Lady Vols ride second half run over Kentucky Taylor White
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After shooting a combined 0-for-7 in her last two games, Ariel Massengale seemed to be heading down a similar path on Sunday. The senior was 0-of-3 from the field at halftime, with her only two points coming from a pair of free throws. The second half, however, was a different story as Massengale scored 15 points, including two shots from behind the 3-point line, helping the No. 6 Lady Vols secure a 72-58 win and season sweep over No. 10 Kentucky in Thompson-Boling Arena. “Every game is a new game, every day is a new day,” Massengale said. “I think as a basketball player you just live to play another day, and so tonight I had to go out there and not think about the past games and focus on today.” With the loss of All-SEC forward Isabelle Harrison, who went down with an apparent knee injury just one minute into the second half, the re-emergence of Massengale came at a critical time for the Lady Vols. Trailing by one with just under 15 minutes remaining in the game, Massengale knocked down a three from the wing, sparking a 16-5 second half run and allowing Tennessee (22-3, 12-0 SEC) to take control of the game. The Wildcats (19-6, 8-4) out-rebounded the Lady Vols in the first meeting between the two teams, but it was Tennessee who controlled the boards on Sunday, despite the loss of their leading rebounder, Harrison, early in the second half. The Lady Vols grabbed 46 total rebounds, with 16 of them coming on the offensive end of the floor, leading to 20 second chance points on the night. “We talked about if you’re going to survive, you have to get down and fight and get your hands dirty,” head coach Holly Warlick said. “I am really proud of our players and how they competed and fought. It was a great win for us. Everyone contributed. I am really excited about the win.” Without Harrison, the burden fell to Bashaara Graves and Cierra Burdick to step-up in the post, and the two veterans answered the call. Burdick fell just one rebound shy of a double-double, scoring 14 points and pulling down nine boards, while Graves added 11 points of her own, grabbing nine rebounds and dishing out four assists for the game.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation joins list of Minors >>See page 3
Fifty Shades of a flop >>See page 4
“In its magnitude and manifestations, love is as variable as Knoxville weather.” >>See page 6
Senior Ariel Massengale dribbles the ball during the Vols’ 72-58 victory game See LADY VOLS on Page 10 against Kentucky on Sunday. Justin Keyes • The Daily Beacon
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Debate club hopes for diversity in open forum Chris Salvemini Staff Writer
Rebecca Groh(left), a senior in geography, Kendra White(middle), a junior in special education, and Thomas Carpenter(right), a junior in classics, sit on Smokey’s Sofa, a chance for students to sit front row during basketball games courtesy of Dean Shivers and the Office of the Dean of Students. Justin Keyes • The Daily Beacon
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“The world would be better without religion.” Do you agree? Tennessee Speech and Debate Society will host public forums for attendees to openly speak about controversial topics like this every Monday from Feb. 16 through April 20. “The main goal of this whole event is to bring out people so they can express themselves,” said Samuel Henninger, advisor for the group and one of the event’s organizers. While the club is open to anyone wanting to discuss controversial topics in an inclusive and stress-free environment, this event marks the club’s first public forum debate. After attending other campuses during competitions and experiencing the club engage with other students in debate, members said they decided UT needed something similar. Deciding to start with such a controversial resolution,“the world would be better without religion” came about after strenuous research and surveying. The club wanted something that wouldn’t be completely divisive but would gather interest and provide ample opportunity for discussion. Similar resolutions are planned in the future, with one focusing on sexual education during Sex Week. “The reason for a resolution is because with a question, you get into some weird territory,” Gore said. “Even if it’s yes or no question students will say ‘Yes in this case, but no in this case.’ … Having a resolution grounds the debate.” Christina Gore, a society member and junior in business administration, said the club has
become an integral part of her university experience. “The team’s my family, essentially,” Gore said. “We are very tight-knit. We all come together and love debate.” Local competitions and competitions with other universities make up a large component of the club’s activities. New members partake in the university’s own competitions – the novice division. The victors of these competitions are chosen to represent the university in other schools’ competitions, often attended by senior members. Most debates take place in the LincolnDouglas format, where a question or resolution, like “gun control is necessary,” is proposed to two groups or people who agree or disagree on the respective statement. This black and white format allows arguments to grow into sophisticated ideas, which are then judged by a single moderator or group of moderators that then declares a winner. These debates also allow the opportunity for each group to be cross-examined by the other. Monday’s public forum will take an open-floor style to allow all attendees to speak. “Everyone who attends can speak if they want to,” Henninger said. Once the two members of the society are finished talking, the audience gets a chance with the microphone. The club has worked to ensure the event is all inclusive. At the end of the event, students will have the opportunity to speak on any subject they want. “The biggest metric to a successful event is diversity, not only diversity of people, but also diversity of ideas,” Henninger said. The public forum event will take place Monday in the Shiloh Room at the University Center starting at 7 p.m.
