Scott and Bernadette West own a large portion of Market Square, including Scruffy City Hall and Preservation Pub. • Photo courtsey of Scott West
Market Square businessman to detail jail time in new book Courtney Whited Copy Editor Visit Market Square in Downtown Knoxville on any given night and find yourself surrounded by activities, restaurants, bars and more. The popularity of the area today is evident from film viewings in the summer, Shakespeare on the Square and the skating rink in the winter.
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However, this was not always the case. “A sizable chunk of the seed-money which revitalized Historic Market Square came from an illegal weed, which makes for a pretty good historical anecdote if you’re ever giving a walking tour in Downtown Knoxville,” Scott West, who with his wife, Bernadette West, bought up a majority of the property and began invigorating the area, said. West’s book, “The Crook Books: Scott West’s Recipes for Disaster,” chronicles his time in both
Blount County Jail in Maryville, Tennessee, and Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, and was published in 2016. “I was ready to publish as soon as I got out of prison in 2010, but my family encouraged me to wait a few years until the world caught up with my pretty strong opinions,” West said. “So, on the 10-year anniversary of the very memorable date when hundreds of DEA, IRS and armored police officers kicked in the doors of our homes, seized our assets and sent us off to
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the Big House, I published the first in the series of Crook Books.” The book’s website states that the story is “one of the largest cases of the IRS” and “is told through humor, poetry and original art in a book that encourages you to think about our world in fresh ways,” and readers are encouraged to “read it on the toilet.” See CROOK BOOKS on Page 4
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Pride of the Southland to honor retiring band assistant Kaylie Hofer Staff Writer The Pride of the Southland Band will have to play on without Judy Dooley. After nearly 21 years, Dooley is retiring from her position of administrative assistant. As administrative assistant, Dooley was in charge of everything from taking care of the budget for the band to making sure the band arrived on time and in the right place. “I do everything behind the scenes. I know nothing about music or marching. I do all the budget work, the planning for the trips, schedule all the hotels, do all the catered meals and the transportation,” Dooley said. Dooley began working in the College of Education in 1989, where she spent 18 months before working with the then vice chancellor on a budget. After that, on June 24,1996, she came to work with the Pride of the Southland Band. “I feel like my job is to make Dr. Ryder, Dr. Stewart and Dr. Lyon’s jobs easier. If they don’t have to worry about the small details, then they can have more time for their students. And I think that makes us all more productive,” Dooley said. “I feel like my job is to kind of keep everything together and keep the ball rolling, and they take care of all the music and planning the shows.” While Dooley said she is excited about the next phase of her life, she will miss her time
Judy Dooley standing next to the original manuscript for the famous fight song, “Rocky Top,” in the Natalie L. Haslam Music Building. Wyatt Miner • The Daily Beacon spent with the Pride of the Southland Band, but she looks forward to the next person to fill her position. “I’m at an age where I want to do something else other than work,” Dooley said. “My health is very good, so I want to do some traveling and spend more time with my grandkids. Also, it needs to be somebody younger, somebody with more energy, who can keep up better.” The band will be saying goodbye to Dooley with a big send off in her honor. The band post-
ed on Twitter that they will honor Dooley on Friday, Jan. 27, from 3–6 p.m. in the band room. “Mrs. Judy Dooley has been a priceless asset to the UT band program. She will be remembered for her dedication and extreme commitment to the students, staff and directors of the UT band program,” Donald Ryder, director of the Pride of the Southland Band, said. “We know that this is not ‘goodbye,’ because she will always be a part of the UT band family.”
