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Issue 121 | Volume 106

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover by Jeff Ahearn | Assistant Visual Editor

Young Panthers

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Big Game James

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Region Of Doom

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Saving The Selection

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James Robinson Gallery

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James Robinson heads into his final stretch of basketball as a Pitt Panther. Jeff Ahearn ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR

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News

Rethinking manhood: Marine captain speaks to students Andrew O’ Brien Staff Writer

Judging by their recruitment advertisements, Marine troops are the epitome of masculinity — musclebound and emotionless.

But the Marines in those commercials do not reflect reality. According to Marine Capt. Brock Budash, few Marine troops fit such a narrow definition of manliness.

Budash spoke in the O’Hara Dining Room Monday night to a crowd of 30 students — mostly men — to tell them that they shouldn’t let society’s expectations for men define who they are.

Pitt’s Interfraternity Council hosted Budash as a part of its Healthy Masculinities Week, a program designed to provoke discussion about what its Facebook page calls “toxic masculinity.”

The week, which the IFC is hosting, will feature co-hosted events with groups, such as Pitt’s Campus Women’s Organi-

zation, the Rainbow Alliance and Jewish Women International, to address what it says is a false definition of manhood and manliness. With a series of six events, including two lectures and a documentary screening, the IFC plans to address the social constructs of masculinity, gendered violence and bystander intervention.

At 9 p.m., Budash took the stage in full uniform. He asked the students in the audience what preconceived notions they held about him before they even heard him speak.

“I’m 34 years old, I’m a United States Marine — what do you guys think of me?

What perceptions do you have about me, as a Marine or a person?” Budash asked.

The students in the audience responded, yelling out descriptors, such as “tough” and “hardworking.”

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Capt. Brock Budash talked about what it means to be a man in 2016. Jordan Mondell STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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Pitt to build new engineering labs off-campus Dale Shoemaker News Editor

Making new metallic alloys for jumbo jet and turbine engines and turning Oakland into a self-sufficient power grid could both become realities within the next five years, according to researchers who will work in a new 18,600-square-foot lab off campus.

The lab, located within the Energy Innovation Center in the Hill District, will house three engineering labs and one innovation lab, Pitt’s Swanson School of Engineering announced earlier this month.

Construction on the labs, which will receive $8.9 million in funding from Pitt, is set to finish this fall.

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Engineering researchers said the labs will give them the space and freedom to explore microgrid technology and work with corporate contracts. A microgrid is a self-contained power network where all the energy a small community — like a college campus — uses is produced on-site.

“Engineers can be natural entrepreneurs, but when they are starting out they need to focus less on paying the rent and more on innovation,” Mark Redfern, the vice provost for research who helped develop the innovation lab at the EIC, said in a statement. “By hosting the incubator space, we can allow them to potentially create Pittsburgh’s next successful startup.”

The labs are located in the former Con-

nelly Trade School, which provided vocational training for high school students until it closed in 2004. The Pittsburgh Gateways Corporation now rents space in the building to 14 tenants, including Pitt and Penn State. Occupying about onefourth of the building’s total space, Pitt is now the EIC’s largest tenant.

Three Pitt engineering professors will lead each of three labs and the Innovation Institution will run the fourth.

David A. Vorp, the associate dean of research and a bioengineering professor at Pitt, said the new space will open up opportunities for both research and revenue, which wasn’t always possible in the Benedum Hall laboratories because of Pitt’s

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status as a state-related university.

“Historically there have been a number of challenges with our faculty performing research that is heavily industry-related, such as fee-for-service work,” Vorp said in an email. “The vision for the EIC was to create space off campus where some of these challenges are resolved and will allow some of our faculty to work more closely with industry.”

According to Gregory Reed, the director of Pitt’s Center for Energy who will oversee the Electric Power Technologies Laboratory, the new lab space will allow him to conduct research on both alternating current and direct current electricity, See Labs on page 20

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Opinions

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from the editorial board

Conservative coverage of Masculinity Week brings everyone into gender conversation yiannopoulos is hypocritical As a society, we don’t discuss masculinity nearly as much as we enforce it.

We tell boys not to cry. We label pink as “salmon” in menswear, and we call toy dolls “action figures” because it’s less maternal.

But although gender expectations impact men’s everyday lives, men do not participate in gender studies courses at the same rates as women. Hopefully, a series of new events at Pitt will help turn this tide.

This week, the Interfraternity Council is sponsoring Healthy Masculinities Week, a series of events designed to break down stereotypes about what it means to “be a man.” There will be featured guest speeches and roundtable discussions, as well as a documentary screening Wednesday.

These events offer an avenue for more men to enter the larger conversation surrounding gender, and are especially relevant to those who have never participated in gender theory in an academic center. We all know the subtext behind action figures or male tears, but have you discussed the psychological and sociological theories behind them?

Ignoring masculinity’s role in creating social norms pressures men to fit categories without question. If they act outside this binary, society then ostracizes them, sometimes leading men to overcompensate in dangerous manners — for example, fighting as a manly act.

The pressure of masculinity has shaped our entire history, but we too often accept the emotional and societal reaction at face value.

