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Student veteran reflects on service Nearly 15-year veteran studies in Muncie for son

Emily Sabens Daily News Reporter As Americans take time to honor those who served in the military today on Veteran’s Day, the Ball State community doesn’t have to look too far.

Terry Crow, one of Ball State’s student veterans, served in the United States Army for nearly 15 years before becoming a student at the university.

“I chose to become active in the military for a few reasons,” Crow said. “One,

was my dad served in the United States Army. I [also wanted] to give opportunities to my son, Colby, who was 6 months old when I joined the Army.”

Crow was deployed to Iraq from January 2004 to 2005, and then returned to Iraq from November 2005 to November 2006.

He said he created many memories during his time serving in the Army.

Crow, originally from Arizona, got the chance to live in Alaska for a couple of years during his service, which he found to be an experience he will not soon forget.

Another aspect of serving in the Army that Crow will always remember are

opportunities had to travel abroad.

During his time in the Army, Crow visited numerous countries such as England, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Qatar, Canada and Hungary.

Crow also explained that he will never forget the friendships he formed during his time serving in the Army. “[I will never forget] serving with the best of friends when deployed,” Crow said. “[We] came back closer and stronger for each other after spending a year away from family and friends.”

After serving his time in the Army, Crow came back to the United States and chose to study sports training, adminis-

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Men's basketball brings back experience, looks to improve

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en’s basketball head coach James Whitford is excited. Excited that his team is returning more experienced players than he has ever had before.

“It feels good to have the experience and I feel like practices are competitive no matter how we split the teams up,” Whitford said The Cardinals return four players who all started games for Whitford last season.

Whitford’s third year coaching the Cardinals was his first one above the .500 mark. Ball State had not passed that mark since the 2011-12 season, but after winning 21 games last season the returning Cardinals are eager to continue the momentum they had.

See MEN'S BASKETBALL, page 4

tration and management at Ball State.

He had always been interested in coming to the university; however, it was his son, Colby, who lives in Wabash, Indiana, who helped him make his choice. With Muncie being just a car ride away from Wabash, Ball State was the ideal choice.

According to an article published by the United States Census Bureau in 2014, there are currently 19.3 million American veterans today. The same survey concluded that over one-fourth of those veterans hold a bachelor’s degree or higher.

See VETERANS, page 5

Women's basketball aims for 4th-straight WNIT bid

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Colin Grylls

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o make the NCAA women’s basketball tournament, the path is simple: win the Mid-American Conference Tournament and earn the automatic bid.

But Ball State coach Brady Sallee wants to get the Cardinals to the point where they’re considered good enough to make the NCAA tournament even with a slip-up in Cleveland.

“Some people might look at me and say, ‘man, this guy’s crazy.’ And that’s OK, maybe I am,” Sallee said.

“But I’m not scared about it at all.”

The goal, of course, is still to get that guaranteed bid that comes with the conference championship — with the usual tropes about taking it one day at a time.

See WOMEN'S BASKETBALL, page 4 Samantha Brammer // DN

MUNCIE NATIVE GIVES BACK

Former Boys and Girls club member becomes unit director Alexandra Smith Greek Life reporter

What started as a way for one Muncie native to hang out with friends has become a career and a place to give back.

Antonio Benford, who attended the Muncie Boys and Girls Club himself, is now the unit director. He lived by Heekin Park and started going with his friends when he was 8.

“I would always want to be here and would get here any way I could,” Benford said. “My friends were here, there were mentors here, it was a safe place where I felt I could really be myself.”

When he was starting high school, Benford was approached by the athletic coordinator at the time, Corey Downs.

Downs asked him to be on his Amateur Athletic Union basketball team.

“I’ll never forget that conversation,” Benford said. “Before I had only played because my friends did. I didn’t really think of myself as good or anything, but he saw something in me that I didn’t see.”

Because he spent a lot of his time traveling with the AAU team, Benford didn’t go to the Boys and Girls Club as often, though he said he still made an effort to be there when he could.