First Diversity Dialogues strives to unite students Chris Salvemini News Editor The Office of Multicultural Student Life has taken the first steps in strengthening the campus community this semester. Diversity Dialogues, a series of panels, lectures and workshops that focuses on tackling prominent social issues in a safe environment, launched four years ago in the Office of Multicultural Student Life. Last year, however, after being moved into a Division of Student Life, they introduced new speakers and new issues to make the series broader. While the first series of Diversity Dialogues used traditional formats to speak about social issues, such as panels and lectures, the first one of the spring semester on Tuesday, Jan. 24, sought to encourage people to speak with each other, rather than listen to other people. The topic was ‘Finding Common Ground’ and launched the series for the rest of the semester. “This one tonight is more of a discussion format. We wanted to give people a chance to share, be known, be heard, but at the same
time, hear from us,” Director of Collegiate Abbey and Vice President of the Campus Ministries Council Britton Sharp said. “One of the things we realized towards the end of last semester is we were covering topics that could be viewed as controversial. But in a time like what’s going in our country today, things seem so divided. We’re very aware of our differences, and with the diversity dialogues, we wanted to honor the idea of what would it be like to find common ground.” Attendees were first asked a series of questions about their identities and experiences, ranging from whether they were raised in a rural area to whether they knew a friend or family member committed suicide. Attendees who could answer “yes” to a question were asked to stand, and for some questions, attendees who did not stand could ask people who did stand about it. People were also given an opportunity to discuss the question before moving onto the next one. After the first part of the dialogue was over, facilitators moved to different tables and attendees sat with them. Attendees were then asked questions about social issues and groups, and people were encouraged to discuss it with other attendees at the table.
“This diversity dialogue focuses on community building and how to build our community, so that we are more unified in working through the challenges that are faced by our campus community and our nation today,” Tanisha Jenkins, director of Multicultural Student Life, said. “This is an opportunity for our campus community to come together and learn more about each other and start a foundation or a framework in terms of how we continue to move forward and build community at UT.” Organizers said they might continue to hold Diversity Dialogues in this format in the future and may host future Diversity Dialogues similarly to past formats. Future Diversity Dialogues will discuss health and wellbeing, gender and sexual assault. “I think it went well. Of course, we always hope that there’s a better turnout, but that’s life on a college campus –– there’s always 15 different things going on,” Sharp said. “We were really thankful for the people that did come out, there was some great discussion, it was just really encouraging to see tables full of people that didn’t know each other get to know each other.”
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Senator Scott Brown discusses self, future of U.S. Libby Dayhuff Staff Writer Former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown spoke in Alumni Memorial Building on the evening of Jan. 24 to discuss his policies and the future of the United States. Brown began by introducing himself. He discussed his childhood, family, military service and political career. He explained that he is often called a Republican in name only, or RINO, which has influenced his policies on welfare, education and abortion. “I love when people call me a RINO because it means I’m winning. I’m thinking for myself,” Brown said. He talked about the politicians he knows, including all of the major Republican candidates who ran in the primaries. He hosts an event at his home called the No B.S. Backyard BBQ where, during the primaries, Republican candidates spoke. He spoke about his experiences with former Secretary Hillary Clinton and other Democrats. He explained how he does not let his political affiliations interfere with those relationships and believes that will be important in the country’s future.
“We’re people first –– not Republicans, Democrats, black, white, gay, straight — we’re Americans first,” Brown said. Brown was one of the first politicians to endorse President Donald Trump. Brown told stories of his time spent with him while campaigning and said, “an outsider might be good for the country.” “You’ve got to admit Donald Trump is different. He’s doing things his way, a different way,” Brown said. He gave opinions on Trump’s cabinet nominees and their likely effect on the U.S. He supports most of the officials, like Betsy DeVos and Ben Carson. He said he thinks they will work well. He also discussed the country’s future international relations. Specifically, he discussed allies like Israel and expressed concern about China and Russia. “We don’t need to be the police of the world … We need to be a force for good,” Brown said. As a veteran, he hopes that veterans’ treatment will be better under Trump’s presidency. At the beginning of the speech, Brown asked the crowd to raise their hand if they were Tennesseans, and, although a majority of the audience was from Tennessee, stu-
Former U.S. Senator Scott Brown speaks to UT students in Cox Auditorium about the direction the country is headed in. Kristin Dehkordi • The Daily Beacon dents were still interested to hear what the Like Beasley, Nathan Gardner, a sophoMassachusetts senator had to say. more in supply chain management, thinks of “I came to see (Brown) speak because I him as an experienced politician. wanted to see a more conservative view on “I liked how he had experience in his things,” Tanner Beasley, sophomore in busi- policies: from education to welfare to the ness management, said. military,” Gardener said.