We study feminism because women are a historically oppressed group, and there is a deeper value in understanding how that experience has affected modern social norms. And, as feminist discourse shows, many of the root issues surrounding mistreatment of women

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link back to perceptions of masculinity.

According to social narratives, a “real man” must commit himself to a career rather than caregiving. “Real men” drink beer and watch sports, scoffing at anything associated with emotions.

The truth is that “real men” are a myth.

Gender identification does not come with a qualifications list.

Masculinity itself is not inherently the problem, but how we have used limited perceptions of it to define each other is. This is about making room for all definitions of masculinity and self-identity. More importantly, it is about educating men in a field that many may think is not meant for them.

According to Todd Reeser, director of Pitt’s gender, sexuality and women’s studies program, studying gender is relevant to anyone, regardless of their own gender.

“The program believes very strongly that a balanced GSWS major and minor should include masculinity as one of its component parts,” Reeser wrote in an email. “We also believe that gender constraints affect all bodies, and that thinking about masculinity academically is important for male, female and trans* students and agendas.”

Reeser also noted that he taught an advanced class called “Masculinities” in the fall, which reached its enrollment cap, but most of the students in the course presented as women.

Promoting a larger engagement with men is crucial to creating a full picture of gender, and part of that is making the topic seem more approachable.

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Alyssa Lieberman Columnist

At this point, most of us know the name Milo Yiannopoulos.

Two weeks ago, Pitt College Republicans hosted a lecture by Yiannopoulos, a men’s rights activist known for controversial remarks that often earn hateful, racist, sexist and anti-LGBTQ+ labels from activists and has inspired demonstrations at campuses across the country.

At Pitt, I was among the protesters demonstrating at his lecture.

I’ve never seen something rile Pitt’s student body like Yiannopoulos’ speech. Since then, students have shared their trauma, expressing how this event left them feeling unsafe both online and on campus.

And people who don’t even go here had a lot to — wrongly — say about the student response.

Things seem to have died down here, with Vice Provost and Dean of Students Kenyon Bonner writing a letter about tolerance that appeared in Monday’s edition of The Pitt News that had an air of finality. But the Pitt community was not the only one dissecting Yiannopoulos’s speech and its aftermath.

Over the past week, several conservative outlets, such as Breitbart, where Yiannopoulos works as technology editor, and National Review, have jumped on the news.

For the most part, the coverage of the event mirrors the content of Yiannopoulos’ Pitt speech — full of misinformation and insults. The focus of the coverage illustrates just how little conservative media understands or cares about the complaints students are actually making.

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Clearly, minimizing opposition concerns to feed free speech narratives is easier than confronting them.

Conservative pundits, including Yiannopoulos, argue that as the event was noncompulsory, students have no right to be offended. They argue that if you didn’t want to be offended, you shouldn’t have shown up.

This argument completely misses the point.

The fact that this event was optional in no way changes its effect on our campus.

People didn’t show up “to be offended” — students showed up to defend their views, listen to a speaker they agreed with or hear a case for free speech.

These are all things students should be able to do without being attacked, no matter who they are. Students should have the option to attend this event without feeling marginalized, even if they knew they might disagree with the content.

Instead they were insulted, regardless of whether they were protestors or regular attendees, for feeling hurt. Conservative sites and social media framed those who spoke about their emotions as weaklings, despite having the courage to discuss their reactions following the event.

It would be one thing if critics only targeted protestors, but anyone at all who felt bothered by Yiannopoulos came under attack.

“Modern Liberalism is a mental disorder. These ppl are literally mentally ill.

Simply astonishing,” Twitter user @Robert2Paulson wrote.

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Culture

radiating beauty bears warning exhibit at pitt cautions of nuclear hazards

Morizumi Takashi has documented nuclear disaster in his new exhibit “Strange Beauty.” Courtesy of Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace

Noah Coco Staff Writer

Although the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster occurred on the other side of the world, photographer Morizumi Takashi is bringing the fallout close to home.

An ethereal beauty spills out from Ta-

kashi’s photographs of radiation-poisoned objects, but hidden beneath the visual allure is a bitter narrative of a radioactive disaster transcending national boundaries.

Takashi’s collection, titled “Strange Beauty: Autoradiography from Fukushima,” will open at 4 p.m. tonight in the University Art Gallery at the Frick Fine Arts Building. Local volunteer organization Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace will put on an opening reception at 5 p.m. and informational panel on nuclear power’s potential danger from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

The exhibit runs until Friday, March 18.

Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace collaborated with Pitt’s East Asian Studies Department to sponsor the event

and artist’s exhibit. The photographer has worked in the exclusion zone of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant since 2011 after the earthquake in Japan precipitated a nuclear meltdown.

“Art is a very good way of raising consciousness, and we chose these particular photographs because they are so compelling, and hopefully they will cause people to think about what happened and what we are going to do in this country,” said Robin Alexander, a member of the coordinating committee for RHIP. At first glance, “Strange Beauty’s” glittery compositions portray seemingly mundane objects, arbitrarily depicting the life of common people in the Fukushima Prefecture, which occupied the power plant before the Tsunami in Japan. But the people are anything but banal, and the objects are certainly not meaningless.

