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Basketballs, racquets and more; The Rec by the numbers

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03 Power rankings for Big 12 men’s basketball wednesday, february 15, 2017

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1. KANSAS (23-3, 11-2) (LAST WEEK: 1) (NEXT: AT BAYLOR)

Kansas escaped a potential upset at home against West Virginia on Monday night to improve its lead to two games in the Big 12. The Jayhawks ultimately control their fate en route to their 13th consecutive Big 12 title.

2. BAYLOR (22-4, 9-4) (LAST WEEK: 2) (NEXT: KANSAS)

Despite dropping a game on Monday night at Texas Tech 84-78, Baylor still sits in second place in the Big 12 Conference. When the Bears host KU on Saturday, they could cut into the Jayhawks’ lead, but will need some help along the way if they want to have a title. File Photo by Emily Starkey | THE COLLEGIAN

Sophomore gaurd Frank Mason looks over at K-State’s bench during the basketball game between K-State and KU in Bramlage Coliseum on Feb. 6.

3. WEST VIRGINIA (20-6, 8-5) (LAST WEEK: 3) (NEXT: TEXAS TECH)

West Virginia looked to be in a perfect position to upset KU on its home floor, but blew a double-digit lead, lost the game and fell back to three games out of first place. It was a golden opportunity to make a push, but the Mountaineers seem to be out of contention at this point.

4. IOWA STATE (15-9, 7-5) (LAST WEEK: 5) (NEXT: AT KANSAS STATE) Iowa State dominated Oklahoma at home on Saturday 80-64, and now it sits in sole possession of fourth place in the conference. The Cyclones have been back-andforth all season, but they seem to have it together now.

5. OKLAHOMA STATE (16-9, 5-7) (LAST WEEK: 4) (NEXT: AT TCU)

The Cowboys have had just one slip-up (against top 10 Baylor by three points) in their last seven games. Oklahoma State has gone from being a lesser team in the conference to

potentially making the NCAA Tournament.

6. KANSAS STATE (16-9, 5-7) (LAST WEEK: 6) (NEXT: IOWA STATE)

Kansas State suffered a 19-point defeat at the hands of West Virginia on Saturday. The loss put another roadblock on the road to the NCAA Tournament for the Wildcats, but a six-game stretch against unranked opponents might bode well.

7. TEXAS TECH (179, 5-8) (LAST WEEK: 8) (NEXT: AT WEST VIRGINIA)

Looking to make a push to the NCAA Tournament, Texas Tech picked up a huge upset win against No. 4 Baylor on Monday. The Red Raiders can improve their résumé against West Virginia on Saturday.

8. TCU (17-8, 6-6) (LAST WEEK: 7) (NEXT: OKLAHOMA STATE) After a three-game win-

ning streak against the lesser teams in the Big 12, TCU was beaten by 18 points at Baylor. Another test lies ahead with a red-hot Oklahoma State team.

9. TEXAS (10-16, 4-9) (LAST WEEK: 9) (NEXT: KANSAS STATE ON SATURDAY)

Following a big win against Iowa State, the Longhorns laid an egg against Oklahoma State in a 13-point loss and then lost to Oklahoma, 70-66 on Tuesday. The end is near for Texas, and spring football is coming soon.

10. OKLAHOMA (9-16, 3-10) (LAST WEEK: 10) (NEXT: AT OKLAHOMA STATE ON SATURDAY)

It has been a tough year in Norman for Oklahoma fans. The Sooners lost seven games in a row before beating Texas on Tuesday, but still look to be struggling more than the Longhorns. Like Texas fans, Oklahoma fans can look ahead to football season.

Basketballs, racquets and more: The Rec Complex by the numbers RAFAEL GARCIA THE COLLEGIAN

At the beginning of the spring semester, students who go to the Peters Recreation Complex on almost any night of the week will find that basketballs are a rare commodity, but that certainly isn’t due to a lack of basketballs. When all the basketballs are in use, the Rec Complex staff must put up a sign stating that all 45 of the Rec’s basketballs are checked out. This is due to the roundthe-clock evening intramural games on six of the Rec Complex’s eight indoor basketball courts, as well as a few pickup games on the other courts. “It’s been pretty common for all of the basketballs

to check out every day,” said Jason Brungardt, assistant director of facility operations at the Rec Complex. “We’re averaging — especially with intramurals going on — checking out the basketballs around 350 times each day.” The high frequency at which basketballs are checked out not only shows students’ high interest in intramurals and pickup games at the Rec Complex. It also indicates a heavy rate of traffic through the Rec Complex’s doors. From fall 2015 to summer 2016, over 880,000 people swiped their IDs at either the Rec. Complex or the Natatorium. The 880,000 swipes does not take into account other facilities that do not require an ID to enter, and Brungardt

said the number of times the Recreational Service’s facilities were used during that time frame easily tops a million swipes. Out of the five busiest days on record at the Rec Complex, four have been on the first days of each semester, particularly the spring semester, Brungardt said. The busiest day so far this semester follows that same pattern, as 6,426 people swiped into the Rec. Complex on Jan. 17, which was the first day of the semester. “There’s definitely a correlation with New Year’s resolutions,” said Steve Martini, Recreational Services director. “There’s also the fact that it’s winter and it’s tough to go outside, and spring break is also coming up.”