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ARTS&CULTURE
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UT alumna has eyes on stardom with first EP Mary Beth McCauley Staff Writer Soulful lyrics, mellow guitar rhythms and a hint of jazz are the defining characteristics of Knoxville native and UT alum Shayla McDaniel’s music. McDaniel’s music is a blend of jazz and alternative pop that can be heard on her new EP, “26 Letters.” The title comes from the first line of her song “Silence” and encompasses different “snapshots” of her life. McDaniel has been involved with music from an early age, first learning to play the violin in her middle school orchestra class, which she said was a “good music foundation and introduction to stringed instruments.” She also taught herself how to play guitar and bass from an instructional DVD, looking up tablatures online and playing in the church choir. “I really learned how to use my ears, play well with others and go with the flow,” McDaniel said. Being a student at UT also shaped McDaniel as a musician and impacted her love for jazz. She used to live in Hess, right next to Melrose, where the School of Jazz was located at the time, so she would often “stop and smell the
CROOK BOOKS continued from Page 1 “I challenge orthodoxy constantly,” West said. With the subtitle “Good-Intentioned Bad Guys,” the book focuses on West’s division of people into four categories: good-intentioned good guys, good-intentioned bad guys, badintentioned good guys and bad-intentioned bad guys. “Bad-intentioned bad guys are the criminals that steal your TV, assault and kill people. They victimize others. Whereas good-intentioned bad guys are good people that break bad rules. Put another way, who is the better person, someone who follows the rules and only does things to benefit himself or a person who breaks rules and helps many others in the process?” West said, explaining his theory. West cited Harriet Tubman and her history as a member of the Underground Railroad, as well as Oskar Schindler and his saving of Jews in Nazi Germany, as members of the goodintentioned bad guys community. “So sometimes being a bad guy is quite good,” West said. West was sentenced to 75 months; he spent six months in the Blount County jail before spending four years in a federal prison camp in Alabama. “Steel and concrete. No sunlight ever, no windows, no TVs, no time outside. The fluorescent
roses” when walking to and from class. “I remember coming back from class and hearing a group practicing. They were in one of the big rooms close to the path,” McDaniel said. “Since it was kind of hot, they had the windows open. The group stood out to me because they were playing together and they sounded so good.” Between classes, McDaniel would find a piano in one of the Melrose practice rooms and play, giving her a lot of time to write new music. “People would be practicing alone, but all at the same time, just like scattered background sound effects,” McDaniel said. “Just like birds chirping, cars driving by or people talking.” While McDaniel has always been involved with music, if it wasn’t for a friend of hers suggesting that she take her music to the next level, McDaniel might have never started recording. “A friend of mine was kind of like,’Hey, you’re still young, why not try to take this to the next level?’” McDaniel said. “After getting organized, I ended up releasing ‘Coffee’ and ‘I’ll Leave the Light On.’” Though this will be her first EP, McDaniel has been hard at work performing local and regional shows and building her fan base. After performing at the Cre865 Showcase, the Startup Day afterparty and live on-air at
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WUTK 90.3 FM The Rock, Knoxville Music Warehouse took an interest in McDaniel and chose her song “I’ll Leave the Light on” as one of the top 16 songs from Knoxville Artists in 2016. “All that seemed to happen so fast,” McDaniel said. “I also got to play on the ‘All Over the Road’ show on WDVX 89.9 FM a couple of weeks ago.” After a year full of firsts, McDaniel is excited for yet another one as she debuts her first EP on Jan. 27. The live release show will be held at Modern Studio, a new music venue and professional work space in Knoxville. This new release is a huge milestone for McDaniel, but she doesn’t plan on stopping here. She has more music in the works she plans to release and still wants to perform as much as she can. “I want to take my music as far as I can,” McDaniel said. “If that means national or international shows someday, great. If not, that’s okay, too. I just want to have fun making the best music I can.” The live release show begins at 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 27, at Modern Studio. Tickets are $7 in advance and $10 the day of the show. Tickets can be purchased at http://modernstudio.org/.
