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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

Louisville ends Bulls’ NCAA run

LI F E STYLE

Making Florida beautiful, one river at a time.

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Montage

S PORTS Reports: Collins, Clayton to transfer after Bulls’ last-place finish.

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Alisia Jenkins (left) and Ariadna Pujol throw up their horns for one last time in the 2014-15 USF women’s basketball season after the team’s 60-52 loss to Louisville in the Sun Dome on Monday night. ORACLE PHOTO/SEBASTIAN CONTENTO No. 6 Bulls’ best run in the NCAA a force off the bench and finished Louisville (27-6) started the

By Zach Lowie S T A F F W R I T E R Tournament with a victory over with 10 points and four rebounds. game shooting lights out and made Her aggressive play down low was its first four field goals while grabtheir former conference rival.

As the greatest season in the too much for USF forwards Alisia bing an early double-digit lead.

The energy in the USF Sun history of USF women’s basket- Jenkins and Laura Ferreira, who Ferreira battled back and dropped Dome Monday night was unlike ball came to a close, the home- came away with only a combined two 3-pointers in under a minute to get the Bulls back on track in any the venue has seen as USF court advantage wasn’t enough to three offensive rebounds.

“We were thinking we had the the first five minutes of the game. students, faculty and alumni gath- eclipse Louisville’s strong offensive ered in the arena to see their presence and the Bulls’ defense game,” said USF guard Courtney USF (27-8) was 5-of-8 from beyond team take on a familiar foe — the had trouble responding, with the Williams. “I think Louisville just did the arc in the first half and made No. 3 Louisville Cardinals. More Cardinals coming away with a a good job of pounding it in the four of those shots in only three paint. They were aggressive but than 5,000 fans came out to wit- 60-52 victory. n See BULLS on PAGE 3 Louisville’s Shawnta’ Dyer was they still got their shots to fall.” ness what could have been the

USF researcher takes a new look into why we cry

By Zach Leete S T A F F

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“We need never be ashamed of our tears,” wrote Charles Dickens in his 13th novel, “Great Expectations.”

Jonathan Rottenberg, a USF psychologist and associate professor, studies crying and depression. His research has given rise to the idea that crying is a much more complex emotional response than previously thought.

Part of Rottenberg’s research includes the classification and function of different types of tears in relation to emotional responses.

Basal tears are normal tears used to keep the eyes from drying out. They also lubricate the eyes and keep them from becoming irritated. Humans also experience reflex tears, which result from an irritant like dust.

Rottenberg and his colleagues poured over 3,000 reports of sobbing. Emotional tears are the

most puzzling tears, because they can occur across the spectrum of emotions, for a variety of reasons.

“The main topic that we’re researching in my lab is emotional functioning and depression,” Rottenberg said. “I got into crying research as a satellite. In a diagnostic manual for depression it says depressed people cry more readily and crying is a sign of depression. So some years ago, I thought to do a research study because I didn’t really understand where those ideas were coming

from.”

Rottenberg and his team exposed depressed and nondepressed subjects to a short, sad film for three and a half minutes.

The clip, a scene of a boy watching his father die in the film “The Champ” which featured a substantial amount of crying.

“Crying is a contagious behavior, like laughter,” Rottenberg said. “We’re interested in the big individual instances in crying.

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USF helps bring body cameras to Tampa police

By Russell Nay S T A F F

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In an effort to improve interactions between citizens and police officers, many police departments across the country have experimented with body cameras in the past couple of years, and an increasing number of Florida police departments are following suit.

At a news conference March 6, Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor announced that 60 Tampa patrol officers would begin wearing body cameras while on duty in the city’s three police districts.

Castor also mentioned in the conference that the Tampa Police Department has agreed to be part of a yearlong study by USF’s criminology department.

The study will investigate the effects of cameras on policecivilian relations, and Castor said she expects positive results from the study.

“The studies show, and this is what USF is looking at, that there are less resists and injuries involved with officers wearing cameras, there are less complaints toward officers who are wearing cameras,” Castor said at the conference. “My prediction is it may improve police behavior a little bit, citizen behavior a whole lot … this will give the citizens of Tampa, in essence, the ability to walk in the shoes of a police officer.”

The study began on March 1, and examines the use of police force during suspect confrontations, the behavior of other officer-citizen interactions and the number of external and internal complaints against officers.

The study will also involve the Pasco County Sherriff’s Office as a control group, as all 415 officers in Pasco County are equipped with body cameras.