INTRAMURALS POPULAR ATTRACTION AT THE REC

Students who participate in intramurals definitely make up a large portion of the daily traffic, Martini said.

“For intramurals, our numbers have always been really high for the number of students we have at K-State,” Martini said. “If you take basketball, it’s probably the largest intramural by number

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K-State men’s basketball team to face Iowa State in Bramlage

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Sophomore forward Dean Wade goes to the basket for a layup during the game between K-State and KU in Bramlage Coliseum on Feb. 6.

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It would appear on the surface that the Kansas State men’s basketball team can finally take a breather. The Wildcats just finished a three-game stretch against the top three teams in the Big 12, who also happen to be three top 15 teams in the country. Unfortunately for the Wildcats, the Big 12 is one of the toughest conferences in the nation; it’s a marathon that allows for no breathers. That marathon continues tonight in Bramlage Coliseum when the Wildcats will take on Iowa State at 6 p.m. K-State heads into the game with a bit of uncertainty down low. Senior forward D.J. Johnson missed the West Virginia game on Saturday with an ankle injury, and his participation will be a game-time decision against the Cyclones tonight. Sophomore Dean Wade and freshman guard Xavier Sneed had to step up in place of Johnson against West Virginia

on Saturday and will likely be called upon tonight against the Cyclones. “It was different,” Wade said about not having Johnson on the court against West Virginia. “It was pretty hard, it made me appreciate (Johnson) even more now that we don’t have him.” Wade said no matter if Johnson plays tonight or not, he wants to play with energy and enthusiasm against the Cyclones “I’m just going to try to bring intensity and energy and defensive pressure,” Wade said. Besides the possibility of not having Johnson down low, K-State will also have to deal with the Cyclone’s offense, especially their 3-point shooting. Iowa State went off on the Wildcats in the first matchup in Ames, Iowa. The Cyclones shot almost 50 percent from the 3-point line. Senior guard Matt Thomas was especially hot; he scored 20 points in the first half, included six 3s. “You have to stop the (3-point shooting), but you can’t also give them layups,”

head coach Bruce Weber said. “I think it was even more obvious before with coach (Fred Hoiberg), he would talk about 30 3s, but when you go back, the 3s didn’t kill you, all the easy

layups did.” Weber said limiting easy baskets against the Cyclones tonight starts with transition defense. “We can’t let Matt Thomas get going, you can’t let Naz Long get going,” Weber said. “You’ve got to limit those easy looks, and it starts with transition defense.” Playing better defense will be big tonight in a game that isn’t a must-win, but it is a win the Wildcats could really use if they want to hear their name called on Selection Sunday. The Wildcats didn’t make any waves in their three-game stretch against top 15 teams, making the final six games all the more important. “I don’t think any other team in the nation has that opportunity to go three games back-to-back-to-back that are top 10 teams in the nation,” Wade said. “We just didn’t jump on it like we should’ve, but it was good that we got one of them at least. These next six games are big for us now.” The Wildcats and Cyclones will tip off at 6 p.m. in Bramlage Coliseum. The game can be seen on ESPN2.

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Wildcat women to start final road trip of season SHELTON BURCH THE COLLEGIAN

The year 2017 has brought radically different fortunes for the Kansas State Wildcats and West Virginia Mountaineers women’s basketball teams. The two teams last played Jan. 1, 2017. K-State won 8671 with senior center Breanna Lewis scoring 23 points and grabbing nine rebounds.

The two teams square off for the second time this season at 6 p.m. tonight in Morgantown, West Virginia. The Mountaineers entered their last encounter with a 13-0 record. The loss, however, started what has been a bumpy road for the team. Since losing to K-State, the Mountaineers are 4-7 and have dropped out of the rankings altogether after the previous game with K-State, where they were ranked No.

