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Lady Vols come back to beat Georgia despite offensive woes Taylor White Assistant Sports Editor (@T_Dub98)

Though it won’t show up in the box score, Bashaara Graves made one of the biggest plays of the game for the Lady Vols.

Trailing, 45-44, with less than six minutes to go in the game, Cierra Burdick came up short on a jump shot that looked to be going out of bounds. Graves managed to get her hands on the ball and flip it to a tightly guarded Isabelle Harrison under the basket, who finished the layup despite being fouled.

Harrison hit the free throw to give Tennessee the lead, and the No. 5 Lady Vols never relinquished it, going on to defeat No. 22 Georgia 59-51 in ThompsonBoling Arena Sunday afternoon.

“It was a great win for us,” head coach Holly Warlick said. “We’ll take it.”

After some early offensive struggles, the Lady Vols appeared to hit their stride as they closed the first half on a 16-3 run, capped off by a Jordan Reynolds jumper as time expired. Those struggles returned,

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however, as the second half began.

Tennessee (17-3, 7-0) suffered a scoring drought of over eight minutes to start the second period, and saw their five-point lead become a five-point deficit. It took a tip in from Cierra Burdick to get the Lady Vols’ offense back on track.

While Georgia (17-4, 5-3) managed a 10-0 during the scoring drought, the Lady Bulldogs had an opportunity to firmly take control of the game and let it slip through their fingers.

“What was frustrating in that run is that we took two or three really bad shots,” Georgia coach Andy Landers said. “And we wasted two or three possessions. That was frustrating. Somebody would come down and jack a shot, so that’s frustrating.”

Both teams struggled to score at times, and when they did score, the points didn’t come from either team’s usual contributors. Seniors Burdick, Harrison and Ariel Massengale, three of the team’s leading scorers failed to score in the first half.

Instead it was sophomore guard Jordan Reynolds who stepped up.

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Students cheered in honor of Pat Summitt during the women’s basketball game against LSU Jan. 22.

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Lonely Biscuits combine dorm friendships with unique music style Ana Tantaris Contributor

Think about your freshman roommate.

You’re probably thinking about the person who helped you make flashcards for your first finals week, made you get out of bed when the previous night took too much out of you and sat and laughed with you during all of the floor meetings.

For two of The Lonely Biscuits, this stranger also turned into “future bandmate.”

In 2011, at Belmont University, the creative minds of Grady Wenrich, Sam Gidley, John Paterini and Nick Byrd met and unintentionally turned an activity to avoid dorm boredom into a band.

“Sam and I were random roommates in the dorm and (Byrd and Paterini) lived in the same hall, and it all just started,” Wenrich said.

Wenrich (guitar, vocals), Gidley (drums), Paterini (guitar, vocals) and Byrd (bass) are all still students at Belmont. With majors such as audio engineering, studio art and entertainment industry studies, The Lonely Biscuits balance their studies with their music and plan to graduate this year.

“It’s definitely hard, but it’s not so bad once you get a groove down,” Byrd said. “We mostly play on the weekend, so it’s school during the week, and then we go tour on the weekends.”

Previously known as Gravy and the Biscuits because of Wenrich’s high school nickname “Gravy,” The Lonely Biscuits have developed an interest-peaking sound which is increasingly catching people’s attention with each show and song release.

“Music wise, you can’t really pinpoint it,” Gidley said, explaining that The Biscuits do not necessarily fall into one genre, but demonstrate qualities of several – both setting them apart from other bands as well as bringing all of their individual musical styles to life.

“We’re just finding out what we all like to play together because we also like other kinds of music, and we’ll play stuff on our own that we also like, but we’re just finding the kind of music that sounds really good with the four of us,” Wenrich said.

Gidley said the band’s musical success stemmed from the members’ friendship.

“As a band, we’ve lived together for the past few years, and we’re all friends,” Gidley said.

“That’s pretty much the only reason the band even happened. We weren’t even planning on starting a band. We were just jamming, and then people liked it, I guess, so that’s kind of unique.”

Paterini described the group’s writing process as “pretty spontaneous,” because they don’t write anything down until they have played on it for a little while. The group primarily starts playing something and sees how it develops before they decide if they want to stick with it. The Biscuits said it’s easier for them to write together since they all live in the same house; when one Biscuit starts jamming, they start writing.

“Our sound has developed a lot over the past year, and we haven’t released anything really, but we’ve been writing a lot, so we kind of just want to just catch people up to where we’re at and hear it,” Wenrich said.