“The glittering spots in the photos show

radiation emitted by fine particles of a radioactive substance called cesium clinging to the surface of objects,” said Takashi in the exhibit’s artist statement. “Film placed over those objects was exposed by the radiation, causing the sparkling appearance.”

Takashi uses this method, called autoradiography, to expose the radiation’s intangible effects that silently plague the region.

The exhibit will also feature a second component of Takashi’s work, titled “Downwinders,” which depicts photographs of the people who still live in the region, tied down by a lack of resources.

One photograph captures a desultory elderly couple walking with face masks, while another shows decaying cow corpses on an abandoned dairy farm.

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‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ — a secretive success Matt Maielli Staff Writer

Ever since January’s surprise trailer release, “Cloverfield” fans have been pining to know what, exactly, does “10 Cloverfield Lane” have to do with the original?

The answer: basically nothing— but that’s not a criticism, just fact.

After a car accident leaves her unconscious, Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) wakes up chained to a basement wall, sustained by an IV drip. Her caretaker, Howard (John Goodman), insists he found her and brought her to his un-

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derground apocalypse bunker in the wake of an invasion that’s left the outside world uninhabitable.

The bunker’s only other resident, Emmet (John Gallagher Jr.), corroborates his story — until presupposed facts fail to add up.

You don’t have to see the 2008 creature feature to enjoy this first surprise hit of 2016. Producer J.J. Abrams has described the film as a “blood relative” to “Cloverfield,” the found-footage staple, meaning it technically could exist in the same universe where the extraterrestrial invasion

depicted in that film plays out from different perspectives — the first from New York and now the second from rural Louisiana.

But the film’s tagline, “Monsters come in many forms,” is an apt warning against this expectation. In order to keep the film’s association a secret, the project worked under the titles “Valencia” and “The Cellar” until Bad Robot Productions released the film’s final title as recently as mid-January of this year.

Despite its titular connection to “Cloverfield,” this new film is more of a mind-

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bending thriller than a full-on monster bash.

The most notable difference: A steadier cinematic outing in the Louisiana marshlands replaces the urban shaky-cam obsession, which divided critics and audiences. The close quarters also makes for a very stagnant setting, but move the character-driven plot forward, much in the way that “Cloverfield’s” characters existed inside a camcorder frame.

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REPOWERING THE PANTHERS A After a down year, the Pitt women’s basketball team is banking on another year of experience boosting next year’s team. e Logan Hitchcock Log

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he Pitt women’s basketball players’ season ended earlier than they might have wanted — but don’t expect them to wallow in the offseason.

“Obviously we’re all sad and disappointed “O that w we didn’t have a postseason, but at the same time, we finished with pride and went down fighting,” freshman forward Brenna Wise said. s After earning an NCAA tournament berth and a first-round victory last season, the team tea took a step backward this year, finishing with an overall record of 13-18, with only ffour conference victories, all coming on the ro road. But with young talent and plenty of time, the t team feels poised for some eventual March Madness success of its own.

The Panthers didn’t struggle early on, claiming claimi victories in the first three games of the season. se Despite dropping two of its next three De games at the Paradise Jam tournament in the U.S. V Virgin Islands, the team rebounded well and fin nished non-conference play with an 8-5 record. record But when the calendar turned and ACC Bu play began, the Panthers tripped up. They lost b their first six conference games before eventually earning their first conference win on the road ro at Virginia.

“It wasn’t necessarily that we were just losing,” Wise W said, “we just weren’t finishing. We were in i most of the games. We just weren’t pulling pullin out the wins.”

Pitt hopes to learn from The obvious reason appears in the gaping experience. Jeff Ahearn | hole a graduation left in Pitt’s program.

Assistant Visual Editor

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Pitt lost star senior point guard and veteran leader Brianna Kiesel to the WNBA, leaving a major gap in leadership, ballhandling and scoring this season.

Lacking an experienced ball-handler, the Panthers struggled to limit turnovers, which led to easy baskets for opposing teams. When Kiesel left, she also took away a consistent scoring threat with the game on the line.

“I think where we struggled was not identifying a go-to player. We never had the consistency of having that go-to player every single game,” head coach Suzie McConnellSerio said.

Although the team still struggled to win games, McConnell-Serio noticed an attitude shift in her players as the season progressed.

“We were focused, we were more confident, we played harder,” McConnell-Serio said. “I just think we got stronger and got better.”

The team’s most momentous step forward came after it earned its first ACC tournament victory against North Carolina, where the Panthers gained more experience playing at the collegiate level and playing with each other.

“We were able to figure out how to play with one another and really connect toward the end of the year,” sophomore forward Stasha Carey said.

Forced to play against more experienced frontcourts in the last two seasons, Carey, one of this year’s returning starters and the team leader in blocks and steals, said the team is ready to graduate from underclassmen to veterans.

“I think experience won’t necessarily be a problem,” she said. “I think it will be some-

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thing that helps us.”

