s something that is a strength of mine and I try to use that to my advantage, when it comes to my athleticism.”

The Longhorns have the third-highest scoring attack in the conference combined with the second-best defense.

The offense has a balanced effort from senior center Imani Boyette and sophomore guard Brooke McCarty. The two players rank 12th and 13th in scoring in

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Tech to play first midweek game The Texas Tech baseball team will play its first midweek and first road game of the season against Sam Houston State at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday in Huntsville.

The two teams did not play each other last season, but the Bearkats defeated the Red Raiders 10-6 in the lone meeting between them during the 2014 season.

Sam Houston State enters the matchup with an 0-4 record while Tech went 3-1 in its Opening Weekend.

Over the Bearkats threegame Opening Weekend series, the offense combined to score only six runs, according to the Sam Houston Athletic website.

The Red Raider offense put up 36 runs over four games this past weekend.

They also led the Big 12 Conference in team batting average at .366 and with 49 hits, according to the conference website.

The offense was led by Big 12 Player of the Week

and junior outfielder Stephen Smith. He hit .571 with four doubles and five RBIs over the four games.

Starting pitching was also strong for Tech over the four games as the staff combined for a 3-0 record and allowed only two earned runs.

After the midweek game, Tech will travel to play in the Shriners Hospitals for Children College Classic with three weekend games in Houston. @JeremyK_DT

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No. 2 Kansas defeats No. 19 Baylor WACO (AP) — Landen Lucas and Wayne Selden felt the wrath of Kansas coach Bill Self at halftime, when the second-ranked Jayhawks trailed No. 19 Baylor.

“I got on them hard at halftime, probably too hard,” Self said.

They made up for it down the stretch, and got Kansas a step closer to its 12th consecutive Big 12 title with a 66-60 victory Tuesday night.

Lucas had the tiebreaking layup with 3:03 left after one of his four rebounds down the stretch.

Selden, who finished with six points, had four of those in the final 2 minutes, along with two offensive rebounds in that span that led to points.

“I was struggling all night, just trying to find a way to impact the game, and it was rebounding,” Selden said. “Me

and Landen, we had to get to the glass, so I just tried to crash the board, give us extra possessions.”

The go-ahead putback by Lucas came after he rebounded a missed 3 by Selden.

After Selden rebounded a missed tip-in by Lucas with 1:40 left, Kansas (24-4, 12-3) called time out. They set up a play when Devonte Graham’s lob pass to Selden resulted in a dunk.

Frank Mason III had 19 points and Perry Ellis added 15 for Kansas, which has a two-game lead over No. 14 West Virginia in the Big 12 standings with three league games remaining. Graham had 11 points and Lucas had 10 rebounds to go with his five points.

Al Freeman led Baylor (20-8, 9-6) with 17 points, including four 3-pointers. Taurean Prince had 12 points.

“I was proud of how we competed and played for about 36 minutes, and then I wish we could do that last 4 minutes over again,” Bears coach Scott Drew said. “I don’t think we executed as well as we’d like. We didn’t rebound as well as we’d like down the stretch. But I think we’ve seen marked improvement from the first time we played them.”

Baylor lost its Big 12 opener 102-74 at Kansas on Jan. 2.

After losing three straight Big 12 road games, the Jayhawks have won their last four as part of an eight-game winning streak overall. They play Texas Tech at home Saturday with a chance to guarantee at least a share of the Big 12 title.

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“In the beginning, I felt like we ran them off the three, we made them drive a little more and we stopped them from getting second chance shots,” Ross said.

“That was the main key, stopping them and getting all the rebounds.”

Smith’s tying shot completed a 14-2 run as the Horned Frogs missed seven of eight shots in nearly the first six minutes of the second half.

Defensive stops kept coming for the Red Raiders after tying up the game and capitalizing on a TCU turnover.

Junior guard Devon Thomas set Smith up for another two-handed jam to give Tech a 53-51 lead.

Despite the rocky start to the second half, TCU stayed within a possession of exchanging the lead for most of the final minutes of the game.

TCU coach Trent Johnson said the Tech’s ability to find its way into the paint helped it get the win.

“The biggest concern for us against good teams is penetration,” Johnson said.

“Texas Tech is 26 for 52 from the field, we got to keep them out of the line.”

Down to the final three minutes, a 3-pointer from TCU sophomore guard Malique Trent kept the game a one-possession contest as the Red Raiders led by just two at 75-73.

Without any room for error, Tech tried to drain the final minute of the game leading 80-78. Ross scored a jumper near the end of

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Texas Tech forward Zach Smith scores two points by dunking the ball during the first half of the Red Raiders’ game against TCU on Tuesday in the United Supermarkets Arena. the shot clock to place the Red Raiders ahead 82-78. The twopossession score and a depleted game clock finally called the game for Tech and led the team to its fifth straight victory.

Both Ross and Smith finished with career high point totals as Ross led the team in scoring at 25 points and Smith at 23. As a team, the Red Raiders combined for 50 percent shooting while TCU shot for 47.5. Collins led the game in scoring after notching up 29 points.

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The win over the Horned Frogs increased Tech’s overall record to 18-9 and pushed its Big 12 record past the .500 mark at 8-7. Along with the winning Big 12 record, the win was Tech’s first five-game winning streak in conference play since joining the Big 12.

Tech travels for its next Big 12 matchup with an early morning tipoff at Lawrence, Kansas against the No. 2 Kansas Jayhawks at 11 a.m. Saturday in Allen Fieldhouse.

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