See BOYS AND GIRLS, page 5

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VETERANS DAY

Ball State students say thanks to those who have served in the military. PG 6

GRADUATION RATES

Women earn bachelor's degrees at a higher rate then men. PG 3

WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL

Reagan Allen // DN

The results of the 2016 presidential election brought about strong emotions over the future of minority rights. Many members of the LGBTQ community are concerned with Mike Pence being so close to the Oval Office.

The Cardinals finish regular season this weekend, prepare for MAC Tournament. PG 4

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President-elect selection worries LGBTQ community Max Lewis Daily News Reporter The outcome of the 2016 election has brought strong feelings about the future of minority rights, including those in the LGBTQ community.

After the landmark Supreme Court case Obergefell v.

Hodges granted gay people the right to marry in 2015, many assumed it was one of the biggest steps in the fight for LGBTQ rights. This is not necessarily the case, said Maddy Isenbarger, a senior film major.

“Just because we got it passed doesn’t mean it can’t be taken away,” she said.

Isenbarger describes herself as “queer,” which is an umbrella term that refers to the entire LGBTQ community.

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Anti-Trump protests continue; Opponents call them hypocrites The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Demonstrators took to the streets in San Francisco and gathered in a New York City park Thursday to express their outrage over Donald Trump’s unexpected presidential win while Trump supporters took to social media and denounced demonstrators as hypocrites or worse for not accepting defeat in a democratic process.

High-spirited high school students marched through San Francisco’s downtown, chanting “not my president” and holding signs urging a Donald Trump eviction. They waved rainbow banners and Mexican flags, as bystanders in the heavily Democratic city high-fived the marchers from the sidelines.

“As a white, queer person, we need unity with people of color, we need to stand up,” said Claire Bye, a 15-year-old sophomore at

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Academy High School. “I’m fighting for my rights as an LGBTQ person. I’m fighting for the rights of brown people, black people, Muslim people.”

In New York City, about a hundred protesters gathered at Union Square in Manhattan to protest a Trump presidency.

At a subway station along 14th Street, New Yorkers expressed their thoughts — “Time to Fight Back” and “Keep the Faith!

Our work is just beginning!” — along the walls of a walkway using sticky notes.

On Twitter, Trump supporters accused protesters of not respecting the process because it didn’t work out in their favor.

“You’re literally protesting against free democratic elections. Go live in North Korea, you absolute trash,” one said. “They’re not protesting Trump, they’re protesting democracy and the right to disagree with them.

Isn’t that fascism,” said another.

ELIOT GONZALEZ JR. @EGMONEY97

Can someone explain how protests after an election changes it?

You had your voice heard when you voted.

We're a society of spoiled brats.

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Don't leave the country if you're anti-trump. Stay and fight with us. We need all the help we can get, not pacifists.

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ACROSS 1 Assuming it’s true 7 “Bloom County” penguin 11 Jams 14 After-dinner gathering 15 Go in different directions 16 Service to redo 17 Spoon 19 Flight status info 20 In addition 21 “The Fault in __ Stars”: John Green novel 22 Leader’s domain 24 Dish 28 Chatter boxes?

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35 “Girls” channel 38 Fork 42 Icarus, to Daedalus 43 Bar employee: Abbr.

44 String quartet member 45 Prefix with arch 48 Bulldozer companion 49 Plate 53 Marx with a horn 54 Vienna’s land: Abbr.

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59 Hairy TV cousin 60 Bowl 64 Flowery welcome 65 It’s retold often

66 Greet on the street 67 Roadside shelter 68 “Oh, ew” 69 Fancy, and then some DOWN 1 New York stadium named for a sports great 2 __-searching 3 Tree fruit 4 Like some wells 5 One of a Chicago duo 6 Group of like voices 7 Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas,” e.g.

