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Prospective students accepted to Ball State aren’t receiving the decade-old “Education Redefined” tagline on letters like students before them.

Instead, they are getting the words “Student-Centered Learning” along with a university logo next to it that shows Beneficence and Ball State University.

Joan Todd, a university spokesperson, said in an email “Student-Centered Learning” is not the new tagline of the university. She said nothing has been decided.

Every year, the Office of Admissions at Ball State sends a set of letters to admitted students from the Office of the President, Office of the Dean and an existing student. BALL STATE’S These letters are of- REBRANDING ficial university corSam Waterson, executive respondence featuring vice-president and Ball State’s brand and creative director of RHB logo.

Management Consulting, This year, however, said there are five general the university is using questions an institution a new template as they should look at when begin to refocus the uni- refocusing its brand. versity’s message and RHB Management Consulting is an brand, Todd said.

President Paul W. Indianapolis-based Ferguson expressed an marketing agency interest in expanding specializing in education. immersive learning into Continued on page 5 the broader Ball State curriculum through the idea of an “Entrepreneurial Learner” during his State of the University Address in February. He focused on the idea of “student-centered learning.”

Todd said the university is going through an evolution. The university has not hired an outside firm to help with the university’s brand refresh and there are no plans to do so at this time.

The university’s transition away from Education Redefined makes sense, Michael Hanley, an associate professor of journalism, said.

“So you are moving [the university] away from what it has been and perceived and defined in the past decade towards the strategic vision that [Ferguson] and the Board of [Trustees] has,” Hanley said. “It’s the perfect time to do that. It’s a very logical thing because he has a different vision.”

hen it comes to fire, most people have the reaction to stop, drop and roll. Kelzie Jo Selch, however, thinks “playtime.”

“I really love fire and I’m not scared of it at all,” Selch said.

Selch graduated from Ball State with a degree in glassblowing and she currently works at Be Here Now. About four years ago, Selch got into hula hooping. Shortly after, she incorporated fire into the hooping, becoming a flow artist. She also trails fire on her arms and holds it in her hands.

“I’ve been playing with fire forever,” Selch said.

Selch twirls her lit hoop around her arms, singeing off her arms hairs. She said she loves the adrenaline and the sound created by the rushing fire.

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TIPS FOR FIRE EATERS • Fire can burn the performers and the onlookers during fireeating. Avoid playing with fire in strong winds. The fire may blow toward onlookers or blow back into the performer’s face.

• Never breathe in when a torch or fuel is in the mouth. The fuel or flames may burn the fire-eater’s mouth or throat and may even cause a lung to collapse.

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James Whitford doesn’t sleep for eight hours after he coaches the men’s basketball games.

After each game, the Ball State coach gets emailed on/off statistics for the game — how the team performed with certain players on or off the court.

“Somebody charges me $1,250 a year for that,” Whitford said. “I feel like that’s way too much. If we have some students who want to do that work, maybe we can

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In his presentation on the growth of advanced basketball sponsored by the economics department at Ball State, Whitford began by discussing the difference between points per game and points per possession, using Wisconsin and VCU as examples.

Wisconsin uses an average of 64 possessions in its game, giving up 64 points. VCU allows an average of 75 points in 84 possessions.

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CORRECTION

In the April 14, 2015 edition of the Ball State Daily News, the subhead for the baseball article on page 4 reads, “Cardinals scoreless in weekend games after 16 straight wins.”

Ball State scored 11 runs in its series at Kent State. The Cardinals also didn’t have a 16game winning streak snapped, but had their 16 straight series win streak stopped.

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MONTICELLO, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton laid out the early cornerstones of her 2016 presidential campaign Tuesday, casting herself as a “champion” for struggling Americans and embracing economic and good-government policies promoted by liberal Democrats.

“I think it’s fair to say that as you look across the country the deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top,” said Clinton, seated at a table with students and teachers at a community college in rural Iowa in her first formal public event since returning to presidential politics.

“There’s something wrong with that.”

Clinton said she would focus her campaign for the Democratic nomination on four broad areas, listing the need to build “the economy of tomorrow, not yesterday,” strengthen families and communities, fix dysfunctional government while addressing ways of getting “unaccountable money out of the system,” and protect national security.