“It’s always changing,” Wenrich continued, “Like when we first met, it was all just our different stuff we would listen to and we would blend it together, but now we’ve lived together for three years and we’re really inspired by Nashville and bands in Nashville and our friends really.”

The Lonely Biscuits advised aspiring musicians to put as much music out there as possible, particularly in the beginning.

“If we went a month without releasing a song or a video, we were freaking out,” Gidley admitted.

They also want to tell hopeful musicians to play shows often and follow your heart to do what’s best for you and your music.

“I feel like our fans would probably be surprised that we’re still in school,” Byrd said.

“We’re pretty normal people, honestly.”

In addition to their studies this year, The Lonely Biscuits have been writing, touring and playing festivals including Hangout, South By Southwest, Austin City Limits and Bonnaroo.

The group is currently in the writing process for their debut album to be released within the year, while looking into the possibility of collaborating with a label. Before their album drops, however, The Lonely Biscuits will release new music in the coming weeks, to tide us over while they finish school, continue their tour and finish their debut record.

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Long live Moon Taxi Hannah Zechman Staff Writer (@annahZechman) In an effort to simplistically explain a face melting, grooving jam band, I have four words: Moon Taxi is contagious.

Moon Taxi, along with opener The Lonely Biscuits, rocked a sold-out house Thursday night at the Bijou Theatre. With a growing fan base and a popular reputation, Moon Taxi proved just why everyone is jumping on their musical genius bandwagon.

The best part of a Moon Taxi show is the promise that there will always be dancing.

Immediately, everyone who is able and willing to get hot and sweaty in a tight space is rushing to the stage. The music is electric and full of energy, leaving the audience no choice but to get up and boogie. From 15-year-olds to 50-year-olds, no one can deny the urge to at least tap a foot.

It is not just the music that gets the crowd excited, however, but the band themselves. Even though they are on stage, they are dancing along with their adoring fans, using every chance they get to reference Tennessee or the Vols. Moon Taxi knows how to work a crowd, and they do it because they love it.

Their love for music is also expressed through their reputation for jamming.

Moon Taxi proved this true by shredding up “Fools Gold” for a 15-minute jam set.

The longer the song, the more excited the audience. Cheers and whoops praised each member after their solos, encouraging more.

As the show came to an end, the slightly tipsy folks in the balcony screamed for an encore. Of course, everyone else joined in. Lead singer Trevor Terndrup wasted no time coming back out for an encore.

Terndrup came out alone and sang a cover of Tears for Fears’ “Mad World.” After the acoustic performance, the rest of the Moon Taxi band joined Terndrup on the stage to jam out for two more songs.

It was a show that could have gone on all night. Because no one left unhappy with their performance, everyone wanting more, Moon Taxi and their contagious sound proved they are attracting a dedicated audience. They are worth seeing an unlimited amount of times, wherever and whenever, including Bonnaroo 2015.

Long live good music and long live Moon Taxi, a group of musical geniuses.

Miranda Lambert performs at Thompson-Boling Arena on Jan. 23 for part of her “Certified Platinum” Tour.

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Miranda Lambert shines, brings ‘sass’ to Knoxville stage Marina Waters Staff Writer (@MarinaWaters08)

The silvery-white metal looks as good on Miranda Lambert as it does on her records and inside Thompson-Boling Arena.

The country songstress brought her “Certified Platinum Tour” to Knoxville Friday night along with special guests RaeLynn and Justin Moore.

In the male-dominated country music industry, full of tight blue jeans and baseball caps, there are just a few females who truly compete with their male counterparts.

Lambert does more than just compete though by combining sparkly, sass-filled tunes with fiery, female-empowerment country songs.

And she didn’t fail to bring these elements along with her – with a side of glitter, of course.

From the colossal on-stage platinum frame

and the enormous spinning disco balls to the images of fire and smoke rising from behind the country queen, Lambert balanced both her tough-girl country attributes with her love for shiny details.

But it wasn’t just her shimmering persona that brought the crowd to its feet – Lambert is still a country artist who excels in vocals and overall entertainment.

As the lights dimmed and the glow of the metal frame ignited, Lambert came through the gates with her iconic pink guitar in hand and vocals blazing as she opened the show with “Fastest Girl In Town.”

Amongst her boot-stomping dance moves and guitar strumming, her vocals proved most impressive, leaving no one to wonder how she won female vocalist of the year in 2014 at the CMAs. Apart from shining visual effects and award-winning vocals, Lambert truly needed nothing more than her laundry list of hits to indulge the crowd in the country queen-

themed evening.

