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Poll: Trump leads Illinois Republicans KEVIN MCDEMOTT St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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A new poll by a respected Illinois think-tank shows Donald Trump with a big lead over his Republican challengers heading into that state’s March 15 primaries.

It’s a startling finding for a state that tends to embrace mainstream Republicans over radical ones — and one that has correctly called the winner of every GOP primary race of the past 60 years.

The poll, by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at SIU, shows Trump leading among six candidates, with 28 percent support, well ahead of Ted Cruz (15 percent), Marco Rubio (14 percent) and John Kasich (13 percent).

The poll was conducted in the week before Saturday’s South Carolina GOP primary and Nevada’s Democratic caucuses, and before Florida Gov. Jeb Bush withdrew from the race. Bush and Ben Carson both finished in single digits in the poll.

“A part of me is surprised that Donald Trump leads significantly in a state known for its moderate Republicans, from Everett Dirksen to Jim Edgar to Mark Kirk,” Charlie Leonard, a political scientist who helped supervise the poll, said in a prepared statement.

“On the other hand, the ‘notTrump’ vote, combined together, swamps the pro-Trump vote, with somewhere around one in seven voters still up for grabs.”

Most ominous for the GOP establishment is that, when it comes to Republican presidential primaries, Illinois has a long history of accurate prognostication. In fact, the last time Illinois Republican primary voters picked a candidate who didn’t go on to win the GOP presidential nomination was 1952, when they picked Robert Taft instead of Dwight Eisenhower.

David Yepsen, director of the Simon Institute, said there are two ways to look at the Republican race — as Trump being ahead because he has more votes than anyone else, or as Trump not being the first choice of 72 percent of polled Republican voters. He said if those 72 percent were to rally around another candidate, Trump would lose in Illinois.

The question now, he said, is who the alternative to Trump might be.

“As long as the non-Trump vote is divided, I think Donald Trump has every reason to think he’ll do well here,” Yepsen said Monday.

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Carbondale’s plan to construct a roundabout at the intersection of East Grand Avenue and South Lewis Lane is worrisome for a group of disabled students.

Jodi Witthaus, a graduate student in social work from Centralia, said for someone who is visually impaired such as herself, a roundabout is a huge concern because the noise and constant traffic make it difficult to judge when is safe to cross the street.

Witthaus crosses the intersection — located near Aspen Court apartments, University Village and Lewis Middle School — daily with her guard dog, Nika.

“I got my dog for independence,” Witthaus said. “If they don’t do [the roundabout] right, that completely wipes away my independence.”

Construction will begin as early as this summer after discussions about the project began in 2009, said Sean Henry, the city’s public works director. He said a

roundabout will improve traffic flow at the intersection, which is often congested in the morning.

The Illinois Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration are funding the project, allowing $400,000 to be budgeted for construction.

Witthaus — who is part of the Carbondale Coalition for Accessibility, a community group focused on advocating for people with disabilities — said raised

intersections to slow drivers down, flashing lights and audible crossing were discussed at the coalition meeting earlier this month. Henry said he is aware of the suggestions, but no plans are in place yet.

Kevin MacDonald, a hearingimpaired senior from Vienna studying workforce education and development, said roundabouts can be difficult enough to navigate in a car, let alone on foot or in a wheelchair.

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Effects of Chicago State’s funding crisis run deep

Anna Spoerre | @AnnaSpoerre A protestor holds a #SaveCSU sign Wednesday at a rally in front of the State Capitol in Springfield. Chicago State University students, faculty and alumni joined hundreds of students from public colleges and universities across the state to protest the budget impasse during Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s budget address.

Charles Preston, a senior at Chicago State University, wants to pursue a master’s degree after he graduates in December — if he can.

“If the school closes, basically I’m in limbo,” said Preston, who is majoring in African-American studies. “I don’t know what I will do after.”

Chicago State is just one of the 12 public universities in Illinois that have received no state money since July 1.

Located in the Roseland neighborhood on the South Side of

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Chicago, Chicago State is the only public university in Illinois with a majority-black student population.

It’s wedged between a row of some of the most impoverished communities in the city.

An Africana studies professor at SIU said she has seen no evidence that shows the situation at CSU is related to race, but it is a possibility.

“A lot of times when things go badly, the black community is usually the one that suffers,” said Pamela

Smoot, who added that the situation is depressing.