Alabama gay marriage fight echoes states’ rights battles Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore’s judicial building office overlooks Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue, a history-soaked thoroughfare topped by the Alabama Capitol where Jefferson Davis was inaugurated president of the Confederacy and where the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. ended the 1965 march for voting rights. As gay and lesbian couples left a nearby courthouse clutching marriage licenses last week, Moore, an outspoken critic of gay marriage, was fighting to stop the weddings using a states’ rights argument that conjured up those historical ghosts of slavery, the Civil War and the battle against desegregation. There has been resistance in other states to the tide of rulings allowing gay marriage. Some Florida clerks’ offices scrapped all marriage ceremonies rather than perform same-sex unions. In South Carolina and Georgia, legislation is being developed to let individual employees opt
out of issuing marriage licenses to gay couples out of sincere religious belief. No state, however, went as far as Alabama, where the 68-year-old Moore instructed the state’s probate judges not to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. “It’s my duty to speak up when I see the jurisdiction of our courts being intruded by unlawful federal authority,” Moore said. Moore objected to a Jan. 23 ruling by U.S. District Judge Callie Granade in Mobile that Alabama’s gay marriage ban violates the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection and due process. After the Supreme Court on Feb. 9 refused to stay the decision, Alabama became the 37th state — plus the District of Columbia — where gays and lesbians can legally wed. In his dissent when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block that order, Justice Clarence Thomas pointedly raised the states’ rights flag, complaining that the court’s decision was made “without any regard for the people who approved these laws in popular referendums or elected the representatives who voted for them.”
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Entrepreneurship minor opens academic doors Michael Lipps Contributor
Starting this fall, students will have a new choice when selecting a minor. A new, interdisciplinary entrepreneurship minor was approved by the UT Faculty Senate on Feb. 2. Coordinated by the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the minor will allow students from all fields of study to add the minor to their curriculum. For David Williams, assistant professor of management, the addition of the minor is a result of requests from many students. “It makes sense right now because elements of entrepreneurial education are across the university, but there has been no way for students to get the education they wanted,” Williams said. “They want this kind of course work and they have been asking for it. The only ones who have expressed displeasure are those who are graduating, but even they are excited.” The minor is comprised of 15 credit hours and is designed to allow students from any background to mix and match courses from across six colleges to build an entrepreneurial career that fits their needs. Thomas Truett, a senior in business management with an entrepreneurship collateral, said he considered other colleges over UT because of the lack of such a minor. Beyond his studies, Truett is the co-founder of Make Me Modern, a web development company, alongside Anthony Meyer, a senior in electrical engineering . “Our lives have changed drastically since we’ve met, and this only happened because a business guy was bold enough to come talk to an engineering student,” Meyer said. Their story solidifies the type of gap the new entrepreneurship minor aims to bridge. “One thing students struggle with
is getting help and finding another partner who has a particular skill set,” Williams said. “The best way to do this is to have people talk and share ideas. We hope to see people with very diverse skill sets find complimentary skill sets to help them achieve their goal of starting a new company.” Margo Ingram, UT alum and owner of Blue Mason Coffee, said the new minor can provide students with the experience they need to start considering potential business endeavors. “I think this program will be a great tool in preparing future grads to step out into the world of working, trying to find work, and sometimes having to create your own work,” Ingram said. “While I do recommend everyone enroll in this minor, I even more-so recommend life experience.” Kimberly Hood, information specialist for the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, said one way to gain experience beyond the classroom is through Launch Tennessee’s Blackstone Specialist Program. “This program places students in paid internships within start-ups across the state, giving them real world experience and exposing them to Tennessee’s entrepreneurial ecosystem,” Hood said. Additionally, students may attend Vol Court, an entrepreneurial speaker series and pitch competition, join the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization on campus and explore the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center. Students unsure about committing to the new minor can register for the introductory course ENT 350 to gain experience and exposure to entrepreneurship. “We want freshmen and sophomores to think about this now and start talking to advisors,” Williams said. “A lot of advisers are just learning about it, so folks shouldn’t hesitate to contact us with any questions either.”