Lambert threw in her newest (and possibly some of the sassiest and egocentric to date) songs such as the title track “Platinum,” “Priscilla,” the Elvis and Priscilla themed tune, which ended with the songstress holding up her enormous diamond encrusted wedding ring, and the highly entertaining “Little Red Wagon.”

But it was Lambert’s older, country-heavy hits such as “Kerosene,” “Mama’s Broken Heart,” “White Liar” and “Gunpowder and Lead,” that really fired up the crowd.

However, the Texas native slowed the fueled-up atmosphere with slower ballads such as “House That Built Me” and “Over You,” which proved even more depth in Lambert’s shining vocals.

It was Lambert’s chance to let her feisty tunes and impressive vocals shine – and this sparkle looks to be one that won’t wear off any time soon.

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Student Health Center provides students with medical ‘advantage’ Preston Williams Contributor Accidents happen.

A broken ankle, an unexpected case of the flu, a bout of mono — we’ve all been there.

When most UT students are involved in an accident, they go to the emergency room, a minute-clinic or their primary care physician, where most health insurance companies take care of the medical costs.

However, some students are not supported under their parents’ health insurance plans and may have to pay for their own healthcare, which can leave them with very limited options when seeking medical attention.

Michael Henry, a representative from the Knoxville-based Graham and Cook Insurance company, said college students should stick to private sector insurance companies or stay on their parents’ plans instead of committing to public sector options, like those offered by the Affordable Care Act. “The reason Obamacare is so expensive is it is meant for people with more frequent health problems,” Henry said. “Going to a private sector insurance company is a lot like going to a car dealership, there are a lot more options. It is based on what the student is willing to pay.”

The main difference between the two is that public sector healthcare providers, such as Obamacare, are paid through tax dollars, while private sectors are paid through the companies’ premiums and investment incomes.

In 2006, roughly 80 percent of college students from 18 - 23 years old had health insurance, and of those that did, most were covered under some sort of dependent status on a parent’s policy, according to a report from the United States Government Accountability Office. Further, only about 6 percent were covered by public sectors such as the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid.

As a result, many colleges across the country have implemented student health centers to assist college students with accessing healthcare at an affordable rate.

UT’s Student Health Center operates on UT-sponsored health insurance, allowing students enrolled in nine credit hours or more to receive specific health services with the cost included in student services fees each semester.

Those services include physician care, counseling and psychological services, the allergy clinic, women’s health and specialty clinics including sports medicine.

The Student Health Center also includes lab and X-ray services, immunizations, physical therapy, orthopedic appliances and a pharmacy.

These services, however, require an additional charge but are priced reasonably for college students.

Total college students ages 18-23 Roughly 80 percent of students with health insurance in 2006

About 20% of students without health insurance

Break down of insured students covered by public programs

67%

covered by employersponsored plans

6% 7% covered by private plans

Jim Boyle, director of the Student Health Center, said UT students are at an advantage when considering what is available to them for their health.

“Lets say you are playing pick-up basketball and you think you broke your wrist or your ankle. You come in here and get an X-ray and we charge $15 for the X-ray. I defy you to get it anywhere else for less than $200,” Boyle said.

“Our main goal is to have accessible and affordable healthcare available to students so we can prevent healthcare problems from hindering their education process.”

Whether a UT student has a private or public sector healthcare plan, as long as he or she is covered by some health insurance, the UT Student Health Center will meet the medical needs of its students.

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The Rock: A History

Tor Voorhees Brick by Brick

In 1966 the University of Tennessee was performing construction (as always) in the area now known as Fiji Island.

Developers were smoothing the surface and preparing sites for what would shortly become fraternity row when the A.B. Long Company discovered what was believed to be a small stone that turned out to be the protruding tip of a giant boulder.

It had to be moved to make way for the university’s plans, so a decision on what to do was rapidly needed.

At the time, university administration favored the idea of breaking up the rock and then proceeding with the plans as normal. However for some unknown reason, the A. B. Long Company that discovered the rock proposed UT keep it instead. In the end, university administrators agreed and a bulldozer was used to push the stone to the corner of present-day Volunteer Boulevard and Pat Head Summitt Street.

There the stone sat, not yet an open canvas for UT students but more a decorative landscaping piece. However the large, flat face of the rock still attracted all types of local artists and activists who regularly covered the stone with what was then considered graffiti. For two years, university administration fought this trend and regularly sandblasted the surface of the rock, removing all traces of paint.

Then, abruptly, the university gave in to student pressure in 1968 and “The Rock” was born. The Rock quickly became a monument to student expression and is still regularly painted often multiple times a day 49 years later.