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9 Address bar address 10 “Lie Down in Darkness” author 11 Request before the music starts 12 Beijing-born action hero 13 Passport mark 18 Payable 23 “I didn’t mean that” key 25 Bordeaux butcher’s offering 26 Eccentric 27 Write effusively 28 Smokehouse order 29 Coiffure style 30 ‘60s-’70s variety show host

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Women earning degrees at higher rate Study shows traditional gender roles being challenged

Sara Barker Multicultural Reporter More women earn bachelor’s degrees than men, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

Women earned 57 percent of all degrees conferred in the 1999-2000 academic year, according to NCES. However, men still received 56 percent of doctoral degrees and 55 percent of first-professional degrees that year.

“For a long time, you were expected to go and get a college education, but then you were expected to find a husband and get married and have children,” said Courtney Jarrett, associate director of Disability Services. “Well, there are lots of women that don’t want to do that and that’s OK. The important point about women graduating is that they then go on to do whatever it is that they want to do.”

This trend has continued at Ball State.

According to the fact book, out of all undergraduate and graduate students in the 2016-2017 school year, 37.5 percent of students enrolled are men and 62.5

than men are, that they're choosing more percent are women. flexible occupations.”

This enrollment and subsequent However, Dagney Faulk, director of graduation trend, however, is major-specific research in the Center for Business and and does not reflect across all majors.

Economic Research, has noticed a shift Women earned 18,259 bachelor degrees in the traditional nuclear in engineering in the 20132014 academic year, according BY THE NUMBERS family structure because of an increase in educated, to the NCES. Men earned working women. four times that, with 73,903 “When I grew up, my engineering bachelor degrees.

Percent of Ball State mom took care of the house The idea of "men’s majors" undergraduate and and my father worked and and "women’s majors" is graduate students who it’s very different now in perpetuated by society and are women in 2016-17 that women expect their may be caused by a number of husbands to take larger roles reasons, said Michael Hicks, in childcare and household a professor of business and Percent of doctoral activities,” Faulk said. economic research. degrees received by Jarrett also recognized "One could be we're not men in 1999-2000 a shift in the traditional interesting women early enough family structure, noting in science and mathematics. that when a mother or both We're not telling girls, when Difference in bachelor parents of a household they're thinking about making degrees in engineering work, taking care of children career decisions in third grade, between men and and common household fifth grade in school, to be women in 2013-14 chores no longer are solely good at math,” Hicks said. women’s responsibilities.

“The second one could be just the raw fact On the other hand, Hicks said the that women give birth, and that because societal pressure is on men to go to work women are more likely to care for children — especially in 1960s America, which has at some time in their young adult years

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carried over to today.

"You were just looked down upon culturally if you didn't have a job, so men in that age group worked," Hicks said.

Junior speech pathology major Melanie Whitesel believes societal shifts toward gender equality have fueled the educational achievement of women.

“Kind of that movement of getting out of that traditional roles and feeling like we need to put ourselves into further education, because we know that will help us gain an edge in the workforce by having those degrees,” Whitesel said.

Although women are earning more bachelor degrees than men, Alex Delong, a sophomore political science major, still recognizes that the glass ceiling exists.

“I know a lot of times, women, in comparison to men, will have a harder time trying to move up than men are,” Delong said. “That might be something along there too, that the standard is just lower for men than it is for women so [women] realize, ‘well I’m going to climb higher to the standard so that way I can supersede the expectations.’”

Contact Sara Barker with any questions or concerns at slbarker3@bsu.edu.

Conservative agenda may be pushed with one-party government Kara Berg Crime Reporter

Samantha Brammer // DN

Many members of the LGBTQ community have strong emotions about the 2016 presidential election results. They said there is still have a long way to go in achieving equal rights and they do not want there to be a setback over the next four years.

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Continued from page 1 After Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, Isenbarger said she and some of her queer friends met up and cried together.

“Any progress we have made is in jeopardy right now,” Isenbarger said.

“Not just because of Donald Trump, because of Mike Pence and because of Republicans' control of the House and Senate.”

