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Sorority voting precinct changes >>See page 3

Food review: Pita Luna >>See page 4

Reliving nostalgia through gaming >>See page 5

DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH Lady Vols looking to succeed while DeShields is shelved.

Junior guard left game against Alabama after injury and did not play against Arkansas on Sunday.

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Diamond DeShields, #11, against Texas A&M at Thompson-Boling Arena on Feb. 12, 2017.

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Vitaly Churkin, Russian Ambassador to the UN, abruptly died on Monday, according to officials. Churkin, 64, was at his desk at the time of his passing. However, no further details surrounding the ambassador’s death have been released yet. Churkin, born Feb. 21, 1952, died a day before his 65th birthday. He had a long career as a Russian politician, beginning in 1974. Titles Churkin has held include: ambassador-at-large in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ambassador to Canada and ambassador to Belgium.

Brock Lesnar, a former UFC heavyweight champion and the current WWE star, is – as of Tuesday, Feb. 14 – retiring from competing in the UFC. If he decides to return, then he would have to spend a full-year in probation due to his being removed from the USADA drug testing pool after testing positive for clomiphene, an estrogen blocker. At the age of 39, this will be Lesnar’s second retirement. He will fight Goldberg on April 2 as part of WrestleMania 33.

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Students to stand up for Standing Rock Shelby Whitehead Staff Writer

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University of Tennessee students are organizing a fundraiser to support protests in North Dakota against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).

Organizations are fundraising for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe at the International House on Tuesday, Feb. 28, from 5:30-8:30 p.m. The fundraiser includes various cultural foods of which sales and money will go to the Standing Rock legal defense fund. The event will also include music and dancing for attendees.

Participating organizations include the Native American Student Association (NASA), Knoxville Irish Society, Latin American Student Association, Muslim Student Association, African Student Association and UTK Hillel.

NASA’s support of Standing Rock goes back to September of 2016 when the organization marched to the Rock on campus against the construction of the pipeline. The fundraiser is a continuation of that support.

The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation is in North Dakota, west of the Missouri River. The tribe consists of approximately 10,000 people, and members began protesting the DAPL after learning the pipeline would cross through the Missouri River, which is an important water resource for the tribe.

If constructed, an incident of pipe leakage could potentially taint their water supply.

Controversy arose from Standing Rock almost immediately, after plans for the pipeline began

in 2014.

The $3.7 billion project is based on the harvesting and transportation of crude oil from the Bakken region in North Dakota to Illinois.

The pipeline will stretch 1,200 miles.

“Already, the pipeline’s construction has broken treaties between the government and the tribe and ruined cultural sites sacred to Standing Rock,” Bailey Crittenden, freshman in animal science and council leader of NASA, said. “They also fear the potential that the pipeline will leak, contaminating the soil and water. Their concern is not unwarranted.

Other pipelines built by Energy Transfer have previously – and recently – leaked crude oil, contaminating the surrounding ecosystems.”

The protesters are suing Army Corps of Engineers, who signed off on the construction. The tribe claims the company violated the National Historic Preservation Act which requires cultural significance to be considered regarding federally-permitted sites.

“One of our major concerns about the Dakota Access Pipeline is the complete lack of regard for the rights and traditions of our Native sisters and brothers in Standing Rock as well as in the rest of the country.

The MSA stands with the water protectors and encourages activism in our community,” Mariam Husain, Muslim Student Association representative, said. “As students who have regularly experienced misrepresentation on a broad scale, we recognize the importance of standing up and being vocal about important issues in human rights.”

Supporters of the DAPL are promising that the pipeline’s construction will bring new jobs in the region. President Donald Trump recently signed executive orders advancing

As students who have regularly experienced misrepresentation on a broad scale, we recognize the importance of standing up and being vocal about important issues in human rights.”

Mariam Husain, MSA representative

construction of the pipeline amid the protests.

“We feel that the water protectors are standing up for more than sovereignty and treaty rights – they are fighting for water and life. We all need clean water. We need that more than a few temporary jobs,” Carrie Sheffield, advisor of NASA, said.

Attendees of the fundraiser can expect to meet members of the associated organizations and learn more about their work on campus as well as issues surrounding the pipeline, Native sovereignty and treaty rights.

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Polling location changes sorority village voting precinct Gabriela Szymanowska Contributor

After a series of district changes, Sorority Village ended up with its own voting precinct for the 2016 presidential election.

Residents of Sorority Village are the only voters in voting precinct 10 West due to laws requiring equally divided districts for the State Senate, State House and county commission district lines. Districts are created by census data, but the election commission must ensure nothing violates Tennessee codes – when a district changes its boundaries, it cannot change the precinct as well.

“The area that is now precinct 10W is created to meet the requirement that no precinct shall be split by county commission or State Senate districts,” Tim Kuhn, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) manager of the Metropolitan Planning Commission, said.

When areas were redistricted in 2012, Sorority Village did not exist. The village had the plans to be built, but the physical structures were not yet standing. After Sorority Village was finally built, the election commission created precinct 10W to keep the commission law-abiding and have UT students vote at the same location.

Redistricting occurs every 10 years, so 10W was already established during the 2016 presidential elections. Changes that occurred with the polling place was what impacted the UT area – even though Sorority Village has its own voting district, it does not have its own polling place.

Finding a new polling place for the presidential election became a different issue.