Wise reiterated Carey’s thoughts.

“With all the experience we gained this year and the learning process and growth, we really built a lot of chemistry throughout the year. We don’t lose anyone, and that’s going to play to our advantage,” Wise said.

With nearly the entire team returning, Pitt will add two freshmen recruits, Jasmine Whitney and Alayna Gribble, and South Carolina transfer, Shay Colley.

Pitt announced that Colley, a former top recruit at the beginning of this semester, can’t play with the team until after the fall 2016 semester, due to NCAA transfer guidelines.

The state of next year’s roster — which includes the return of all five starters — means higher expectations on a Panther squad working toward the NCAA tournament and the ability to contend for an ACC Championship.

“We know we are a work in progress, but next year our goal is to get back to the middle of the conference. We want to be an NCAA tournament team — that is where we want to be on a consistent basis,” McConnell-Serio said.

Getting to that point will require the Panthers to finish more games on the right side of the win-loss column next season.

Fortunately for them, McConnell-Serio has her team pulsing with confidence.

“Coach told us throughout the season, if you give yourself a chance in the fourth quarter, it is a whole different game. If you can make it a game in the fourth quarter, it’s all about who is going to finish it,” Wise said.

“And I think in the years to come, we’re going to get it done.”

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HERE’S TO YOU, MR. ROBINSON A pint-sized, 3-year-old James Robinson plops himself in front of the television.

His parents, Rayna and James Jr., sit on the sofa.

With the remote in Dad’s hand, perhaps the toddler has a suggestion — maybe cartoons? Nope, the kid knows exactly what he wants to watch, and it’s not Nickelodeon or the Disney Channel.

“The basketball game is on, the basketball game is on,” Robinson excitedly proclaims.

Neither Robinson nor his parents know why he took to basketball at such an early age.

James Jr. played quarterback at Norfolk

State, but he never knew much about basketball, and the closest Rayna got to playing a sport was cheerleading.

Their son just never cared for cartoons or Legos. All he needed was a basketball and the Washington Wizards.

At 5 years old, his parents took him to the local rec center to play basketball with other kids. A few years later, he started playing AAU basketball, where he showed an advanced understanding of the game, court-wise beyond his years.

More than 15 years later, Robinson’s love for the sport hasn’t faltered.

Soon, he was off to starring for his middle school team and playing a key role dur-

ing his first year on the vaunted DeMatha Catholic High School basketball team in Hyattsville, Maryland. By the end of his high school career, he was the winningest player in school history.

His success there earned him scholarship offers from all around the country, but he chose Pitt, at the time citing academics and style of play.

Robinson, now a senior, is preparing for his final NCAA Tournament campaign.

He’s started all four years at point guard, accumulating the highest assist-to-turnover ratio in NCAA history in the process.

When he takes the court Friday for what could be the last time in his Pitt career, it will be a capstone of a 19-yearlong adoration for the sport. It’s this zeal that turned Robinson from a young boy with his eyes glued to the television to the cerebral, steady player he is today.

It’s more than trite to say that Robinson has always seemed mature beyond his age.

On April 4, 1994 in Silver Springs, Maryland, Robinson entered the world with a perfectly round head and wide, inquisitive eyes, as Rayna describes.

“He came out looking very mature,” Rayna said. “I thought, ‘Wow, he looks like he’s two months old already.’”

James Jr., a big sports fan, always kept sports balls around the house, which Robinson immediately favored over Hot Wheels and action figures.

James Robinson grew up with a basketball always nearby. Courtesy of Rayna Robinson

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Jeremy Tepper

Senior Staff Writer And, of course, the basketball games were always on television, which suited James Jr. just fine.

“I’m like ‘Man, this is the coolest kid ever,’” James Jr. said.

Robinson started watching basketball games at around two years old — mostly the Washington Wizards, since they were the local NBA team. James Jr. advised his son to focus on just one player during the game, instead of aimlessly watching the players run up and down the court.

That way, he could better understand the game and one player’s decisions.

Robinson honed in on Juwan Howard, the star power forward for the Wizards at the time, pointed out the names of other players to his mother and begged her to tape games so he could rewatch them.

“It was like he studied the game from the time he was like 2 or 3 years old,” Rayna said.

But Robinson wasn’t content just to watch basketball. His parents put a Little Tikes basketball hoop in the basement, where he would pound away on the basketball and shoot for hours at a time.

“We would sometimes have to drag him upstairs to tell him, ‘It’s time to do something else,’” Rayna said.

By the time his parents took him to the rec center, he was notably more advanced than his peers, who tended to travel with the basketball and run the wrong way.

For the other children, it was just a fun See Robinson on page 9

It was like he studied the game from the time he was 2 or 3 years old.

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-Rayna Robinson

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If you know James, he’ll give you the shirt off his back.

-James Robinson Jr.

James Robinson drives for a layup against Duke earlier this season. Jeff Ahearn | Assistant Visual Editor

Robinson, pg. 8 game. It was fun for Robinson too, but it was also serious.

Basketball was, and still is, everything.

The boy clearly preferred the court, but James Jr. had to have his son test out the field.