“We’ve got to figure out in our country how to get back on the right track,” Clinton said at a branch of Kirkwood Community College. “I’m running for president because Americans and their families need a champion and I want to be that champion.”

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time left in the legislative session to tackle such a policy change, and GOP members backed a ruling Tuesday that the proposal didn’t meet House rules for consideration.

Democratic Rep. Ed DeLaney of Indianapolis said his proposal was needed to get the state past the religious objections law backlash.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday also rejected a proposal to create a special committee to study the non-discrimination issue.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama bowed to pressure on Tuesday and agreed to sign legislation giving Congress the right to reject any nuclear agreement with Iran.

The White House conveyed the president’s decision shortly before Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved a compromise version of the measure on a 19-0 vote. It was a sign that Congress would not back down on its insistence

that lawmakers must have a say if any final deal with Iran involves the eventual lifting of crippling economic sanctions that Congress levied on Tehran.

The bill is now likely to clear both houses in the Republican-controlled Congress.

Obama had threatened to veto the original bill, but as news of the compromise leaked out on Capitol Hill, the White House abruptly acquiesced. The president still retains the right to veto the legislation which is to be finalized by June 30.

5. PANAMA CITY BEACH ENFORCES DRINKING BAN PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Tourism officials fed up with Spring Break madness in Panama City Beach will spend $120,000 more on security to enforce a drinking ban this year.

Bay County Tourist Development Council Chairman Mike Bennett said he joined Tuesday’s vote because “Spring Break has made enough news.”

The latest headlines have been bad indeed, after a young woman was videotaped being gang-raped on the beach this year, surrounded by a huge crowd that did nothing.

Spring Break attracts 300,000 bigspending partiers to Bay County, but the local sheriff says it’s time to take back the beaches for more family-friendly visitors.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, the White House announced Tuesday, a key step in his bid to normalize relations between the two countries.

The terror designation has been a stain on Cuba’s pride and a major stumbling block for efforts to mend ties between Washington and Havana.

In a message to Congress, Obama said the government of Cuba “has not provided any support for international terrorism” over the last six months. He also told lawmakers that Cuba “has provided assurances that it will not support acts of international terrorism in the future.”

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republicans in the Indiana House have turned aside an attempt to extend protections for gays and lesbians under the state’s non-discrimination laws in response to the uproar over the new religious objections law.

The proposal called for adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the Indiana civil rights law covering education, employment and housing.

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Her tricks have left her with no arm hair, but Selch has very few burns. She douses her skin in fuel to prevent this from happening.

Along with her other fire tricks, Selch eats fire. She does it by lighting torches with camping fuel and extinguishing the flames in her mouth. It took Selch one night to learn how to eat fire.

While hanging out with her fellow flow artists, one asked her if she wanted to try eating fire.

“Absolutely,” she said.

While the flames have little taste, the heat leaves a small sensation.

“When you’re done eating fire, you feel like you ate a hot piece of pizza,” Selch said.

Before extinguishing the flames with her mouth, Selch does a few tricks with the fire torches. She starts off by lighting one torch with the fuel, swiping it on her tongue, then lighting the other torch with the fuel in her mouth. She also can throw the flames from a lit torch to an unlit torch.

“I love it so much,” Selch said.

“I like how hot it is. I think it looks really cool and it’s something a lot of people find dan-

gerous or scary and I don’t think it’s scary at all.”

Selch has already taught another friend the way of the trade, after knowing how to eat fire for only a week.

“The hardest part about learning how to eat fire is doing it the first time,” Selch said. “Because you see this torch of fire coming at your face and you just have to go for it and close your mouth around the torch.”

Though the idea of a lit torch to the face may frighten some people, Selch loves the adrenaline and is comfortable with fire. She believes injuries are easily avoidable when playing with fire. If something is on fire and the person holding it becomes uncomfortable, Selch would advise them to just drop it and let it go.

Selch tries to do fire tricks as often as she can. She loves the community of people who also play with fire getting together to teach each other new tricks.