This follows a similar study involving the Orlando Police Department, which began in March 2014 and concluded on March 15 of this year. The study examined the same outcomes as the Tampa study, and USF researchers are still compiling final data for the study’s last three months.

Wesley Jennings, an associate professor and chair of

USF’s criminology department, that body cameras have on side of an arrest or crime and said Tampa’s willingness to be police-community interactions, help lower the frequency of lawinvolved in the study is like- Jennings stated that criminol- suits against them. Recordings ly due to recent technological ogy department researchers would also encourage transparadvancements in body cameras, are in the process of creating ency in police departments, as as well as an increasing num- grants with the Tampa Police videos would be considered ber of police departments that Department to add surveys to public record, he added.

Jennings did say that body are purchasing cameras for their their study.

These surveys would receive cameras have their negatives, officers.

“We reached out to Tampa responses from people who are primarily their cost in large (Police Department) well over arrested by officers with body departments and restrictive 18 months ago when we first cameras and would concern recording guidelines.

“Police-body worn cameras started with the Orlando proj- police and citizen behavior, as ect,” Jennings said. “The nation- well as general community sur- that can be mounted on sunal discourse and the knowledge veys concerning residents’ views glasses, around the collar…or even on the chest are usually about body-worn cameras was on police-worn body cameras. $500 to $600 a way in its infanpiece,” he said. cy … but now, ometimes obviously with “There are less resists and injuries involved “it S can be $15 the Ferguson incident and with officers wearing cameras, there are a month per officer for the Eric Garner storincident, it’s less complaints toward officers who are (video) depending on the national wearing cameras. My prediction is it may age on how much news.”

J e n n i n g s improve police behavior a little bit, citizen storage capacity the departalso said there is much more behavior a whole lot … this will give the ment wants. So those are recurexposure to the idea of body- citizens of Tampa, in essence, the ability to ring costs in a sense.” worn cameras. walk in the shoes of a police officer.”

Restrictive “In our inirecording politial meetings, Jane Castor cies occur when they were very Tampa Police Chief police departwilling and ments create receptive to the For the study, 60 officers a laundry list of situations in idea of letting us do exactly what we’re doing in Orlando,” would be equally split between which an officer is required to Jennings said. “They understand Tampa’s three police districts use a body camera and an equal the value of the strong research and each district would have fair amount of situations in which it representation of officers who is prohibited. design.”

Jennings said this can be a Like he’s seen in the first six have cameras and those who lot for an officer to remember and nine months of the Orlando do not.

The researchers will also take during his patrol, and he could study, Jennings said he expects to see a lower use of force from officers’ shifts into account and mistakenly miss important footTampa officers equipped with ensure that daytime shifts and age or take a prohibited video cameras versus those who do nighttime shifts also possess that could be dismissed in a not, as well as lower external equal numbers of officers with court case.

“Some agencies stipulate complaints from citizens and and without body cameras.

“We have cameras covering exactly when and where to turn slightly more internal complaints from the police depart- all hours of the day and all days the camera on, so if there are 15 of the week to ensure that all or 18 different scenarios where ment on officer behavior.

Jennings said the decline of those scenarios, particularly the the camera is on and 18 differpolice force and complaints high crime scenarios which are ent scenarios where the camera should accelerate as time goes at risk for any kind of negative is off, that’s a lot for an officer to police-citizen encounters, are remember,” Jennings said. “You on in the Tampa study.

“We’re presuming that the going to be a part of the experi- could accidentally miss a good portion of video you might need results will largely be replicated ment,” Jennings said.

Supporting police-worn body or vice versa.” because the research design is Another popular concern of exactly the same, and the sam- cameras, Jennings said he does ple sizes are comparable … it’s not see many negatives with police-worn body cameras is the a large metropolitan city and the technology. Body cameras issue of privacy. While Jennings municipal police force similar improve police officer account- said body camera footage can be to Orlando,” Jennings said. “We ability and provide video evi- redacted to protect the privacy envision the results should be dence to challenge external of private citizens and minors, complaints, he said, which some political and civil liberties pretty comparable.”

To further measure the effect allows officers to display their groups are still concerned over

what will and will not be available to the public.

Thomas Rayder, president of the USF College Republicans, said he supports body cameras and thinks that cost is an issue as well, but he said he is also concerned about videos of citizens in private residences being classified as public record.

“It’s expensive to put cameras on every police officer.