As the coach of his son’s youth football team, James Jr. decided positions. Robinson wanted to play quarterback, and he had the perfect strong arm for the position.

But James Jr. wanted him to learn how to block and tackle first. So he put the 6-yearold on the offensive line. Big for his age, he played up two years with the eight-year-olds.

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For three years, Robinson followed the same routine: playing the offensive line with the older kids. By the time he was 9, the boy had enough, and James Jr. let him leave, but not without a lesson.

Robinson learned toughness through football, James Jr. said, which allowed his son to fight through pain during basketball games. In Okinawa, Japan, this past November, Robinson slipped face first on the court, resulting in a lingering mark under his right eye. The injury, like other tweaks strains, didn’t sideline him for more than a couple minutes.

James Jr. continued to coach his son in basketball, but he was out of his element.

“I didn’t know much about [basketball],” James Jr. said. “We had a lot of practices, but

we didn’t shoot the ball much, we just played defense.”

Robinson was a natural point guard even then — a leader around the arc, a leader in his group of friends, James Jr. said, and a mentor to his younger brother, Jamal.

Robinson helped Jamal decipher right from wrong.

“It was just mischievous stuff,” Jamal, who’s now 19, said. “I’d want to do something that our mother told us not to do, and he always be the one sitting there saying, ‘you better not do that.’”

His parents drilled unselfishness into both their children from the start. The family’s mantra, James Jr. said, was, “When you leave a room, leave it as a better place than when you entered.”

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Robinson learned to be caring, according to Rayna, performing small niceties, such as always making cards for his friends’ birthdays.

“If you know James, he’ll give you the shirt off his back,” James Jr. said.

While he already appeared to have raised a son of good character, James Jr. knew he would have to step back from Robinson for him to develop his basketball skills. When Robinson was 9, James Jr. stopped coaching him and handed him off to a number of rec center coaches and AAU coaches in the Maryland and Washington, D.C., area.

By the time his high school coach, Mike Jones, first saw him play in eighth grade, Robinson and his family’s work had paid off.

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PITT’S REGION FULL OF COMPETITIVE COUNTERPARTS

Dan Sostek Sports Editor

In a year full of parity in college basketball, it’s been tough to scope out the elite versus the meek.

That remains true in Pitt’s East Region of the NCAA Tournament, as it’s difficult to pick out the contenders in the grouping, and an array of teams can make noise in the corner of the bracket

1 SEED: NORTH CAROLINA (28-6) - Roy Williams’ team is coming off of a sweep of ACC championships, winning the regular season and tournament titles. The Tar Heels are deep at all positions, sporting multiple talented big men, such as Brice Johnson, Isaiah Hicks and Kennedy Meeks, as well as talented guards, such as Joel Berry II, Marcus Paige and Justin Jackson. All that firepower will be hard for any team in the region to stomp out.

2 SEED: XAVIER (27-5) - One of two Big East teams to earn a No. 2 seed in this year’s tournament, the Musketeers are a tough team, and under head coach Chris Mack, have tournament experience and a bevy of confidence. They rebound well, feature tremendous depth and have impressive wins over Villanova, Michigan and Butler.

3 SEED: WEST VIRGINIA (26-8) - The runner-up in the Big 12 tournament is as ferocious a defense as one will find in college basketball. Affectionately nicknamed “Press Virginia,” the Mountaineers wreak havoc on opponent’s offensive sets, playing full-court press throughout the entire game. If West Virginia shoots well, its peak is higher than most other squads.

4 SEED: KENTUCKY (26-8) You won’t find a more talented four seed in the tournament than the Wildcats. They feature the diminutivebut-dynamic point guard Tyler Ulis, who can score and dish it as well as anyone in the country, alongside Jamal Murray, who surged in Kentucky’s SEC Tournament title run.

Head coach John Calipari has to get some production out of disappointing blue chip recruit Skal Labissière, who needs to become a force in the paint.

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East Region, pg. 11 5 SEED: INDIANA (25-7) - The Hoosiers proved this year that they can compete against the best of the best, beating out Michigan State, Iowa, Purdue and Wisconsin for the Big Ten regular season title. But they went out with a whimper in the Big Ten tournament, losing on a buzzer-beater to Michigan in their first game. Senior point guard Yogi Ferrell might have a storied tournament performance in him, but he’ll need help from his supporting cast, such as Thomas Bryant and Max Bielfeldt.

6 SEED: NOTRE DAME (21-11) - Notre Dame looked poised for another strong run in the ACC tournament, until it ran into the buzzsaw of the North Carolina Tar Heels. Despite that 30-point loss, the Fighting Irish field a diverse attack, with speedy point guard Demetrius Jackson and shooter Steve Vasturia complimenting big men V.J. Beachem, Bonzie Colson and Zach Auguste. That versatility makes the Irish a difficult matchup.

7 SEED: WISCONSIN (20-12) - The Panthers’ first opponent is the reigning runner-up of last year’s tournament, but they have lost a lot of pieces since then. Without their former coach — Bo Ryan — and two best players — Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker — from their team last year, the Badgers are led by new coach Greg Gard and returners Nigel Hayes and Bronson Koenig. Those two have played on the biggest stage before, and other teams can’t undervalue that experience.

