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Ending food insecurity The UA Campus Pantry works to ensure that students and faculty have access to nonperishable foods at no cost

BY AMBER WHITE

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The UA Campus Pantry gives students and faculty the opportunity to pick up nonperishable food staples at no cost and will open its doors for another distribution on Friday.

The pantry’s main goal is to reduce food insecurity by supplying food staples for free. Students

and staff only need a CatCard to access all of the nonperishables.

Michelle Sun, community director of Residence Life, is the executive director and advisor for the nonprofit organization. She oversees the board of directors and advises the students to make sure the pantry is running smoothly. She was one of the founding members of the pantry.

Food insecurity is the inability

to access food on a regular basis, according to Sun. The pantry’s distributions are given twice a month.

It is set up like a storefront with a wide variety of nonperishables. Students and staff members come in and shop for a certain number of items that fit their needs, according to Sun. At the checkout, each person weighs the amount of nonperishables they’ve taken that day. At each distribution,

the pantry gives away 400-500 pounds of food.

In February 2012, an initial interest meeting was held with all different people across the university to see if there was a need for a food pantry on the UA campus.

“There were students going hungry since meal plans are not

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Honoring Holocaust victims

BY BRANDI WALKER The Daily Wildcat

The UA Hillel Foundation educated students, faculty and Tucson community members about the Holocaust and the importance of remembering it at the 24th annual Holocaust Vigil and Butterfly Project on Wednesday.

The pods set up on the UA mall were decorated to represent different aspects of life either before or during World War II and the Holocaust, said Hanna Port, a senior studying business management and Judaic studies and co-chair of the vigil and project.

“This pod is a barrack; it’s a representation of what people lived in and slept in throughout the years of the war in all of the concentration and death camps,” Port said about one of the pods. “The pod on the far left over there is a memorial pad, and they have candles in there to represent each of the 13 death camps set up by Nazi Germany.”

Port said another pod represents what life was like for Holocaust victims before World War II or when the Holocaust began. Inside, there was a traditional Shabbat table set with candlesticks, a glass of wine and challah bread, along with photographs of Jewish families posted on the walls.

The fourth and final pod represented the experience of being transported across Europe in a cattle car, which is how many of the Holocaust victims were moved to concentration or death camps,

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HANNA PORT, far right, a senior studying business management and Judaic studies and co-chair for the Holocaust Vigil, explains what life would have been like living in a barrack during the Holocaust. The 24th annual Holocaust Vigil and Butterfly Project was a 24-hour event on the UA mall open to students, faculty and community members interested in learning about the Holocaust.

professor McGuire students sell UA publishes her their ideas on the mall sixth novel

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The second annual McGuire on the Mall trade fair runs today from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., showcasing 22 teams of students and their business ventures. These seniors are part of the McGuire Entrepreneurship Program and have spent all year learning how to create and market unique business ventures. “[They are] very varied,” said Jeff Barrows, assistant director of the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship. “They range from food-based … to web applications. There’s a group working with human waste to produce electricity.”

The participating students are a group of 80-90 students who were granted the limited acceptance to the program.

While a business-oriented program, it is open to any undergraduate and graduate students.

“It’s a trade-show type of event,” said Patty Sias, program

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all the way to meeting with any investors.

According to Barrows, through the program and the trade fair, these teams gain valuable insight into producing

Born in the small town of Webster City, Iowa, Elizabeth Evans grew to be not only a distinguished professor, but also a successful writer of fiction. With the recent publication of her sixth book, “As Good As Dead,” this UA professor continues to keep her love for writing alive, and will be doing a reading of the book at the UA Poetry Center today.

Rivalry, betrayal and twisted secrets are what one can expect to find in Evans’ suspenseful novel, “As Good As Dead.”

While it is a riveting tale of friendship and bad blood, Evans explained how her novel also plays on societal issues experienced not only by characters of fiction, but also by real-world individuals.

While Evans does not identify with any particular writing style, her editor, Nancy Miller, of Bloomsbury Publishing, describes Evans’ writings as careful and effortless.

“She’s a very literary writer, very accessible; the sentences are deceptively simple,” Miller said. “She’s very good at creating psychological tension.”

While writing, Evans also maintains her position as a distinguished professor of

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THE MCGUIRE Center for Entrepreneurship holds an annual event to allow the students of the program a chance to unveil their startups. The program accepts around only 80 students each year and allows these students the chance to create business ventures.

director of the McGuire Entrepreneurship Program.

“Students work in teams throughout the year and start literally from scratch.”

Barrows said that the program takes the students from the creation of the idea

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required on our campus,” Sun said. “Students had to pick between paying for books or tuition versus eating on a regular basis, because a lot of people don’t realize food insecurity is something college students deal with.”

A stereotype exists that says if college students can afford to pay for higher education, they must be able to afford food on a regular basis, according to Sun. The UA Campus Pantry tries to bridge the gap between the cost of attending college and having the means to eat on a regular basis.

“We try to make the university more inclusive and a better learning environment for students experiencing food insecurity,” Sun said.

Mariel Wilk, an elementary education senior, is a board member in the UA Campus Pantry. She and the other board members run the distribution process and market and manage the pantry.

When she saw there was a need for the pantry, she said she got involved.

“I was fortunate enough not to be in this situation,” Wilk said.

Berkeley Harris, a junior studying public management and policy, has been a UA Campus Pantry board member since 2012. She said she helps with the administrative side of the pantry and wherever else she is needed.

“The college student population isn’t thought about when it comes to food insecurity,” Harris said.

The food available at the pantry consists of peanut butter, jelly, soups, ramen, canned fruits and vegetables, cereals, granola bars and citrus. The pantry sometimes receives fresh produce from the organization Waste Not and the UA Community Garden, according to Harris.

“I love being at the distribution and seeing the impact we are making,” Harris said. “The sense of community the pantry can build, as well as helping them have fuel to study and do better in college without worrying about not eating.”

The distribution will be held on Friday from 2-5 p.m. in El Portal.

Port said.

Many of the students, faculty and community members who attended the vigil participated in the Butterfly Project, Port said.

“Each butterfly represents a child victim, and we write the names of the child on the back so that their memory may live on,” Port said.

Daniella Almeida, a junior studying physiology and Africana studies, said the Butterfly Project is something that is done every year with this event. She said it provides people with the unique opportunity to take some time between classes to make an impact and to learn the importance of this piece of history.

“At Hillel, there is going to be a big wall where all of these butterflies will be up on display so people can go and see their butterfly,” Almeida said.

Jonathan Burger, co-chair of the vigil and project, said he was surprised by the lack of knowledge some people have about the Holocaust.

“There’ve been a few people that have no idea what the Holocaust was or is, and it kind of blows my mind away sometimes,” Burger said. “This is part of my culture. I have family that was involved in the Holocaust.

It just reminds you of the importance of being here as not only a remembrance but also a teaching. I’ve gotten a couple weird questions, but that’s what we’re here for.”

Meryl Engle, a junior studying journalism and religious studies and an intern at Hillel, led multiple discussions encouraging middle schoolers to start thinking about how to teach about the Holocaust once there are no living survivors.

“There will never be an answer to this question,” Engle said to the students. “But it’s imperative that your generation starts thinking about it, because you will be the generation that teaches the next generation and the one after that, and we won’t always have survivors around to make this piece of history as impactful and meaningful as it has been for your and my generation because we have had survivors to talk to.”

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THE UA Campus Pantry works to eliminate food insecurity by providing nonperishable goods at no cost to students and

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“Which foods are must-haves in your kitchen at home?”

1. “Bananas, apples and goldfish. The fruit because I really like things with natural sugar. The goldfish are just fun to have to snack on.” ­­— Audrey Carlson, an elementary education major.

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2. “Any kind of vegetable and steak, because those are my favorite foods.” — Rouna Mohran, a preneuroscience freshman.

3. “Sugar cookies, just because it’s always a good snack at nighttime or in the evening when I’m just watching a movie or TV — something easy to go to and grab.” — Thomas Porter, a junior studying business and dance.

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27 years at the UA, teaching in the highly acclaimed creative writing program.

A native to the American Heartland, Evans said she had always been a part of a creative family; the arts were highly valued in her Iowa home. Even with her hometown in Webster City, Evans is no newcomer to

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“Eggs and potatoes for a hearty breakfast.” — Hunter Black, a prebusiness sophomore.

5. “Probably cereal and milk because I love cereal. Also, granola bars.” — Kyrra Kahler, a freshman studying — Compiled by and photos by Chastity Laskey psychology and public management and policy.

Tucson. Since she was six years old, she has traveled to marvel at the unsurpassed locale southern Arizona has to offer while on holiday with her family.

Evans said she knew she wanted to pursue fiction upon finding an early inspiration in the works of Vladimir Nabokov. While his artistry heavily influenced her writing, she said she now looks to famed author Alice Munro for constant inspiration. Enamored with how Munro breaks away

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from heteronormative culture, Evans said she incorporates similar themes in her newest publication.

“There are these pressures of women comparing themselves on the basis of how they look, and that really contributes to real-world concerns women still face,” Evans said.

Upon receiving her MFA from the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Evans said she migrated to the UA to instruct aspiring writers.

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and marketing a product to the public and to investors.

Despite being an academic exercise, some teams take it to the next level.

“There’s always a contingent who go on to launch their businesses,” Barrows said.

MistoBox, a personalized coffee subscription service, began as a project by McGuire students back in 2011. They successfully completed a Kickstarter campaign and were featured on the show “Shark Tank,” where they were funded by Mark Cuban.

SpeakEsy was a product developed by the PowerPitch group of Master of Business Administration students in the McGuire program. The product is an interactive software tool to teach communications, speaking and business pitching skills.

McGuire has been one of the highest ranked when it comes to college entrepreneurship programs in the U.S. “Named the ‘crown jewel’ of the University of Arizona by USA Today/The Princeton Review, the McGuire Entrepreneurship Program is a globally recognized program open to UA undergraduate and graduate students from any field of study,” the center’s website says. “Not only are we one of the first university-based entrepreneurship education programs, we are also one of the few to consistently maintain top tier rankings.”

Each team will have a booth to market its product.

The teams are judged on things like booth presentation and are competing for awards in different categories.

The identities of the judges aren’t revealed to the entrepreneurship students.

As for the competing students, Sias said, “They are very excited. It will be a lot of fun.”

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Since the publication her sixth book, Evans continues to teach part time at the UA. She is currently on tour to promote her latest publication and will make an appearance at the UA Poetry Center at 7 p.m. today for a reading and book signing.

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Art gets optical science makeover

BY MIKAYLA MACE The Daily Wildcat

2015 is the International Year of Light, and this October, the UA Museum of Art is celebrating by working with the College of Optical Sciences and the department of astronomy and Steward Observatory to integrate science and art in a whole new way.

There are multiple projects in the making to prepare for October, according to Gina CompitelloMoore, the museum’s marketing manager.

For one project, the art museum is working with Ali Khan, a senior studying optical science and engineering. The goal is to create a light source specific for Mark Rothko’s famous painting “Green on Blue” that will display the painting in its best light.

So far, Khan and the museum have set up the lighting test system.

From an app on their phones, they are able to manipulate the temperature of the light source, which influences the way the colors in the painting appear to the eye.

The lowest temperature the light can be is 2,500 kelvins (2,226.85 degrees Celsius), and the temperature can be increased in increments of 200 K (73.15 C below zero).