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Erotic novel’s film adaptation fizzles on screen Sage Davis
Contributor
“Fifty Shades of Grey?” More like “Fifty Shades of Boring.” But what is there to expect from a film based on an erotica novel? Fifteen minutes into the movie, it was pretty obvious how dull the characters would be for the duration of the movie. The dialogue between Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) and Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) feels as lifeless as reading it straight from the book itself. Anyone could have done a better acting job than Johnson’s poor excuse of her so-called “acting,” which reminded me of Bella from “Twilight” with the excessive lip biting, awkwardness and whining at Grey. Dornan was practically a statue who showed no sort of emotions, but at least he made up for it with his dashing good-looks … and body. Dornan, who was supposed to be playing the conflicted man with inner
demons, (his character called it “fifty shades of f—ked up.”) is just a dull, handsome man who is a bit of a control freak. He has the personality of a brick. Johnson should stick with sitcom acting because being the protagonist of a mainstream movie is not her forte. The emotions depicted from her character’s viewpoint in the novel are poorly directed and represented by Johnson. Sometimes, her emotions are so unreadable that she takes you back to “Twilight” when you’re trying to figure out what Bella Swan feels. The passion between Grey and Steele is also more lifeless than expected. Even the sex scenes are so vanilla that it made me question if this was even based off the BDSM erotica novel. And the ending is just the icing on the cake, making the audience sit there confused, thinking, “Was that the end?” But one good thing came out of the film: At least the movie’s soundtrack is decent enough to get us through the dreary scenes.
The “50 Shades of Grey” Valentine’s Day movie premier inspired a variety of reaction tweets. Katie Devore Fifty Shades of Grey
Country Music Hall of Fame ‘SNL’ to celebrate the big 4-0 and Museum has record year with an anniversary special Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum had a record-breaking year for attendance and revenue in 2014. The museum rode the success of its partnerships with the Omni Hotel and Music City Center to the new heights, The Tennessean reported. Attendance has been growing steadily, but the museum had a significant increase over the previous highs in 2013. Attendance rose to 970,971 in 2014, up from 668,577 the year before. Revenue climbed more than $11 million to $32.52 million in 2014. Museum director Kyle Young cited the museum’s partnership with the Omni Hotel and Music City Center as key the factors behind the growth. He also mentioned the popularity of country music and Nashville’s growing status as a leisure tourist destination. Last year marked the first full year of the new Music City Center campus. Also last year, the museum completed its $100 million renovation and expansion, for which it has already
secured the necessary fundraising commitments. “We have not been risk averse,” Young said. “And Nashville has developed into a cultural crossroads with all of the assets it has. When the opportunity arose with the new convention center coming next door, we had the staff to get this done.” Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, who made financing the $623 million Music City Center a top priority during his first term in office, applauded the museum for its growth. “The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s record-setting growth is like a song you just want to hear over and over,” Dean said. “The Hall of Fame’s expansion and its investment in high-quality exhibits make it even more of a draw than it was before. The numbers of people streaming through the doors — and the tax revenue they’re bringing to our city — are testaments to the strength of both the Music City Center campus and Nashville’s Music City brand.” Young said 2015 is tracking to be even bigger. Already, numbers are up over 2014, and the museum has 15 exhibitions planned for this year, as opposed to nine in 2014.
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — “Saturday Night Live” is going to Sunday to celebrate its 40th anniversary, but it’ll still be live from New York. “The SNL 40th Anniversary Special,” an extravagant threeand-a-half-hour self-tribute, is set to air at 8 p.m. EST on NBC, preceded by an hourlong red carpet special hosted by the “Today” show’s anchor team. Everyone who has ever been an “SNL” regular, guest host, musical guest or behindthe-scenes creative force is on the guest list, along with other bold-face names galore. Invitees range from Paul McCartney and Taylor Swift, with others expected at fabled Studio 8H including Miley Cyrus, James Franco, Derek Jeter, Steve Martin, Fred Armisen, Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld, Kristen Wiig and Kerry Washington What exactly will they be
doing? That’s still to be determined, said “SNL” creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels. And as proof his show was still a work-in-progress when he spoke about it a few days ago, the special subsequently grew by 30 minutes from its originally announced three-hour length. “SNL” (titled “NBC’s Saturday Night” its first season) premiered Oct. 11, 1975, with comedian George Carlin as host, and Billy Preston and Janis Ian its musical guests. By the end of the year, it had caught on as a rare TV venue for topical humor and sassy comedy, with an inaugural lineup of Not Ready for Prime Time Players including Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Chevy Chase, the breakout star of the troupe who, on the show’s premiere, launched “Weekend Update” and became the castmember who regularly voiced the catch-phrase that, after 39 years and counting, remains the show’s trademark: “Live from New York, it’s ‘Saturday Night’!”
@ktdevore
Why go see 50 shades of grey when you can use that money to have pizza instead? #priorities
Shad
@AimRealHigh
50 shades of grey just pissed me off..
Britney Hill
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I wish I could watch 50 Shades 36 million more times.
Michael Shibley
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So since the 50 Shades of Grey movie gets released this weekend, I hope stores have doubled their stock of batteries.