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Meanwhile, K-State has used the win to continue what was already a strong start to the season, going 7-4 since the win after going 10-3 leading up to the game. Of those four losses, only one has been against an unranked opponent. The Wildcats will start their last road trip of the season Wednesday. They’ll continue to Fort Worth, Texas, to play against the TCU Horned

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Opinion: Will Trump’s ‘America First’ policy bring manufacturing back? TK MCWHERTOR THE COLLEGIAN

Throughout his campaign, President Donald Trump proclaimed that America’s trade deals did not put America first, and we were suffering the consequences. He cited trade agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Trans-Pacific Partnership as unfairly hurting the U.S. manufacturing industry and constantly targeted Hillary Clinton for supporting them. He also claimed that our trade deficits with various countries were causing the U.S. to lose jobs and hurt our economy. He even went far enough to say, “We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country,” which was not much of an anomaly in Trump’s atypical rhetoric. It would be very difficult to argue that without Trump making the outsourcing of U.S. manufacturing jobs as one of his campaign’s main talking points, he would have won those states in the Rust Belt, namely Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan. All three were won by less than 80,000 votes, but totaled 46 electoral votes. The Rust Belt had voted Democrat in the presidential elections since 1988 (1984 for Wisconsin), not to mention Ohio, which had not gone Republican since 2004, which Trump won by 8 percent. Had those states not swung toward him, we would be talking about President Hillary Clinton right now instead of President Donald Trump. His campaign promise was to bring back those jobs to the Rust Belt that had been lost many years ago. It is very clear that this issue struck a chord with many people in the Northeast. With the election over, how does Trump plan to deliver on his promise to this demographic? So far, other than declaring he “will be the greatest jobs president God ever created,” Trump has pulled out of TPP, which was a multi-lateral trade

agreement among 12 countries that comprise about 38 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. He has also been talking with Mexico and Canada about renegotiating NAFTA

all consumers, but poor people particularly see an advantage if they are currently struggling to buy essential goods to live, such as food, clothing, hygienic materials, etc. Countries engage in

“Trade between countries is just as important and relevant as trade between individuals.” TK McWhertor, junior in economics with the idea that it currently disadvantages the U.S. He has also proposed border taxes — tariffs — as high as 35 percent on imported goods in order to deter outsourcing.

FREE TRADE

So, it seems Trump is keeping with the overarching theme of his campaign that free trade hurts Americans. But when you look at every angle of free trade on the national scale, this assertion is simply not true. Free trade has been an extremely beneficial activity for the American consumer that has led to the technological boom and a higher standard of living for people living in poverty in the U.S., as well as a substantial global decrease in poverty in the last few decades. Free trade — trade between countries without penalty — ensures through competition that goods are produced at the lowest possible price, and thus sold at a lower price to consumers. Everyone wants their goods to be cheaper, but in economic terms this means more purchasing power — meaning consumers are able to buy more with each dollar they have. Naturally, this is good for

industries in which they have comparative advantage over other countries in the same way individuals perform jobs they are most efficient at and pay others to do the things they are less efficient at doing. You wouldn’t grow all of your own food, make your own clothes and build your own furniture. You would specialize in making clothes and trade what you produce with someone who specialized in growing food.

In short, trade between countries is just as important and relevant as trade between individuals. Moreover, when a company imports a good from another country, it is because it is more financially viable. A country can buy more of a good when it can import more than it can produce inhouse at the same cost. While this does move jobs away in one area of the economy (5 million manufacturing jobs have left the US since 2000), it opens up new jobs in other areas where the company would not have been able to grow financially (salesmen, maintenance, manufacturing of composite goods, etc.). If protectionist policies were to be instituted, like a strict tax charged to companies on goods that were imported, prices would inevitably rise. Companies would not simply pay the tax and keep prices at the same level; they would have to charge more or risk going out of business.

BORDER TAX

The other option for companies to avoid paying the border tax would be to relocate factories into (or back into) the United States. But this would also raise prices as it’s currently more expensive to manufacture in America, and if it costs more to produce, it costs more for consumers. A border tax becomes ef-

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fectively a subsidy we all pay for higher prices in order for certain people to keep their jobs that can be done more efficiently somewhere else.

CHEAP LABOR

While the basic premise that other countries can produce goods more cheaply than the U.S. is largely true, there are important exceptions and distinctions. Mexico is gaining tremendous amounts of investment in its manufacturing industry for various reasons. The least of these motives, contrary to popular belief, is the cheaper cost of labor. Take the automotive industry as an example. A car company saves on average $600 per car on labor in Mexico compared to the U.S., but in order to transport to Europe or the U.S., it costs $300 or $900 per car, respectively. So, the high transportation costs due to Mexico’s inferior infrastructure make the savings on labor insignificant. The real reason for Mexico’s boom in manufacturing is their free trade deals with 45 countries, while the U.S. has similar agreements with just 20 countries. These trade agreements, which make trade tariff-free, allow auto companies to buy

parts more cheaply from other countries and sell cars with greater profit, specifically to the European Union, with which the U.S. has no trade agreement. Savings on parts and tariffs total about $4,000 per car, which is why manufacturing in Mexico appears to be so cheap. In short, free trade, not cheaper labor, is the main attraction for companies to move to Mexico for manufacturing. However, there can be problems with free trade that result in job loss in manufacturing industries. One example is when foreign companies are subsidized by their governments and are able to artificially keep prices low to undercut American companies. The devaluation of currency, while it does hurt the country of origin more than the U.S., is something that throws a wrench into free trade.