The person LGBTQ people fear even more so than Trump is his vice president, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Isenbarger said.

Mike Pence has described himself as “a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.”

He has been an opponent of LGBTQ rights for most of his political career.

He opposed the repeal of "Don’t Ask Don’t Tell" and has openly supported conversion therapy.

“Resources should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior,” Pence wrote on his website during his successful run for Congress in 2000.

Kam Bontrager, a sophomore family and consumer science education major, is gay and is a supporter of Hillary Clinton. Bontrager said Trump's victory is "frightening" but he said he hopes LGBTQ individuals will be advocated for.

"My hope is for this country to heal the divide we as a society have created," Bontrager said. "We need to learn to appreciate the diversity our country has and to adapt to an ever changing society."

While members of the LGBTQ community are concerned about the Trump/Pence administration, some say Trump will not be able to easily change marriage equality.

Andy Downs, the director of the Mike

Downs Center for Indiana Politics, said any reversal of LGBTQ rights would be “difficult at this point.”

“The Supreme Court decision that allowed for same-sex marriage has been put behind us,” Downs said. “It doesn’t mean that other issues won't come up, but some of what people think may disappear won't disappear for legal and societal reasons.”

Public opinion on same-sex marriage has grown in recent years. A study by the Pew Research Center showed that 57 percent of Americans opposed same-sex marriage in 2001. In 2016, a Pew study showed that a majority of Americans — 55 percent — now support same-sex marriage.

At the height of the transgender bathroom controversy, Trump did say that former Olympian and reality television star Caitlin Jenner could use whatever bathroom she wanted at his properties.

However, many members of the LGBTQ community are more concerned about Pence being so close to the Oval Office and remain unconvinced.

Marian Fant, a sophomore public communications major, is bisexual and said she believes the LGBTQ community has a long way to go in achieving equal rights.

Fant said protections for employees, hate crime laws and the process of changing one's gender are just a few of the things LGBTQ individuals deserve.

Like many other members of the LGBTQ community, Fant was upset by the outcome of the election and admitted to crying after seeing the results.

"The whole 'Make America Great Again' ... America was never that great for minorities," Fant said. "When we hear 'Make America Great Again,' that doesn't include us."

Contact Max Lewis with any questions or concerns at lmaxwell2@bsu.edu.

Having an all-Republican controlled government could give President-elect Donald Trump the flexibility to push more conservative measures once he takes office.

Andy Downs, director of the Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics at IPFW, said presidents who have their party backing them in Congress tend to be more successful at pushing their agenda forward.

This, however, could differ for Trump, Downs said. Because of the visible disagreements he’s had within his own party during his campaign, Congress could end up fighting him on issues.

It could even go as far, he said, as Congress deciding to take over and become more dominant. While it’s hard to imagine a scenario where that happens, it is possible, he said.

“We may get to watch [that struggle] more openly than we would have, given the president-elect’s desire to tweet and speak publicly in ways his staff may not want,” Downs said.

Already, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has shot down some of Trump’s plans, according to NPR. McConnell said Trump’s plan for term limits in Congress will not be on the Senate agenda, and said his infrastructure plans weren’t a top priority.

But as for the impact the unified, Republican-controlled structure will have on the country? It’s too early to tell, Downs said.

“There’s obviously some indication that people should expect things to move in a conservative direction,” Downs said.

That may even mean undoing legislation current President Barack Obama has passed, like the Affordable Care Act. Trump vowed to “cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama” in his 100-day action

plan he released in October.

It also looks like the Republicans are going to be able to control the Supreme Court, along with Congress and the White House, said Joseph Losco, director of the Bowen Center for Public Affairs at Ball State. Trump will also be able to choose the justice who replaces Antonin Scalia's spot.

“There will be a real period of adjustment here,” Losco said. “He’s got to govern, and in governing you have to make some deals and compromises with people in your own party.”