Generally, I would be in favor of it if there’s a way to pay for it,” Rayder said. “The recorded film of civilians or suspects will be put up for public records, and obviously that could interfere with privacy.”

Katharine Orr, last year’s state chair of the Young Americans for Liberty, said her main problem with police body cameras is ensuring officer accountability.

While she supports body cameras, Orr said officers have the ability to choose when their cameras are on or off. She would therefore like to see clear regulation addressing officer recording discretion and dealing with potential misconduct.

“Cameras on police officers is something that I think we should try,” Orr said. “My main concern is oversight … officers may have control over what gets submitted and what is seen by the people who review the video. When it comes down to the word of a bystander, more often than not, the police officer’s word will have a higher value.”

At the moment, Jennings said though this study involving Tampa Police is a small-scale pilot test, the department is considering methods to expand their use of body cameras to the rest of their patrol force.

A list of other Florida police departments are also currently using body cameras, including departments in Temple Terrace, Daytona Beach, Fort Myers and Pensacola.

While it is too early to determine if body cameras will become standard-issue equipment for all patrol officers in Florida, their use is undoubtedly on the rise in the state’s police departments.

The Tampa Police Department and the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office studies will last until March 2016.

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minutes to bring them back into contention and cut the Cardinals’ lead to just two points.

Williams hit the floor hard after tripping, which resulted in another turnover for the Bulls, one of 16 on the night. She was nursing a hurt knee for the remainder of the game and seemed off on her shooting motion. Even with Louisville pressuring Williams and her lingering injury, she still led USF in scoring with eight points in the first half.

The Cardinals had USF figured out early on in the post and grabbed eight offensive rebounds in the first half while scoring four points from second-chance opportunities. As a team, Louisville outrebounded the Bulls 21-14 in the first half. Bria Smith was a big factor for Louisville off the bench and grabbed five rebounds of her own to help the Cardinals take their 28-23 lead into the half.

The Bulls looked like they were starting a rally after Ferreira sunk her third 3-pointer with 17:42 left in the game. However, the Cardinals got the ball back and after a jump shot from Sara Hammond and a lay-up off a USF turnover dropped for Myisha Hines-Allen, the Bulls saw the deficit double to eight.

USF didn’t lead at any point in the first half, but came out after halftime looking to make a comeback. Ferreira got another 3-pointer to drop in the opening

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cry than others.”

Surprisingly, the depressed individuals did not cry more. The research team found evidence to support the hypothesis that depression seemed to diminish the normal effects of crying. This initial study got Rottenberg thinking more about the psychological effects of crying.

“What people think of first and foremost is whether crying has psychological benefits,” Rottenberg said. “Do people feel better after crying? Depressed people don’t seem to report getting these mood benefits.”

Rottenberg said the act of crying itself is interesting because there doesn’t seem to be any mood benefit during the act, yet many report feeling better after an episode. Crying is a prob-

minutes to cut the Louisville lead to just four.

With less than 12 minutes to play, USF remained in the game, with Williams taking the ball by herself to get the hard lay-up, which cut the deficit to just three points. Williams improved her shooting in the second half and came away with 25 total points and seven rebounds.

The game was a back-and-forth affair for the remainder of regulation. While Louisville led for the first 35 minutes of the game, the Bulls kept themselves within reach and the fans on the edge of their seats.

With five minutes left, Jenkins got a lay-up to drop that gave USF the lead for the first time all game. With time winding down, the Bulls seemed to be moving on to their first Sweet 16 appearance.

Their excitement would be shortlived, however, as the Cardinals quickly took back the lead with four straight trips down the court resulting in points.

Despite another great effort from Williams, the Cardinals were too physical for the team to handle and grabbed 45 team rebounds to USF’s 32. Down the stretch, Louisville was just too wellequipped for the Bulls and ended the game on a 14-5 run to re-gain the lead.

“I thought (Louisville) just closed the game, especially with us taking the lead late,” said coach Jose Fernandez. “They imposed their will in the paint. We’ve done a great job rebounding all year and tonight we didn’t do that.” lem solving behavior people use when they don’t know how to cope with a situation. It’s a clear signal that something is wrong.

“People make localizations and show tears others can see,” Rottenberg said. “Sometimes crying prompts someone to figure out what was going wrong and take some steps to change the situation. We found in studies after looking at thousands and thousands of crying episodes that people felt better when they perceived that crying had solved some problem they were having.”

Crying occurs in positive situations as well though, which confounds the research on emotional tears even more. Crying is a dramatic social behavior, but a socially accepted behavior.