“It becomes a really cool community of people who like to learn new things with dangerous things—that people think are really dangerous,” Selch said. “We’re super open to helping teach people if they’re interested in learning.”

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ABOVE: Ball State alumna Kelzie Jo Selch spins fire at Spunday Monday at Be Here Now. TOP: Daryn Hurst has been performing with fire for four years now. Hurst taught Selch how to eat fire.

LEFT: Selch has singed off the hair on her arms from performing her fire tricks. When it comes to fire, she sees fun and not danger.

Daryn Hurst, a Muncie resident, started experimenting with fire four years ago. After spinning fire almost every day, he now eats fire, spins poi, is handy with the staff and is currently learning how to juggle fire. He’s done shows at places such as Indy Scream Park and local bars.

“I’m really just working on being a jack of all trades,” Hurst said.

Hurst enjoys being an adult and still being able to play with fire — responsibly of course. Though he’s gotten injuries and burns, Hurst said the key to learning how to successfully play with fire is to “try and try again.”

On Monday nights, the fire community gets together at Be Here Now for what they call Spunday Monday. Flow artists come together to show off tricks and play with fire — Spunday Monday is also open to anyone who wants to come watch.

“It would be really cool if a lot more people would come out and watch, and talk to us and get to know us because we love talking about it, we love learning about it and we love teaching people how to do new things,” Selch said.

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Editor’s Note: Mathew Jones is the brother of Bradley Jones, who is the Online Design Editor for the Daily News.

M

atthew Jones has a recipe for popularity.

Step one: acquire a ukulele.

Step two: play that ukulele anywhere and everywhere.

Step three: bask in the attention that follows.

That’s why, on a Thursday afternoon, ten people greeted Jones in a 90-minute time frame as he sat beside the staircase on the second floor of the Art and Journalism Building.

“You, like, live in here,” said one passerby who Jones addressed as Adam. Jones knows most people’s names.

“I do live in here,” Jones said. “This is my house. Get off my lawn, you damn kids.”

Jones may be joking, but if he’s not in class, he’s lounging around campus—at the Scramble Light or

underneath Shafer Tower. On the day that Jones didn’t even know were joinAdam greeted him, it was cold. Jones ing him. The crowd spanned the entire width of the hall, “like a blood stays in AJ when it’s cold. clot,” said Jones.

It’s a pretty good gig for Jones had the crowds, but he the senior classical cultures I’ll go up said he still didn’t have many major. He has a casual listenfriends. That’s when he made er base of thousands. Even if and I’ll say, the hat. the passing students have ‘Hey, you He created it out of a newsheard it all before, Jones paper, a blue pen and a little will sit and play for his own look pretty assistance from a friend. pleasure. And there will al- interesting.

Jones handed the completed ways be that freshman or hat to the friend who abanvisitor stumbling upon him Talk to me doned it into the high school for their first time. for a sec. I hallway. There, it tumbled The only downside is sumpast lockers and into the mertime when Jones’ audi- wanna know hands of a “cool kid.” ence packs up their suitcas- what you’re The popular guy took the es and heads home. That’s hat to a crowded pep rally, when Jones, who is from all about. where he unknowingly handnearby New Castle, Ind., ed it back to its creator, Jones. goes to the Muncie mall or MATTHEW A yearbook photographer McDonald’s. Before he re- JONES, the ukulele guy snapped shots in the distance turns to his apartment, he’ll as Jones donned his headpiece find someone to talk to.

“I”ll go up and I’ll say, ‘Hey, you look of destiny.

“I essentially made that moment of pretty interesting. Talk to me for a sec.

I wanna know what you’re all about,’” popularity for me,” said Jones.

Except the moment didn’t stop. That he said.

They can say no, Jones said, but they summer, just months before moving to college, Jones began hanging out at the usually don’t. local park, following his own example FINDING HIS POPULARITY of letting the people come to him.