Emily Jones
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50 Shades of Grey is NOT a love story :|
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I-House celebrates Chinese New Year with traditional cooking, martial arts Sage Davis
Contributor In light of the Chinese New Year, the International House will celebrate Chinese culture as part of its world showcase series this week. Starting Mondaym the three-day long event will begin with a coffeehouse where attendees will be taught “Dance of Water” calligraphy and painting accompanied by a lecture on Chinese calligraphy from a guest speaker. “In tradition, in China, people used ink to paint,” explained Wenting Pi, the Confucius Institute coordinator, “so it is kind of a metaphor that stands for the water and ink.” General information will be given during the lecture while participants practice on their own cloths. Tuesday will be a cooking demonstration where participants will learn how to make the traditional Chinese dish, Yangzhou fried rice. Not only is it frequently cooked for most meals in many Chinese homes, but this dish is also
served as a must-have course before dessert in Chinese feasts. Though popular, Pi said planners picked the dish because of its simplicity. “It is not very difficult to cook,” Pi said. Though the demonstrations take on a lecture style, students are invited to taste the dish at the end. “Our cooking demos are always with someone at the front showing them how to make the food,” said Lauren Longino, the International House coordinator. “We also try to get the students involved, too.” The last event of the showcase will be a presentation of Chinese martial arts and the singing of a popular Chinese song, “Moon Represents My Heart,” on Wednesday night. The martial arts performance will be led by Michael Smith, the East Tennessee Chinese New Year Festival director. “He’s very professional in Chinese kung fu,” Pi said. Each event will start at 6 p.m. in the I-House. The coffeehouse and cooking demonstration will be free, and the martial arts showcase is $5 at the door.
NETFLIX PICKs of the day
Science fiction: the one genre of entertainment guaranteed to generate more arguments than actual enjoyment. Did Han shoot first, is Kirk better than Picard, was Cobb still dreaming at the end of Inception? (yes, no, yes) No matter where you stand, these selections are sure to awaken your inner Jedi (nerd) and give your leisure time a little space age twist.
“Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” This one sits on the edge of sci-fi and comedy, but it’s my list, so I’m including it. Once, Keanu Reeves was tearing up the time stream in a hilarious series of historical exchanges and ridiculous scenarios. SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!
The best “Terminator” movie hands down, complete with all the classic one-liners you’ll be repeating inappropriately weeks after (Hasta la vista, baby). Wouldn’t hurt to watch this one again before Hollywood disappoints with YET ANOTHER SEQUEL this summer.
“Star Trek: The Next Generation” “Starship Troopers” If you’re looking for the flashy and fantastical treat that makes Star Wars so appealing, you’ve come to the wrong place. “The Next Generation” is one of the smartest TV shows out there, with episodes ranging from crime dramas to political thrillers. Also Patrick Stewart.
It’s a movie about giant, man-eating space bugs. It’s not a great movie. It’s really not even good, but it’s appealing in the same way traffic wrecks are. You don’t want to look, but you really can’t help it. Prime guilty pleasure material here, people. Eat it up.
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The law of conservation of love
Kenna Rewcastle Life Under the Microscope
So much of the physical world can be explained using science’s most fundamental laws --- that neither energy nor matter can be created or destroyed, only transformed. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, the day dedicated to the celebration of love’s many manifestations, I’d like to posit that love, too, follows a similar set of laws. Love cannot appear, cannot be manufactured, cannot be abolished. Instead, love flows between reservoirs and forms, taking on new shapes, painting our lives with a spectrum of colors. It’s a law that is fundamental to human behavior. Love is constant in our lives only in that it’s the currency of living. In its magnitude and manifestations, love is as variable as Knoxville weather. Love at its origin is transformed from friendships, from serendipitous collisions and even from forced proximity. It builds from these unnoticeable beginnings to a riptide that will knock the breath out of your lungs and push you to your knees. Sometimes love grows beyond the confines of your soul, your loveholding vessel, and when it escapes, it shatters the very core of your being.