Crying from joy or surprise calls into question the former studies that related crying to depression and mental disorders.

When the final buzzer sounded, the Bulls stood in front of their fans for the final playing of the alma mater this season after a devastating loss. Coming up short to Louisville wasn’t in the Bulls’ plans, but with all but two players returning next year, the future is bright for USF. Ferreira fought back tears after the game to share her excitement for the future of the program.

Despite the loss, there is a lot of potential in the team, with all five starters returning next season.

“I have three more years and I’m ready to keep playing,” Ferreira said. “This defeat only makes us stronger and we’re just going to keep working hard to get better.”

Fernandez said he felt for his team after the loss, especially with so many players being a part of the NCAA Tournament for the first time in their careers.

“It hurts,” Fernandez said.

“With this team being so young you’ve got to be put in this position and feel the pain in that locker room to make sure you don’t feel it again.”

For Williams, next season starts tomorrow. After she nurses her injured knee back to health, she said she will be ready to get back to work and make an even deeper run into the post-season in her senior season next year.

“We’ve got to get back to work during the summer time,” Williams said. “For us to be successful next season, everyone has to have a great summer. We can’t be complacent with where we are now.”

Rottenberg said the community of researchers studying crying across the U.S. is small enough to fit in a single room. All of whom agree that crying is a fairly primitive mode of communicative behavior, but a complex function nonetheless.

While crying may be a simple act, depression is complex and can’t be turned on or turned off like a spout. Though the research is still in early phases, it can still illustrate that depression doesn’t always include the tearful signs that many associate with it.

The subjects involved in the initial study that called into question the link between depression and crying self-evaluated themselves as depressed, and were not necessarily diagnosed as such.

Nonetheless, Rottenberg said the findings were significant enough to move into a more serious phase that would study clinically depressed patients.

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USF students Keep Tampa Beautiful with river clean-up

By Russell Nay S T A F F

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Besides being Tampa’s primary source of drinking water, the Hillsborough River serves as an important ecosystem for Florida wildlife, as well as a popular source of recreation for many Floridians.

However, like many other large rivers, it is still susceptible to pollution and littering.

In order to help restore the river to its natural state, students from several USF environmental organizations will participate in the Trash Free Waters Initiative on Saturday at the Hillsborough River State Park. The event is hosted by Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful (KTBB), a local affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, the nation’s largest volunteer-based community.

The initiative is the result of a partnership between KTBB and Nestle Waters North America, the producer of Zephyrhills water, to raise awareness about aquatic trash in local waterways, particularly the Hillsborough River. The Hillsborough River State Park is the last of four cleanup locations in the initiative.

During the Hillsborough River cleanup, student volunteers will collect trash from the river as well as catalog what trash they find and how much of it they collect, according to Tom Damico,

KTBB’s environmental program coordinator. Once compiled, this information will be sent to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other environmental organizations so officials can learn more about what kind of trash is polluting waterways.

“We promote it as a way for volunteers to ‘be a scientist for a day,’” Damico said. “We try to pair them in groups of five or 10, and … we’ll have one person in each of those groups be the data recorder.

The (other volunteers) will call out, ‘I have a soda can here’ or ‘I have a piece of plastic here’ and they’ll record the things that they find.”

Damico said this initiative is also important due to current EPA studies which claim 80 percent of all the trash that is not properly disposed of washes down sewers and ends up in local waterways.

Kirsti Martinez, president of the Student Environmental Association (SEA) at USF, said it is important for students to participate in events like the Trash Free Waters Initiative to be active citizens and help support the Tampa community outside of USF. “Some of the greatest things that a community can do for itself is making sure that it’s clean and that we’re being responsible for the way that we treat the environment because we’re living within

Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful has organized the Trash Free Waters Initiative to help keep the Hillsborough River. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE it,” Martinez said. “It’s important to constantly show that USF cares about our community outside of campus.”

As USF’s central environmental organization, SEA is one of the main USF student groups involved in the initiative and Martinez said it tries to get involved with KTBB events at least twice a year.

More recently created student environmental organizations such as Roots and Shoots will also be

participating in the initiative, and the club’s director, Kaitlin Deutsch, said the collaboration with SEA for this initiative marks the organization’s first cleanup event.

“This is the first year that Roots and Shoots has been an organization, so we’ve never done this sort of thing before,” Deutsch said.

“We’re really excited to get our name out there and hopefully continue this collaboration with SEA for a lot of other events in the

community.”