These Washington changes were not expected to occur in the election, however. The polls predicted success for Democrats, which did obviously did not pan out when the actual results came in. This, Downs said, is because of the swing states that were predicting narrow victories, some even within the margin of error.

“The polls were still pretty accurate, but what they got wrong was a winner,” Downs said. “People overstated what the polls said.”

Along with that, the Democrats didn’t have the voter turnout they were hoping for, and Hillary Clinton didn’t perform as well in certain demographic groups as planned.

But overall, Americans lack consensus on whether having a unified structure is better for the country or not, according to a 2014 Gallup poll. Thirty percent said it’s better to have a one-party government, and 28 percent said a divided government is better. But 37 percent said it made no difference.

Overall, it will just depends on how Congress and Trump end up working together.

“It depends if there’s a struggle,” Losco said. “His victory was pretty convincing, and that may bring a lot of Republicans over to his side, but we’ll have to wait.”

Contact Kara Berg with any questions or concerns at knberg2@bsu.edu.

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Women's volleyball seeks No. 4 seed Ball State tied for fourth with Bowling Green, Toledo Kara Biernat Women’s Volleyball Reporter As Ball State women’s volleyball wraps up the regular season this weekend, the team is directing its focus on the MidAmerican Conference tournament. The Cardinals will end the regular season at home, hosting Western Michigan Friday and Northern Illinois Saturday.

This will be Ball State’s second meeting with both teams. The Cardinals (8-6 MAC) pulled out a 3-1 victory against the Broncos, but fell 3-0 to the Huskies back in October.

Head coach Kelli Miller is having her team focus on having a sense of urgency as they prepare for the tournament.

“One thing that we’re really focusing on for finishing this weekend and taking into conference is having a sense of urgency, to maintain that throughout the entire match,” Miller said. “That’s one thing that throughout this year, we’ve been kind of up and down with.

We’re really trying to put a priority on that this week.”

The Cardinals are battling for the fourth seed in the tournament, which allows a bye in tournament play.

In the MAC Tournament, the top two seeds skip the first two rounds and advance directly to the semifinals, while the third and fourth seeds advance to the quarterfinals. The remaining four teams begin in the first round, and would have to play four games in four days if they made a championship run.

Ball State is currently tied with Bowling Green and Toledo for fourth place in the

conference with an 8-6 record. In order for the Cardinals to get the four-seed outright, they need to beat both Western Michigan and Northern Illinois, and have Bowling Green and Toledo lose.

Otherwise, tiebreakers come into play.

In its last meeting with Northern Illinois, Ball State struggled with passing the ball and control. Miller is looking forward to seeing the results of the team’s progress when they face the Huskies for the second time.

“When we’re playing Northern, we have to pass a lot better than we did the first time we played them,” Miller said.

“From a ball control standpoint, that’s serve, receive and defense, we have to be more relentless in our pursuit. We don’t want any balls hitting the floor without full-on effort.”

Northern Illinois is going to be the Cardinals’ biggest competitor this

weekend. Miller would like to use this weekend as a warm-up for the conference tournament.

“Knowing that Northern is going to come with a lot of heat behind their serves and being able to battle that,” Miller said. “We don’t want to just accept that as heat, we want to accept that as a challenge. My biggest thing is to see how much we’ve grown from the weekend that we played these guys the first time, till now.”

Both matches this weekend will start at 7 p.m. in Worthen Arena.

“I’m anxious to see how far we’ve grown and to get momentum as we enter the tournament,” Miller said. “We want to play our best volleyball here in these next two weeks.”

Contact Kara Biernat with any questions or concerns at @karabiernat.

Breanna Daugherty // DN File

Ball State men’s basketball head coach James Whitford is excited for the new season and to have four returning players who started for him last year. The Cardinals season opener is today, on the road against St. Louis.

MEN'S BASKETBALL Continued from page 1

The Cardinals experienced roster starts with senior forward Franko House. The Cardinals' leading scorer last season returns in the best shape of his life. House has dropped 25 pounds since his freshman season and added muscle to his already muscular build.