There were about 5,000 students enrolled at Chicago State in 2014, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. About 73 percent of those students were black and 63 percent of students received Monetary Award Program grants. At SIU, about 20 percent of the 17,989 enrollees were black and 40 percent of students received the MAP grant.

And as Illinois approaches its

ninth month with no spending plan, administrators at CSU are taking things literally day by day, said university spokesman Tom Wogan.

“We did not imagine we would be eight months into a fiscal year with no allocation whatsoever,” Wogan said.

“If the state continues to not take action then a number of campuses — not just CSU — are going to start facing very real problems for lack of operating dollars moving forward.”

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The university last received an appropriation of $38 million for operating costs in fiscal year 2015.

Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner last week proposed a spending reduction of 24 percent for CSU next year.

During the past few months Preston has spent a portion of his class time participating in marches and demonstrations around Chicago.

Last week he went to Springfield for Rauner’s budget message, where a handful of SIU students and faculty protested as well. In January he walked down Chicago’s Interstate 90/94 with fellow students, effectively shutting down southbound traffic.

“We’ve just been trying to raise awareness around this issue however we can,” Preston said. “We will not let our institution close.”

Aidan Osborne | @AidanOsborne_DE Jodi Witthaus, a visually impaired graduate student in social work from Centralia, stands with her guide dog Nika while waiting to cross South Lewis Lane on Sunday after walking down East Grand Avenue from her apartment at Aspen Court.

The intersection is the site for a proposed roundabout, which she said can be a hazardous obstacle for pedestrians to cross. “I got my dog for independence,” Witthaus said. “If they don’t do [the roundabout] right, that completely wipes away my independence.”

into consideration when advising plans for Carbondale," she said.

Henry, who has spoken with members of the safety coalition, including Mulderink, said city officials

will consider implementing the group's suggestions as long as there is enough funding.

"We’ll take into consideration everything we can in design and

make it as safe as possible," he said.

Chicago State is an oasis in the desert — a safe haven in the midst of neighborhood plagued by poverty and violent crime, Preston said.

Preston grew up in Roseland, but went off to the University of Missouri in 2009. Moving from a predominately black area on the South Side of Chicago to Columbia, Mo., was foreign to him.

“I couldn’t deal with the culture of Mizzou,” Preston said. “The school wasn’t a good fit for me and I wasn’t comfortable there."

After a year of feeling like a fish out of water, he had to go back home.

He worked off debt until he was financially prepared to go back to college and enrolled in Chicago State.

“I kind of acclimated myself to Chicago State University and it became almost like a second home,” Preston said. “Now under this budget impasse and the ineptitude

of [Rauner] and the Illinois General Assembly, I feel like my home is being attacked and I have to protect it.”

Chicago State offers one of the lowest tuition rates in Illinois, making it a viable option for members of the Roseland community. The average student is about 30 years old and a large portion transfer in from twoyear colleges in Chicago, Wogan said.

Media reports in January indicated Chicago State did not have the finances to fund payroll come March 1. The cash-strapped university declared financial exigency in early February, giving administrators authority to make emergency budget cuts wherever necessary — including tenured faculty — to stay afloat.

The university has reduced 175 faculty and administrative jobs and made a 20 percent cut to administration costs through consolidation of positions and

hiring freezes. Cuts to programs, services and faculty will likely be “the unfortunate theme throughout Illinois” in the coming months if no state appropriation comes, Wogan said.

“We’ve reached a point where we can’t cut our way out of this anymore,” he said. “We’re going to keep putting pressure on the governor and the legislature in hopes that the state is going to honor its commitment to higher education."

In the meantime, Preston has decided put some of his future plans on hold.

“I can’t even think about [graduate] school right now because the university is going through this crisis,” he said.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel shut down about 50 public schools in the city, most of which were in impoverished neighborhoods.

That, plus the situation at Chicago State, makes Preston feel as though the state doesn’t care about black education.

In Roseland, where crime is one of few alternatives for people of lowincome and limited opportunities, Preston said the thought of losing a resource like Chicago State in his neighborhood makes him angry.

“I’ve known people who had a past life in criminality before Chicago State, and it totally changes their minds," Preston said.

“The school basically changes the narrative of what is currently South Side Chicago."

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Supreme Court battle renews focus on other nominations NIELS LESNIEWSKI | CQ-ROLL CALL

President Barack Obama's effort to replace Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will be the nomination fight of the year, but just below the surface lies a continuing battle in the Senate over nominations to lower courts, as well as federal departments and agencies.