“I’ve looked at this painting for a year, and I’m seeing things come out of the [painting] that I never saw before,” said Nathan Saxton, the art museum’s exhibition

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TIFFANY LUU, a senior studying public management and policy, left, and Mikayla Mace, a senior studying neuroscience and cognitive science, right, view a Mark Rothko painting under changing light in the UA Museum of Art on Wednesday. Changes in temperature to the light source make the colors appear differently.

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As he scrolled the temperature dial on his phone, the light projected on the painting started to change from an orange glow to a bright bluish white, exposing different shapes and colors hidden underneath the top layers of blues, whites and greens.

This week, the museum will have members of the public take a survey in which they will choose their favorite lighting conditions for the painting.

“Rothko’s whole goal was to illicit a response to his works using only color, … so it was in perfect alignment with this project,” Saxton said. “We also chose this one because it’s one of our most popular ones.”

When asked if there is any “best” lighting for the painting, Saxton said that there might not be a right answer; part of the reason why Rothko’s painting was chosen is because it’s completely subjective.

There’s no issue of visitors seeing a

scene they recognize and carrying preconceived notions of how the scene should be lit.

Another suggestion was that it should be lit with the same lighting under which Rothko painted it.

However, according to Saxton, it is unknown what the lighting was like, and if it was known, he wonders if it’s the museum’s job to display it that way, or to display it in a way that the public prefers to see it.

“It brings up a lot of cool

questions, and I think it opens a discussion that we might never have opened before,” CompitelloMoore said.

By pulling together the strengths of a world-renowned optical sciences department and an art museum with a fantastic collection, the two departments can start to create something completely different than what’s been done before.

Other projects include a talk by Charles Falco, presenting evidence on the use of optical devices in painting as early as the 15th century.

This is a controversial topic and of interest to art historians and optics students alike. In addition, there is a collaboration between Richard Poss and Rodger Thompson from the astronomy department, in which images of astronomical objects will be displayed next to older paintings that are as many light years away from the Earth as the painting is old. Lastly, there will be an exhibit of prints by James Turrell, an artist known for using light as his actual medium.

“I think it’s a really fantastic example of a collaboration between two pretty different university departments that are highly respected in their fields,” Campitello-Moore said. “And they’re both doing research that has an impact in the way people hang paintings in the future.”

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New properties of graphene explored

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UA RESEARCHERS ARE STUDYING the special temperature-propagating properties of graphene. Heat does not dissipate evenly through graphene; hot and cold spots are created instead, which can have great applications for new technologies.

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BENJAMIN HORN RECORDED PALLIATIVE CARE discussions between patients and physicians in the thoracic cancer unit in Germany.

Horn found palliative care consultations in Germany to be more personal than consultations in the U.S.

Approach to palliative care differs culturally

BY JOHN MCMULLEN The Daily Wildcat

As the U.S. population ages, palliative medicine and care is continuing to grow and become a bigger part of medical professions. Benjamin Horn, a senior studying biology and German, carried out an investigation into the current state of this field of medicine by comparing the U.S. to the burgeoning palliative care medical specialty in Germany.

“Palliative medicine is a medical subspecialty with a focus on relieving suffering and improving quality of life for people of any age, and at any stage, in a serious illness — whether the illness is curable, chronic, or life-threatening,” said Dr. Mindy Fain, a professor of medicine; division chief of geriatrics, general internal medicine and palliative medicine in the College of Medicine — Tucson; and co-director of the Arizona Center on Aging.

In the current U.S. healthcare system, older patients are a rapidly growing group — about 10 percent of the population — which accounts for approximately 60 percent of overall costs, mainly due to unnecessary utilization, Fain explained.

Horn conducted his research at the UA and Universität

Heidelberg in Germany.

“Cancer has been a big part of my life as [my family has] lost countless friends and family members,” Horn said. “My passion for cancer research and [palliative care] has grown with my interest for my German heritage.”

Germany is a relatively interesting case with regard to palliative care research and funding since it was first introduced in Germany in 1993, Horn explained. While palliative care research was recognized in the U.S. in the 1980s, the topic was first introduced in the 1960s, he added. Horn said he wanted to compare the development of palliative medicine and care in each country, given the discrepancy in when the fields were recognized in each country.

“My overall take-home message [from my findings] is the impact of direct, personalized care [on the patient],” Horn said. “In Germany, I found consultations to be longer [and more personal], which produced strong interpersonal relationships that were important for continued care as prognoses progressed.”

As palliative medicine continues to develop as a field in the U.S., Fain explained that medical students and residents will need increased training, and the entire “team” dedicated to

providing this form of care will also need to increase in size.

“Palliative medicine requires that we step back and see our role as ‘cure sometimes, comfort always,’ and to take care of the whole person with deep attention to their goals and values and preferences,” Fain said.

Much of Fain’s research focuses on providing lower cost with increased quality in homebased care, because individuals needing palliative receive fragmented care in a pre-existing system not designed to treat that group of patients.

“All health care providers need to have the skills to provide palliative care as a part of their daily work and not as a ‘carveout,’” Fain said.

Palliative medicine is more than a consult service delivered to hospitalized patients by a dedicated service, she said. “[These studies] are important … because there exists a stigma on death,” Horn said. “By [conducting] qualitative and quantitative studies, … we can remove this stigma of death and create a healthy, open environment whereby patients, family members and the medical team can openly discuss and plan advanced directives.”

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UA scientists look at heat transfer in graphene to help create futuristic tech

BY JACOB WITT

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UA researchers have recently documented the unique temperature-propagation properties of graphene, a carbon-based substance possessing profound potential in the fields of electronics and biological engineering. Heat diffusion through a material had long been considered an unalterable process — that is, until the isolation and study of graphene.

People are not strangers to the type of carbon found in graphene; in fact, it is commonly found in pencil lead. Graphene itself is a hexagonal lattice of carbon atoms, with each point in the structure containing a single carbon atom. The whole framework is only one atom thick.

“Graphene is a two-dimensional material composed of a single sheet of carbon atoms,” said Justin Bergfield, a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University. “What is truly remarkable is that, unlike an electron in free space, the electrons confined to a piece of graphene have a relationship between their velocity and energy which is like that of light.”

In other words, the electrons, negatively charged particles that make up atoms, move at a speed of 1 million meters per second between carbon atoms in graphene, Bergfield explained.

In traditional electrical conductors like copper, electrons travel only a few nanometers before scattering from a defect or excitation, which sends them off in a random direction.

“Heat is conducted ‘ballistically’ by both quantum electron waves and quantum sound waves … in graphene,” explained Charles Stafford, a physics professor at the UA. “These waves can travel rapidly for distances of up to a micrometer or more before scattering. This is very different from the behavior of typical materials, where heat diffuses

slowly from one point to another as a result of the random motions of electrons carrying the heat.”

The organized wave-like flow of electrons in graphene allows for the formation of intricate wave formations which lead to hot and cold spots, the temperature of which can be quantified using a scanning tunneling microscope-like thermometer, Bergfield said.

“Hot spots and cold spots up to tens of nanometers across can persist indefinitely within the heat flow of graphene, somewhat like an eddy that can persist in a flowing river,” Stafford said.

Graphene’s remarkable conductivity, flexibility, durability, strength (more than 100 times stronger than steel) and unusual heat properties are unlocking the vault to new potential technologies such as foldable touchscreens for smartphones and tablets, plastics with better conductivity than metals and electronic devices with greater efficiency and twice the power.

Since one of the major obstacles with electronics is overheating, graphene may prove to be a great advantage in circumventing this issue because it is possible to control where heat is localized on a nanoscale level, Stafford said.

“The crests of the electron waves are the hot spots and the dips are the cold spots, the locations of which can be predicted by solving the quantum wave equation for the electrons,” Stafford said. “The wave patterns of hot and cold spots can be controlled by tuning the wavelength of the electron waves using a gate voltage.”

This ability to manipulate the physical world at the nanoscale level foreshadows a potential technological revolution, the efficiency and advancement of which could end up transforming everyday life.

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Thursday, March 26, 2015 • Page A4 Editor: Jacquelyn Oesterblad letters@wildcat.arizona.edu (520) 621-3192 twitter.com/dailywildcat

Free speech dying a slow death on campuses

BY MARTIN FORSTROM The Daily Wildcat

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hose in the American left like to see themselves as champions of free speech battling against an increasingly authoritarian — fascist, even — right that has passed bills like the PATRIOT Act and supported the Citizens United ruling.

There is some truth to this conception.

Those on the right further attempt to erode free speech with efforts to force Christianity into politics and government in clear defiance of the wills of the Founding Fathers with, for instance, public displays of the Ten Commandments and recent bills to stop the teaching of ostensibly unpatriotic AP U.S. History classes.

There is also truth to the argument that many of those who rally against “political correctness” are really complaining about being held accountable for the racism, sexism, Islamophobia and so forth that they espouse.

But this does not mean that there are not legitimate and profoundly important arguments against the recent rise of censorship coming from the left in America, particularly on university campuses.

The left has been largely responsible for the growth of so-called political correctness from righteous attempts to discredit bigoted opinions to a codification of speech rules that stifles legitimate opinions. It is not only the minority who are in danger of censorship; mainstream, even majority arguments and things formerly considered to be common sense or harmless jokes are increasingly causing their proponents to be silenced or punished.

For instance, Wendy Kaminer cites in The Washington Post that, during a university panel on free speech, of all things, “Smith [College] President Kathleen McCartney had joked, ‘We’re just wild and crazy, aren’t we?’

In the transcript, ‘crazy’ was replaced by the notation: ‘[ableist slur].’”

Is that really necessary? Are there enough, let alone any, people with mental illnesses who are so sensitive that the readership should be deprived of knowing what was actually said?

Worse yet, Kaminer relates that “the State Department had for a time banned the words ‘jihad,’ ‘Islamist’ and ‘caliphate’ — which the transcript flagged as ‘anti-Muslim/ Islamophobic language.’” I can hardly imagine that a Muslim would object to someone saying, for instance, that the Islamic State is an Islamist group waging its flawed, violent conception of jihad to expand its selfproclaimed caliphate.

“You Islamophobic racist! You said ‘caliphate!’” said no one ever. It’s not like calling somebody the N-word. How did we go from trying to stop people from using legitimate slurs to banning the word “caliphate”?

The well-meaning desire to protect people from feeling victimized, unwelcome or even unsafe is now in danger of turning into some kind of purge or witch hunt of anyone who still has the courage to address difficult issues.

Those who dare to hold minority opinions are, of course, in greater danger. “A 2010 study by the American Association of Colleges and Universities of 24,000 college students and 9,000 faculty and staff members found that only 35.6 percent of the students — and only 18.5 percent of the faculty and staff — strongly agreed that it was ‘safe to hold unpopular positions on campus,”’ according to The New York Times.

Maybe there are limited occasions for which trigger warnings might be appropriate, but when we feel the need to warn people that somebody might say “crazy” or “caliphate,” marginalized groups are infantilized, and efforts to address issues of oppression and privilege will not be taken seriously.

Likewise, there are times when “safe spaces” are appropriate — events to which only women are invited, for instance. But when legitimate, even mainstream opinions about policy or theory that might actually challenge somebody intellectually are considered to be unsafe, the academic freedom of our universities is in mortal danger.

Screeds against so-called political correctness have long been a right-wing trope used to absurdly criticize efforts to fight rape culture, racism and other harmful ideologies and defend retrograde discrimination as immune from criticism, and perhaps this has drowned out legitimate concerns.