“To this day, I’m still having to figure out how to continue to make my body be better,” House said.

House started 30 games last season and only fellow senior forward Ryan Weber played more minutes than him.

House had the second highest number of rebounds for the team last season just behind forward Bo Calhoun, who now plays in Europe.

Whitford notes the similarities between Calhoun and House. Besides their height and weight, which are almost identical, Whitford sees a similar work ethic between his current and former team captains.

“Certainly all of [House's] teammates would look at him like Bo, as somebody who does it right every single day," Whitford said.

Weber will also be taking on a new leadership role this season.

The fifth-year senior redshirted his freshman year and averaged 10.5 points per game last season. Weber shot 40 percent from 3-point range, which placed him eighth in the MidAmerican Conference.

Weber said he is still working on improving his game and trying to find ways to get his teammates more involved. He said everyone is improving. The new members of the team are working just as hard.

“I think if we take care of business and work hard like we have been I think we can keep the momentum going into the season,” Weber said.

Point guard play will be crucial for the Cardinals this season. Ball State’s senior starting point guard Jeremie Tyler has been indefinitely suspended for a violation of team rules. In his absence, sophomore Tayler Persons, who sat out last year after transferring from Northern Kentucky University, will be next in line. “[Persons] is going to have to be that force on the court. [Persons is] going to have to be the one that is like the quarterback on the court,” Whitford said. “He calls the plays, gets guys organized and does the things that that position requires.”

Alongside Persons is junior guard Francis Kiapway. Last season Kiapway averaged 8.6 points, 1.5 assists and 1.3 rebounds per game. Whitford said Kiapway is a different type of point guard than Persons. He said while Kiapway isn’t going to be able to create shots for other members, he is still a great player and can really stretch the floor. Persons will split time directing traffic for the Cardinals this season.

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It’s anybody any given night. A lot of guys took that loss and should be hungry to get to Cleveland.”

— Franko House, senior forward

“I feel like both of those guys can handle that position and I think it's critical you have two that really know what they’re doing,” Whitford said.

The Cardinals open the season today on the road against Saint Louis as part of the MGM Grand Main Event. The event also includes Friday's game, when the Cardinals travel down south to take on Alabama. Ball State’s two games in Las Vegas will cap off the event when they take on Coppin State Nov. 21 and Southern Utah Nov. 23.

Three of the Cardinals' four true road games this season come against teams that participated in the National Invitation Tournament last season: Valparaiso, Alabama and North Florida. Valparaiso finished last season with a record of 30-7, Alabama finished 19-15 and North Florida was 22-12.

The MAC seems to be wide open for the Cardinals this season. After being named MAC West Division co-champions with Central Michigan last year, Ball State suffered a disappointing loss to Miami in the first round of the MAC tournament.

House said the Cardinals are looking for redemption this season.

“We got to be able to come into every game knowing that with our conference you can win any game it doesn’t matter,” House said. “It’s anybody any given night. A lot of guys took that loss and should be hungry to get to Cleveland.”

Even with losing in the MAC tournament, the Cardinals made the postseason for the first time in 14 seasons. Ball State made it to the quarterfinals of the CollegeInsider. com Postseason Tournament.

According to the MAC preseason coaches poll, Ball State is projected to finish second in the MAC West.

Whitford said right now he is just focusing on getting his team's mentality ready for the season. He said the philosophy of his program is to have a championship process.

“The thing that we have complete control over is having a championship program. The way we practice the way we live off the court the way we work everyday,” Whitford said. “No one has control of that except for the people in our locker room.”

The process begins today on the road in Saint Louis before returning home Tuesday when the Cardinals take on in-state rival Indiana State for the home opener.

Contact Elizabeth Wyman with any questions or concerns at @dn_sports.