8 SEED: USC (21-12) While Wisconsin sports experience in big games, the Trojans lack any, with this tournament appearance being their first since 2012. Coach Andy Enfield has some experience as a bracket-buster, leading Florida Gulf Coast University to the Sweet 16 in 2013. Their offense is balanced, with five scorers averaging double-figures, but will likely need someone to step up as a go-to-guy if they want to advance past the first weekend of the tournament.

9 SEED: PROVIDENCE (23-10) Providence has highoctane star power on its roster, with sensational point guard Kris Dunn and high-scoring forward Ben Bentil carrying the Friars to another NCAA Tournament berth. Those two have the ability to will their team to a win any time out, and higher-seeded teams can overlook the duo at their own peril.

13 SEED: STONY BROOK (26-6) The Seawolves have the look of a potential mid-major Cinderella story, even with their tough first round matchup against Kentucky withstanding. They’re headed by one star, but that one star, Jameel Warney, is a force in the paint. He scored 43 points in Stony Brook’s American East championship game, which sent the program to its first-ever conference championship win. Getting past the Wildcats is a tall task, but they have a better shot than most think.

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2016 NCAA TOURNAMENT

1 Kansas 16 Austin Peay 8 Colorado

SOUTH

9 Connecticut 5 Maryland 12 S. Dakota St. 4 California 13 Hawai’i 6 Arizona 11 Vanderbilt/Wichita St.

North Carolina 1

EAST

FGCU/Fair. Dickinson 16 USC 8 Providence 9 Indiana 5 Chattanooga 12 Kentucky 4 Stony Brook 13 Notre Dame 6 Michigan/Tulsa 11 West Virginia 3 S.F. Austin 14 Wisconsin 7 Pittsburgh 10 Xavier 2

3 Miami (Fla.) 14 Buffalo 7 Iowa 10 Temple 2 Villanova

Weber St. 15 Virginia 1 Hampton 16 Texas Tech 8 Butler 9 Purdue 5 Little Rock 12

15 UNC Asheville 1 Oregon 16 Holy Cross/Southern 8 Saint Joseph’s 9 Cincinnati 5 Baylor 12 Yale

Iowa St. 4 Iona 13 Seton Hall 6 Gonzaga 11 Utah 3 Fresno St. 14 Dayton 7

4 Duke 13 UNC Wilmington 6 Texas 11 Northern Iowa 3 Texas A&M 14 Green Bay 7 Oregon St. 10 VCU 2 Oklahoma 15 CSU Bakersfield

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Syracuse 10 Michigan St. 2 Middle Tenn. 15

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time to switch up selection sunday Chris Puzia

Contributing Editor Every Selection Sunday, some teams and fan bases will inevitably call foul on why their squad misses its shot to, well, take more shots.

Part of this frustration likely comes from the NCAA Selection Committee’s explicit, yet complicated, method for selecting teams. While the committee has spruced the formula up a bit, the criteria still has serious flaws — I’m looking at you, Valparaiso and Syracuse.

Those two teams — Valparaiso missed the cut and Syracuse barely snuck in — show that we need more overhauls to avoid more discrepancies. The committee primarily uses the Ratings Percentage Index, which prioritizes team records and home versus away splits, but there are other ways to cut down on the yearly outcry against its selections.

One suggestion I would give the com-

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mittee is to focus less on the RPI and more on advanced metrics, such as KenPom. The RPI is an outdated formula, which teams can easily manipulate by scheduling high-achieving, mid-major programs sprinkled between a handful of heavyweight matchups to b a l an c e a perfect RPI. Kansas has long perfected this trick, and this year it again has the country’s top RPI. The committee claims to use a wellrounded, composite picture to compare teams by reviewing common-opponent results, strength of schedule, road and neu-

tral court records and the all-important eye test.

I’m sure popular snubs Monmouth and Saint Bonaventure, who posted breakout seasons as mid-major teams but still missed the tournament, would disagree.

It seems RPI still rules the room, a n d some deserving teams won’t get a seat at the table.

Syracuse had an RPI of 71, the worst of any atlarge team to ever make the tournament.

Apparently, the committee looks at more advanced stats than just the RPI, but Committee Chair Joe Castiglione keeps point-

Focus less on RPI and more on advanced metrics.

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ing to the Orange’s multiple top-50 wins, showing the RPI can matter when the committee wants it to.

Now, the committee says it considers other formulas, such as KenPom, which includes offensive and defensive efficiency, and Sagarin, which accounts for recent play and actual game scores.

Still, it may not be enough to reward deserving teams. Saint Mary’s missed the cut ranking 34th on KenPom, while Syracuse made it at 41.

So the annual tradition of arguing about teams for hours after Selection Sunday will continue, but here are a couple of buzzerbeating suggestions: The committee should use the College Football Playoff model and release mock seedings early, and phase out RPI almost completely using KenPom instead.

With these two changes, the inevitable future arguments would be less subjective.

