Monday, April 2, 2018

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Monday, April 2, 2018

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CHAMPIONS For the first time in program history, women’s basketball will be hanging a WNIT championship banner in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.

By Murphy Wheeler jonmwhee@iu.edu | @murph_wheelerIU

Not many teams can say they end their season on a win. Very few players can say the same about their careers. Even fewer can say they end it with a championship. The IU women’s basketball team and its seniors Tyra Buss and Amanda Cahill did just that with their 65-57 victory over Virginia Tech in the WNIT Championship on Saturday. As they walked off the court at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in their cream and crimson jerseys for the last time, Buss and Cahill walked away from their storied careers at IU, champions at last. “It’s definitely a bittersweet feeling. We’re obviously really honored that we got the chance to keep playing and get to go out on a win,” Cahill said. “But it’s going to be sad taking off that jersey and knowing we’re not going to be putting it back on and come back out in front of our home crowd with our teammates.” However, the way in which they clinched their title was nothing new for the duo. Not only has an indelible amount of fight become synonymous with Buss and Cahill’s four years of basketball in Bloomington, it has also become the

story of their team’s improbable run this season from an 8-12 record in January to cutting down the nets less than three months later. They’ve had to fight every inch of the way, and Saturday’s win was no different. After a back-and-forth first half, the Hoosiers were able to take a 36-27 lead into halftime after holding the Hokies to 10-29 shooting and forcing 10 first-half turnovers. However, in the third, the Hoosiers got dangerously close to a meltdown. While shooting just 3-14 from the field and missing all five of their 3-point attempts, the Hoosiers only scored seven points in the quarter and let Virginia Tech claw their way back to take a 44-43 lead heading into the fourth. It was the first time the Hoosiers had been down in the second half of a game during their entire WNIT run. With the season and her career on the line, Buss said that’s when she and her teammates needed to fight to survive the most. “Coach challenged us because we had to tough it out and needed to fight,” Buss said. “We weren’t really fighting in the third quarter and that let them go on a run.” They needed to be reinvigorated. They needed new life. That jolt of energy came in the form of freshman guard Bendu Yeaney

early in the fourth quarter. She scored the first four points of the period and helped the Hoosiers retake the lead. Then, with just under five minutes remaining and the Hoosiers having missed their first 13 3-pointers of the game up to that point, Yeaney hit a dagger three from the corner. Cahill then followed that with a three of her own on their next possession to stretch the lead back to nine points. Like a passing of the torch, the veterans followed the freshman making big plays down the stretch. Yeaney said she credited her late-game confidence, along with her overall development throughout her freshman season, to Buss and Cahill leading by example. “I’ve learned to always stay confident and always have energy because that’s what they do every single day in practice,” Yeaney said. “It’s impacted me in practices and you can see it games now too.” Once the final buzzer had sounded and the Hoosiers had safely secured the victory, champions weren’t the only thing Buss and Cahill would leave as. As evidenced by the IU women’s basketball record crowd of 13,007 fans in attendance, the two had led the program to new heights, just like they had set out to do four years ago upon their arrival to Bloomington. “They’re going to go down in history

Ella Fitzgerald exhibit honors singer for her 100th birthday By Robert Mack rsmack@iu.edu

Old jazz tunes now fill Kirkwood Hall Gallery where the School of Art, Architecture + Design presents “Celebrating a Jazz Icon: 100 Years of Ella Fitzgerald Exhibits and Events.” This exhibit honors the famed AfricanAmerican singer from noon to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays through May 4. The exhibition features three dresses, a wig, sunglasses and more from the SOAAD’s Sage Fashion Collection. The Sage Collection has over 25,000 objects of museum-quality pieces which span more than 250 years, according to its website. “The Sage Collection loves the opportunity to show off our Ella Fitzgerald pieces and pay tribute to this American icon,” said Kelly Richardson, curator of the Sage Collection, in an email. The Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation provided sheet music, albums, records, CDs and books for display. The exhibit also features images from the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana

PHOTO BY TY VINSON | IDS

The IU women’s basketball team huddles and celebrates after winning the WNIT. The game against Virginia Tech was the Hoosiers’ last game of the season. To see more photos from Saturday’s game go to page 5.

as two of the very best,” IU Coach Teri Moren said. “They’ve put us in a situation now where we want more. In order to do that, we have a lot of work ahead of us but we know we have a great foundation and that came from those two kids.” One by one, IU’s players, still covered in red and white celebratory streamers, climbed a ladder to cut down the nets of Assembly Hall. The last two slivers of nylon were left for Buss and Cahill, with the entire net coming down on Buss’ final clip of the scissors. Buss, with the net draped around her neck, walked off the court with nothing left to prove. It had all culminated in that moment. The fight was over. “We’re still going to be able to hang a banner and Amanda and I can come back and look up there and see that we helped get that banner and win a championship,” Buss said. “It was definitely worth it and I’m so happy with the way it ended.”

Firefighter charged with child solicitation, sexual misconduct By Dominick Jean drjean@iu.edu | @domino_jean

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The School of Art, Architecture + Design presents “Celebrating a Jazz Icon: 100 Years of Ella Fitzgerald Exhibits and Events.” This exhibit honors the famed AfricanAmerican singer from noon to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays through May 4 in the Kirkwood Hall Gallery.

University and pop-up floor banners provided by the Great American Songbook Foundation in Carmel, Indiana. The exhibition is part of a yearlong celebration of Fitzgerald’s work and life. The celebration included a lecture with Fran Morris Rosman, director of the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation on March 19. That same day, the celebra-

tion ended with a screening of “St. Louis Blues,” one of four films Fitzgerald appeared in, at the IU Cinema. A live performance by jazz musician Monika Herzig, a senior lecturer at the School of Environmental and Public Policy, and jazz vocalist Janiece Jaffe preceded the film. SEE FITZGERALD, PAGE 5

A Bloomington firefighter was arrested for child solicitation and sexual misconduct with a minor Friday morning. The firefighter, Robert Sears, is a 20-year veteran and captain at the Bloomington Fire Department. He spent two days in the Monroe County Correctional Center. A Bloomington Police Department detective was investigating another case involving a 14-year-old girl using the messaging app Whisper, according to a BPD press release, leading the detective to discover the inappropriate relationship with the fire captain. The conversations with the captain seemed to have begun in February 2018. The captain reportedly said he “worked 24 hour shifts at the fire department” and reminded the 14-year-old girl to erase their communications.

According to the BPD release, the detective determined Sears was the one communicating and that Sears and the juvenile were likely involved in sexual activity. The detective, according to the release, pretended to be the the juvenile and convinced Sears he should come over to her house where he said the 14-year-old and another girl were alone. The detective told Sears to bring condoms. Detectives conducted surveillance of the area and noticed a truck had driven by the home twice. The detectives stopped the vehicle with Sears inside. Condoms were among the items found in the truck. Police took Sears to BPD where officers interviewed him. According to the BPD release, he drove from his Mitchell, Indiana, home and bought condoms with the intent to have sex with one or both of the SEE FIREFIGHTER, PAGE 5


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