While the Hillsborough River State Park is the last location of this initiative, Damico said KTBB will continue its partnership with Nestle Waters and other environmental organizations to plan additional waterway cleanups in the future.

The Trash Free Waters Initiative takes place Saturday at Hillsborough River State Park from 9 a.m. to noon.

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$150,000.

Post-season recognition as the AAC Coach of the Year would earn Fernandez another $10,000, while being named the national coach of the year would be worth $15,000.

Moreno fired for violation of NCAA rules Former USF women’s tennis coach Agustin Moreno was fired Feb. 16 for breaking

NCAA rules.

The former coach had led the women’s tennis program since 2005 and won conference championships in 2007 and 2014. He was also named the Big East Coach of the Year in 2007 and has made six NCAA Tournament appearances.

On Jan. 26, Moreno was watching a recruit play tennis with a current member of the team, which violated NCAA rules. Moreno then proceeded to lie about the illegal scouting to the Athletic Compliance

Office.

This violation wasn’t Moreno’s first time running into trouble with NCAA rules.

He and his staff held an impermissible camp in the 2014 fall semester and lost the right to participate in any camps or clinics until the 2015 summer semester.

Because Moreno was fired without cause, he is receiving the remainder of his salary until his original contract with the school ends June 30.

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Letter to the Editor

In response to Monday’s column titled “Concealed carry isn’t right for college campuses.”

If you use the state as a metric for safety, you’re going to have a bad time “Concealed carry isn’t right for college campuses” highlights nothing more than the same gun-control rhetoric we’ve heard several times for decades. What you won’t hear about, however, is how these practices and ideas do nothing but enable the same tragedies we strive to avoid.

What changes have been made to put firearms in the hands of licensed people who have a faster response time than the nearest on-duty police officer? To obtain a concealed weapons permit in Florida, for example, an individual must be 21 years of age or older, demonstrate competency with a firearm, pass a background check, reside in the U.S., be fingerprinted and pay the license fee which totals over $112, not including the cost of the firearms course required to demonstrate competency or the cost of the firearm itself.

In addition, there is a laundry list of disqualifications from holding a permit, such as two or more DUI convictions within three years, dishonorable discharge form the armed forces, a felony conviction, a record of drug or alcohol abuse and so on.

What the column neglects to

mention is the portion of the student body composed of active military personnel, reserve military personnel, police officers and sportsmen who have extensive training with firearms. However, the column classifies all students as participants or instigators of “any argument or drunken party,” where all their training and knowledge is apparently lost in lieu of in-themoment impulsivity. It is implied people will get shot out of sheer negligence, whether out of jealously, anger or some other undisclosed reason.

When people take the time to become trained and skilled with firearms, they understand that a weapon shouldn’t be exposed unless they are ready to use it.

At that point, the cost of consequences does not exceed the cost of harm if nothing in the situation changes. In January of this year at a UCF off-campus student apartment complex, 22-year-old Nour Skargee answered his door to find an intruder pointing a gun at him, and was grabbed by the throat.

When Skargee yelled to his girlfriend, “Grab the gun,” guess who went running? When the intruder retreated, he dropped his weapon,

which was revealed to be a pellet gun.

This fear of harm and refusal to gain knowledge with respect to firearms is what drives students to succumb to crime and become victims.

And what if the worst-case scenario does unfold? The police will follow protocol. What many neglect to realize is police have protocols for all types of situations. It’s not like a student will shoot someone and not call 911 once the threat of bodily harm has passed.

Before anyone decides who should or should not be in possession of a concealed firearm on campus due to the preferred exclusivity of police using force, know that the state of Florida issues concealed weapons permits.

Should one’s state-issued license be deemed worthless once they step onto a public college or university campus simply because of fear?

End the fear. Get educated on the role, use, maintenance and scenarios of firearms.

Katharine Orr is a senior majoring in biomedical sciences and political science.

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What you said Editors Isabelle Cavazos and Adam Mathieu asked students if they think religion should be promoted as a larger aspect of campus diversity after a recent Chronicle of Higher Education column argued that religion should be considered in college diversity issues alongside others such as race, gender and ethnicity.

“I see a positive in recognizing it because it’s a big part of some people’s lives, as long as it doesn’t get political.”

— Raquel Barbosa, a sophomore majoring in exercise science

“Everyone is different racially and ethnically, so why not add religion into that? In my opinion, it falls in the same category.” ­— Brian Millan, a sophomore majoring in education

“I feel like there’s a lot of religion on this campus.