We had oatmeal for breakfast, peanut butter sandwiches for lunch, and beans for dinner every day. Very little entertainment other than the occasional fight.”
lights were never turned off. We had oatmeal for breakfast, peanut butter sandwiches for lunch and beans for dinner every day. Very little entertainment other than the occasional fight,” West said, describing his time in Blount County Jail. “There were generally about 60 guys in a Pod designed for 40 which increased stress, and usually inmates had to sleep on the concrete floor in a plastic ‘canoe’ as there were bunks for only 40.” The federal prison camp, although not a maximum-security prison, was a lonely and rough time for him as well. “The idea of our prison system being humane and civilized to me is pretty nonsensical,” West said. “Imagine if you were given a choice, we break your fingers or you do 25 years with no parole in a very ‘civilized’ prison. Someone else will sleep with you wife, and your kids will call someone else Dad, and your parents will be dead and buried when you get out,” West said, further explaining the most difficult part about
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serving time. “How civilized is that? Most of us would take torture with a foreseeable release before we’d take 25 years in a hole, any day.” This being said, West was determined not to waste any of his time behind bars, and writing was a way to “work through quite a bit of emotional baggage.” “(Writing) forces us to channel the chaotic thinking, racing thoughts that a lot of us experience when we are in pain or feel lost into a narrative we can share with other people,” Kristi Havens, assistant director of undergraduate studies in the Department of English, said. Bridget Sellers, a senior in creative writing, agreed that writing is a way through which people can work out the events unfolding around them. “On the simplest level, writing is meditative. It’s an activity that engages you and doesn’t really support a distracted mindset,” Sellers said. West, at first, figured that the type of people
Shayla McDaniel’s new single “Silence” is now available. • Courtesy of Shayla McDaniel.
reading his book would be college-aged students, like Sellers. “Challenging orthodoxy is what young, smart idealistic people do,” West said. However, he also noted that “once Hippies, now capitalistic entrepreneurs” were a group that he thought would enjoy the book and what it has to offer. “Nowadays, though, I think these books are way more universal in readership,” West said. “I believe that conservatives and progressives alike are annoyed by the crushing weight of stupid rules and laws and appreciate a voice that challenges the hypocrisy in so much of our herd thinking.” So, armed with a degree in creative writing from UT, West spent his time writing his experience in the form of his three volume series, of which “Good Intentioned Bad Guys” is the first volume, and poetry. “The chip I had on my shoulder became a series of entertaining books which others could read and hopefully gain something from,” West said. What does he hope people gain from his writing? “On my computer I have written three things, which are actually all the same thing: simplify, declutter, focus,” West said. “So, to your readers I say, choose the best of the ideas you love, doing that which inspires you, and then keep at it until you succeed. This is no substitute for persistence.”
OPINIONS
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How to create allies
Peter Cates For Pete’s Sake
The Women’s March protests last Saturday were a remarkable landmark in U.S. history. Of course, where millions (!) of people gather for a cause, millions of other people will follow closely behind to s--t all over their cause. Privileged people’s favorite way of proving that marginalized groups aren’t actually marginalized is to find someone from that group to say that they are, in fact, not marginalized. That manifested this week as several women saying something along the lines of, “women are treated equal to men, and I don’t experience sexism.” There was a lot of wellarticulated dialogue in response that went something like: “I’m so glad you haven’t experienced sexism, but lots of women do in lots of different ways (and you might have, too, without realizing it, because patriarchal society normalizes oppression of women).” Other liberals, however, have taken it a step further to say that anyone not actively working against sexism is sexist. So, maybe you voted Republican or shared that you didn’t think the marches this weekend were necessary, and in response someone called you sexist. In a parallel way, maybe you’ve been called racist or homophobic under similar circumstances. In your head, you probably thought, “but I’m really NOT sexist/racist/homophobic.” Likely that seemed rather unfair since you know that you don’t feel those prejudices.