It is time that forward-thinking people realize that trigger warnings, “safe spaces” and the like are beginning to devolve into a vicious circle of censorship that will strangle necessary debate on difficult issues and only prevent real progress. Universities, increasingly complicit by enacting Orwellian speech codes, need to do their part and protect free speech on campus. If they do not, government needs to intervene; free speech should be protected more, not less, on public universities.

— Martin Forstrom is a senior studying sociology and Latin American studies. Follow him @martinforstrom

No method of execution is humane enough to be legal

BY ELIZABETH HANNAH The Daily Wildcat

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xecutions are not, and never will be, humane.

Disguising executioners in white lab coats and allowing them to shoot prisoners with chemicals instead of bullets does not constitute humanity.

Rather, it allows us as a society to sleep soundly at night, free from the guilt we might feel if the government killed people using gas chambers or electric chairs.

Yet despite the inherent barbarity of putting someone to death, lawmakers have historically employed the concept of “humaneness” as justification for the currently available methods of execution.

Until the late 1800s, nearly every state carried out executions by hanging, a punishment utilized worldwide for thousands of years. Eventually, however, a series of botched hangings caused most legislatures to forgo the practice in favor of electrocution. By 1915, 12 states had adopted electrocution statutes under the theory that the electric chair was less painful and more humane than the noose.

When Oklahoma became the first state to legalize lethal injection in 1977, death penalty proponents hailed the practice as a superior alternative to electrocution. Many states followed suit, praising death by lethal injection as quick and painless.

Today, the state of Oklahoma continues to be a pioneer in the field of execution technology.

On March 3, Oklahoma’s House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of HB 1879, a bill that would allow the state to conduct executions via nitrogen hypoxia if the proper lethal injection drugs are unavailable. Republicans Mike Christian and Anthony Sykes, the bill’s sponsors, claim that nitrogen hypoxia might ultimately prove more humane than lethal injection.

What exactly is nitrogen hypoxia?

It is a type of asphyxiation that is induced by breathing nitrogen instead of oxygen. Nitrogen, an inert gas, is not actually toxic, and therefore does not directly affect bodily functions. However, breathing nitrogen in an oxygendeficient environment prevents cells from obtaining oxygen and ultimately leads to death.

The procedure has not been thoroughly researched as a mode

of execution.

Ultimately, regardless of whether a prisoner is hung from a tree or deprived of oxygen, all forms of execution yield the same result: death. And death is a painful process. Lawmakers who propose new, “better” forms of execution are not acting out of compassion for the condemned, but out of a desire to mask the sheer brutality of capital punishment.

Nobody wants to accept responsibility for an execution that sets a man’s skin on fire or breaks his neck; nobody wants to witness the death of a man who spends his final minutes writhing and screaming in pain. But when death seems quick and painless, as though it is simply a form of prolonged sleep, it is easy to pretend that executions are not acts of cruelty.

Despite Oklahoma’s push for an improved execution method, most state laws make it clear that “humaneness” is nothing more than a superficial pretense used to justify capital punishment.

Your Views In response to “The loss of Greek Life,” by Elisabeth Morales (Mar. 25)

to combat such a stigma. However, the media often neglects to focus on how both administration and students are working to fix the issues. This is not to say that organizations do not commit wrongdoings, they do and that is obvious from the number of houses that have been removed from campus and the many sanctions that, like Kendall Washington White states in the article, are readily available online for the public to see.

Where are the sanctions for clubs and honoraries? Huh? There is no governing body to enforce or assign even a single punishment to them. There is simply a facade of “you will be in trouble if you violate the student code of conduct” that is NEVER enforced.

Instead of always placing Greek Life in a negative light, it would be much better if EVERYONE focused on a positive way to ensure traumatizing things, such as deaths and sexual harassment, do not occur rather than focusing on the fact that a group of individual were drinking underage. Many of the “problems” that Greek Life have, occur as normality outside of the Greek system. It’s time that this misconstrued perception changes.”

— Silence DoGood

“I agree that the “issues” present in Greek Life today have always been present and are now increasingly viewed under a microscope and every detail is examined thoroughly. However, an unnoticed issue is the STIGMA associated with Greek Life, not Greek Life itself.

As a member of both an organization and many other clubs and honoraries at the UA, it is both frustrating and disheartening to see that clubs and honoraries, who put their members through “traditions” and other acts that are even worse than what a new member goes through during a pledge process, do not receive anything close to the negative connotations and media coverage that fraternities and sororities do on a CONSTANT basis.

Additionally, Greek organizations provide a plethora of opportunities ranging from a familial context on campus, individual growth, and future career opportunities. It is wrong for organizations to consistently boast the number of philanthropy and community service hours they complete each year

The Daily Wildcat Editorial Policy Daily Wildcat staff editorials represent the official opinion of the Daily Wildcat staff, which is determined at staff editorial meetings. Columns, cartoons, online comments and letters to the editors represent the opinion of their author and do not represent the opinion of the Daily Wildcat.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, several states allow electrocution, gas chambers or firing squads to be employed if lethal injection is ever declared unconstitutional.

The continued existence of alternative methods in state statutes reveals stunning hypocrisy; if lawmakers genuinely cared about treating death row inmates humanely, they would abolish such methods altogether.

Pretending that executions can be humane effectively prevents us from engaging in meaningful dialogue about the death penalty. Until we accept the reality that all forms of execution amount to simple revenge killing, capital punishment will continue to negatively impact criminal justice in the U.S.

All forms of execution yield the same result: death.

— Elizabeth Hannah is a biochemistry sophomore. Follow her @ehannah10

In response to “Mexican tourism safer than most think,” by Jacob Winkelman (Mar. 24) “Rocky Point just had a celebration because there had been no murders for [two] years. I travel to Rocky Point constantly and never have a problem.

However if you want to find trouble you can find it anywhere.”

— Karen In response to “Bomb UA lawns (with seeds),” by Tom Johnson (Mar. 23) “I attended … [the] Tucson Book Festival recently and was treated to blowing dry grass and dust in my face and food, as were other patrons on that windy weekend. Ground cover [is] needed, but you are proposing wildflowers? Won’t work. Offer up a creative solution, already.”

— Paul “Not sure where you got that 50-70 [percent] of water in the U.S. is used for landscaping, but that is nowhere near what is actually used on homeowner landscaping. Most of the water in the U.S. is used for commercial crop irrigation or thermoelectric power generation.”

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BY AMBER WHITE

The Daily Wildcat

Blame the ASU student

An Arizona State University student was seen by a University of Arizona Police Department officer leaning outside of a vehicle’s passenger window yelling to other cars on March 7 at approximately 8:30 p.m.

The officer was stopped at a red light on Speedway Boulevard at Campbell Avenue when he observed a 2010 red Toyota Corolla turn left into the right-most lane of westbound Speedway Boulevard on a green turn arrow. An individual was yelling outside the window, and the officer couldn’t understand what he was saying.

The vehicle was stopped by the officer, who could smell an odor of intoxicants coming from inside the vehicle. The driver and one male passenger were over the age of 21, and the driver did not appear to have any signs of alcohol impairment. The ASU student and the other two UA students in the car were under 21 years old.

The man yelling from the passenger window had red, watery, bloodshot eyes and a smell of alcohol on his breath. He denied drinking and submitted to a horizontal gaze nystagmus test, which he failed. Then, he admitted to drinking and refused to take a portable breath test.

Both female UA students under 21 refused the PBT but took and failed the HGN test. One was crying and admitted to drinking vodka at an off-campus house party.

The two women were taking the driver and male passenger to a Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority date dash. The women and ASU student were cited and released on the scene. The driver was warned for an improper left turn and released.

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Break in

A UA staff member had to break into his own office, causing damage to the door, on March 7 at approximately 7:30 p.m.

A UAPD officer made contact with the individual, who identified himself as a UA medical doctor. He escorted the officer to his office and showed him the damage, which consisted of the bolt being separated from the handle. A small portion of the door was also broken near the door handle.

The staff member said the door closed on him as he was going to use the restroom. His keys, phone and wallet were locked inside the office.

The man said there were no other accessible phones in the building, and he was afraid of not being able to get a hold of anyone with a key to gain access to his office until Monday. He also said he had a morning flight and did not want to chance not being able to get his belongings. He said he believed the only option was to kick the door in.

The officer advised him to contact the building manager to have the door and lock replaced. The man said he knew who to talk to and offered to pay for the damage.

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Performance - Guitarist Jérémy Jouve 7 pm. Fred Fox School of Music, Holsclaw Hall. $25; students tickets at the door $10. One of the great young French players to win the coveted Guitar Foundation of America competition, Jeremy Jouve returns to the USA to debut music from his new CD. Hear this fantastic guitarist play a selection of Spanish and French music in the intimate venue of Holsclaw Hall.

Othello by William Shakespeare 7:30 pm to 11:45 pm. Tornabene Theatre on UA campus.

1025 N. Olive Road, Tucson.. $28. Deemed the darkest tale of the human heart ever written, this is the story of a man who loves, yet cannot trust.

Featuring some of Shakespeare’s most beautiful poetry, Othello tells a timeless, tragic tale of love, deceit, jealousy and murder.

MacArthur Fellows Speaker Series: Ofelia Zepeda 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm. Cesar E. Chavez Building, Room 111. The University of Arizona’s MacArthur Fellows exemplify all three. From neuroscience and astronomy to linguistics, ethnobotany, and anthropology, these scholars are changing the world for the better. This speaker series explores and celebrates the innovation and impact of our MacArthur Fellows’ work.

Writers’ Motivational Workshop 10 am to 12 pm. Oro Valley Public Library 1305 W. Naranja Drive, Oro Valley. With humor and passion, Alexis Powers provides the motivation to get your creative juices flowing. Whether you are working on fiction or memoir, come be inspired to pursue your writing life!

Fifth Annual Taleghani Lecture Series 7:30 pm. Student Union Memorial Center, Santa Rita Room. This year’s presentation is titled “The 1953 Coup Revisited.” It will evaluate recent works in light of documents released by the CIA, the State Department, and the British Foreign Office. The presentation will also evaluate how the crisis should be understood in the context of the Cold War or that of the struggle for control of oil between the West and oil producing countries in the Third World.

Poetry Circle 2 pm. Oro Valley Public Library Library 1305 W. Naranja Drive, Oro Valley. Join us for monthly poetry discussions, led by docents from the UA Poetry Center. Community members are invited to come and share their knowledge of favorite poets or listen and learn about new poets.

Docents will provide reading material sourced from the Poetry Center’s world- renowned collection.

This month’s topic - Irish Voices: W.B. Yeats & Seamus Heaney.

Grad Slam Prelims: Round 7 11 am. Student Union Memorial Center, Kiva Auditorium. Graduate students from across campus will compete for a chance to win $3,000 by doing a 3-minute presentation on a project related to their own research and discovery. Come hear about the amazing work that graduate students are doing in the community and across campus.

I Love Books Group: “Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore” by Robin Sloan 2 pm to 4 pm. El Dorado Health Campus 1400 N Wilmot Road.

Join Virginia Wise for a lively, fun, monthly book club featuring central themes of wisdom and aging.

TUCSON EVENTS

TUCSON EVENTS Overeaters Anonymous 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm.