Despite a slight thaw just before the Presidents Day recess — with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, lifting a blockade of several State Department nominations, including the president's picks to be ambassadors to Norway and Sweden — many remain stuck. And while the Senate approved five new federal judges in recent weeks, another 17 are waiting confirmation.

"It was unacceptable for these nominees to face lengthy delays for purely political reasons at the expense of our safety. Unfortunately, this type of obstruction continues," Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., said in a statement.

The struggles over Obama's nominees have largely been overlooked as the Senate moves forward on legislative fronts. A Supreme Court nomination battle, however, cannot be ignored. The question now is whether the friction over the high court will grind progress to a halt on both nominations and legislation.

Some analysts said they doubt much will move on either front given the Senate's tight calendar this election year.

"Even under the best of conditions, it was going to be a legislative dead zone," says John J. Pitney Jr., a professor of politics at Claremont

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A parallel poll of Illinois Democrats found that Hillary Clinton, an Illinois native, held a commanding lead over Bernie Sanders, 51 percent to 32 percent, with 16 percent undecided.

The two telephone polls sampled 422 Illinois Democrats and 306

there's still time to get criminal justice through, but acknowledged that if a Supreme Court nomination does advance, as she is optimistic it will, it will suck up significant time. The Senate has a seven-week recess in the summer, then takes off again in early October to prepare for elections.

"There is only but so much capacity and floor time," Jawando said.

McConnell and Judiciary Olivier Douliery | Abaca Press Mark Cornelison | Herald-Leader President Barack Obama speaks at an end-of-the-year Chairman Charles E. Grassley, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his wife Elaine Chao visit press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the TAC Air on Monday, May 20, 2014, in Lexington, Ky. R-Iowa, are among those calling White House on Dec. 18. to wait for the November election McKenna College in California. could slow down confirmation even necessarily harm, our effort as a referendum on the makeup of Presidential election years, for other nominations, but not to achieve, our effort to pass the court. especially in the final year of a necessarily block legislation with significant criminal justice reform "We don't think the American president's eight-year tenure, are bipartisan appeal. legislation. In some ways I think people should be robbed of this typically slow. Representatives "There's a very different it could help," Lee said in a phone unique opportunity. Democrats beg and senators want to highlight energy when you're focusing on interview. "We're going to continue to differ. They'd rather the Senate differences with the other side and nominations from when you're to want to demonstrate that, simply push through yet another figure, optimistically, that they'll get working on legislation," Michelle notwithstanding our differences lifetime appointment by a president a better deal after the election, when Jawando, the vice president for Legal on a number of issues, there are on his way out the door," the two a new president of their own party Progress at the liberal Center for still other issues where bipartisan lawmakers wrote in a Washington takes over.

American Progress think tank, told agreements are possibility, and this Post opinion piece.

That said, Senate Majority Leader Roll Call. is one of them."

In a speech Friday, Sen. Patrick Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has Leahy of Vermont, Judiciary's pledged to pass 12 appropriations ranking Democrat, was adamant bills and other bipartisan legislation that the Senate should consider the this year to demonstrate that the president's nominee.

GOP-led Senate can be effective.

"I have served in the Senate for Jim Manley, a former spokesman more than four decades, and on the for Senate Minority Leader Harry Judiciary Committee for 36 years," Reid of Nevada, said Democrats Leahy said in a speech before the New could throw a wrench in those England First Amendment Coalition. plans if Republican refuse to - John J. Pitney Jr., a professor of politics at Claremont McKenna "During my time on committee, we College in California. consider Obama's Supreme Court have never refused to send a nominee nomination. That could include to the full Senate for consideration. I denying consent to bring votes Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, who "This will be something else that expect Senate Republicans to uphold to the floor, or even to hold is championing criminal justice we can point to, to demonstrate that this bipartisan tradition for the next committee hearings. reform, was optimistic that progress the Senate is still working," Lee said. Supreme Court nominee."

Current and former senior could continue in a bipartisan way.

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“Even under the best of conditions, [congress] was going to be a legislative dead zone.”

Republicans, and had margins of error of 4.7 percent and 5.6 percent, respectively.

Yepsen said this doesn’t guarantee Clinton a victory because the primaries are still three weeks away.

He said it’s important to watch were supporters of former Bush, who dropped out of the race this week, go.