Jones carries an old family porIt worked. It worked so well that by trait in his wallet. In it, he’s surthe end of the summer, Jones threw a rounded by his siblings: four party at his park bench for about 60 brothers and a sister. It isn’t people. They brought more ukuleles, the most flattering picture. harmonicas, a trumpet and a set of His smile reveals the hint bongos. Jones’ parents provided pizza. of a double-chin and his Jones arrived at Ball State for Fall hair is shaved close to the Semester in 2011 with all the right scalp—a “cue-ball cut,” ingredients for a successful freshman said Jones. year: his instrument, his long hair and When Jones first arrived a care-free attitude. at Ball State, his hair drew comparisons to Je- COLLEGE ON HIS OWN TERMS sus. It’s one of the things Jones had a couple of rules for his he attributes his prominence to. college career: don’t join any student Jones grew his hair out after a girl re- groups and stay out of the library. jected him during his freshman year of At orientation, a leader told him that high school. It wasn’t necessarily the no college student could graduate “no” that did it. It was the fact that ev- without doing those two things. eryone had short hair and if following Four years later, the now short-haired the crowd meant Jones still couldn’t Jones still hasn’t joined a group. Halfget the girl, then he didn’t see the way through his junior year, he used point in keeping up with everyone a printer in the library. He wanted to else. So Jones stopped. He stopped make a Christmas tree topper from a caring and he stopped cutting his hair. picture of a famous internet cat.

“And believe it or not, I made a crap Jones said he doesn’t like others ton of friends,” he said. telling him or anyone else what to Something about the new hair, or may- do. That’s why he challenges the be the new philosophy, attracted others. “shoulds” of the college experience.

Jones began sitting in the same place Like getting drunk at parties or lookbefore school every morning. His broth- ing down on freshmen. ers would do the same. Soon, people Jones definitely isn’t fazed by freshmen.

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“You got to stick up for the little guy,” he said.

LEARNING TO PLAY

Jones isn’t sure how long he’s been playing the ukulele, but he knows it’s been at least since May of 2009. He has the documentation to prove it—a certificate from a school event: “Best rendition of ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ on a pink ukulele in German.”

Jones also knows that he tried learning guitar first, but he never really picked it up. Ukulele seemed easier and Jones had a girl to woo. That’s why he started writing his own songs too.

He developed his first lyrics while sitting on a wall in the park— “The grass is green, the sky is blue and both are beautiful just like you. That’s love.”

He admits that his word choice wasn’t revolutionary, even more so in the second verse—“Tick tock, tick tock. Dweedle dee dee. Oh my god, that’s OMG. Love.”

He’s written songs since then that are better, he said. On campus, he likes to play covers, but he’ll show off his originals too.

He played one for Emmalie Hodge, a sophomore sociology major, after she stopped to talk to him on March 25.

Hodge didn’t know Jones when she met him at the Scramble Light. She didn’t even figure out his name until 45 minutes into their conversation.

She stopped because she’s a musician who finds herself drawn to others like her, but also because Jones seemed relaxed and happy. He was inviting.

“He was like, ‘Hey, I’m here. And if you want to listen, that’s cool. If you don’t, that’s cool too,’” she said.

Hodge is in a choir, she’s active in her sorority and she’s the recently elected president of Feminists for Action. Her activities don’t leave her much time to do anything but attend meetings and catch up on homework, but she couldn’t pass Jones when she saw him standing next to Ball State’s busy intersection.

Chatting with Jones wasn’t going to help her with school, but it would do something for her soul, she said.

Jones graduates at the end of the year.

He doesn’t have a carefully laid out plan, but he also doesn’t seem worried about the future. If history is any indicator, playing a song and smiling might be his best bet.

STUDENT-PRESENTED PLAY ADDRESSES ABANDONMENT Director emphasizes theme by including it in set, props, plot

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In the final Cave show of the season, Ball State students present an original play written by one of their own.

Every year, the Cave Studio Series ends with the Festival of New Plays, in which one or more student scripts are presented. This year, senior theatrical studies major Justin Pierce’s play, “West End Blues,” was selected for this program.

Director Brittany Lodge, a junior theatre productions and telecommunications video production double major, selected this full-length production out of several 10-minute, one-act and full-length scripts which were submitted for consideration.

This script follows four individuals “who learn to understand how strong you must be in order to leave everything you know behind, including your loved ones,” said Lodge.

Two of these people are Charlie Weston and Leanne King.