St. Frances Cabrini Church, Education Buillding, Room 5. Overeaters Anonymous is a group of women and Men who use the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous to recover from compulsive eating and food behaviors. This program works for overeaters, undereaters, anorexics, bulimics, bingers, grazers, purgers, and those who “just need to lose a few pounds.” Whatever your problem with food, help is here. Meeting format includes readings from program literature, and open sharing.

Ultimate Game Night 6 pm to 10 pm. Maker House 283 N. Stone Ave. Come in and enjoy any of our board games or gaming systems on site, or bring in your own. We’re adding more board games, Magic the Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons, Settlers of Catan, HeroClix, table top gaming and we’ll still have retro video games and consoles throughout the space. GET YOUR GAME ON, TUCSON! Aspen Santa Fe Ballet 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm. Centennial Hall 1020 E. University Blvd..

Romantic. Radiant. Exuberant. Edgy. These are words that describe this engaging dance company.

With matinee idol beauty, Olympian athleticism, and Nobel laureate inventiveness, this is a company that delivers on its reputation, prompting The New York Times to call its debut at the Joyce Theater “a breath of fresh air.”

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’CATS VS. X-MEN

Arizona men’s basketball has a Sweet Sixteen matchup with Xavier on Thursday at 7:17 p.m. MST, with a potential rematch with Wisconsin on the horizon

BY JAMES KELLEY The Daily Wildcat

Arizona men’s basketball and Xavier have never met, but the familiar foes face off for a spot in the Elite Eight.

No. 2 seed Arizona (33-3) plays No. 6 seed Xavier (23-13) in the Sweet Sixteen of the West Region.

The game will tip off in Staples Center in Los Angeles tonight at 7:17 p.m. MST on TBS. Arizona head coach Sean Miller led the Musketeers for five seasons before he became the UA’s coach. The current Xavier head coach, Chris Mack, was an assistant coach under Miller from 2004 to 2009.

“Obviously, for me, seeing a lot of friendly faces from a place that is very dear to my heart and unbelievably fond memories, and that is competing against Xavier University,” Miller said.

“I think it’s going to be a heck of a basketball game, as is usually the case at this level.”

Miller led Xavier to the NCAA Tournament four times and to the Elite Eight twice. However, XU recovered after Arizona lured Miller away, as the Musketeers have since made it to three Sweet Sixteens.

Miller has led Arizona to four Sweet Sixteens and two Elite Eights.

“Sean’s been instrumental in my career,” Mack said. “He’s always been a mentor, whether it was when I was working for him, with him, or now that he’s a couple thousand miles away. There is not a challenge that I don’t bring to him if I’m struggling with something.”

Arizona point guard T.J. McConnell has some familiarity with Xavier, having played against the Musketeers when he was at Duquesne his first two years in college.

“Well, my experience playing against Xavier hasn’t been good,” McConnell said. “I’m 0-2, and I think the second time I played them, we lost by about 45 points. I know what kind of team they are; they play really hard, and they play with a chip on their shoulder.”

Xavier went 9-9 in the Big East Conference this season, which only had one team survive the opening weekend of the NCAA Tournament.

Xavier led the Big East in field goal percentage (.477) and assists (16.3 per game).

Xavier center Matt Stainbrook leads the Musketeers in scoring (12.1 per game) and rebounding (6.9 per game). The senior was a second team All-Big East member and has scored 1,464 points in his collegiate career.

“There isn’t a defense that Matt hasn’t seen,” Mack said. “Teams that really crowd him from the perimeter, teams that trap him with the other post, teams that trap him off the dribble, trap him on the catch.”

However, the Musketeers come to the Sweet Sixteen with another distraction.

The Associated Press reported that another XU student filed a complaint against Xavier forward Jalen Reynolds. He scored a career-high 21 points

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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball guard T.J. McConnell (4) shoots a layup as Ohio State forward Jae’Sean Tate (1) looks on during Arizona’s 73-58 victory in the Round of 32 in the 2015 NCAA Tournament against Ohio State in the Moda Center in Portland, Ore., on Saturday. McConnell and the Wildcats play Xavier in the Sweet Sixteen.

against Georgia State in the third round.

Mack told cincinnati.com that Reynolds “will be playing just like every other player on our team” while his case is being investigated.

Xavier lost to UTEP 77-73 in Anaheim, Calif., a team Arizona beat 60-55 on the road. XU is 10-7 against the 2015 NCAA Tournament teams, while the UA is 12-0 against the field.

The Musketeers have won five of their last six while the Wildcats have won 13 games in a row.

While the Wildcats are playing in LA, a Pac-12 Conference city with an expected friendly crowd,

they said the focus is on winning.

“When I saw the schedule in Los Angeles, it was obviously a goal of mine to get back,” Arizona forward Stanley Johnson said. “But now it’s about Xavier. It would really be bad to come here and take a loss. We’re trying to win games. So it’s not about being at home or anything like that. It’s about winning games.”

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Flores remains key piece Arizona for Arizona to rally around has big test on schedule

BY MATT WALL

The Daily Wildcat

Injuries aren’t hard to come by in such a high-impact sport like gymnastics, and the Arizona gymnastics team has unfortunately been bit by the injury bug this season.

It’s one thing to stay down when you are injured, but another to get back up and embrace your injury.

As Chumbawamba put it in their song “Tubthumping,” “I get knocked down. But I get up again. You’re never going to keep me down.”

Senior captain, and team leader, Allie Flores has done just that.

But in order to understand her role in the upcoming postseason for the Arizona Wildcats, you must first recall March 8. Flores was injured on a floor pass in the meet against Texas Women’s University.

The injury would not only end her season, but also end her career in an Arizona uniform.

Instead of pouting, Flores remains an intricate piece to the team’s success.

“She still leads our team huddles even on crutches,” Arizona gymnastics head coach Bill Ryden said. “That spirit is infectious, and that’s a lot of what has helped this team overcome so much. I don’t think anyone would have ever guessed that she would have an injury that we would have to overcome, but she’s still as big of a part of this as anything.”

Flores is the competitor who went 38-for-38 this season in competition before her injury without missing a single skill.

Instead of giving up on her team or leaving the program, Flores has only embraced her

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she is bringing something to the team’s score.”

Her Arizona teammates haven’t given up on her either. Although she recently had surgery and is currently rehabbing her injury, Flores remains a key piece to the program.

“We’ve been able to fill the positions of people who are unable to compete physically,” Arizona gymnast Shay Fox said.

“Mentally, Allie is a huge part of our system. I think it just shows how much we’re really into this and how much heart we have for our program, too.”

Flores was named to the 2015

e all know March Madness is upon us, and basketball is the theme this month, especially at Arizona, but let’s not forget about the Arizona baseball team making history on Sunday. For the first time ever, Arizona swept Stanford at the Cardinal’s home field after a 6-0 shutout pitched by Tyger Talley.

After dropping its first Pac-12 Conference series to Utah, this was probably the best way Arizona could bounce back and get back in the thick of things.

Arizona joins Oregon State and ASU with a 4-2 conference record, placing them in the top half of the conference standings.

Although Oregon started off its season by crushing rankings and cruising to the best record in the Pac-12, the Ducks have only won two conference games and have dropped to seventh place in the conference.

There are only two ways this weekend’s series with Oregon could go for Arizona. Either Oregon comes prepared and tired of losing, or Arizona looks to continue sweeping, or at least winning, conference series.

Arizona leads the Pac-12 in team batting but falls near the bottom in team pitching.

Pitching has been a factor for Arizona all season, considering the Friday

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ARIZONA ALLAROUND gymnast Allie Flores looks on during Arizona’s 196.850-196.850 tie with Denver in McKale Center on March 14. Despite being injured, Flores is still leading the Wildcats emotionally.

injury and still remains the leader of her team.

Flores was the first to throw down her crutches and congratulate her teammates after a routine in the Pac-12 Conference tournament. Flores raised her Wildcat plaque above her head with no crutches and stood on one foot during the Senior Day ceremony on March 14. That alone takes serious guts.

“She still wants the team to do well,” Ryden said. “Her competitive spirit is something that the team has fed off and relied on for four years. Even though now she is sidelined and cannot be out there, I still feel

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Men, women play Cal, Stanford

BY Stevie Katz

The Daily Wildcat

The Arizona women’s tennis team is finally back in Arizona to play on its home courts tomorrow and Saturday after a long five matches on the road.

The Wildcats, tied atop the Pac-12 Conference, will dive into more Pac12 matches this weekend. Arizona will play California on Friday and Stanford on Saturday.

For junior Inge Hendrikx, transitioning from the regular matches into the conference games means she needs to keep improving on her confidence with each match that she plays.

“In the beginning, you are searching for your game and how it is going to go today,” Hendrikx said.

“Now after feeling I am playing well, it doesn’t matter if I don’t start well. I will get back in my rhythm and play well at the end.”

Hendrikx said she hopes to be consistent with her game throughout the whole weekend.

“I know some parts I can play really well but then sometimes, I lose it or am not as focused, so I just try to keep it calm and really enjoy it

because it is an opportunity to play against good people,” Hendrikx said.

Hendrikx added that being able to play on home courts is always a great feeling to have, especially knowing that the crowd is on the Wildcats’ side and cheering the team on.

“I really like traveling because you see parts of America and it’s fun with the team, but it is just fun being at home and having your supporters that you always have and just have the home advantage,” Hendrikx said.

This weekend is a big test for the Wildcats to see if they can compete against talented teams.

The men’s tennis team hits the road to take on California and Stanford in two conference matches. The Wildcats have been through every type of weather climate, from playing outside to inside in the heat or cold, which has prepared them to face almost anything that the conference matches may throw at them.

“We got back on Sunday night, and then we had to take a required off day on Monday, so these last two days we feel pretty good with the way the guys are hitting the ball,” Arizona head coach Tad Berkowitz said.

“These two days are kind of about maintaining and keeping our timing and keeping our rhythm, staying healthy and really just feeling as good as possible going into the weekend.”

For junior Jason Jaruvang, approaching the conference matches means there is a lot more at stake.

“You are playing against teams in your own conference and obviously you want to try and make the tournament, but in the end, it is just another match,” Jaruvang said.

Berkowitz said he wants all the guys on the team to just enjoy playing this weekend, which is something that he has been working to improve.

“I want them to just believe in themselves,” Berkowitz said. “We’ve come a long way as a team and we’ve got great team chemistry right now, and really, it’s just continuing that trend and believing in their teammates that we know collectively that they’re all going to put in the work to get it done.”

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Arizona baseball pitcher Tyger Talley (19) throws a pitch during Arizona’s 6-4 loss against Rice on Feb. 22 at Hi Corbett Field. Talley and the Wildcats have a great opportunity to improve against Oregon this weekend.

Arizona men’s tennis junior Jason Jaruvang returns a volley during Arizona’s 5-2 loss against Nevada on Feb. 14 at LaNelle Robson Tennis Center. Jaruvang and the Wildcats take on Cal and Stanford next.

night rotation changed as the team hit conference play. The weekend rotation now consists of Cody Hamlin, Robby Medel and Tyger Talley.

Arizona baseball head coach Andy Lopez said that Talley has been so efficient this season because of his fastball location.

“That sounds like the perfect coach’s line, but that is really what it is,” Lopez said. “He’s been really good with his fastball location.”

With Talley doing his job, Lopez said the other two weekend starters still have room for improvements.

“Robby and I had a good conversation, and he’s frustrated,” Lopez said. “He says ‘Coach, I have to go for more than four innings,’ and I said ‘Yeah, that’s probably the roll.’”