In 2009, however, even the cherished tradition of The Rock was threatened by university construction. When plans were drafted for the new Student Health Center, The Rock was not considered and final blueprints left little room

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for the hulking stone which had slowly grown in popularity over the years. Luckily, that summer, university administration stepped up and announced the tradition of The Rock would continue ... across the street.

The university understood the historic importance of The Rock’s place on campus and the desires of the students to save it.

To somewhat satisfy these ideals, the new location of The Rock would be only 275 feet diagonally across the street from its original location.

While a mere 300 feet may seem inconsequential, The Rock was at that time estimated to weigh an excess of 80 tons and was known to have a substantial fissure that could conceivably expand in transport.

Knowing that the move could possibly destroy this icon of student expression, university administration pushed ahead and at least made arrangements to get a replacement rock if necessary.

With no luck to spare, The Rock safely found its new home July 15, 2009, after completing its second move ever.

As its home for the foreseeable future, The Rock resting in front of the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center defines a tradition — a tradition which came about through university administration listening and responding to what the students wanted. I can only hope this pattern repeats itself, as obviously those customs pushed by the students are the only ones that will last the test of time. Regardless, I will forever be proud of the University of Tennessee’s literal and figurative rock solid traditions.

With the Super Bowl less than a week away, people everywhere are getting ready for the biggest TV event of the year.

Ryan Davis @Rockstarvx It hurts me to say this since they are hated Rivals right now. I hope Seattle blows out NE in the super bowl!

Duke 16-2 @bAll_fOrever3 Seahawks winning the Super Bowl @EMuciqi

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Andrew Towe @towe42 A Patriots/Seahawks super bowl would be nutsssssssss

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Innovative drugs sourced from conventional study systems One of the most common arguments for rainforest conservation is the potential for unclassified biodiversity to hold some medical secret. But maybe the real pharmaceutical treasure trove is somewhere less exotic; perhaps it’s right under our noses, or rather, right under our feet.

A very exciting news piece came out a few weeks ago documenting a new bacteria culturing method that can produce new antibiotics Kenna Rewcastle from a location that most people might find Life Under the Microscope mundane: the soil. If you think about it, the soil habitat is the perfect location for the evolution of chemical defenses against bacteria. Fungi, nematodes, plants and a mind-boggling number of other organisms are all competing with bacteria for finite resources or are preyed upon by bacteria, and these bacteria are some of the hardiest on the planet.

Soil bacteria have to hold up against a multitude of changing environmental conditions like oxygen availability, nutrient concentrations, soil moisture and temperature, pressure and the

presence of other inorganic and biologicallyderived chemicals. It would be like you, a human, trying to survive in a habitat where one second you were breathing and eating normally and the next second all of the oxygen disappeared, highly concentrated sulfuric acid started falling from the sky, your neighbor started releasing cyanide into your yard and the delicious bowl of soup you were eating was replaced with a vat of battery acid.

Basically, soil organisms are the very definition of hardcore, and medical researchers have been taking advantage of this for years. In fact, according to Marcel Jaspars, the director of an EU-led hunt for new antibiotics, 70 percent of all antibiotics used today come from soil and marine sediment dwelling organisms. But the problem with soil organisms is that 99 percent of soil microbes cannot be cultured in laboratory settings, making them useless as candidates for pharmaceutical drugs. Well, until early January.

The solution seems rather intuitive, but the results of Kim Lewis’ study are truly revolu-

tionary. Instead of trying to coax bacteria to multiply on petri dishes, they developed an incubation chamber which squishes bacteriarich soil between two membranes, and then the whole chamber is put back into the soil. After a period of growth, the diffusion chamber can be removed, and any bacteria that resides in the chamber can then be grown in the lab. With this remarkable example of innovative thinking, scientists just unlocked a huge amount of soil microorganisms that we can study to discover new antiobiotics.

Perhaps medical breakthroughs these days won’t come from discovering the bizarre and unique, but from figuring out how to climb over the walls that have previously kept scientists out of the study systems that exist right outside their laboratory buildings.

Kenna Rewcastle is a senior in College Scholars. She can be reached at kenerewc@ vols.utk.edu.

A closer look at Pope Francis

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In 2014, pop culture had a surprising hero: The Pope.

Pope Francis joined the ranks of the selfie and Lil Jon for some of the most talked about topics of last year. Comments like, “Atheists can be good people too,” and the fact that he used to be a nightclub bouncer gave him a status among young people the papacy hasn’t enjoyed since the Great Schism.

He has been hailed as a “progressive” and “revolutionary” pope, but are his policies really any different from previous popes? He certainly is more charismatic than that bowl of cherries Benedict XVI, but is he really the progressive the media and non-Catholics alike are calling him? It turns out it may just be a facade.