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Robinson, pg. 9 said.

“James, even though he was extremely talented at a young age, he always played the game the right way,” Jones said.

A number of college coaches piled into the DeMatha High School gym for the basketball team’s first open gym during the 2008-2009 season. Every big name college coach was there, including Pitt head coach

Jamie Dixon. Even though he was new on the team, Dixon said Robinson was already telling his teammates what to do and what the next drill was.

“He stood out. He was like the leader of the team,” Dixon said.

At this moment, Robinson knew DeMatha was the right place for him, given the exposure he’d get to college recruiters. The school has a storied basketball history, with such basketball alumni as former and current NBA players Adrian Dantley, Danny Ferry and Victor Oladipo.

Practices and games were competitive and physical, which Robinson now likens to the ACC and Big East contests. But he didn’t want it any other way, as the school’s passion for the sport matched his.

“It was like a business. All my teammates were so serious about it,” Robinson said.

“The coaching staff, the entire school, is so serious about athletics.”

One of the assistant coaches on the team, David Adkins — now a coach with the Washington Wizards — would hold workouts at 6 a.m before school. Kameron Taylor,

a teammate at DeMatha, recalls that Robinson didn’t miss any of them.

“He was a straight gym rat,” Taylor said.

“There was a never a time where he had free time that he wasn’t in the gym.”

On a team full of older and talented future college players, Robinson did not start his freshman year, but was a key contributor off the bench. Come time for the championship game, Robinson played an important role, knocking down three jumpers in the final 2:30 of play to help lead his team to a win.

The shots showed early signs of Robinson’s calm demeanor under pressure, which has suited him well throughout his high school and college careers.

“There’s never any worry or doubt in James’ eyes,” Taylor said. “Whether we were panicked, you could never see panic in his eyes.”

As a junior, Robinson was a starter. As a senior, he was the team’s leader, Taylor said.

Always naturally quiet, Robinson led by example and experience, not by yelling, Jones said.

The coach respected Robinson’s basketball acumen so much that he would run plays that the point guard suggested if he saw something that the coach didn’t see.

At the end of his high school career, Robinson had won three conference championships, and his team’s victory in his junior year remains the program’s last title.

“We miss him,” Jones said. “James being that coach on the floor was definitely special.”

In 2012, starting senior guard Tray Woodall was immediately impressed with freshman Robinson, who constantly sought out Woodall with questions about Pitt’s style of play. He even saw a bit of himself in Robinson.

“My initial impression was that this kid wants to learn,” Woodall said. “He’s definitely a guy that wants to soak up everything about the game, like a sponge.”

Robinson did not have any expectations about playing time, but asserted himself early on as a top talent, opting to guard the best players in practice, according to Woodall.

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Column, pg. 14 Release tournament seeds early Part of the surprise on Selection Sunday lies in the distinct difference between media bracketologists and the actual Selection Committee.

ESPN’s Joe Lunardi and CBS Sports’s Jerry Palm may insist in weeks leading up to the tournament that Pitt is a No. 7 seed, for example, only for the Panthers to miss the field.

Almost no one thought Tulsa would make the cut — including its own players. If they knew they had a shot, their final games would have had more gravity.

It is not the Selection Committee’s job to please everyone. But the needless surprises don’t help anyone.

The College Football Playoff released its first rankings this past season on Nov. 3, about two months into the season. The Selection Committee had enough time to evaluate teams’ performances, and its subsequent weekly rankings became the standard accepted ranking to replace the AP Poll.

It is a little more complicated in college basketball, as automatic bids for mid-majors only come after conference tournaments in March. While Holy Cross has already secured a bid by winning the Patriot League Tournament, there would be no way for the Selection Committee to know early.

Without the tournament win, Holy Cross was nowhere near the top 68 overall teams in the country.

Still, the committee could release the top at-large bids — usually to major conference teams — and fill in the mid-majors with whatever team tops its standings. That way, there would be a weekly, working bracket for teams and fans to see where their team currently stands. These could debut in early or mid-February, after the committee has seen conference play.

Weigh KenPom more heavily than RPI When the RPI was introduced in 1981, it revolutionized the way the Selection Committee and analysts judged teams.

“By modern standards, however, this is a remarkably simple formula and one that can be easily manipulated,” SB Nation’s Mike Rutherford said last year.

A quarter of that formula is the team’s

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winning percentage, half is the opponents’ winning percentages and the final quarter is the opponents’ opponents’ winning percentage, with road wins valued over home ones.

But that method ignores a number of valuable criteria, such as margin of victory and team efficiency.

That’s where KenPom comes in.

With a premium on offensive and defensive efficiency — looking at points per possession rather than points per game — in addition to strength of schedule, KenPom is harder to manipulate than RPI.

The numbers often do line up: Kansas is tops in both KenPom and RPI. But KenPom should outweigh the RPI when major differences arise.

Vanderbilt is No. 27 in KenPom and No. 60 in RPI — and it just narrowly made the tournament.

So the Selection Committee should flip its priorities and make KenPom the main evaluation metric, using RPI as a supplementary tool.