Arizona shouldn’t be too concerned on offense, as the Wildcats have players like second

baseman Scott Kingery and shortstop Kevin Newman.

Kingery is hitting .450 with 49 hits and 33 runs scored, and Newman has recorded 46 hits and 28 runs to go with a .438 batting average, making them two of four players who are hitting above .400 in the Pac-12.

Right fielder Zach Gibbons, who had a slow start to the season, has raised his batting average to .353.

Winning the Oregon series is crucial for Arizona to be able to build the confidence it needs to play USC and ASU down the road, two squads that are at their highest peaks right now.

Arizona’s matchup with Oregon State on the road may present one of its tougher matchups as well.

This weekend is a test for Arizona.

If the Wildcats pass, they should be able to keep rolling through conference play.

Pac-12 All-Conference first team, which is comprised of the top six all-around gymnasts in the conference, on Tuesday for the second year in a row. Her career-high for competition is a 39.425.

“In a conference like the Pac-12, being named on the All-Conference team is a huge honor,” Ryden said.

“There are so many quality gymnasts in this conference, and it is so competitive. Being given a recognition like this doesn’t happen to just anyone.”

The GymCats have a tough road ahead in their upcoming postseason play. They will compete in Columbus, Ohio, against two of the top teams in the country, Michigan and UCLA, and will do so without Flores.

But she will be there, cheering her team on every step of the way.

After competing in arguably the toughest conference in gymnastics, Arizona is not afraid of any team moving forward in the postseason. With Flores constantly by their side, how could it be?

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KNOW YOUR FOE North Carolina Seed: 4 Nickname: Tar Heels

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This time, armed with six players from Southern California, Arizona men’s basketball is hoping the third time’s the charm. For the third season in a row, the Wildcats will play in the Sweet Sixteen in Southern California, this year at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

The NCAA Tournament games in Southern California come in a season when the Wildcats didn’t play UCLA or USC in Los Angeles.

Forward Stanley Johnson (Fullerton, Calif.) is one of the Wildcats returning home. He said it will be very exciting to play in LA in college.

The freshman prepped at Mater Dei High School, which he led to a 135-5 record and four CIF Division I state championships; among players, he was the first to win four upper-division state titles in California history. He won the John R. Wooden Award winner for California Division I High School Player of the Year as a junior and senior, and, last season, he won the MaxPreps National Player of the Year.

“It’s always exciting to play at home,” Johnson said. “I think I play my best at home, so hopefully the home crowd gets me going, gets our team going.”

Fellow Southern California freshman point guard Parker Jackson-Cartwright (Los Angeles) said the focus is on getting wins.

“It will be nice to go home and see all my friends and family,” he said, “but the focus is to keep advancing and to keep winning, to keep playing well.”

In 2014, the Wildcats played in Anaheim, Calif., beating No. 4-seed San Diego State 70-64 but losing to second-seeded Wisconsin 64-63 in overtime. In 2013 in LA, the UA lost 73-70 to No. 2-seed Ohio State.

This is Arizona’s fourth-straight trip to a Sweet Sixteen in Southern California in the NCAA Tournament. Though they missed the Big Dance in 2012, the Wildcats did beat No. 1-seed Duke 93-77 in 2011 and lost 65-63 to No. 3-seed — and eventual national champion — Connecticut.

Sixth man and shooting guard Gabe York (West Covina, Calif.) said he is excited for the chance to play in LA. “It feels great; we didn’t get to play in LA against USC and UCLA, [but] I don’t want to make it too big or too little than what it is,” York said. “[I’m] definitely excited to go back home and see a lot of my family and see some of my friends from high school.”

Walk-on forward Drew Mellon (Santa Ana, Calif.) and guards Trey Mason and Jacob Hazzard (both from LA) are the other three SoCal Cats.

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The UA is 4-4 in Anaheim, 1-2 in Long Beach and 2-0 in San Diego.

Before that, the Wildcats’ last NCAA Tournament games in Los Angeles were in 1994, when they beat third-seeded Louisville 82-70 in the Sweet Sixteen and No. 1 seed Missouri 9272 in the Elite Eight. Current Arizona assistant coach Damon Stoudamire scored 27 points against Mizzou.

In 1988, the Wildcats beat No. 16 Cornell 9050 and eighth-seeded Seton Hall 84-55 in Los Angeles. In 1976, Arizona beat UNLV 114-109 in overtime in the Regional Semifinals but lost 8266 to UCLA in the Regional Final in LA. Johnson went to Arizona’s 2013 loss to Ohio State.

“It was one of those games where we felt like we gave it our all,” Johnson said.

Jackson-Cartwright said he grew up going to Pac-10/12 Tournament games in the Staples Center, where the Wildcats will play this week.

Staples Center is the current home to the Los Angeles Lakers (NBA), Clippers (NBA), Sparks (WNBA) and Kings (NHL).

“It’s probably the biggest thing that you could talk about in LA,” York said. “Obviously, the Lakers and Clippers play there. I’m a Lakers fan, ever since I was born. So for me personally, I think it’s a very big venue, and I’m very excited to play there.”

When the Pac-10/12 Tournament was in the Staples Center from 2002 to 2012, the Wildcats went 12-10. They won the championship in 2002 and reached the title game four times.

The Wildcats hope for a friendlier reception this year.

“You know it’s going to be crazy,” Johnson said, “because our Wildcat Nation and fan base will be live and direct in there, so it will be fun.”

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ARIZONA MEN’S BASKETBALL forward Stanley Johnson (5) shoots a 3-pointer during Arizona’s 93-72 victory over Texas Southern during the Round of 64 in the 2015 NCAA Tournament in Moda Center in Portland, Ore., on March 19. Johnson is one of several Wildcats from Southern California returning home this weekend.

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T.J.’S LAST STAND

BY ROBERTO PAYNE The Daily Wildcat

Rarely do the words “The End” incite feelings of happiness and positivity.

Sometimes a sense of completion arises in oneself, sometimes it’s more sadness in knowing that the run is over and other times, anger boils over.

For athletes, the end comes sooner than they would like. Even the most talented professional athletes see their athletic careers end the closer they get to the age of 30. Collegiate athletes see their careers end much sooner, often at the age of 22 or 23.

As Arizona men’s basketball kicks off the Sweet Sixteen with a Thursday matchup with Xavier, several Wildcats could see their collegiate careers end. Of the bunch, no one will miss it more than T.J. McConnell.

“You think about these guys leaving and I ask the question to myself all the time, ‘will he miss it?’, whoever that ‘he’ is,” Arizona head coach Sean Miller said after Arizona’s Senior Day victory over Stanford on March 7.

“When he leaves, will he miss this? I don’t think there’s a doubt in anybody, fans, anyone who’s ever watched us play, that you wouldn’t say ‘absolutely’ when you look at T.J. He cares.”

McConnell has had a memorable senior season to date. He leads the Wildcats in assists and steals, is fifth in rebounds and fourth in points and 3-point makes.

Even more impressively, McConnell has put together as dominant of a

two-year stretch as any point guard in program history. Not only has McConnell started all 74 games Arizona has played in that two-year stretch, he is closing in on several school records.

He is third all-time over a two-year stretch in assists with 430 and fourth all-time in steals with 144 over his two years at Arizona. McConnell is also the program leader in assist-to-turnover ratio at 3.11 (430-138).

In classic McConnell fashion, he deflected the praise from himself and instead thanked those around him for his performances.

“What we’ve accomplished in two years is nothing short of remarkable,” McConnell said. “I just got to thank my teammates for having my back each day and the coaching staff, and especially the fans. We couldn’t have done [it] without them.”

More so than most players, McConnell has taken advantage of his opportunities at a major college basketball program like Arizona. McConnell completed his sophomore season at Duquesne, just three years ago, by averaging 11.4 points per game, 5.5 assists per game, 4.4 rebounds per game and 2.8 steals per game.

Miller said McConnell has led Arizona and Duquesne on both sides of the ball.

“You always want those twoway players,” Miller said. “… T.J. epitomizes that two-way player where he does it on both ends and he just does it every game.”

McConnell had to sit out a year upon transferring to Arizona before the 2012-

2013 season due to NCAA transfer rules, but was able to practice. McConnell ran the scout team and played against Arizona guards Nick Johnson, Mark Lyons, Jordin Mayes and Gabe York.

According to coaches and players alike over the course of the season, during that period, McConnell was one of the best Wildcats on the floor at times.

“What he’s meant to this program … during my time, you can make the case he’s been as important as any player we’ve brought here,” Miller said.

“Considering where he came from, I’m happy for both him and his family.”

The 6-foot-1 senior point guard from Pittsburgh has already had his fair share of collegiate lasts — his last opening night, last road game, last home game and last Pac-12 Conference tournament game. The lone last remaining is his last game as an Arizona Wildcat.

Unfortunately for McConnell and Arizona, the run will end sooner rather than later. The only thing left to decide is when and where McConnell will have his last stand.

When the dust settles, no one will miss Arizona more than T.J. McConnell will.

“I love this place,” McConnell said after Arizona’s Senior Day victory. “Like I said before, I truly don’t want to leave.

This will always be my home, and I’m going to come back as much as I can.”

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Walk-ons and redshirts play major role

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Sitting at the end of the bench is often a slight used by fans and spectators alike to signify a lack of talent. So called “bench warmers” are the butt of jokes and disregarded in favor of those who put up stats and play the most minutes.

It’s easy to think those who do not play are useless. In today’s media-driven world, everything is on display and those who perform get the most airtime.

In college basketball, the walkons and redshirts at the end of the bench suffer from the stigmatism of what they are. What’s often overlooked is how important players 9-15 on the roster are to programs across the nation. Those are the guys running the scout team and making sure the premier players are ready to go come game time.

For Arizona, guys like Jacob Hazzard, Trey Mason and Drew Mellon aren’t guaranteed court time and, honestly, rarely see the court unless it’s a blowout. They are walk-ons, relegated to the end of the bench by choice.

From the outside looking in, it may seem like a thankless job, but guys like Mason said running the scout team is just as important as watching film.

“We’re the guys in practice that it’s pretty much our job to get the

guys ready for the next game,” Mason said. “The coaches do a really good job of kind of instilling principles and discipline that guys need.”

It doesn’t hurt that they are all best friends. Hazzard said Mason and Mellon are two of his best friends and loves competing with them.

“Drew and Trey are two of my best friends and we do this together,” Hazzard said. “We take pride in our role and we know it helps the team a lot. We know millions of plays; it’s crazy. We take advantage of it and try to keep all the plays we know.”

Add in redshirts like Kadeem Allen and Ryan Anderson, and the Wildcats that do play considerable minutes have solid competition in practice. Few teams in the nation can employ talent like Allen and Anderson for their stars to play against on a daily basis.

Arizona forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson is one of the most important players on the roster and said he understands how tough they really are. In particular, Hollis-Jefferson singled out Allen as someone who improves the team.

“Kadeem is a tough, tough, guy to guard, I would say,” HollisJefferson said. “When you guard him, it’s definitely like you’re guarding any guard in the country.

He’s definitely one of the best players I’ve played.”

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ARIZONA GUARDS JACOB Hazzard (50) and Trey Mason (44) slap hands during Arizona’s 57-34 victory over Oregon State on Jan. 30 in McKale Center. Hazzard and Mason are walk-ons and have a bigger role on the team than the average fan might think.