To be a contender against Clinton,

Yepsen said Sanders must expand his voting base — like he is attempting to do with African-Americans in South Carolina — and get his supporters to the booths.

“Younger Americans seem to like Sanders, but there’s not enough of them to guarantee his nomination,” Yepsen said.

He said this race is also likely to

affect which way the Supreme Court leans, seeing as the new president is likely to name the Supreme Court justice who will take the place of Justice Antonin Scalia, who died Feb. 13.

He said it is also a big election in terms of issues in Illinois, especially because of the state's historic budget stalemate, which has caused

financial problems for colleges and universities.

“We look at higher education spending issues — those are questions that are all going to be decided by politicians in Springfield,” Yepsen said.

The Daily Egyptian's Anna Spoerre contributed to this report.

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Steppin’ to the beat

Ashley Simpson, left, a graduate student in workforce education and development from Chicago, watches as Aseedaw Deal, a rehabilitation faculty member from Chicago, demonstrates some step routines Saturday in Ballroom D at the Student Center. Simpson and Deal are both members of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority. The sorority often performs step shows and is well known for its founding principle, which is service to the community.

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Kirk: Obama Supreme Court nominee should get hearing RICK PEARSON | Chicago Tribune

Republican Sen. Mark Kirk, who is seeking re-election, broke ranks with GOP leadership Monday, recognizing President Barack Obama’s right to advance a Supreme Court nominee but asking him to forward someone “who can bridge differences” for Senate approval.

Kirk, perhaps the most politically vulnerable of incumbent Republicans nationally this fall, had come under pressure from Democratic rivals vying for their party’s nomination to say if he agreed with Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and others who have said Obama should not forward the name of a nominee for Senate approval in an election year.

“I recognize the right of the president, be it Republican or Democrat, to place before the Senate a nominee for the Supreme Court and I fully expect and look forward to President Barack

Obama advancing a nominee for the Senate to consider,” Kirk wrote in an opinion piece for the Chicago SunTimes.

“I also recognize my duty as a senator to either vote in support or opposition to that nominee following a fair and thorough hearing along with a complete and transparent release of all requested information,” the piece continued. “The Senate’s role in providing advice and consent is as important and significant as the president’s role in proposing a nominee.”

Shortly after the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia this month, Kirk issued a statement calling political maneuvering over the vacancy “unseemly” and said the public should take time to honor Scalia’s life “before the inevitable debate erupts.”

Scalia’s funeral services were held over the weekend, and now Kirk is warning that “a partisan or extreme nominee would not be prudent nor would it

provide a steady, scholarly hand to guide the constitutional ship of state.”

Instead, Kirk recounted Obama’s homecoming appearance this month in Springfield in which the Democratic president called for a “better politics.”

“My sincerest hope is that President Obama nominates someone who captures the sentiment he spoke about before the Illinois General Assembly this month — a nominee who can bridge differences, a nominee who finds common ground and a nominee who does not speak or act in the extreme,” Kirk wrote.

“Such a selection by the president would demonstrate a break from the rancor and partisanship of Washington and a real commitment to a new beginning even as his own term nears its end,” he wrote.

Kirk said he recognized Obama’s right to make a nomination in part after having served as a 23-year veteran of the U.S. Navy Reserve and as a

senator in taking an oath to uphold the constitution. The oath, Kirk said, was to the constitution, “not to a party or any one individual, but to the ideals that bind our nation.”

Kirk has long sought to stress political moderation and bipartisanship, even before his 2010 election to the Senate, while serving a decade in the House representing the North Shore.

Some conservatives have never been enamored with Kirk, and he faces a primary challenge from a littleknown candidate, James Marter, an information technology consultant from Oswego. Marter has said he supports a GOP block on any Obama court nominee.

Illinois has trended significantly Democratic in presidential election years, meaning Kirk could face strong headwinds in November. Three Democrats are vying for the nomination in the March 15 primary: two-term U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth, of

Hoffman Estates; former Chicago Urban League CEO Andrea Zopp; and state Sen. Napoleon Harris, of Harvey.

Duckworth, who has largely focused her primary campaign by taking on Kirk rather than her rivals, said she welcomed the Republican’s decision but said he needs to do more.

“He should go a step further, however, and demand Sens. McConnell and [Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck] Grassley end their obstruction and hold hearings and allow a vote on a nominee,” Duckworth said in a statement. Grassley, of Iowa, has issued a variety of conflicting statements about the vacancy, including that the next president should choose the nominee.