The best way to cut down on the annual tradition of bashing poor seedings and

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omissions is more transparency. The committee has been open about its willingness to use deeper statistics, but that should phase out the RPI. And by publishing earlier brackets, Monmouth will know why it doesn’t make the cut instead of facing total heartbreak next Selection Sunday.

These two changes would rectify any dispute over the committee’s selection process.

If implemented, we could all focus more on actually enjoying the games and less on fighting about snubs and seeds.

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Robinson, pg. 16 Woodall admits that he initially didn’t think Robinson would start, but his hard work and willingness to learn propelled him to the spot. And Dixon, a defensive-minded coach, already saw Robinson as the team’s best perimeter defender.

“It ended up that we had to have him on the floor,” Dixon said. “We were better with him on the floor.”

Robinson picked up concepts quickly, Dixon said, which gained the respect of his teammates. Though he was primarily a distributor, his teammates trusted him to take big shots.

Robinson hit two key 3-pointers against Villanova in Woodall’s final home game — one in the final minute to send the contest into overtime and another to seal the lead with 30 seconds left.

“If the shot wasn’t there for [me or Woodall], he was the next person we wanted to take it,” Lamar Patterson, a starting junior forward at the time, said. “He was never afraid of the moment. He wanted the mo-

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ment.”

Robinson has always been that way — calm under pressure, James Jr. said. None of his family members have ever seen him in any state of disarray, on or off the court.

“I can’t think of time where I saw him panic. That’s not him,” Jamal said.

Besides, he has his mother to do the panicking.

“It makes me a nervous wreck,” Rayna said. “He tells me, ‘Mom, relax. It’s going to be all right.’”

Since his freshman year, Robinson has started in all but one of his games for Pitt and maintained an assist-to-turnover ratio that sits near the top of the NCAA leaderboard each year.

As rosters have changed and different players emerged, Robinson has been the constant, the engine running the Pitt team.

With 1:11 left against Syracuse in the 2016 ACC Tournament, Robinson jumped in front of a pass by Franklin Howard, raced to the basket, completed a behind-the-back dribble and converted the layup under du-

ress to give the Panthers a 7068 lead.

Later, with 23 seconds left, Robinson dribbled to the right side of the court, right outside the paint. Surrounded by Syracuse defenders, he pivoted a few times and hit a step-back jumper to put his team up by four and secure a pivotal Pitt win to make the NCAA Tournament.

The wherewithal to sniff out the Howard pass was a microcosm of Robinson’s entire career: He’s always valued the intellectual aspects of the game.

“James has been working on these scenarios since four James Robinson dribbles down his home court.

Jeff Ahearn ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR years old,” James Jr. said.

Robinson’s late-game heroKrzyzewski praised Robinson for being a ics, along with his smooth operation of Pitt’s “superb leader on the court” and in “comoffense, have defined his career. He’s earned mand of the game” in his opening statement a fair share of admirers, even prying out the after Pitt’s win over his team on Senior Day. compliments of several opposing coaches.

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Labs, pg. 3 partly in conjuction with local companies, such as Duqesne Light.

“It’s going to be similar to a lot of Duquesne Light distribution centers,” Reed said. “We’re trying to build a facility that’s accessible to the energy industry.”

Vorp said Pitt researchers at the EIC will not profit from the corporate-funded research, but the contracts “will bring in enough revenue ... to cover most of the costs.”

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With the new lab space, Brian Gleeson, professor and chair of mechanical engineering and materials science who will oversee the High-Temperature Corrosion Testing Laboratory, can now look at how high temperatures and corrosive conditions affect metals in Rolls-Royce and airliner engines.

Working with up to 15,000 volts in the alternating current lab — an outlet in a typical home or office conducts about 120 volts — Reed said he and other electrical engineers will be able to research how to produce and deliver electricity more efficiently.

Reed said much of the research will focus on microgrid technology.

Reed said he is working with Duquesne Light on a microgird at the company’s Woods Run facility, and he and other researchers are looking at microgrids for Oakland. There are no formal plans yet, but Reed said Pitt could help establish a microgrid for the neighborhood within five years, though the urban landscape poses logistical issues.

“College campuses are starting to be some of the first adopters of microgrid

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technology,” he said. “But for a school like Pitt, it’s a little more difficult in an urban setting.”

Gleeson said the new lab in Pittsburgh will allow him to permanently relocate from his lab at Iowa State University. In the High-Temperature Corrosion lab at Pitt, Gleeson can explore how temperatures up to 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit affect engines in cars, airplanes and ships.

His lab analyzes, for example, how the metal that makes up an airliner’s turbine engine withstands corrosion from air pollution, heat and high altitude.

Gleeson, like Reed, was involved in the planning of the laboratories that began about two years ago, Reed said.

“Let’s face it, it’s a nice facility. I think it will be in the showcase for our school to show what we can do,” Gleeson said.

Reed said the work he’ll be able to do in the EIC will set him and his team ahead of other researchers.

“This is right on the cutting edge — we’re very excited,” he said. “It puts us on the forefront of the industry but also on the forefront of institutions in the nation.”

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