First of all, let me just say that anyone would look hip after having Benedict XVI as pope.

This guy was about as lively as a banana slug.

So here comes the newly elected Pope Francis giving impassioned sermons about the mistreatment of homosexuals, and the liberals just absolutely went crazy.

In fact, Benedict said the exact same thing in his “On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons” letter but spent so much time talking about the sinfulness of homosexuality, it was dismissed by the left. Pope Francis has made it clear he believes homosexuality is very much a sin in the eyes of God and is in fact, “an attempt to destroy God’s plan.”

Pope Francis also hasn’t done anything to change some of the more sexist traditions of the Catholic Church, including the prohibition

“First of all, let me just say that anyone would look hip after having Benedict XVI as pope. This guy was about as lively as a banana slug.”

of women serving as clergy, stating that “the door is closed” for women hoping to occupy those roles.

I don’t mean to rag on him too much. The Pope has been very vocal of his opposition to

the wealth and opulence that exists in many churches and priesthoods all over the world, and he has called for a more frugal and chaste church. He has also called out large corporations and their leaders for the increasing wage disparity crisis affecting economies all over the globe.

More recently even, he has come out as a bit of a treehugger, condemning the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. What his papacy might (and should) be defined by, though, is how he handles the child sex abuse scandal which plagues the Catholic Church. So far, he has excommunicated one priest from Argentina and placed another on house arrest. He has also continued to place victims of sex abuse on his advisory council.

While these are certainly steps in the right direction, a great deal more needs to be done on the matter before we can start praising the Catholic Church.

Pope Francis has some great PR people, that much is clear. He has been open to the fact that some really bad things (i.e. child abuse) are in fact bad in the eyes of God and the church, but it remains to be seen if any real progress will come to the Roman Catholic Church anytime soon.

Thomas Carpenter is a junior in classics. He can be reached at ThomasCarpenter@utk.edu.

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UT Disability Services eases request process

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Contributor The hassle of hard-copy disabilities accommodation request forms are a thing of the past.

No more venturing to the office to fill out accommodation request forms, filling out immense amounts of scheduling information and tracking down professors to turn in requests.

Starting Jan. 6, the Office of Disability Services launched its new accommodation request process, providing students with a new and more efficient way of filing their requests each semester. “In the past, (students with disabilities) would have to come in and fill out the form in person, come in and turn it in, and we’d have to get a copy of their schedule,� said Teressa Gregory, assistant director of disability services. “It took time.�

The new system provides students the ability to submit all of their accommodation requests online through the Office of Disability Services’ student portal system. Students who wish to file an accommodation request simply log in to the portal, choose the courses they wish to file accommodations for along with what accommodations they wish to request. Once a student files their request and its approved, it is sent directly to the student’s professors. “The process is much quicker, it’s much

smoother, it’s much easier,� Gregory said.

Cheyenne Perry, senior in public relations who requests accommodations for a hearing disability, said she never used to bother with accommodation requests, choosing rather to arrive to classes early to find a spot where hearing her professor wouldn’t be an issue. “If I can get to class on time and get a good enough seat, and I don’t have any problems with that, I don’t bother turning in the accommodation request form because I used to have so many issues with the process,� Perry said.

With the new process, Perry said she is far more encouraged to take advantage of the resources the accommodation request form allows her to have. “It looks like it’s just a few clicks,� she said. “I wish that it was like that when I was a freshman.

I definitely would have taken more advantage of it.�

As with any change, there is an adjustment period. To help students understand how to use the new process, the Office of Disability Services has provided tutorials on their website on how to file accommodation requests.

With any questions about the process or for more information, call the Office of Disability Services at 865-974-6087 or visit them online at ods.utk.edu.

Contributor Green is the new black.

As part of Chancellor Jimmy Cheek’s quest to make UT a Top 25 university, the “Make Orange Green� campaign has been pushing efforts through the Office of Sustainability and UT Recycling to encourage students to think greener.

The UT Recycling program is making strides this semester as they are opening a new recycling drop-off location on Stephenson Drive.

Along with the new drop-off option, recycling bins have also been added to most of the dorms on campus.

Sarah Murray, outreach coordinator for UT Recycling, said she is very optimistic about the new drop off. “We want students and staff to have as many opportunities as possible to be recycling,�

Murray said. “So, this is just another way to make it as convenient and intuitive as possible.�

The drop-off, located at 2121 Stephenson Drive Dock 25, will offer collection bins for a multitude of materials that the normal city pickup will not do. Services will be provided for paper, cardboard, glass, plastic, steel and aluminum cans, electronics, printer cartridges,

batteries and scrap metal.