Weston, played by freshman theatrical studies major Silas Green, is a senior in college whose difficult life circumstances have left him feeling alone and abandoned by his family.

“Charlie’s biggest challenge has to be, frankly, himself because it’s hard for him to find a healthy way to cope with things,” said Green.

Leanne is a girl with a troubled past who is working to turn her life around and discover who she is so she can maintain a healthy relationship with another person, said freshman musical theatre major Courtney Martin, who plays her in the production.

“She doesn’t know what security is and she doesn’t know what family is,” said Martin.

“To know what feeling loved is and to feel belonging is hard for her, so she struggles with finding herself as an individual and what that means for the people around her.”

In order to convey the themes of abandonment the script emphasizes, Lodge worked to incorporate it into every aspect of the show, from the plot and the characters to the set and

the props.

“The set is mixed and matched, like someone could literally pack up and leave at any moment,” she said. “That’s what the whole play is about— learning about when people need to move on to a new chapter in their lives.”

One of the struggles for the play’s young actors has been to place themselves into the characters of people who have dealt with issues that they might have never experienced. Both Green and Martin said they wished to respect and own the experiences of their characters’ decisions and circumstances as honestly as possible.

“A lot of what [Leanne] has gone through is hard, and to do justice to the character and the people who have actually been through this in real life is hard,” said Martin.

Unlike typical productions, the Festival of New Plays gives the director an opportunity to work directly with the playwright, and the playwright gets to workshop their script throughout the production process to create a refined final product for their audience.

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crew members met once a week for a month and a half in order to workshop the script to get it ready to produce, a process which continued until just before opening night.

“Even a week ago, we were making cuts,” said Lodge. “We didn’t have a final script until yesterday [the Sunday before opening night].”

Lodge said everyone involved has treated “West End Blues” professionally and worked as hard as she would expect them to for a larger show.

“Everyone has taken the time to work as hard as they did for a Cave show that doesn’t usually get as much attention as a main stage show,” she said. “Everyone put so much into it and was so professional. I couldn’t

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Silas Green and Courtney Martin play the roles of Charlie Weston and Leanne King in the student written and directed play, “West End Blues.” Weston and King struggle with difficult pasts during the play.

ask for a better cast and crew.”

Lodge said she hopes audience members will walk away from the performance with a greater appreciation for others and their individual circumstances.

“Everything that we as human beings do in life is not so black and white,” she said. “We need to take the time in life to stop and understand why people do what they do.”

By taking the time to under-

stand those around them, the characters in the show demonstrate how people can truly learn from others.

“Let yourself learn from other people,” said Green about the main message of the show. “Other people can change things within you and, whether it be good or bad, you will always take wisdom and life lessons from it.”

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REBRAND:

Student helps create film Documentary shows campus perceptions on sexual assault |

KARA BERG CHIEF REPORTER knberg2@bsu.edu

Talking to students about sexual assault on college campuses can be tricky, but one Ball State junior did just that for “The Hunting Ground,” a documentary produced by an award winning director.

“The Hunting Ground” will be shown today on campus

by Step In. Speak Up., Ball State’s bystander intervention program.

The film is about the mishandling of sexual assaults on college campuses, and how many universities aren’t doing the right things to deal with sexual assault cases that are brought to them, according to the trailer.

Sydnee Pendergrass, a junior art major, used to attend Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, and she helped to film potential parts of the film with her friend.

When her friend was a senior in high school, he was chosen to be a part of an art program, where he met Doug Blush, one of the editors of the film. Later, Blush contacted Pendergrass’s friend

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and asked if he wanted to help with the film. He enlisted Pendergrass to help him do interviews.

They went around campus for a few days toward the end of the school year and approached people, asking them how they felt about sexual assault on SCAD’s campus.

“It was pretty interesting how many people didn’t know about it and didn’t find it a big deal,” Pendergrass said. “None of the locals ever heard anything about SCAD being on the news. Students were like, ‘You hear about it on the news, but it’s not a big deal.’”

Hanley said he would guess the university would unveil its refresh in four or six months, the typical time span.