That’s big praise coming from a guy who guards the best opponent wing every single game.

Whether walk-on or redshirt, Wildcats say they do their job willingly and love helping the team succeed.

“We go over out-of-bounds

plays, all kinds of plays, just to get our guys familiar with what they’re [going to] see out there when they go out for the game,” Hazzard said.

“We know it’s never identical to what they’re [going to do because] we can’t simulate everything, but we just want to get a feel for them.

Just when we come out we’re not surprised by anything and just they know what’s coming, what’s not coming, what to expect.”

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Increase in shooting has Arizona set for success

BY JAMES KELLEY

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The last time Arizona men’s basketball played in the NCAA Tournament in Los Angeles, Southern California native Gabe York could only watch helplessly from the bench as Arizona lost late.

Now, he may be a key player for the Wildcats in LA. “I’d say he can knock down shots with the best of them, and his confidence is up there right now,” Arizona forward Brandon Ashley said. “We expect big minutes out of Gabe all the time.”

In LA two years ago, the shooting guard did not play as Ohio State beat Arizona on a late 3-pointer late in the Sweet Sixteen. Then last week, he scored 19 points to help the Wildcats beat OSU and move on to the Sweet Sixteen.

“You know, if you followed us, I would say over the last six weeks, you look at his points per game, his minutes per game, he’s really emerged,” Arizona coach Sean Miller said. “[Saturday] was another great example; we needed him, and he delivered. He’s really a big, big part of what we’ve done all year long.”

After not scoring against Texas Southern in the second round, York made five 3-pointers against Ohio State in the third round.

“When they shrink like that, the only thing that’s left for me is to knock down shots,” York said. “[Saturday night,] I wanted to be aggressive but also know that my teammates were going to find me in transition or throughout the zone with however many seconds were left on the shot clock. I just did a great job of knocking down shots.”

Without any shooting guards in the starting lineup, the Wildcats look to York and sophomore Elliott Pitts to help with shooting coming off the bench to play against zones.

York (22.9 minutes per game) and Pitts (15.0) are the Wildcats’ first options off the bench. Not to mention, York is 12th in the Pac12 Conference in 3-pointers made and has led the Wildcats in scoring four times.

Arizona point guard T.J. McConnell said York and Pitts provide sparks for the Wildcats against the zone.

“It helps us out tremendously when Gabe and Elliott are making shots,” McConnell said. “It opens up the zone and gives us driving lanes to get to the bigs and just make plays. So when those two are connecting on 3’s like that, we’re a tough team.”

York shoots 39.6 percent from beyond the arc, leading the team, and Pitts shoots 35.6 percent. York is ninth in the Pac-12 in 3-point shooting.

Arizona forward Rondae HollisJefferson said when the two are playing well, it opens up space for the wings.

“If we get the ball into the middle, that kind of breaks the zone down a lot,” Hollis-Jefferson said. “You can see things better, and when they collapse, that opens up a lot of things for the bigs or the wings to shoot, and that’s how Gabe got a lot of his shots and

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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson (23) defends Texas Southern guard Deverell Biggs (1) while T.J. McConnell (far left), Elliot Pitts (24), and Matt Korcheck (31) look on during Arizona’s 93-72 victory over Texas Southern during the 2015 NCAA Tournamentin Portland, Ore., on Thursday.

Defense wins championships come March

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ARIZONA MEN’S BASKETBALL guard Gabe York (1) shoots a 3-pointer during Arizona’s 9372 victory over Texas Southern during the Round of 64 in the 2015 NCAA Tournament in Moda Center in Portland, Ore., on March 19. Along with Elliott Pitts, York is a crucial aspect of Arizona’s perimeter offense.

we got a lot of dunks.”

York has scored in doublefigures 17 times this season, despite being moved from a starter to the team’s sixth man in January.

He has scored at least 11 points six times in Arizona’s last 10 games.

Pitts said he’s worked hard on becoming more well-rounded, even though people consider him just to be a shooter.

“Over the season, I’m just being a little bit more aggressive every single game; that’s what the coaches are asking me to do,” Pitts said. “I’ve come really far from being a skinny little freshman to [being able] to hold my own out there, stay in front of my defender and knock down some shots.”

York said the key to recent emergence is believing in himself and his teammates.

“Just being ultra confident,” York said. “Knowing that my teammates are going to find me and in transition, they’re going to find me in the open spots in the zone, and as long as I’m hitting shots, I’m going to stay in the game.”

Miller said he is “elated” with York’s success, especially because of his patience.

“Gabe deserves a lot of credit, because in today’s world, if you don’t play a lot as a freshman, you have a lot of people that are pulling you and tugging you to transfer and go to another program,” Miller said. “Gabe and his family have always shown great trust in our staff. We knew that his best would be when he’s older.”

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hio State freshman D’Angelo Russell was dominating March opponents with his shooting touch before heading into the Round of 32 matchup against Arizona. The 6-foot-5 guard had just dropped 28 points on VCU in the opening round, including four 3-pointers. It was the third time he had reached 28 points in March.

As Arizona and Ohio State readied for tipoff on Saturday, the storyline inevitably focused on whether Russell could score enough points to keep the Buckeyes competitive.

Over the next two hours, the Wildcats’ defense answered that question with a resounding no.

While Arizona celebrated its thirdstraight trip to the Sweet Sixteen, Russell walked off the court with a 3-19 shooting performance, his worst display of the season.

Following the game, Ohio State coach Thad Matta commended Arizona on its length and ability to trap Russell into difficult situations.

But Arizona’s tenacity on defense is built on much more than long wingspans or a canny game plan. It is ingrained in the Wildcats’ DNA, injected by Arizona head coach Sean Miller as soon as he arrived in Tucson six years ago.

“Defense, like a lot of things in a college basketball program, is carried from almost one generation to the next,” Miller said. “I thought the first player that really embraced our defense would have been Kyle Fogg.”

Fogg was a shooting guard during Miller’s first few years and embraced the man-to-man style Miller unilaterally employs.

“He passed the torch to Nick Johnson,” Miller said, “who I believe passed the torch to Rondae [HollisJefferson].”

With the Final Four in reach, Miller is now relying on his trademark defense to push Arizona over the hump and back to college basketball’s promised land. After all, the cliche “defense wins championships” is not just a catchy proverb. In college hoops, it is all but the truth.

According to kenpom.com, a site that calculates team efficiency ratings per possession, the last five national champions have all boasted a defense ranked in the top 15 nationally.

This year, Arizona’s defense ranks

third in the country in KenPom’s ratings. Of the remaining 16 teams left in the tournament, the UA is second, only to Kentucky, in points allowed per 100 possessions.

The Wildcats’ Sweet Sixteen opponent, Xavier, ranks 58th in that category. Wisconsin and North Carolina, Arizona’s two potential Elite Eight matchups, don’t fare much better at 39th and 50th respectively.

Digging into those ratings, Arizona leads the country in limiting opponents to a 22.8 offensive rebound percentage. In other words, the Wildcats do a better job of collecting opponents’ missed shots than anyone else in college basketball.

The UA also ranks 14th nationally in holding teams to a 42.3 shooting percentage on two-point attempts.

With the size of Arizona’s frontcourt, as well as the indefatigable defense of Hollis-Jefferson, it’s hard for opponents to get a good look at the basket.

Layups don’t come easy and neither do second-chance opportunities. Whether the opponent is Xavier, Kentucky or someone else, Arizona shouldn’t be giving up many looks around the rim.

“I think that’s where it starts, with defense and rebounding,” Miller said. “For the most part we’ve done a great job. I think our defense has grown and improved. When we haven’t been that this year, we’ve been very vulnerable.”

That last point by Miller is why there’s still some room for concern.

Yes, Arizona has won 11 of its last 13 games by double digits, and no, Xavier doesn’t look like the type of team that should give the UA a ton of trouble. But if the Wildcats slack off defensively for just one half, it could spell doom against a streaky team.

In the loss at ASU, Arizona failed to close out on opposing shooters, giving the Sun Devils just enough space to make shots and stay ahead.

Then again, that loss came a month and a half ago and Arizona has since locked down on nearly every aspect.

Discipline and focus should not be an issue. Not on the biggest stage of the season.

As long as the Wildcats bring their defensive prowess aboard the flight to Los Angeles, they should be in good, even great shape to leave Staples Center on Saturday with another string of net.

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Who is Arizona’s X-factor to a Final Four?

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ARIZONA MEN’S BASKETBALL forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson (23) yells during a timeout during Arizona’s 73-58 victory over Ohio State during the Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament in Moda Center in Portland, Ore., on Saturday. Along with T.J. McConnell, Hollis-Jefferson is an X-factor to Arizona reaching the Final Four this season.

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human body has no purpose without a healthy, beating heart. A heart allows the body to breathe, move and function properly. Without a heart, a body is simply dispensable.

The heart of Arizona basketball is senior point guard T. J. McConnell.

As the evident leader for the Wildcats, McConnell has the ability to contribute across the board. His selfless style of play is proven, as he averages 10.1 points per game but also 6.3 assists per game.

His versatile offense is noticeable on paper, but McConnell captures national attention because of his uncanny ability to read the floor and thrive on defense.

His gritty attitude and lockdown defense leads the team in steals with 2.2 per game. With 80 steals just this season, McConnell has the fourth-best single-season steal record in Arizona basketball history.

Let’s not forget that McConnell is barely 6-foot-1 and manages to average 3.9 rebounds per game. This puts him as the fifthbest rebounder on the Arizona

basketball team. What can’t McConnell do?

As athletically talented as he is, McConnell possesses a desire to win that cannot be taught or coached. He leaves everything on the court and pours his entire heart and soul into every game.

With this said, McConnell is in his senior year, and he will not let his collegiate career end without a fight. The team owes it to McConnell to make it farther than they or anyone believes they can.

McConnell has pumped a desire to win into the veins of his team and it has manifested into watching Arizona play a beautiful game of basketball.

Throughout the season, teammates, coaches, fans and analysts have all said that Arizona would not be anywhere without McConnell. That is not discrediting the talent that the Arizona roster possesses, but more proof to how valuable McConnell is to the team.

A body cannot beat without a heart, and Arizona cannot win without T.J. McConnell.

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hey say defense wins championships, and the phrase couldn’t apply more to Arizona’s spirited and electrifying forward, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson.

In a world of offensively minded players, Hollis-Jefferson focuses on his defense to drive his flow.

He accepts the challenge of guarding the opposing team’s biggest threat and, more often than not, shuts them down.

His 6-foot-7 frame makes it difficult for other players to get around. The sophomore leads his team in blocks with 32 this season and is third in steals (41), behind T.J. McConnell and Stanley Johnson.

He also paves the way for Arizona in rebounding, averaging 6.9 per game and 250 total rebounds this year.

It’s only after he plays defense that Hollis-Jefferson’s offense starts to flow. Granted, he’s also third on the team in scoring, averaging 11.3 points per game.

Rondae has a motto: CHAP, which stands for calm, humble and patient. As humble as he is, I would

switch “humble” for “hungry.”

He was snuffed from the Pac12 Defensive Player of the Year award and didn’t take it well on Twitter, saying, “I don’t know about everyone else, but I put my heart and soul into defense[.] So with that being said ‘Motivation.’ Thanks everyone that cares.”

In Arizona’s two games since the NCAA Tournament started, Hollis-Jefferson has that motivation.

He’s averaging a double-double, grabbing 10 boards each game and averaging 17 points, including a career-high 23 points against Texas Southern in the Round of 64.