You feel its absence like a hole in your heart, and no amount of clutching at this hole will quiet the hurricane of pain coursing inside. You thought that in this moment of heartbreak, love left you, but you were mistaken. That love flowed into a different reservoir. You may recognize it now in the newfound love you have for yourself, the love you have for your families and closest friends, the love you have for living at the very pinnacle of happiness. And still, those fading shapes of love from your past will stay with you as pressed wildflowers in old journals. You’ll look on them fondly and retrace love’s shadows as you thumb through the pages of your own history. We experienced love for the first time when we came screaming into this world as infants, finding comfort in the feeling fed to us by those who cared for us. That love will be remade infinitely as long as we live, with our last breath pushing this love into the hands of those we leave behind, the most valuable heirloom we have to offer. To quote Cheryl Strayed, writing here as Sugar,
perhaps the only person I’ve encountered that has captured the eternally variable essence of love in writing: “It is not so incomprehensible as you pretend, sweet pea. Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as the hug we give a friend or heavy as the sacrifices we make for our children. It can be romantic, platonic, familial, fleeting, everlasting, conditional, unconditional, imbued with sorrow, stoked by sex, sullied by abuse, amplified by kindness, twisted by betrayal, deepened by time, darkened by difficulty, leavened by generosity, nourished by humor, and ‘loaded with promises and commitments’ that we may or may not want to keep. The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the mother[loving] shit out of love.” Love is infinite, ever-changing, mind boggling. It will carry you. Kenna Rewcastle is a senior in College Scholars. She can be reached at kenerewc@vols.utk.edu
The future of healthcare in Tennessee
Thomas Carpenter The Workshop
Two weeks ago, our state legislature decided not to expand Medicare for thousands of lowincome residents. The plan, named Insure Tennessee, was a deal Gov. Haslam made with the Obama administration in order to receive additional funding to expand Medicare under the Affordable Care Act. Tennessee would have become the 29th state to do so, but the legislation didn’t even make it to the House floor, receiving only four out of 11 votes in the Health and Welfare Committee, according to The Tennessean. The plan would have added 280,000 Tennesseans to the list of those eligible to receive federally funded health insurance. On Monday, Haslam spoke to the state legislature to try to convince them to support the measure. Sympathizing with President Obama while still staying true to his Republican principles, Haslam said this about his proposal: “I’ve realized it’s not just the president that thinks that.As a Republican elected leader, I feel like we owe the country answers as to what we would do about health care. For too
long, we’ve said what we don’t like — mainly Obamacare. Well, this is a chance to show what we would do.” Since Haslam stepped into office in 2011, he has been extremely popular with the Republican controlled State House and Senate, so it comes as a surprise that support for his newest proposal is scarce. Haslam called on state legislators to “look past the easy political argument” and do the right thing for Tennesseans. Since then, Haslam gave his State of the State address, in which he said just because Insure Tennessee didn’t pass “does not mean the issues around health care go away.” What the Republicans have done is they’ve gotten rid of possibly the best solution to Tennessee’s health care woes. Although ultimately adding to the federal deficit, the plan would have cost Tennessee absolutely nothing and would have immediately given 280,000 Tennesseans the health care they need and deserve. The outcome even made national headlines when it was learned that some of the
legislator’s who opposed it were on a taxpayerfunded health care plan themselves, unsurprisingly revealing the ever present hypocrisy that is so common in our state’s legislature. Legislators have not stayed silent about the issue since the bill’s failure. Opponents of the bill have come out in support of new legislation that would leave health care options for Tennesseans up to the market. These solutions raise a multitude of legal questions, including an obvious one: what are we really changing from before? It seems these legislators have so quickly forgotten the recent failures of the “free market” health care system that was in place before. Legislators are going to have to get creative here pretty soon, or thousands of Tennesseans will continue to not receive health care that so many Americans in other states are enjoying. Thomas Carpenter is a junior in classics. He can be reached at ThomasCarpenter@ utk.edu
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Vols fall to LSU after playing ‘worst half’ of Tyndall’s career Troy Provost-Heron Staff Writer (@Troy_Provost)