To read more, visit kstatecollegian.com TK McWhertor is a junior in economics. The views and opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Collegian. Please send comments to opinion@kstatecollegian.com.

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REC | Spring intramurals attract more students to Rec Complex

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“There’s a large residence system that’s here. Lots of students at K-State come from smaller towns where they all played in competitive sports, and that’s a reason why our intramurals are pretty large.” To create more space for activities, the Rec underwent a $23 million renovation that was completed in 2013. Martini said demand has always met capacity at the building. “If the building were smaller, the numbers would be less because it’d be too crowded,” Martini said. “The bigger building allows us to do more. We have more space for intramurals, we have more sports clubs and more fitness classes.” “We keep thinking more space will make the building less crowded, but we build it and there’s other limiting factors,” Martini continued. “The parking lots are full and then you’ve got to wait for someone else to leave. Or you’re waiting for a basketball court to open because you’re waiting for a court to open, and it means less courts for people to shoot around. We have a very active student body.” The Rec. Complex schedules around 350 intramural basketball teams to play games between 5 and 11 p.m. each night, except for Sundays. On an aver-

age night, six games are played every hour, with 12 teams of approximately eight people per team participating within that hour. Altogether, there are about 576 players who cycle through the complex’s courts every evening. The 576 players per evening number does not include spectators, who easily add another few thousand, said Tyler Burroughs, intramural coordinator. “Over half the (intramural) hours are used by fraternities, and they usually bring in excess of 50 people per chapter to spectate the games,” Burroughs said. About 200 intramural officials — a substantial portion of the 350 students employed by the Rec. Complex — maintain order for the various intramural sports among the players and teams.

— facilities or time-wise. We had 100 teams for outdoor soccer, and we’ll probably have 130 teams for indoor (soccer). That’s only because indoor games are shorter, and we only started indoor soccer games a few years ago.” Recreational Services offers 60 different intramural sports, and leagues typically fill up quickly, Burroughs said. “We’re at capacity for a lot of niche sports,” Burroughs said. “I strongly believe that if we did decide to use all eight courts for all of the basketball intramural hours, we’d fill those slots easily.” Martini said the campus is currently undergoing a “campus health and wellness study,” which could mean a redevelopment of the Rec. Complex to include mental and health facilities.

SPRING INTRAMURALS

NO SHORTAGE

As the semester progresses, other intramural sports will become the driving factors in the Rec’s high rate of attendance. In an email, Martini said Recreational Services expects 250 softball teams and 130 indoor soccer teams to register for play later this spring. “We’re actually at capacity for all versions of soccer,” Burroughs said. “We legitimately don’t have any more room to fit the amount of teams we have

In addition to the 45 basketballs, the Recreation Complex’s desk has 20 volleyballs, 20 soccer balls, 12 badminton racquets, 44 racquetball racquets, 10 tennis racquets, 15 jump ropes, six Xbox controllers and 30 locks for checkout. Another popular item is towels, which Brungardt said are checked out around 500 times per day. Around the Rec., students can use one of 15 treadmills, 34 elliptical machines, 21 stationary

bikes, six stairmills, eight rowing machines, eight bench presses, four squat racks, three Olympic lifting platforms, 31 selector-

ized pieces of equipment, 12 plate-loaded pieces of equipment, six adjustable cable-fly machines, dumbbells ranging from 2.5 to 150 lbs., two Smith machines, five preacher-curl benches and 14 adjustable benches. The complex also has 13 indoor basketball and volleyball courts; an indoor multi-activity court, which can be used as an indoor soccer court, inline hockey rink or three indoor tennis courts; two wallyball courts; 14 racquetball courts; two squash courts; six badminton courts and three table-tennis tables. Outside, the Rec. maintains several fields for intramural sports, including four ultimate Frisbee fields, one soccer field, eight softball diamonds and six flag-football fields. During the warmer periods of the school year, students use the three outdoor basketball courts, four sand volleyball courts and six outdoor tennis courts at the Rec. Com-

plex. Off-site facilities include the Natatorium, Memorial Stadium, the Outdoor Recreation Center, the Outdoor Rental Center, the challenge course and the running trail. Brungardt said it is difficult to count how many people use the outdoor and off-site facilities because students are not required to use their IDs at those places, with the exception of the Natatorium. During the summer, the facilities still see large rates of usage, but primarily from camps and community members. “During breaks, we have a lot of camps for athletic teams because we have the space and it’s a way to get a little bit of revenue,” Brungardt said. “We don’t count those people in our totals for the year either.”

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