And a lot of people care. Arizona fans rally around Hollis-Jefferson because he’s personable and takes the time with his fans. He’s even been seen outside McKale Center hanging out with students waiting in line hours before the doors open.

For a player with a huge fan base who shoots 50.6 percent from the field, Hollis-Jefferson isn’t a player I would want to make hungry, especially when he averages 28.4 minutes on the floor, second only to point guard McConnell.

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York catches fire

Arizona is supremely talented, but its key could actually be its sixth man. The Wildcats start a center, a power forward, a point guard and two wings. That first five is tremendously talented, but other KYLE HANSEN/THE DAILY WILDCAT than point guard T.J. McConnell, who doesn’t take many jumpers, they lack shooters.

Teams love to play zone against the sometimes offensively challenged Wildcats, and when shooting guard Gabe York can bring three or four 3’s off the bench, the UA is hard to beat. The Wildcats are second in the country in 2-pointers made but 299th in 3-pointers, and yet they are ninth in JORDAN GLENN/THE DAILY WILDCAT

scoring. With more three ball, they would almost be unstoppable.

Johnson goes D-Will

In 2011, in Southern California, former Wildcat forward went HAM in the Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight, almost leading Arizona to the promised land. Derrick Williams scored a career-high 32 points as the Wildcats destroyed Duke 93-77. Then in the Elite Eight, he scored 20 points as the Wildcats came within a bucket of beating eventual national champion UConn. Stanley Johnson, current Arizona forward and Southern California native, is poised for a similar breakout performance in Los Angeles this weekend. Last week, he scored 22 points in the second round, the second most for a UA freshman.

She wants the D

The saying is pretty cliché, but there’s a reason it has endured: Defense wins championships. Arizona is rated second in the country by kenpom.com, one spot ahead of West No. 1 Wisconsin, because of its defense. The Badgers’ adjusted offensive efficiency is first, while their adjusted defensive efficiency is 41st.

Arizona is seventh in offense and third in defense, behind only Kentucky and Virginia. If the Wildcats shut down Xavier and Wisconsin or North Carolina on defense, then their sometimes iffy offense won’t even matter. Defense, playing hard and getting rebounds are things you can always rely on, even if shots aren’t falling.

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Lack of concentration

Arizona may be 33-3 , but those three losses have all held a common theme: a lack of concentration. The Wildcats lost to lowly teams Oregon State, ASU and UNLV by compounding turnovers with poor shot selection and a generally subpar defense. Even in some of the wins, Arizona puts together a horrible first half and then a dominant second half. Just look at the game against Ohio State on Saturday . Arizona was up by one point at halftime and won by 15 points. That kind of spotty performance can’t happen against Xavier and in the potential revenge game with Wisconsin .

York and Pitts go cold

It’s no secret that Arizona doesn’t have a ton of threats from beyond the arc.

Guards Gabe York and Elliott Pitts are arguably the top two shooters for the Wildcats and have been on a relative hot streak as of late. In particular, York is coming off one of his best games as a Wildcat. Arizona desperately needs both of them to hit shots, especially against zone defenses. Just ask Ohio State how deadly Arizona is when 3-pointers are hitting at a high clip. If York and Pitts go cold, advancing to the Final Four could be a pipe dream for Arizona.

Brandon Ashley fouled out against Ohio State, but the rest of the ’Cats stepped up and shut the door on the Buckeyes.

Having someone like Ashley or Kaleb Tarczewski get into early foul trouble, as they have at times, could be too much to overcome against top talent. Even worse, if T.J. McConnell fouls out, Arizona could easily see its season end. An Arizona team out of foul trouble can go all the way. An Arizona team in foul trouble could lose quickly.

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Foul trouble

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SWEET SIXTEEN

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ARIZONA MEN’S BASKETBALL forward Brandon Ashley (21) and guard Gabe York (right) defend Gonzaga forward Domantas Sabonis (11) during Arizona’s 66-63 overtime victory over Gonzaga on Dec. 6 in McKale Center. The Wildcats’ defeat of Gonzaga was one of the highlights of the season.

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A

— Arizona. The Wildcats have made the Sweet Sixteen three times in a row and four times in coach Sean Miller’s six seasons in Tucson. Arizona has made 17 Sweet Sixteens, so it’s time to update the intro video.

B

— Bruins. Remember when everyone complained that UCLA shouldn’t be in the Big Dance? Well, it had the last laugh when it made the Sweet Sixteen. Too bad those uniforms are so ugly.

C

— Coach K. No one can spell the Duke coach’s or the Utah coach’s last names without copying and pasting, and now they’re facing off in the Sweet Sixteen. Get ready to hit Command/Control-C plenty for Krzyzewski and Krystkowiak.

D

— Dean. The North Carolina Tar Heels will be wearing “DES” patches to honor the late great Dean Smith, their former coach who recently died. Fun fact: Smith’s last game as coach was against Arizona in the 1997 Final Four.

E

— Elite. Arizona and Michigan State are the only schools with a Sweet Sixteen men’s basketball appearance and to play in a New Year’s Six football bowl game this season. MSU played in the Goodyear Cotton Bowl, UA in the VIZIO Fiesta Bowl.

F

— Frank the tank. Arizona fans are still having nightmares about the man who ended the Wildcats’ season last March. Wisconsin forward Frank Kaminsky scored 28 points and had 11 rebounds in the 2014 Elite Eight.

G

— Georgia State. The Panthers were the story of the tournament early on. Georgia State featured the Hunter father/ son combo and former Louisville Cardinal Kevin Ware.

H

— Huggy Bear. West Virginia coach Bob Huggins said Kentucky coach John Calipari called him weeks ago and told him that the NCAA would match up the Mountaineers and Wildcats, and now, they are playing. Huggins also criticized the NCAA’s game times.

I

— Izzo. Michigan State beat Virginia in the NCAA Tournament for the second straight year to get the Spartans into the Sweet Sixteen for the seventh time in the last eight seasons. MSU head coach Tom Izzo is 13-1 in the Round of 32.

J

— Jinx. Sports Illustrated featured three teams in addition to Kentucky on its regional NCAA preview issue, “Who can catch the Cats?”: Virginia, Northern Iowa and Arizona. Two of those teams are out, and a week later, SI featured Wisconsin on its cover.

K

— Kansas. The Kansas Jayhawks refused to play in-state rival Wichita State since 1993, and now we know why. The Shockers bounced KU from the tournament in the Round of 32.

L

— Louisville. Louisville made its fourth straight Sweet Sixteen.

Without a one or a two-seed alive in the East Region, it could be a favorite to reach the Final Four now.

M

— Miller time out.

Oklahoma beat Dayton 72-66 on Sunday to oust Archie Miller and the Flyers from the NCAA Tournament.

Still, the Miller brothers are 4-1 in the NCAA Tournament this year so far.

N

— North Carolina. For the fourth time — and the first since 2005 — North Carolina, Duke and NC State all made the Sweet Sixteen.

Last year, none of the Triangle teams made the 16.

O

— Overrated. After a season of getting praise and ranked teams, the Big 12 has struggled in the Big Dance. It had seven teams make it in, but its record is 5-5, and only two survived the first weekend.

P

— Pac-12. The Conference

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of Champions boasts three teams in the Sweet Sixteen and a 7-1 record.

It’s the fifth time the conference has been 6-1 or better since 1985, and the other four times, a Pac-12 team made it to the Final Four.

Q

— Questionable. After many questioned whether UCLA deserved to be in the NCAA Tournament, the Bruins experienced more controversy in their first game. SMU center Yanick Moreira was called for goaltending late, which led to a UCLA win.

R

— Riot. The toughest Elite Eight matchup could be the topseeded Tucson Police Department and the second-seeded Arizona fans.

S

— Sad. After Notre Dame beat Butler 67-64 in overtime to make it to the Sweet Sixteen, ND head coach Mike Brey revealed that his mother, Betty, had died the morning of the game. She was 84.

T

— Tall. The tallest player in the tournament, 7-foot-6 UC Irvine center Mamadou Ndiaye, had one of the shortest stays, as the Anteaters lost 57-55 to Louisville in their first game. Arizona beat UC Irvine 71-54 earlier this season.

U

— Undefeated. Kentucky is trying to become the first team to win the national championship without losing since Indiana in 1976. Six

other teams have gone undefeated: UCLA (four times), North Carolina and San Francisco.

V

— Victory. V may stand for victory, but not for the tournament’s highest-seeded “V” teams, Villanova and Virginia. The top two seeds in the East Region didn’t survive the first weekend.

W

— Wildcats. Many in the national media predicted an Arizona and Kentucky matchup in the Final Four, and some say the UA has the best chance to knock off UK. The navy and royal blue Wildcats met in the 1997 national championship game in Indianapolis.

X

— Xavier. If you’re reading this, then obviously you know Sean Miller used to coach the X-Men. But did you know the Musketeers have made it to three Sweet Sixteens since he left for the UA?

Y

— You again? The Sweet Sixteen features two regular season rematches: Louisville and NC State, and Gonzaga and UCLA. NC State and Gonzaga won the regular season games, on the road.

Z

— Zags. Gonzaga reached its sixth Sweet Sixteen in school history and its first since 2009. It’s only made it to the Elite Eight once, in 1999, and never further.

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Sweet Sixteen • Thursday, March 26, 2015

Padawan becomes the master

BY ROBERTO PAYNE The Daily Wildcat

For the second straight round of the 2015 NCAA Tournament, Sean Miller’s Wildcats have a matchup with an old friend.

Last week, it was Thad Matta’s Ohio State Buckeyes, which the Wildcats defeated 73-58 to advance to the second weekend of postseason play. This week, Miller and the Wildcats have a matchup with Xavier coach Chris Mack and the Musketeers in the Sweet Sixteen.

Before coaching Arizona, Miller was the head man at Xavier for five seasons and guided the Musketeers to four straight NCAA Tournament appearances with Mack as one of his assistants. The two men developed a close relationship, and Mack was tagged as Miller’s replacement after the 2008-09 season.

“Sean’s been instrumental in my career,” Mack said. “He’s always been a mentor, whether it was when I was working for him, with him or now that he’s a couple thousand miles away. There is not a challenge that I don’t bring to him if I’m struggling with something.”

Mack has gone on to win 134 games at Xavier in the six seasons since and has led the Musketeers to five NCAA Tournament appearances in that time.

Meanwhile, Miller has won 162 games at Arizona and guided the Wildcats to the same amount of NCAA Tournament appearances

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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball coach Sean Miller calls a play during Arizona’s 57-34 victory over Oregon State on Jan. 30 in McKale Center. Miller and the Wildcats will face his former pupil Chris Mack’s Xavier team today in the Sweet Sixteen.

over the six-year stretch.

“I’m just so proud of just watching Xavier and Chris,” Miller said in his NCAA press conference on Wednesday. “I mean, this is their third Sweet Sixteen since I left. They’re now

in the Big East Conference. And if anybody thought that trajectory was going to stop in terms of Xavier continuing to elevate itself in the world of college basketball, they’re obviously wrong. I’m proud of just looking at where their program is.”

Mack said coaches like Miller helped make Xavier into the program it is now.

“Guys like Skip Prosser, Thad Matta, Sean, carried the torch and simply elevated the program to new heights,” Mack said in his NCAA

press conference on Wednesday.