The problem here might actually just be a linguistic one; we’ve used one word for two concepts: bigotry and systemic oppression. First, there’s bigotry in which prejudices lead to active interpersonal oppression of marginalized groups. Bigotry can also be subdivided into two categories: obvious and subtle. There are obvious examples of bigotry like slave masters, members of the KKK, people standing with “God hates fags” signs, abusers, people who commit hate crimes, etc. There are also more subtle versions of bigotry that are harder to immediately recognize like discrimination in hiring, voter suppression in vulnerable communities, the wage gap, disproportionate police violence, the removal of anti-discrimination laws, etc. This brings us to systemic oppression in which misinformation, ignorance and disinterest lead to passive oppression resulting from unjust establishments that have been built over time. In this category, you have people who say that racism ended with slavery and civil rights, sexism ended when women gained the right to vote, and homophobia ended with marriage equality. They usually add the caveat, “of course radical people still exist who commit hate crimes, but that has nothing to do with me.” In other words, they condemn obvious bigotry, but don’t see (and therefore don’t fight against) subtle bigotry. At some point, those two concepts just became
Bring back constructive arguments
Anu Kumar Arguing 101
In a time when your social media feeds are filled with links to news reports with distorted info and estranged friends spouting off the wall conclusions about laws that they haven’t read about, a constructive argument is hard to come by. Here are some ways you can construct a valid argument that leads to a knowledgeable experience for all parties involved, or, at least, lets you work out your argument muscles if the other party continues to cite BuzzFeed as a reliable source of news. Taking notes from an ancient master of rhetoric, Aristotle used the methods of pathos, logos and ethos to back up points. Chris Weller, a writer for science/tech at Medical Daily, points out that Aristotle used this to simulate a specific way his audiences form their opinions. Emotions are such a powerful tool to base an argument from — so much so that many politicians will use many highly-charged campaign slogans (official or otherwise). This tactic is employed everywhere but can quickly get out of hand. While bringing up your opponent’s insecurities or embarrassing middle school year pictures might get a rise out of them, you haven’t gotten your point across. Laying a foundation for a solid argument involves basing it on facts. Starting off an argument about climate change
with an environmental scientist with “I don’t believe in global warming because it’s so cold here during the winter!” or “It’s just something scientists made up to scare the general population!” is probably not going to fly well unless you have sources. Instead of sticking to your guns, stick to the facts. Having views that stem from a moral code or belief system is something everyone does. The line between hard science and philosophy can become blurry in some cases as with science and theology. Abortion is a very grim, controversial topic for prolifers, pro-choicers and everyone in between. If you base your stance for abortion as religious/spiritual or secular, how constructive do you think the argument will be when facing someone who stands on the opposite side of you? Learning to appeal to another person’s mode of understanding can be a useful tool if the other person cannot see through a different perspective. This is where the fact checking comes in handy. The Information Manipulation Theory, as described on Dave Straker’s website, Changing Minds, is something we have all probably used without realizing it. The four main parts are quantity, quality, relation and manner. These are the four ways you can
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“racism” when it’s related to race, “sexism” when it’s related to sex and “homophobia” when it’s related to sexual orientation. In this volatile time, it’s remarkably important that we choose our words carefully, as to not risk further isolating those we don’t agree with. If we’re ever going to change anybody’s minds, we must learn to speak to them in a way that most accurately articulates what we’re trying to say. In this case that means not equating ignorance or apathy toward systemic marginalization with bigotry, because the fastest way to make someone close off to learning about (and thus confronting) the systemic oppression of marginalized groups in this country is to tell them they are the oppressors. So what do we do instead? We still call out bigotry. We address the racist joke. We rage against the hate crime. We demand accountability. We prosecute sexual assault. We educate ourselves. We vote. And for those who aren’t joining us in that fight, we don’t call them the enemy. With that group of people, we have open dialogue about the real problems that so many face in this country for the way they’re born. We become a country of empathy. In that way, we create allies. Peter Cates is a junior in Rhetoric and Writing and can be reached at pcates4@vols.utk.edu