Zopp, a former prosecutor, accused Kirk of “giving us cheap political talk, but not specifics.” In a statement, her campaign called on Kirk “to commit to voting to confirm any qualified nominee the president puts forward.”

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Hawkins rehab progressing smoothly TED WARD | @TedWard_DE

Even though she isn’t playing much, one Saluki basketball player is having a tough time sleeping at night.

Freshman guard Tiajaney Hawkins said her January shoulder surgery has made catching z’s a chore.

“Sleeping is really difficult,” Hawkins said. “I enjoy sleeping on my stomach and I can’t do that, and I can’t roll over, so I’m forced to sleep on my back, which is really uncomfortable.”

“Nae” injured her right shoulder in a 61-58 loss to Memphis on Nov. 29. She became a medical redshirt, which ended her season.

“The doctors threw a lot of big words at me about what I had actually injured,” Hawkins said, “They repaired the labrum and tightened some muscles to put it back together and put the arm in the sling, so I can’t move it.”

Aside from the lack of sleep, Hawkins said her recovery from shoulder surgery is progressing along nicely.

“It’s a gradual process,” she said. “I don’t really know an exact timetable when I’ll be completely ready to go, but I’ve been told it could be in the next two months.”

The 5-foot 10-inch guard from East Chicago, Ind., played in five games this season averaging 6.8 minutes and three points per game before the injury.

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Although surgery was in the first week of January, Hawkins didn’t start rehab until almost February.

Her rehab consists of “pendulums,” which she said she has been doing once a day for the past two weeks to regain motion in her shoulder.

“You just lean with one hand on the table and keep all the motion in your hips because you don’t want your shoulders to move and just

slowly rotate my right arm in a circle,” Hawkins said.

Taking a medical redshirt gives her another year of eligibility.

Hawkins, who has not practiced while wearing a sling, said sitting out has been a big help, showing her what she must improve on for next year.

“It’s tough, but when you sit back and watch your teammates, you learn a lot from them and can

apply the things from their game to yours,” she said. “You see how they carry themselves in practice and I’ve taken mental notes to adjust my game to get better.”

Senior forward Azia Washington has also battled injuries this season.

She missed the first two exhibition games and has seen reduced minutes to take stress off her surgically repaired knee.

Washington said she has

This week in sports

Wednesday

Men’s Basketball: Away, 6:00 p.m., Illinois St.

Thursday

Women’s Basketball: Away, 7:30 p.m. Illinois St.

Friday

Softball: Away, two games starting at 11:15 a.m. vs.

Pittsburgh and Providence Men’s Tennis: Home, 12:00 p.m. vs. Austin Peay Baseball: Home, 2:00 p.m. vs. Western Illinois Women’s Tennis: Home, 4:30 p.m. vs. Arkansas St.

provided encouragement to Hawkins because she understands what she’s going through.

“I just tell her to keep her head up and be positive,” she said. “It’s not easy to sit out and be inactive but she’ll be back and ready to go before if she sticks to her rehab plan.”

Ted Ward can be reached at tward@dailyegyptian.com or 618-534-3303.

Saturday Track: MVC Indoor Championships Softball: Away, two games starting at 11:15 a.m. vs. Colgate and Stetson Baseball: Home, 2:00 p.m. vs. Western Illinois Men’s Basketball: Home, 7:00 p.m. vs. Missouri St.

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Redshirt freshman no ‘underdawg’ in the Saluki quarterback battle BRENT MESKE | @brentmeskeDE

For SIU football’s redshirt freshman quarterback Tanner Hearn, starting over a fifth-year transfer isn’t out of the question.

“I don’t feel like an underdog at all,” Hearn said. “Coach [Nick Hill] knows what I can do.”

On Jan. 14, a Football Championship Subdivision scout tweeted that the quarterback battle between fifthyear transfer Josh Straughan and sophomore Sam Straub will be an intense fight.

Football fans, like this scout, may believe that a sophomore, and certainly a fifth-year transwer, would have the leg up on Hearn.

Hearn takes exception to this assumtion and said tweets like that motivate him.

“I want to see them tweeting about me instead of others,” he said. “But it’s OK, it makes me work harder.”

Hearn spent his redshirt season learning from then-senior quarterback Mark Iannotti, who led the FCS with 355.6 yards of total offense per game.

Hill said Iannotti was a good example of what he calls “knowing when to punt” — knowing when it’s time to make a throw and when not to, knowing if it’s early in the game and not worth turning the ball over.