“Our fan base has come to expect getting to the NCAA Tournament, and that not even being acceptable, but to advance.”

While they won’t physically take the court, the two men will face off on one of the biggest possible stages: Staples Center in Los Angeles, Calif.

Since the Wildcats and Musketeers are in Hollywood, look at the “Star Wars” movies as a point of reference.

One of the major takeaways from the “Star Wars” movies is the Padawan becoming the Master.

Anakin Skywalker overtakes his own Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, to become a Sith Lord in the prequel portion of the two trilogies.

In the original portion of the two, Obi-Wan and the newly dubbed Darth Vader fight in the Death Star.

Darth Vader utters the famous line, “The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner; now, I am the master.”

It may be overly dramatic, but in many ways, this is the relationship between Miller and Mack.

Miller is the wily old Master, and Mack is the Padawan looking to overtake him. Mack may not strike Miller down with a lightsaber on today, but it’s safe to say sparks will fly in the City of Angels.

— Follow Roberto Payne @HouseofPayne555

What to do in Los Angeles

BY MATT WALL

The Daily Wildcat

Besides hosting the Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight games for the West Region, the City of Angels is the perfect destination for those that want to lie out in the sun and enjoy some quality basketball. It’s also great for those who just want a brief vacation or for those just looking to enjoy the city holding Bill Walton’s alma mater.

In addition to supporting Arizona, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Xavier on their road to the Final Four, Los Angeles is the perfect getaway to get out of the

heat and into the water. LA offers miles of beaches open to the public, like Venice Beach.

If you are more into an adrenaline junkie experience, why not take a 45-minute drive to Six Flags Magic Mountain? Magic Mountain offers a 262-acre theme park filled with 19 of the most intense roller coasters money can buy.

Universal Studios Hollywood provides a studio tour that one simply cannot miss. The “entertainment capital of the world” houses Universal Studios, whose tour debuted in 1915. The studio tour is narrated by “The Tonight Show” host

Jimmy Fallon and allows exploration of the backlots of movie studios and King Kong in 3D. No one should forget about Hollywood Boulevard and its celebrity reputation full of stars, literally. The Hollywood Walk of Fame has more than 2,500 stars that bear names of actors, musicians and directors.

Speaking of Hollywood, why not hike around the famous sign seen in a countless number of movies? Griffith Park hosts the hike and offers three different trails.

Rodeo Drive offers shopaholics the avenue of a lifetime. Located in Beverly Hills, “the three blocks of Rodeo Drive are

home to the epicenter of luxury, fashion and lifestyle.”

Finally, if you are looking to be a kid again at heart, venture into Disneyland, which is only about a 40-minute drive from LA. If that isn’t enough to convince you to see the Wildcats in Los Angeles, at least get away from the hustle and bustle of work and take a vacation to the La La Land.

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BIGGER IS BETTER FOR ARIZONA HOOPS KYLE HANSEN/THE DAILY WILDCAT

ARIZONA MEN’S basketball forwards Brandon Ashley (left) and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson (right) laugh during a timeout during Arizona’s 80-52 victory over Oregon in the Pac-12 tournament championship game at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on March 14. Hollis-Jefferson and Ashley comprise half of Arizona’s starting frontcourt players.

Behind a frontcourt of Stanley Johnson, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Brandon Ashley and Kaleb Tarczewski, Arizona men’s basketball has a chance to make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament

BY MATT WALL

The Daily Wildcat

Arizona men’s basketball’s starting lineup is arguably one of the best in the country and one of the most difficult to match up.

With one guard, three forwards and a center, four of which are 6-foot-7 or taller, Arizona is opposing coaches’ nightmare.

While many have praised the Wildcats’ backcourt this season, the frontcourt has been shining right with them, as the four standouts all have the chance to go to the NBA. Take Arizona’s most deadly weapon, Stanley Johnson, to start with. Former NBA All-Star Reggie Miller even compared “Stanimal” to LeBron James after commenting on a highlight dunk in Arizona’s second round game in the NCAA Tournament.

The comparison is not far off, as Johnson even trash-talked James at his offseason skills camp.

“I’ve never played with a guy as talented as Stanley,” Arizona guard T.J. McConnell said.

“Stanley does it all. The LeBron James comparison — I think Stanley has a long way to go to ever be compared to LeBron James. I know if he works hard, he could have a very long career in

the NBA.” If he executes, Johnson could be the pit bull that Miller has searched for and missed out on in late tournament games over the past couple seasons.

Twice this season, Johnson has struggled shooting, and the Wildcats struggled in turn. But even McConnell believes Johnson might be the answer to Miller’s Final Four dilemma.

“When I first saw him, I was like, ‘There’s no way that kid is a freshman,’” McConnell said to Sports Illustrated. “He’s a genetic freak. I thought he might be the answer to us getting to a Final Four. Then I saw him play and, yep, he’s definitely the answer. I mean, he’s basically unguardable.”

Anchoring the head of the Arizona frontcourt is center Kaleb Tarczewski. The junior center from Claremont, N.H., has improved off the charts over the last three seasons.

His points per game has increased by 2.6 points from his first season, and his physical presence on the boards has improved.

The Wildcat big men are anchored and led by Arizona graduate manager Joseph Blair.

Besides being a comedic clown

off the court, Blair has made more than he does.

Versatile small forward Rondae Tarczweski into the physical Hollis-Jefferson has the ability specimen he is today.

Brandon Ashley has come to score quickly and gets his alive this season after his injury teammates going.

The fourth backup at point that took him out of play against California on February 1, 2014. guard feeds the ball well, and The Pac-12 tournament MOP even when he struggled shooting against Ohio is averaging State, the 16.7 points, 5.7 forward from rebounds and Chester, Pa., 0.9 blocks with could still three 20-point make beautiful games over his behind-thelast seven games, back passes to according to a his teammates. tweet from Arizona “I know I Basketball. rub off on the “We were a man guys; I have short last year that impact on with Brandon them,” Hollisgoing down,” —T.J. McConnell, Jefferson said Miller said to the Airzona point guard after the NCAA Pac-12 Networks.

To u r n a m e n t “Can you imagine win against Brandon playing Texas Southern. like this on last “No matter year’s team, what we could have done? Nobody what, I try to bring that, whether it’s 7 in the morning, 8 at night, I knows that more than him.”

That thought will stick out just try to be the same way. But in Ashley’s mind and may be sometimes, it’s a little tough to the inspiration he needs to rub off on guys when they’re a hear. When you think about the certain way, but I just try my best.”

But Hollis-Jefferson’s real skill recovery process and how long he has remained patient, nobody on the court is his defense.

He has the ability to guard wants to get past the Elite Eight

I’ve never played with a guy as talented as Stanley

pretty much anyone on the floor, from point guards all the way up to power forwards, similar to his former Arizona teammate, Aaron Gordon.

“He’s the type of guy you can put on the floor in the NBA, and [he’ll] guard multiple positions and impact the game on the defensive end without really having to score,” ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas said to “The Brad Cesmat Show.” “He will be a valuable piece to a really good team in the NBA.” The last piece of the puzzle to the Arizona frontcourt is Dusan Ristic. Although the Serbian backup center plays only 8.9 minutes per game, he provides another 7-foot player with killer post moves.

These five pieces will be the key to Arizona basketball’s success for the rest of the NCAA Tournament.

Sure, McConnell runs the team at point and shooters like Elliott Pitts and Gabe York will need to make 3-pointers, but this frontcourt can and truly does have the potential to outmaneuver Kentucky.

— Follow Matt Walll @mwall20

Depth key to Arizona’s dominance this season

BY MATT WALL

The Daily Wildcat

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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball guards Elliott Pitts (left) and Gabe York (right) watch as Arizona defeats Texas Southern 93-72 during the Round of 64 in the 2015 NCAA Tournament in Moda Center in Portland, Ore., on March 19. Pitts and York are two of Arizona’s premier bench threats and huge reasons why Arizona has won 33 games so far this season.

Last season, Arizona men’s basketball struggled with bench depth as the season progressed.

Arizona head coach Sean Miller repeatedly went around seven deep at most in many games earlier in the season, which resulted in fatigue when his starters would play almost 40 minutes a game.

In fact, after Arizona’s disappointing loss against ASU last season, Miller said “it’s no fun when only five are playing.”

That problem is gone this season.

Miller and the Wildcats have not only improved their depth on the bench but also won games largely on the contributions of their bench.

That bench depth starts with Gabe York. The junior guard, and former starter, was the key in the victory over Ohio State in the Round of 32 with five 3-pointers and 19 points.

But any Arizona fan already knows that York will knock down big shots when it matters. This season, he averages 22.9 minutes per game and shoots 39 percent from deep.

“He did a great job going in there and knocking down shots,” Arizona center Kaleb Tarczewski said after the OSU game. “When you have guys like Gabe and Elliot [Pitts] and everyone coming off the bench, it makes us such a deeper and better team.”

Following York is Arizona’s other hot shooter: sophomore guard Elliot Pitts.

Pitts provides key shots and is a defensive-minded player. In fact, Miller praised Pitts’ defensive work ethic that he displayed against the

Buckeyes, even sometimes guarding future NBA lottery pick D’Angelo Russell.

“Elliot has some qualities of both Rondae and T.J. [McConnell] defensively,” Miller said. “He’s much taller than T.J. and might even be more laterally quick than Rondae, as hard as that is to believe. But he’s a good third person to be able to mix in, play through foul trouble [and] use our depth.”

With teams like Wisconsin and Kentucky possibly in the Wildcats’ path, York and Pitts will need to be lights out to disrupt defenses.

York’s success on the court could not come at a more perfect time.

As a freshman, he played less than six minutes per game in just 15 games. He could have left and transferred to another program.

Wildcats fans recently saw that move from LSU transfer Craig Victor.

Instead, York has become an Arizona savior overnight and has a chance to play on the Staples Center floor, the court he dreamed about playing on.

“Gabe’s a very good shooter,” Miller said after the OSU victory.

“You know, if you followed us I would say over the last six weeks, you look at his points per game, his minutes per game, he’s really emerged. Tonight was another great example. We needed him and he delivered. He’s really a big, big part of what we’ve done all year long.”

This team is all about delivering, even if it means off the bench.

That’s been the main difference from previous Sean Miller teams to this one.

Backup freshman point guard Parker Jackson-Cartwright provides the pass-first mentality that

Arizona needs when McConnell needs a breather. In fact, Jackson-Cartwright’s speed and explosiveness left many defenders struggling throughout the season.

Coming off the bench for Tarczweski are 7-foot Serbian freshman Dusan Ristic and 6-foot10 senior Matt Korcheck. Although Korcheck has seen little action this season, the Tucson native delivered a game-changing dunk against Stanford earlier in the year.

Ristic, on the other hand, has seen as much as 19 minutes this season. The backup center provides an inside threat with a bevy of tricky post moves.

Arizona’s bench has produced in key moments time and time again this season — just ask UCLA. The Wildcats’ bench combined for 27 of the team’s total 57 points in the Feb. 21 game against the Bruins.

After Arizona’s heartbreaking loss to Wisconsin last season, Miller, who has never been to a Final Four, talked about crossing into that unknown world in the future.

“We have to keep doing things the way we’ve been [doing], and one day we will cross that line — I know it,” Miller said after the Elite Eight loss.

That line will be crossed if the Wildcats can continue to rely on their bench down the road. With arguably one of the best starting lineups in college basketball this season, the bench’s play is the key to a National Championship.

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