either persuade or deceive someone. Quantity refers to the amount of information Person 1 gives Person 2, but Person 2 doesn’t know that Person 1 left out key points in an argument that would refute their claims. Quality refers to the accurateness of the information of the Quantity. Relation refers to the relevancy of the information to the subject matter, and many people can use this to point out different aspects of the situation that was not being discussed or simply trying to derail the train. Manner refers to the body-language and verbal inflections while stating your arguments, which can be recognized by facial movements or the tone of voice. The four aspects of the Information Manipulation Theory are grounds for persuasion but also for being deceived if you’re not careful. Be critical of all the “news” on social media. Often scientific discoveries go through many repeated experiments until they’re deemed worthy of being published. We should treat political news in the same way. Check your facts, debunk myths, and let’s hold people accountable for the things they say and do. Anu Kumar is a sophomore in neuroscience and psychology and can be reached at akumar8@ vols.utk.edu
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SPORTS
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TRACK & FIELD
Vol runners anticipate Men’s tennis strives for consistency in tournament successful weekend Staff Report The Volunteers have a big weekend ahead of them as the track and field team travels to Arkansas this upcoming Friday. The Razorback Invitational will include many high-end competitors from various SEC schools. The event will also include nine teams that are nationally ranked. “We’re going into Arkansas knowing that we will be seeing our major conference competitors,� head coach Beth AlfordSullivan said. “Our tactics are to utilize that competition. We need to test ourselves against these competitors.� In preparation for the upcoming meet, the Vols decided to get in a little early practice time. The track and field team came back early from winter break to get themselves back into prime condition. “We’ve been training since the second of January,� Sullivan said. “Our kids are rounding into really good fitness and level of competitive attitude.� The Vols plan to enhance what they have so far and push the envelope. “This will be one of the most competitive track meets in the country this year,� Sullivan said, talking about the high stress this weekend. “Our team needs to be able to mentally compete.� This will be the Vols third indoor track and field meet of the season as they have been transitioning from cross country to track.
In this transition, the Volunteers anticipate a smooth sailing, even with big shoes to fill. For the 2016 season, men’s cross country for the University of Tennessee placed ninth in the SEC and women placed 14th. The cross country teams featured key NCAA players on the roster finishing well in their season, such as sophomore Zach Long and freshman Megan Murray. For Sullivan, she said that the longdistance runners on the team shouldn’t noticeably change their approach from cross country to track. “From an insider’s view point, we roll from one season to the next simply,� Sullivan said on the transition from cross country to track. “The biggest challenge is to mentally sustain.� Sullivan looks toward captains Long and junior Christian Coleman to guide the team both mentally and physically through the Razorback Invitational. Long has already set the bar high for the 2017 season. So far, Long has set a new personal record for his mile time at 4:06.63, and he finished in second place at the Indiana-Tennessee Dual in the 3000m. The lineup for the trip to Arkansas will also hold 13 NCAA event leaders, one of them being Coleman. Coleman runs in many events such as the 200m, 300m and long jump for indoor track. Coleman is the defending national champion in the 200 and is anticipated by Coach Sullivan to have a great showing this weekend.
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The Vols men’s tennis team will be focusing on playing more consistently after a rough weekend against Georgia Tech. After opening the dual match season 4-0 at home, they lost their first road match 7-0 to Georgia Tech at the Ken Byers Tennis Complex in Atlanta. Despite the disappointing road trip, head coach Sam Winterbotham is confident in his team and the season ahead of the Volunteers. “There’s a lot of talent on this team,� Winterbotham said. “This team cares a great deal, so I know we’re going to get a lot better. I actually think we can do some really special things this year, we just have to have high expectations. “I want them to look forward to the competition, and I want them to go out there and compete with the Tennessee toughness that we’re known for.� The No. 26 nationally ranked doubles team of Luis Valero and Jack Schipanksi picked up the only Tennessee win of the weekend by defeating Christopher Eubanks and Phillip Gresk 6-4 on court one. “It was a little disappointing the way it ended up,� Schipanski said. “We definitely had chances on a lot of courts, but that’s the way it goes sometimes. I think