Breanna Daugherty // DN File

The women’s basketball team needs to win the Mid-American Conference Tournament to earn an automatic bid for the NCAA women’s basketball tournament. The Cardinals finished 22-10 last season and were the No. 3 seed going into the conference this season.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Continued from page 1 Still, Sallee said it’s not an impossible achievement to get to that level, though no MAC team has received an at-large bid to the tournament since March 1996.

“Four years ago, if I’d’ve told you we’re going to hang four banners in our first four years, you’d’ve had a similar question — how realistic is that?” Sallee said. “If you’re not willing to put that out there and build towards it, it’s never going to happen.”

Ball State is coming off of four consecutive appearances in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament, the longest post-season streak in program history.

Last season, the Cardinals finished 2210 (13-5 MAC) and were the No. 3 seed in the conference tournament, but were knocked out by No. 6 Eastern Michigan in the tournament.

The good news is that four starters return from that squad. The bad news is that the one who isn’t coming back is Ball State’s all-time leading scorer, Nathalie Fontaine.

Fontaine was second in the MAC with 20.6 points per game last season and also second with 10.2 rebounds per game. She was also MAC Player of the Year.

“It’s fun for me just to see who wants the heat and who’s willing to jump out there,” Sallee said. “And really, the idea I had going into the season to replace [Fontaine], once these guys kind of took it amongst themselves to kind of jump in and play different positions, it looks totally different than what I thought it was going to. And that’s fine, that’s good.”

Fontaine was listed as a 6-foot-2-inch guard, but she primarily played in the post. Sallee likes moving his players around, describing his ideal offense as “positionless.” He also said junior Moriah Monaco, a 6-foot-1-inch forward who attempted 206 three-pointers last year, will be one of the keys to his flexible system.

“We space the floor, and there’s been a reason for that, but now we need her inside,” Sallee said. “We need her on the perimeter, we need her in the high post, we need her in a lot of different places. And she’s been more than willing and been really good in that role so far.”

Monaco hit 34 percent of her threepoint attempts last season and was second on the team with 11.3 points per game. She was also born in March 1996, the same month Kent State earned the MAC’s last at-large bid.

“I like the challenge to come in and try to fill Nathalie’s shoes,” Monaco said. “I want to do that.”

The other three returning starters are

senior guard Jill Morrison, sophomore guard Carmen Grande and senior center Renee Bennett. Morrison and Bennett each averaged 9.8 points per game, tied for third on the team.

“The pressure wasn’t really on us, it was more like we were on [Fontaine’s] back,” Morrison said. “Now everyone has to show up every day, every game.

You can’t just have a day off because we’re expected to do more.”

Grande in particular will be asked to do more, Sallee said. As a freshman last year, she won the starting point guard job and was fourth in the MAC with 5.0 assists per game and fifth with 1.7 steals per contest.

“She had a great freshman year and now she’s got to take control of this team in between the lines,” Sallee said. “Our tempo’s got to be her tempo. She’s got to be the head of the snake defensively.”

With Sallee’s high-pressure defense, Grande said the chemistry between the returning starters — plus whoever fills the fifth spot — is one of Ball State’s strengths.

She said she trusts her teammates to cover for her in the post if a steal attempt at the top of the arc goes awry.

“We just want to make them inefficient,” Grande said. “Even if [individual players] score 20 points, if they shoot the ball 40 times then we’re fine.”

Several 20-win opponents dot Ball State’s schedule, including Auburn (20-13, 8-8 SEC), Purdue (20-12, 10-8 Big Ten) and Western Kentucky (27-7, 15-3 Conference USA).

“The key to a schedule is you’ve got to win them,” Sallee said. “So for each team that you have, yo u’ve got to put a schedule together where our kids go out and think they can win every game we play. Clearly Auburn is good, Purdue is good, Western Kentucky is good — but so are we.”

Wins against those schools, plus a strong regular season in the MAC, would help give the Cardinals the type of résumé that could help them be in contention for an at-large bid.