“The brand is wellknown out there for Education Redefined,” Hanley said. “They have to put that to bed, or put that in what we call a dark period, long enough to be able to develop the new position as well as give the target segments to accept a new position for the same organization. In the long run, that’s the biggest challenge when you do this kind of repositioning.”

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SAM WATERSON’S TAKE ON REBRANDING Executive vice president and creative director of RHB Management Consulting said there are five general questions an institution should look at when refocusing its brand.

WHAT DOES A UNIVERSITY WANT TO BE KNOWN FOR?

“After you get through that initial phase of understanding what you’d like to change, ... you identify how your experience is going to change, which is what immersive learning and all those initiatives were doing, supporting the tagline Education Redefined.”

WILL THE UNIVERSITY FILL A NEEDED ROLE OR NICHE IN THE MARKETPLACE?

“If we are going to become something different than we are, are there sufficient customers out there to sustain us and is it okay with our current customers, alumni, faculty and staff, et cetera?”

GOING TO CHANGE?

“Instead of thinking, ‘We are going to get a new tagline,’ ... we need to ask, ‘What about this experience is going to change? What is going to change [in] what we offer that is going influence our new brand position?’”

HOW IS THE UNIVERSITY GOING TO COMMUNICATE CHANGES IN ITS BRAND?

“Who are we are going to speak to?

How are we going to tell that story?

How often, what channels, etc.”

HOW IS THE UNIVERSITY GOING TO MEASURE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHANGES TO ITS BRAND?

WHAT PARTS OF THE UNIVERSITY’S EXPERIENCE ARE

“What changes have occurred and how are we going to measure that? ... We have to find the metrics by which we measure our change.”

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SPORTS

Volleyball prepares for postseason Team 1st to finish schedule, future opponents unknown |

ROBBY GENERAL STAFF REPORTER @The_Generex6

The Ball State men’s volleyball is the first Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association teams to finish its regular season schedule.

Now, the Cardinals prepare for the postseason.

After defeating McKendree in its final game, Ball State enters the postseason with a 13-15 overall record, while currently in sixth place in the MIVA at 6-10.

The final placement for the Cardinals is uncertain, and their first-round opponent will remain unknown until the rest of the league completes its schedules this weekend.

While its opponent is uncer-

SOFTBALL

tain, Ball State knows it will have to travel.

“All the teams are good. It’s not like one [opponent] is going to be easier than the other,” setter Hiago Garchet said. “[We will be] stepping into someone else’s court and putting pressure on them. They have all the pressure.”

While the Cardinals are not in the position they wanted entering the postseason, they have proven they can compete in a competitive league such as the MIVA. Head coach Joel Walton hopes the 13-day break in between matches proves beneficial for his team, as the Cardinals have been plagued by injuries since the beginning of the season.

“As we’ve gone through the last part of the season, we’re seeing other teams be challenged the same way,” Walton said. “You see [injuries] happen every year, and that’s where having a deep

TEAM SWEEPS WEEKLY MAC AWARDS The Ball State softball team swept the Mid-American Conference West Division weekly awards after a 5-1 record last week.

Pitcher Nicole Steinbach was named the Pitcher of the Week, while shortstop Selena Reyna earned the NICOLE STEINBACH SELENA REYNA Shortstop Player of the Week honor. Pitcher Steinbach earned the award for the second time this season. She finished the week with a 3-0 record and a 0.00 earned run average with 18 strikeouts.

She pitched two complete-game shutouts over the week in wins over Toledo on Friday and Bowling Green on Saturday.

Reyna earned the MAC West Division Player of the Week award for the first time in her career. She led the Cardinals offensively with a .476 average, 10 hits, 10 RBIs and eight runs scored.

She was also a late-game hero for Ball State, driving in game-winning runs against Eastern Illinois and Toledo.

– STAFF REPORTS

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Junior short stop Selena Reyna scored two of the four Ball State runs during the loss against Butler Tuesday. The game went into 11 innings, but the Cardinals were unable to pull ahead of the Bulldogs.

Softball falls to Butler in extra innings Cardinal’s 2-game winning streak ends with 21-20 record | STAFF REPORTS

The Ball State softball team appeared to have Butler beat.