“That’s when you become a good quarterback,” he said.

“Those are things [Hearn will] learn and we’ll put him in those situations at practice.”

Hearn said learning the game while redshirting was critical. He worked with the first-team defense during practice last season as part of the scout team. During games he helped call out the defensive coverage.

The Orlando native said he learned to react to different game situations and got to sit around with

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Napier named player of the week TED WARD | @TedWard_DE

He said he likes to sling the ball down field, but he can run when it is needed.

Hearn has an added incentive to win the starting job as the season kicks off 150 miles from his home when SIU plays Florida Atlantic on Sept. 3. His family made the nearly-900 mile trip to Carbondale twice last season.

“I want family to be there,” he said. “I want to be starting in my home state. I want to be able to play in front of people I know.”

After a weekend in which she scored 53 points in two games, SIU women’s basketball redshirt junior Rishonda Napier has been named the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week.

Napier scored 23 points in a win against Missouri State on Friday and tied a career-high 30 in Sunday’s victory against Wichita State. The guard averaged 26.5 points and 4.5 assists during the games.

She shot 19-39 (48.7 percent) from the field and 9-14 (64.3 percent) from the 3-point range in the two games. The 5-foot-5 guard attributed her shooting success to the screens the Saluki post players set for her after Sunday’s game.

“It makes a big difference, just to make sure you’ve got all your mechanics down,” said Napier, who was 10-19 from the floor, including 6-8 behind the 3-point line Sunday.

“It definitely helps your shooting percentage when you have time to think about your shot and make sure everything is set.”

The Burbank, Calif., native is leading the Salukis in scoring with 15.2 points per game and is second in the MVC in 3-point percentage, making 36 percent of her shots from long range.

This is her second player of the week award of the season.

SIU will hit the road against Illinois State at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday in Normal.

Thomas Donley contributed to this story.

Brent Meske can be reached at bmeske@dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3333.

Ted Ward can be reached at tward@dailyegyptian.com or 618-534-3303

A JA G ARMAN | @ajagarman_DE Redshirt freshman quarterback Tanner Hearn poses for a portrait on Feb. 3 in the photo studio.

Iannotti, Straub and sophomore wide receiver Matt DeSomer — who was used sparingly as a quarterback — and learn the game of football as a whole from them.

Straub said he tries to act as a role model for the younger quarterback, who became Hearn’s roommate for road games during the second half of last season.

“I don’t know if it’s really my job to teach him anything ... but I try to be a great example of how to work hard,” he said. “Quarterbacks don’t take a back seat in conditioning and we stand tall, the basic stuff about being a good leader.”

Coming out of high school,

Hill said Hearn was exactly what he was looking for: an athletic passer who can run, make the first guy miss in the pocket and has the arm strength to make all the throws. Despite this, he said Hearn needed the redshirt not only to improve, but to save a year of eligibility as the team had two senior quarterbacks.

While Hearn doesn’t consider himself a scrambling quarterback, he said he can move a little better than his teammates. He also said all the passers have strong arms — a trait Hearn would prefer to show off when spring practices roll around in about a month.

Jonny Rigby reaches second in all-time wins THOMAS DONLEY | @TDonleyDE

Southern Illinois senior tennis player Jonny Rigby moved into second place in school history with his 126th career win Sunday.

Rigby’s 5-7, 7-6 (3), 6-4 defeat of Eastern Illinois senior Robert Skolik moved him past Fabiano Ramos for second-most combined wins in singles and doubles in Saluki history.

“It feels good,” said Rigby of Lancashire, England. “It’s always nice when those accolades come in.”

Mickey Maule, who played from 198790, holds the school record with 160 wins.

The Salukis have 13 more dual matches this season, meaning Rigby can rack up 26 more wins before the start of the MVC Tournament. He is 3-3 in the spring season

between singles and doubles. He and partner junior Michal Kianicka went 9-3 in doubles play last season, while Rigby went 20-9 in singles play while playing at the No. 1 slot.

The 21-year-old was 14-5 in the fall tournament season.

“Before I came to America, I was working really hard to get the opportunity to come

to America,” Rigby said. “And whilst I’ve been here, I’ve worked hard to really make the most of my ability.”

Rigby will get a chance to add to his win total at noon Friday at home against Austin Peay.

Thomas Donley can be reached at Tdonley@Dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3307.