Tennessee had crawled through the first half and limped into halftime. The 27-point deficit at the intermission made Donnie Tyndall less than happy, and he let his team know it in the locker room. “He was pissed,” senior guard Josh Richardson said. “That’s all I can say. He was just upset. But at the end of his speech, he was optimistic about the second half and told us we had time to turn it around.” The Volunteers had numerous chances to do just that, but could not recover from their porous first half performance, ultimately falling to the LSU Tigers 73-55 inside Thompson-Boling Arena on Saturday. “That was the worst half of (basketball) of any team I’ve ever coached in 10 years,” Tyndall said. “I can’t explain it. We played hesitant, nervous and scared and that falls on my shoulders. I obviously did a bad job of preparing our team.” From the opening tip Tennessee (14-10, 6-6 SEC) looked over-matched. LSU (18-7, 7-5) jumped out to an early 7-0 lead and fended off a few UT mini runs to extend its lead out to double digits with 10:51 remaining in the half. Three minutes and six seconds later, a Jaylen Patterson 3-pointer made it a 17-point game. Over the next 7:45, the Tigers continued to pile on, outscoring the Vols 18-8. While the focal point of Saturday’s contest surrounded LSU big men Jordan Mickey and Jarell Martin, it was the Tigers’ guards who paved the way for the decisive first half lead. Keith Hornsby, Jalyn Patterson and Tim Quarterman combined to shoot 7-of-10 from behind the 3-point line — LSU came into the game ranked 11th in the SEC in 3-point percentage at 32.9 percent — as the Tiger backcourt scored 25 points in the first half. “You have to pick your poison against that team,” Tyndall said. “They average five and a half made threes per game and those two big guys are NBA players, so if you are going to shrink the floor and try to pack it in, you are going to give up a couple jump shots.” But while the Tigers’ 3-point efficiency stood out, one half of the Tiger forward duo added injury to insult. Mickey, who came into the game aver-
aging 17 points per game on the season, scored 15 in the opening period on 6-of-9 shooting while his frontcourt counterpart, Martin, only played seven minutes because of foul trouble. The dominant first half performance propelled the 6-foot-8, 235-pound forward to a game-high 20 points. Mickey also corralled 11 rebounds for his 11th double-double of the season and finished three blocks shy of a triple-double — the last of which for LSU came on March 19, 1992, when Shaquille O’Neal had 26 points, 13 rebounds and 11 blocks against BYU. “Jordan Mickey was really, really good,” Tyndall said. “So we played against big guys. We haven’t really gotten dominated by a post player that I can remember, but Mickey certainly dominated the game today.” After being chewed out in the locker room, though, a different Tennessee team took to the court to begin the second half. The Tigers opened up the scoring by splitting a pair of free throws, but from there, the Vols began to climb back into the game. Over the next 4:41, the Vols rattled off a 13-0 run to make it 50-35, but never drew closer, coming within 15 points on three other occasions. The second half resurgence was mainly due to the Vols’ defense, which limited the Tigers to a 41.9 shooting clip in the final period after they shot 64 percent in the first, as well as forced LSU to commit 10 second-half turnovers. “We were actually playing basketball like we know how to play,” Richardson said. “We were playing our pressure defense and turned them over a couple times and got some fastbreak points. “In the first half, we just weren’t bringing it.” And while that first half ultimately caused a loss that snapped a six-game winning streak against LSU dating back to Jan. 28, 2009, the Vols have already shifted their attention to the No. 1 Kentucky Wildcats, who pay a visit to Knoxville on Tuesday. “Me as a player and being real with myself, I totally agree with coach,” said junior forward Armani Moore, who finished with a team-high 16 points. “That was the most terrible half I’ve put together as a player. Now it’s all about putting that one behind us and being mentally focused this week in practice and being ready to go.”
Senior Josh Richardson goes to the basket during the Vols’ game against LSU on Saturday. Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon
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LSU’s frontcourt proves to be too much for Vols Jonathan Toye
Sports Editor (@JonathanToye1) LSU started two future NBA prospects in the frontcourt while the Vols started a former guard and foul-prone freshman in their frontcourt. The answer became obvious early in the game: Tennessee had no answer for the LSU post players. Jordan Mickey scored a game-high 20 points and collected 11 rebounds to propel LSU to a 73-55 victory over Tennessee. His partner in the post, Jarell Martin, was hampered by foul trouble, but still posted 9 points and 5 rebounds. Mickey and Martin’s influence didn’t just reside in the post. Their presence down low also opened opportunities on the perimeter for LSU’s backcourt. In an attempt to limit the Tigers’ big mens’ touches in the paint, the Vols contracted their zone inside the 3-point arc. This tactic, though, sacrificed LSU open looks from behind the arc. The Tigers made sure to capitalize, knocking down 7-of-10 shots from the 3-point in the first half.
“You have to pick your poison against that team,� head coach Donnie Tyndall said. “They average five-and-a-half made threes per game. Those two big guys, as we talked about before, are NBA players. So if you are going to shrink the floor, pack it in on them a little bit, you are going to give up a couple of jump shots.� Mickey also made life miserable for Tennessee on the defensive end, rejecting seven Tennessee shot attempts for the game. The 6-foot-8 Dallas, Texas, native also influenced the Vols to alter their shots close to the rim in the first half. “We started double-pumping balls, playing offbalance,� Tyndall said. “(We were) looking for the shot blocker, instead of just exploding to the rim, trying to finish.� Spotlight: It was just last summer when Derek Reese wanted to be a player who just lived on the perimeter. Six months later, the Orlando, Florida, native battled down low against two of the best post players in the SEC. Reese was one of the few bright spots for the Vols in their loss against the Tigers, scoring 11 points on 5-of-11 shooting, and snatching five rebounds.