While designed for the university population living within university limits and the areas closely surrounding it, this drop-off is also open to the general public. “Being on UT’s campus is pretty unique,�

Murray said. “Not many universities have a public drop-off since recycling is mostly a city thing. UT Recycling thought it was necessary.�

Taylor Rife, a senior in journalism and electronic media, said the new drop-off provides a previously lacking aspect of environmental consciousness to UT’s campus. “There aren’t that many places that you could recycle stuff like that,� Rife said. “I wouldn’t even know where to recycle old phones or batteries, so it’s nice to know that the university is providing that.�

The new drop-off and extra bins in the dorms comes in time for RecycleMania, the national recycling challenge that pits colleges against each other from February to March to test their recycling habits. Last year, UT placed 120 out of 153.

Murray said she hopes the drop-off and new dorm bins will be the added boost UT needs to place higher in the recycling challenge this year.

To learn more about UT Recycling, visit their page at http://recycle.utk.edu.

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Get Fuzzy • Darby Conley

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD • Will Shortz

Timtation Creation • Timothy Brunson

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SPORTS

The Daily Beacon • Monday, January 26, 2015

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Kevin Punter steps up in Josh Richardson’s absence Jonathan Toye Sports Editor (@JohnathanTaye1)

As the game turned: The sequence went by in a blur.

After trailing the majority of the second half by double digits, Tennessee had trimmed the Aggies’ lead to five with 1:53 remaining.

The fans at Thompson-Boling Arena, who had weathered Tennessee’s ineptitude at the beginning of the second half, were on their feet, imploring the Volunteers to get a defensive stop.

Tennessee got the stop when Peyton Allen’s 3-point attempt went sailing into the hands of Armani Moore.

The crowd roared. Moore passed the ball on an outlet to Kevin Punter. Punter had a lane to the basket.

For the briefest of moments, everyone in attendance at Thompson-Boling Arena thought the contest between the Vols and the Aggies was about to be a one-possession game for the first time since the 18:55 mark of the second half. After trailing, 45-28, midway through the second half, the Vols were about to place themselves in a position to win late.

It was not meant to be for Tennessee.

Punter drove hard to the basket, placed the ball off the glass, and then watched the ball roll off the rim.

Texas A&M forward Jalen Jones grabbed the rebound off the missed layup and a Tennessee foul on the other end earned Jordan Green a trip to the foul line.

“I mean, yeah I was surprised that rolled off,” Punter said. “I put it up there like I was supposed to, but I mean it happens. It just didn’t go in.”

The crowd was surprised too, if not stunned.

“Goaltend,” one disgruntled fan yelled after the sequence had transpired.

He may not have been incorrect.

Replay showed that an Aggie player might have touched the ball while the ball was still in the cylinder, thus qualifying as a goaltend.

The potential goaltend, however, was difficult to notice during real time.

“I didn’t see a goaltend,” Tennessee head coach Donnie Tyndall said. “I thought (Punter) had a good look, he was a little off balance.

Obviously, that bucket would have cut it to three with about minute to go if I am not mistaken. It just didn’t go in.”

The missed layup would prove to be Tennessee’s last push, as the Aggies would hit five of six from the foul line in the final minute to seal a, 67-61, victory.

Hot Topic: For the third consecutive game, Tennessee’s leading scorer and team leader scored below his scoring average.

While he finished the game with 12 points, Richardson was a cool 5-of-13 from the field and scored half of his points in the final two minutes.

Richardson didn’t hit his first field goal until 5:41 remained in the first half and entered halftime with only two points on 1-of-6 shooting.

Richardson is averaging almost 35 minutes a game and it is plausible to believe the quantity of minutes may be wearing on the senior guard.

Tyndall, however, wasn’t ready to accept fatigue as an explanation for Richardson’s three-game slump.

“We gave him Wednesday off, and Thursday we did very, very little on the floor but walk through,” Tyndall said. “Yesterday we went about a hour and 10 minutes so they should have been really fresh. I just think the deeper you get into league play, the more — for lack of a better term — your warts are exposed.

“Coaches take away your strengths. They try to make you play to your weaknesses or deficiencies that you have. I think (teams) are playing Josh different ways, trying to keep him off balance.”

Richardson claimed that he considers the attention he receives from defenders as an opportunity to find open players.

“If multiple guys start coming at me, I am going to keep finding my teammates,” Richardson said.

Spotlight: Kevin Punter stepped up in the place of the struggling Richardson in Saturday’s loss to the Aggies.