Up 4-2 with two outs in the seventh and final inning, Butler’s Riley Carter hit a two-run home run and tied the game.

Bulldogs’ pitcher Kristin Gutierrez shut down a Cardinals’ offense in the four extra innings of play to earn the win.

Butler’s offense also struggled against Ball State’s Kelsey Schifferdecker, who saw her first extended period of play since returning from injury.

Schifferdecker pitched 3.1 innings, allowing two runs on five hits and a pair of strikeouts. She threw 60 pitches, while taking her first loss of the season.

“We shouldn’t have struggled on offense after that home run,” Ball State head coach Tyra Perry said. “We have to get better at playing after something like that happens.”

Butler took a 6-4 lead in the top of the 11th inning, scoring two runs on three hits.

Though the Cardinals offense

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struggled during the extra innings, the top of the order performed well early.

Leadoff hitter Selena Reyna went 3-for-5 with a walk. Loren Cihlar, Ball State’s No. 2 hitter in the lineup, finished 4-for-4, all singles, with a walk.

Three Cardinals took the mound, with freshman Carolyn Wilmes starting. Wilmes pitched 5.2 innings, giving up two runs on seven hits with six strikeouts.

Sophomore Jocelyn Rivera followed Wilmes, pitching two innings and also allowing two runs.

With the loss, Ball State falls to 21-20 on the season and their two-game winning streak ended.

The Cardinals return to MidAmerican Conference play on Friday, hosting Western Michigan for a double header. The first game will begin at 1 p.m. at the Varsity Softball Complex.

bench is so important.”

In the second half of the season, Walton made it a priority to use a wide range of players every match.

The entire lineup has been tested throughout the season.

The amount of experience is hidden within the underclassmen on the roster, and while Ball State remains one of the youngest teams in the MIVA teams there are upperclassmen who have been in this situation multiple times before.

As a junior, Garchet will look to guide the team’s younger players through the postseason process. “[The upperclassmen] have to step up and show some leadership,” Garchet said. “I feel like we’ve been struggling a little bit this season. Playoffs is a different thing, you may play a team that’s better than you, but if you play well in that moment you can win That’s what we’re looking to do.”

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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “The true metric for how good you are on defense is points per possession,” he said. “That’s not that deep. It doesn’t specifically tell you where you’re good or bad. It just tells you whether you are good or bad.”

Whitford said the most important defensive statistic for a team is an opponent’s twopoint percentage. Because layups are the easiest shot a team can make, the ability to stop them is the most crucial for a team’s defense.

In the last 10-15 years, these statistics have become more prominent in basketball.

Whitford said, as a coach, players will approach him and say “I don’t get the rebound, but I always box my man out.”

Now Whitford has numbers to measure that.

“We should get the defensive

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The Ball State men’s volleyball team finished the regular season with a 13-15 overall record and 6-10 for conference play. The Cardinals will go into the MIVA tournament ranked sixth in the conference.

rebound a greater percentage when you’re in the game than when you’re out of the game,” he can say to the player.

Whitford has been in an academic atmosphere his entire life. His father, mother, grandfather and great-grandfather were all college professors.

So when John Horowitz, chairperson of the Ball State department of economics, emailed him and asked him to give a presentation for the department on basketball statistics, he couldn’t say no.

“If somebody asks me to present something, to me,

that’s what we’re all here for — exchanging ideas and learning from each other,” Whitford said.

In basketball, many strides have been made to advance the game in advanced statistics. But there’s still backlash from some basketball analysts and coaches.

In February, former Auburn and NBA player Charles Barkley made news and headlines in the basketball community by criticizing advanced basketball statistics. “[Advanced statistics are] just some crap that some

Toh-may-toh. Toh-mah-toh.

Either way, they’re always organic here.

people who are really smart made up to try to get in the game ’cause they had no talent,” Barkley said on TNT. Whitford says coaching basketball is part science, part art. The art part is what the coaches’ eyes see and what they believe when they watch.

The science part is the statistics and numbers aspect.

“The reason you look at [statistics] as a coach is it really helps reinforce what you see with your eyes as to where you need to increase your energy and where you need to put time into,” he said.

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