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Lady Vols remain undefeated in conference play despite injury to Harrison Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer
As the game turned: With Isabelle Harrison out for the majority of the second half due to a knee injury, the No. 6 Lady Vols knew they would need an overall team effort down the stretch to take down No. 10 Kentucky. Fellow senior Ariel Massengale keyed a 16-5 run that lasted nearly six minutes to give Tennessee a 53-43 lead with 15:29 left. “We are a team and we are a family,” Massengale said. “When one goes down others have to step up. We all stepped up and the freshmen did really well. We got this W for Izzy.” The Lady Vols pulled away for good with their tenacity on the offensive glass, where they hauled in 16 of 46 team rebounds. On back-to-back possessions, Jaime Nared and Massengale snagged offensive rebounds, as they were in the right place following missed shots for the put-backs. Massengale’s field goal off her own miss, which was tipped to her underneath the basket, gave Tennessee a commanding 68-56 lead with 3:21 left. “When you’ve got us getting those offensive rebounds that’s an energy booster,” Burdick said, who finished with a team-high nine rebounds, three of which were on the offensive glass. “We go hard in practice and it pays off in the game.” Massengale, who became the 41st member of the UT 1,000 point club with her triple at 13:33 in the second half, scored 15 points in the final period. With a team effort in front of a season-high in attendance, 16,013, Tennessee (22-3, 12-0 SEC) notched its eighth win of the season over a top-25 team and remains atop the conference in league play with South Carolina. “Since it was a breast cancer game, we talked a lot about survival and fight,” Warlick said. “You have to get your hands dirty. It was a great win for us.
LADY VOLS continued from Page 1 Jaime Nared became a much bigger factor than expected after Harrison’s injury, making the most of her careerhigh 28 minutes. The freshman forward was one of five Lady Vols in double
“When someone goes down you want to fight for them. We were playing for Izzy.” Hot topic: Early in the first half, starting point guard Jordan Reynolds left the game with dizziness and never returned despite coming back to the bench in the second half. Harrison left the game early in the second half after getting tangled up down low fighting for an offensive rebound with Linnae Harper, in which she felt a pain in her right leg and fell to the court. The senior All-SEC post player received a standing ovation from the crowd, which was painted pink for the breast cancer awareness game, as she was carried off the court by her coaches and put in a wheelchair to be taken to the locker room. Spotlight: Jaime Nared played a seasonhigh 28 minutes off the bench and was one of five Lady Vols to finish in double figures, as the freshman scored 10 points (4-5 Field goals, 2-4 FT). Using her length at 6-foot-2, Nared hauled in three of her four rebounds off the offensive glass to mark the fifth game in which she has done so in her rookie campaign. The other guys: After scoring 42 points in a double-overtime victory against Mississippi State earlier in the week, Makayla Epps once again led her team in scoring with 13 points on 6-of-14 shooting from the field. The double-digit scoring output for the SEC’s 2nd leading scorer (15.2 ppg) marked the 21st time she has scored 10+ points in a game after averaging just 4.6 points per game in her freshman season. Say something:“We send out our prayers and best wishes to Isabelle,” UK head coach Matthew Mitchell said. “We are thinking about her and praying for the best.” By the numbers: 1: The Lady Vols were the first team to hold Kentucky to less than 60 points this season. 18: The Lady Vols have won 18 straight games in Thompson-Boling Arena 409: Tennessee has 409 offensive rebounds in 25 games.
figures, scoring 10 points in addition to three offensive rebounds on the night. “Jaime had a phenomenal game,” Burdick said. “I don’t even know how many (offensive rebounds) she had, but she comes in and always gives us some productivity on that end of the floor so it’s just an energy booster, it really is.” The win is the Lady Vols’ fifth against
Senior Isabelle Harrison attempts to shoot the ball during the Lady Vols’ game against Kentucky on Sunday. Justin Keyes • The Daily Beacon a top-10 opponent, with two of those coming against the Wildcats, and a strong second half without Harrison on the floor can serve as a confidence boost for this team going forward, Burdick said. “I think we have faced adversity before in the season,” Burdick said. “We took some blows and we continue to get
up. So we need to continue to get up together and come together as one and just play tough, play hard, play for our injured sisters and we will continue to work. “Everybody goes through tough times during the season and you can let it break you or you can let it make you. So we just have to let it make us.”
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Monday, February 16, 2015 • The Daily Beacon
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Lady Vols center Isabelle Harrison hurt, carried off floor Associated Press
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee center Isabelle Harrison was carried off the floor early in the second half of the sixth-ranked Lady Volunteers’ game Sunday with No. 10 Kentucky. Harrison was going up for an offensive rebound when she got tangled up with Kentucky’s Linnae Harper before falling to the floor. Her right leg and
right knee twisted awkwardly. Harrison lay down for several minutes before team officials carried the 6-foot-3 senior off the floor and onto a wheelchair. Players from both Tennessee and Kentucky went to Harrison and offered their support before she left. Harrison sprained her right knee in Tennessee’s season opener and missed the Lady Vols’ next five games. She currently wears a brace on that knee. Harrison ranks 12th in the Southeastern Conference in scoring (13.2) and third in rebounding (9.2).