The Brooklyn, New York native scored 17 points on 5-of-9 shooting. He was 5-of-7 from beyond the arc.

While his missed layup cost the Vols an opportunity to get within one possession, his five triples prevented the Aggies from taking control of the game.

His first triple ended a 10-0 run by the Aggies and cut the deficit to 19-14. His second 3-pointer came a minute later and instilled life into the Thompson-Boling arena crowd after he brought the Vols within two.

His next two triples ended spurts from the Aggies in the second half. “(Punter) did a good job of stepping up and knocking down shots,” Richardson said. “He was getting a lot of looks, and he was knocking it down.”

The other guys: Jalen Jones led all scorers with 18 points on 8-of-13 shooting.

Say Something: Punter on the team maybe being complacent after winning three straight games: “I mean for us, we are just coming out and trying to win basketball games. The whole ‘complacent’ thing, we don’t really think about that. We just come in, punch the clock, and do the best we can.”

Outside the Boxscore: The, 67-61, loss to

Senior Josh Richardson dribbles the ball during the game against Texas A&M on Jan. 24. Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon the Aggies drops Tennessee’s home record to 1-2 in SEC play By the Numbers: 56: Of Tennessee’s 52 shot attempts, 56 percent them came from beyond the arc.

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Richardson) played over 34 minutes in the loss to Texas A&M. 7: Devon Baulkman was the only player to score off the bench for the Vols, scoring seven points in the first half.

SPORTS

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Missed opportunities prove costly as Vols fall to Texas A&M, 67-61 Troy Provost-Heron Staff Writer (@Troy_Provost)

After trailing by double digits for the majority of the second half, Tennessee had finally began to chip away at Texas A&M’s lead.

Robert Hubbs nailed a three to draw the Volunteers within eight with 2:00 to play. On UT’s next possession, it was Josh Richardson who drained one from beyond the arc to trim the deficit again.

A Derek Reese block on a Peyton Allen 3-point attempt on the other end gave the Vols an opportunity to make it a one-possession game with 1:19 left, and Kevin Punter decided to take it.

The junior guard knifed his way to the basket and laid the ball off the glass, but after a few clangs around the rim, the shot went begging.

The missed layup provided the Aggies with the breathing room they needed to hand the Vols a, 67-61, defeat inside Thompson-Boling Arena.

“It just didn’t go in,” Punter said.

“You know, Armani missed a few, and

I was just looking at how the game was going and we were just missing little chips. I know Josh missed a few layups.

It happens. I guess it was just my turn to miss a chippy.”

After shooting just 25 percent from the floor in the first half, but only entering the locker room at halftime trailing by two, the Vols’ offensive struggles persisted to begin the final period.

A pair of missed layups by junior forward Armani Moore set the tone of the second half as the Aggies opened with a 7-0 run in the first 2:49 following the intermission.

“We knew in the second half we had to come out and have more energy,” said Texas A&M forward Jalen Jones, who finished with a game-high 18 points.

“Playing at home, they feed off their fans and they like to press and get after it. We knew we just had to take it to a different notch if we wanted to win this game.”

From there, though, the Aggies continued to ratchet up the pressure.

Over the next 5:01, Punter and Richardson were the only UT players to

find the bottom of the basket as Texas A&M (13-5, 4-2 SEC) extended its run to 20-5, giving the Aggies their largest lead of the night at 17.

“I think the biggest thing I can say is that we missed those three little chippys right there around the rim,” Tennessee head coach Donnie Tyndall said. “You could see our guys kind of drop their heads and then we didn’t get back in transition and we missed a couple of those. They had back-to-back transition layups when I called the time out.

Our team doesn’t usually give up easy transition baskets.

“It just kind of avalanched on us, but we always tell our team, ‘You can’t let your offense dictate your defense.’ I thought we did that the first five or six minutes of the half.”

Coming off of three consecutive victories that followed a horrid offensive showing against Alabama, Tennessee (12-6, 4-2) reverted back to the offensive style that caused a 14-point second half performance versus the Crimson Tide.

Against Texas A&M’s zone defense, the Vols fired up 29 of their 52 shot attempts from beyond the arc, resulting

in the Aggies outscoring UT 30-10 in the paint.

“If you go back to the Alabama game, it’s pretty much what we did then,” Tyndall said. “We settled for too many jump shots. Our will and our mentality to drive the ball wasn’t good enough like it has been in most cases the last few games.”

After opening up the conference slate with a 4-1 record, including three road victories, Tyndall stated that his team seemed “complacent” to open up Saturday’s ballgame, but Punter knows exactly what the Vols need to do in order to rebound.