for us now it’s a matter of trying to put that behind us and trying to recapture that form that we had in the first week and take it up to Harvard.� Valero, Schipanski’s doubles partner, is pleased that the two were able to secure the win after being swept in singles. “We played two guys that were 6’5�, 6’6�, so that was a good thing to be able to win that match,� Valero said. “I think we just have to move forward, just look at it as a bad weekend and that’s it.� Tennessee (4-1) is now set to take on two Ivy League teams this weekend in Cambridge, Massachusetts, beginning with Harvard on Saturday at noon, followed by Cornell on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. This will be the first time the Vols have faced Harvard since 2009 and their first dual match against Cornell, but they have had the opportunity to see the kind of competition both teams will bring through tournament play. Harvard is off to a 2-1 start while Cornell is undefeated through two matches. Cornell’s Chris Vrabel is the only ranked player between the two teams and is currently No. 62 in the Oracle/ITA national singles rankings. “We expect a very tough, competitive match with both Harvard and Cornell,� Winterbotham said. “Right now, our focus is Harvard, and I expect them to bring out that Tennessee toughness in that match.�
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Vols play in paint key to victory Rob Harvey
Asst. Sports Editor With 5:48 to go in the first half of last year’s matchup against Kentucky, the Tennessee men’s basketball team trailed the Wildcats 34-13. The Vols managed to fight back in that game and pull off the upset against the 20th ranked Wildcats 84-77. This year, the Vols took the complete opposite approach in the game. The Vols led for almost 30 minutes on Tuesday night and, despite a Kentucky run at the end, held on to upset the No. 4 Wildcats 82-80. For head coach Rick Barnes, his team’s play from start to finish was what stood out to him. “It is different from last year because we got way down. And this year, from the beginning, we stayed in the game, and I thought for 40 minutes that’s the best we have played all year,” Barnes said. The Vols started the game slow just like last year, missing five of their first six shots, however, they managed to recover a lot quicker this time and were soon in the lead 9-8 with 14 minutes left in the first half. The Vols were determined to get the ball down low in the game as they took just 10 threes, and it worked as the Vols scored 42 points in the paint. Sophomore Admiral Schofield made a huge impact down low as he totaled 15 points and seven rebounds for the Vols. Schofield has had success against Kentucky, as he had 11 points and eight rebounds against the Wildcats last year in Knoxville. Schofield also provided some huge sparks on the offensive end on Tuesday, as he had multiple dunks in key situations to get the crowd going. Graduate transfer Lew Evans was also a huge part in the offense, as he finished with eight points including just his fourth three of the sea-
son. Evans was clutch down the stretch, as he hit a jumper with 2:56 left to put the Vols up by five. “They were trying to pressure at the end of the game, trying to get steals so that’s when I saw … there were gaps and driving lanes, so I took it from there to drive in the lane and try and get to the rim,” Evans said. The Vols big men dominated highly touted freshmen Bam Adebayo and Wenyen Gabriel down low on offense, as the two freshmen seemed to have no answer for Evans, Schofield and Grant Williams. Vols bench explodes: The Vols have relied all season on their depth on the bench, and on Tuesday night it came in to play more than ever before. The Vols played 10 players in the game and outscored Kentucky in bench points 37 to four. The Vols had two bench players score double digits in Schofield and Lamonte Turner, while Kentucky got all their bench points from Derek Willis. For the Vols, the ability to have talented players on the bench has helped them. “It’s just how much depth we have,” Schofield said. “I think that because of some of the games we’ve lost and how we’ve lost them, there’s a perception that we don’t have talent on this team, but we really do. We have a lot of talented guys on this team, and we believe in each other so at the end of the day it’s not surprising to us (the number of bench points).” The depth for the Vols has been beneficial all season to this young team, and it finally seems to be paying off, as the Vols now have players like Evans, Schofield and Turner who can come off the bench and put up consistent performances night in and night out. Vols make history: The Vols made history on Tuesday night against the Wildcats. Tennessee now has 69 wins against the Kentucky Wildcats, which is the most wins against Kentucky by any team in the NCAA. The Vols have also now won seven games
Admiral Schofield, #5, tries to dribble the ball around a defender at ThompsonBoling Arena on Jan. 24, 2017. Madison Nickell • The Daily Beacon Up Next: The Vols stay at home to finish off against teams coached by John Calipari. Those seven wins tie Louisville for the most wins a three game stretch as they play host to Kansas State on Saturday in the SEC/Big 12 challenge. against a team coached by Calipari. Although the series is still very lopsided, Kansas State comes into the game with a record 152-69 in favor of the Cats, the Vols have made of 15-5. That game will tipoff at 2 p.m. and can things more interesting with their victories in be seen on ESPN 2. the recent years.