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Janzen edges Bryant in playoff on Champions Tour Associated Press
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Lee Janzen birdied his final hole to get into a playoff, then beat Bart Bryant to win the ACE Group Classic on Sunday. Janzen forced the playoff with an 8-foot putt on No. 18. He then watched Bryant put his approach into the water on the extra hole. Janzen put his second shot on the green, two-putted and won the Champions Tour event at TwinEagles Golf Club. Bryant stormed into contention with a 10-under-par 62 on the final day, tying a course record. But with 178 yards to go as they played the 18th in the playoff, Bryant’s second shot hit pylons before bouncing into the water. Both shot 16 under in regulation play. Bryant aggressively played Nos. 17 and 18. He nearly chipped in on 17, and his 25-foot putt for birdie on 18 missed by a couple of feet. His prediction on TV of needing to go 17-under to avoid
a playoff was prophetic. Bryant began the day with an eagle before having birdies on four of his next five holes, as well as Nos. 9, 11, 13 and 17. Janzen also started well with three straight birdies from Nos. 3-5. He birdied Nos. 8 and 11, but a bogey on the 12th cooled him off until No. 18. Colin Montgomerie entered the day at 12 under with a one-shot lead. He opened with a birdie but then alternated birdies and bogeys on the 10th through 13th. He also bogeyed the last hole to fall into fifth place. Esteban Toledo, who shot 66 Sunday, finished third at 14 under. Peter Goydos, the champion last week at The Allianz Championship, finished 7 under. Kirk Triplett, the defending ACE Group Classic champion, went 2 under, shooting 68-72-74. Bernhard Langer was at 7 under when he withdrew and returned home to Boca Raton to be with daughter Christina. She had back surgery five weeks earlier.
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Jones belives DeBord can ‘enhance’ offense
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Staff Writer (@Mr_Rutherford) On Friday, the Tennessee Volunteers football team introduced Mike DeBord to the media for the first time since hiring him on Feb. 6 as the team’s new offensive coordinator. DeBord is replacing former offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian, who left the Vols to coach quarterbacks for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFL. When DeBord’s name first surfaced early in the coaching search, many fans questioned the decision to hire this rather unknown candidate. DeBord has not coached in the college ranks since he was Michigan’s offensive coordinator in 2007. His most recent stint as Michigan’s offensive coordinator was his second with the team, as he served the same role from 19971999, helping Michigan win the 1997 National Championship. He spent several seasons in the NFL after 2007, primarily as a tight ends coach for the Seattle Seahawks and Chicago Bears. For the last couple of years, however, DeBord has been removed from the coaching ranks and has served as sports administrator for Michigan’s Olympic sports teams. Despite his time away, DeBord claims the game hasn’t passed him by. “There’s no rust,” DeBord replied when asked about returning to the college game. “If anything, I feel fully charged. Coach (Butch) Jones said it’s just like riding a bike, and I’m pedaling really fast right now.” Tennessee head coach Butch Jones and DeBord already have experience coaching together. From 2000-2003, DeBord was Central Michigan’s head football coach when Butch Jones was his offensive coordinator. Their experience together was a big factor in Jones’ hiring DeBord. “I wanted someone who I knew and that I could trust,” Jones said about DeBord. “I wanted an individual who could come in and understand our terminology, our coaching staff, and I wanted a teacher and an individual who under-
stood the fundamentals. Mike Debord was the right fit.” Jones said he wanted someone who could “walk into the room and fix the problems of the entire offense,” and believes DeBord’s • Mike DeBord experience gives him that ability. While Jones may think there are issues with the team’s offense, it’s not his wish for DeBord to completely overhaul the system. Jones said he wanted “someone who could enhance our offense, not rebuild it” when explaining his thought process during the coaching search. “Our offense doesn’t need to be rebuilt,” Jones stated, “it needs to be enhanced.” Tennessee finished 11th out of 14 teams in the SEC in total yards per game and 10th in points scored per game in 2014. While those numbers aren’t astounding, the offense did improve once sophomore quarterback Joshua Dobbs became the starting quarterback for the last five games of the season. DeBord will also oversee an offense that returns 10 of 11 starters from 2014 and will receive immediate help from highly-touted commits such as running back Alvin Kamara and wide receiver Preston Williams from the 2015 recruiting class. Thanks to a bevy of returning and incoming talent on the offensive side of the ball, DeBord won’t have to worry about restructuring Tennessee’s offense. And in Jones’ third year as head coach, it’s crucial the offense flows without a hitch despite the coordinator change. “It takes continuity and consistency to win,” Jones said, “and for us to be in year three of our program and bring in an entire new offensive system, that’s extremely challenging. “I didn’t want to go down that path.”
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Rilwan Balogun (left), senior in journalism and electronic media, and Makayla Claussen (right), junior in kinesiology, enjoy the Lady Vols’ game against Kentucky on Feb. 15 with Smokey on Smokey’s Couch. Justin Keyes • The Daily Beacon