“For us, we just need to punch the clock each and every day,” said Punter, who sank a career-high five 3-pointers en route to a team-high 17 points. “Not that we are complacent, but we need to keep having confidence and keep doing what got us winning.”

The Vols will look to get back on track when they travel to Fayetteville to play the Arkansas Razorbacks in a rematch of Jan. 13’s, 74-69, victory on Tuesday.

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The Daily Beacon • Monday, January 26, 2015

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Massengale’s second half performance lifts Tennessee past Georgia 59-51 Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer (@PatrickMacCoon)

As the game turned: Ariel Massengale’s first half was forgettable, but the senior point guard didn’t let her poor start affect her later in the game.

Despite missing her first eight field goal attempts, she was determined to find her mark, even if it was near the end of regulation.

After being held scoreless in the opening period, Massengale helped Tennessee pull away by firing home a 3-point shot from beyond the top left of the arc. No. 5 Tennessee took a, 54-46, lead over No. 22 Georgia with 2:49 left to play.

A minute later, she sunk both of her free-throw attempts to give the Lady Vols a 10-point cushion that they would hold onto for the team’s fifth win against a top-25 opponent this season.

Massengale finished 3-of-15 from the field and was just 2-of-12 from three, but nonetheless helped her team to its 14th consecutive win at Thompson-Boling Arena.

Hot topic: While the Lady Vols struggled to find much success on offense for most of the evening, they did manage to draw several fouls, resulting in 21 trips to the free-throw line.

After a 19-for-21 outing from the charity stripe in Tennessee’s previous game against LSU, Holly Warlick’s team one-upped its performance and shot 20-for-21 in the, 59-51, win against the Bulldogs.

“Free throws are always very important, especially in tight

games like this,” sophomore guard Jordan Reynolds said. “We shot very well from the free-throw line and had we not we would have probably lost the game. Our coaches are always hounding us that free throws are free points. You just have to get to the line and focus.”

The team was perfect from the free-throw line until Isabelle Harrison missed her team’s final one of the game with 46 seconds remaining.

Spotlight: Not only did Jordan Reynolds score a game-high 15 points (5-5 FT), but the sophomore point guard also blew past her previous career-high of 11.

Right before halftime with the game clock winding down Reynolds drove the lane and pulled up at the last second, hitting her jumper at the buzzer.

Reynolds has now hit a shot with five seconds or less remaining in the first half in four of her last nine contests.

“It just seems to happen,” Reynolds said. “I don’t really plan for it. It just always seems to be in my hands and I’m trying to make the best of the moment.”

The Lady Vols led 30-25 at halftime in large part due to Reynolds’ 11 points.

The other guys: Georgia was led in scoring by Mackenzie Engram, who contributed 14 points off the bench for Andy Landers’ team.

Engram came into the game with an average of 7.6 points per game.

Say something: “For us to shoot 95 percent from the line is huge,” head coach Holly Warlick said. “This game was a huge bonus for us to be able to knock down the free throws. I can’t remember the last time we shot that high.”

By the numbers: 13,428: Season-high in attendance 19: Second half points for Harrison and Massengale (0 at halftime) 5-2: Record against top 25 competition

Senior Isabelle Harrison snags the ball during a tip-off against Georgia on Jan. 25.

Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon

GAMER continued from Page 1 Reynolds scored 11 of her career-high 15 points in the first half and hit big shots when Tennessee was struggling to find offense.

“My coaches have been on me lately because I just hadn’t been in the game, my head hasn’t been in it,” Reynolds said. “So I thought today would be a great game to bounce back, so I just had the mentality that I should have been having all season long.”

For Georgia, the offense came from forward MacKenzie Engram. Averaging a little more than seven points coming into the game, Engram got off to a quick start. The freshman scored 12 of her 14 points in the first half, including her team’s first 10 of the game.

Though they didn’t score in the first half, the

seniors hit big shots when her team needed her the most. Massengale had 10 second half points, including a personal 5-0 run to give Tennessee the lead midway through the second half.

Despite playing most of the second half with three fouls, Harrison also managed to find her offense, finishing the game with nine points to go along with nine total rebounds.

On a day where the starters struggled, Tennessee’s bench was an important asset. The Lady Vols got 25 points off their bench, many of them coming in crucial situations and providing a much needed spark.

“Well it was huge,” Warlick said. “I mean it kept us in the game the first half. Our bench kept us in the game the first half. And we keep preaching to them, ‘Your time is coming. It’s coming.’ And today (was) their time, they stepped up and did some big things, and it’s just gonna continue.”