People get a little worried about religion because it’s mostly Christianity.”

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Collins, Clayton to transfer

By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S

Anthony Collins is the sole remaining player of the Bulls team that made an NCAA Tournament run in 2012 before the reported decision to transfer Monday. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU

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At a practice last season with speculation of a transfer surrounding him, USF guard Anthony Collins sought the media to clear the air.

“I still want to be here and play for coach Heath,” Collins said at the time. “He’s the one who recruited me. I support him 100 percent.”

With Heath now gone, along with most of the players Collins came in with, reports are surfacing once again that the redshirt junior and freshman Dre Clayton are bolting from the program.

First reported by ESPN’s Jeff Goodman, Collins and Clayton’s departure follows a rough year as the Bulls sunk to the bottom of the AAC for the second consecutive season with a 9-23 record. Tampa Bay Times reporter Joey Knight followed up on Twitter later, tweeting the report is true.

USF Athletics could not confirm the transfers for The

Oracle by time of print.

Collins averaged 7.1 points per game and a team-leading 5.2 assists in the 2014-15 season. He passed former Bull Chucky Atkins for third place on the USF all-time assists list and finished with a career-high 569.

Clayton played a much lesser role than his teammate and averaged just less than one point per game, but his departure adds to the lack of depth coach Orlando Antigua must compensate for in the coming season.

Collins will earn his degree from USF prior to transferring, which will make him eligible to play next season.

Clayton will most likely have to sit out a year.

As for USF’s future, Collins will be replaced next season

by Maryland transfer Roddy Peters who joined the team this season.

Fernandez set for bonus Coach Jose Fernandez, who

is earning a base salary of $150,000 for the 2014-15 season, is in line to contractually qualify for some performancebased incentives.

The USF women’s basketball team has already received an at-large invitation to the NCAA Tournament, which nets Fernandez an extra $15,000.

For winning Saturday’s game against No. 11 LSU 73-64, Fernandez will earn an additional $10,000.

After the Bulls’ 60-52 loss to Louisville on Monday night, Fernandez won’t be able to earn any more money for tournament wins, but he could have made more than double his base salary if the run continued.

A run deep into the tournament would have not only garnered Fernandez $10,000 for each win, but an appearance in the Final Four would have been worth an extra $75,000, or half of Fernandez’s base salary. Finishing the season as the NCAA Champion is worth

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Baseball

Bulls travel to face Eagles’ potent offense

By Tiana Aument C O R R E S P O N D E N T

With four Eagles batting over .300, the Bulls will likely depend on pitching and defense to quell FGCU’s offense when they face them tonight at 6:30.

Brothers Levi and Luke Borders have given USF an offensive boost and look to carry their momentum into Fort Myers.

Combined, the brothers went 8-for-10 in their last outing Sunday against No. 18 Illinois. The Bulls (16-8-1) dropped their first two games, but the brothers came in clutch in the 8-5 win, driving in runners in the 10th inning.

Right-handed pitcher Tommy Peterson kept the Fighting Illini scoreless in the bottom frame en

route to a spot on the AAC Honor Roll. Peterson (2-1) notched two wins and a save in three appearances last week.

Luke and Levi, who have started all 25 games, lead the Bulls with their respective .303 and .298 batting averages.

Levi, who doubled 11 times and homered once in his sophomore season, now has six doubles and a team-high four homers about five weeks into the season.

Luke, who doubled six times in his freshmen season, has doubled a team-high seven times.

FGCU (11-12-1) is coming off a weekend sweep of BethuneCookman, in which the Eagles outscored the Wildcats 20-9.

Outfielder Zach Spivey went 8-for12 with three runs and an RBI, and

third baseman Jake Noll went 7-for13 with two runs and five RBIs in the series.

Spivey (.347) and Noll (.337) are two of four Eagles averaging over .300. First baseman Nick Rivera and outfielder Adam Eggnatz are batting .355 and .304, respectively.

The last time the Eagles and Bulls met, USF fell 6-2 in a midweek matchup Feb. 24.

FGCU has been hot and cold since then, getting swept by Minnesota, sweeping Western Michigan and getting swept by Nebraska, while dropping homeand-home games to No. 19 Miami in between.

USF, on the other hand, has gone 12-5 with a nine-game winning streak since the teams previously met.

Levi Borders leads USF with four home runs and his .298 batting average is second only to his brother, Luke. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/ SEBASTIAN CONTENTO