At basketball media day, Sallee said his goal is to win every game on the schedule, and the team will get its first shot at 11 a.m. today at Worthen Arena when it hosts Arkansas-Pine Bluff in the season opener.

But if the Cardinals slip up at some point — especially in the MAC Tournament — he’s been there before.

Early in his coaching career, he was an assistant coach for a Kent State program that made four NCAA tournament appearances in his seven years as an assistant — including an at-large bid in March 1996.

“The last team in the MAC to get the atlarge. I was on that staff,” Sallee said. “So I know what it looks like, and that’s the vision we have for the program, too.”

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There are 19.3 million American veterans today, according to the United States Bureau in 2014. Terry Crow is one of Ball State’s student veterans. He served in the United States Army for almost 15 years before he attending Ball State.

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After serving in the armed forces, many veterans choose to pursue a college education.

Ball State has many student veterans who have chosen to pursue a degree after being part of the armed forces.

The university has its own Veteran Affairs program, which works with more than 400 students

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After graduating from high school, Benford received a scholarship to play basketball at Bethel College in Mishawaka. He graduated with a degree in sports management in 2010.

When he returned to the club, he started as a gym coordinator. Benford said he’s had “basically every role” in the past five years.

As unit director for the club, he works with members, parents, staff and volunteers and oversees the facility. On the weekends, Benford gives basketball training sessions to kids.

“I love interacting with the members and parents,” Benford said. “I’m not

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and family members who are affiliated with the university. Ball State also encourages its student veterans to become part of the Student Veteran Organization, which provides guidance and assistance to student veterans.

The SVO brings together current veterans, active duty soldiers and future veterans. It encourages its members to excel academically as well as gives its members a place to experience personal growth.

The SVO also participates in service projects throughout

interested in titles; I’m interested in changing kids’ lives. And it’s not just me, they can be changed by anyone here.”

Benford is recognized as a “Boys and Girls ANTONIO Club kid” as well as a BENFORD local, and he said that’s unit director, his biggest asset.

Muncie Boys “I was what they call an and Girls Club ‘at-risk’ child,” he said. “I know who these kids are, the community. I know what it’s like to live at the poverty line. It’s nothing that can be taught, it’s in my blood.”

Chris Mack has only worked at the Boys and Girls Club for a few months, but has been working closely with Benford. Mack, a team program

honor and pay respect to those who have served in the country’s armed forces, just as Crow did.

“What makes me proud of being a veteran is that I served the people of the best country in the world, the United States,” Crow said. “I will always thank every person who made my life in the military a great experience, and want them to know that I did it for them, not for me.”

the school year in order to help members connect with fellow veterans.

Crow is a member of Ball State’s SVO. “I chose to join the SVO because I want to continue to serve our great nation and its veterans,” Crow said.

“We are all different, but we all have one thing in common, and that is we served the United States and want to help each other succeed, regardless of what branch we have served in.”

The United States celebrates Veterans Day each year in order to

Contact Emily Sabens with any questions or concerns at ecsabens@bsu.edu.

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I'm not interested in titles; I'm interested in changing kids' lives. And it's not just me, they can be changed by anyone here.”

— Antonio Benford, unit director Muncie Boys and Girls Club

assistant, said Benford is a mentor to him as well.

“There are lots of things to learn from him,” Mack said. “He’s an incredible mentor. I’m leaving [the] club almost every day learning something new from him.”

Mack said Benford makes a safe environment for the kids and trains the

staff so they can best serve the kids.

“He has a passion behind what he does and you can see it,” Mack said.

“It rubs off on me, too.”

Benford said having the story of being a “Boys and Girls Club kid” is what makes his job great.

“Being able to come back to this one club and showing [the kids] you can make it, you can come back from living with just your mom or grandma, that’s what it’s about,” Benford said.

“It’s about being a positive influence.

I don’t do it for a change for tomorrow or a change in a year, but I know these kids will have these stories years from now when they’re 20 or so, and that’s why I do this.”

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