With only 13 registered to vote in 2015 and 86 registered to vote in 2016, the expense to assign a new polling place was not justified.

Instead, Sorority Village residents voted in 10 South precinct, the same area as the rest of the campus. Registered voters from 10S and 10W voted at the UT Student Center until 2015.

That year, UT reconstructed the student center, which left the election commission to find another polling place.

“The building is going to be demolished, and therefore, we’re going to move 10W and 10S,” Clifford Rodgers, administrator of elections, said. “And we simply moved across Cumberland to Fort Sanders School for the municipal elections only that year.”

However, Fort Sanders School was too small to hold 10W, 10N and 10S for the presidential elections. Instead, the election commission debated moving precincts 10W and 10S to the Panhellenic Building. Before they could decide,

The Sorority Village Center is located towards the front of all the houses.

Matthew Young • The Daily Beacon Baker Center employees offered the building to be a polling location.

“It was just serendipity that the Baker Center called us and said, ‘Hey, would you like to use our building for a polling place?’ It was like, ‘Oh my goodness, you have got to be kidding.’ It does not get any better,” Rodgers said. “We have got a brand new building. It’s got better accessibility for folks with disabilities to get in and

out of there than does the Panhellenic Building because, at that time, they were doing all this reconstruction.”

Voting precincts 10S and 10W moved back across Cumberland to the Baker Center where Rodgers hopes they will be able to stay for a while. He also looks forward to having Knoxville’s primary elections at the Baker Center this year.

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ARTS&CULTURE

The Daily Beacon • Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Lucy Woodward’s powerful chords to come to Knoxville McNeeley Moore Contributor

Singer-songwriter Lucy Woodward defines her music by her powerhouse vocals and powerhouse personality.

Through all of her musical ventures, Woodward uses her confidence to make her mark.

Woodward was born in London, England, and moved to New York City at a young age. Pop music was not allowed in her household, so Woodward’s musical background is infused with jazz and big band music from her defining years.

Neglecting her acceptance to Manhattan School of Music at 16 years old, Woodward decided to pave her own road and learn songwriting and performing on her own terms. This led to several years performing in swing organ trios, working many different jobs, including a session singer and waiting tables while singing jazz standards in Greenwich Village restaurants.

After this lifelong pursuit of music and working towards her goal, Woodward was offered her first record deal and recorded her first album in 2003, titled “While You Can.” Her second album “Lucy Woodward Is … Hot and Bothered” came out in 2008 and had deeper jazz and R&B roots, followed by her third album “Hooked” in

2010. Various songwriting projects also filled her time.

Woodward’s fourth album and debut release for GroundUP Music/Universal Music Classics, titled “Til They Bang On The Door,” came out in 2016. She’ll debut songs from this record to East Tennessee at her upcoming show at the Open Chord.

For Woodward, the most exciting part of releasing her newest record is the same for each time she releases new music, and that’s knowing there is new potential.

“You’ve just created this music, so new experiences naturally happen differently than they did last time,” Woodward said.

“I love rehearsing my band and seeing how we can create a live show inspired from the record. Challenging but really fun.”

Of the new “Til They Bang On The Door” songs, Woodward hopes to rewrite herself as artist, using her voice to tell her stories.

“I am really telling my stories and singing my heart through my voice,” Woodward said. “I dug deeper into this album, deeper than the previous ones and wasn’t afraid to be vulnerable when writing.”

More than ever before, Woodward hopes to use her entire vocal capabilities.

“I also think I’m using my full vocal range – all the lows and highs, quirks and

Lucy Woodward, singersongwriter, will be playing at Open Chord on Tues., Feb. 21, 2017 at 8 pm.

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all – on this record m o r e than I ever have before,” Woodward said.

The songwriting process for Woodward is a much loved process but performing on stage is an especially high point for her.

“Songwriting – there is such beauty in having a kernel of an idea and seeing it turn into something by lots of editing and tweaking is such a very cool process but can also be an isolating one,” Woodward said. “Performing, you get one shot.

Performing, you have the chance to connect to the audience immediately.

“You’re lucky if you see a little twinkle in their eye when you sing something powerful.”

Woodward will perform at the Open Chord at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb, 21.

Mediterranean oasis opens in Fort Sanders Megan Patterson

Managing Editor When it comes to dining choices in Fort Sanders, there are only a few options and most of them occupy the same block.

So, when Pita Luna, a Middle Eastern restaurant, opened next to Chaiyo’s and Sam’s Party Store, the diversity of the Fort’s food selections just about quadrupled.

Since I pass by Pita Luna daily on my walk to campus, I decided to stop in and see if this new addition would earn a permanent spot in the neighborhood.

Open seven days a week for breakfast, lunch and dinner, Pita Luna serves a variety of Mediterranean-style pita wraps or entrees along with burgers and subs prepared with a Middle Eastern twist.

Since I stopped in mid-afternoon, I opted for one of their pita wraps, but now I faced the tough decision of filling my wrap with

either falafel, one of their kabob meats or a type of shawarma.

While the chicken shawarma – chicken marinated with onion, garlic and special seasoning – sounded tempting, I finally chose the kafta kabob, which was a blend of ground beef and lamb. And, even though my pita wrap came with a side salad, I couldn’t not order an appetizer of hummus as well. My meal totaled at a little over $12, but it would have stayed under $10 without the hummus.

While I waited for my food to be prepared, I sat at one of the many tables crowded into the restaurant and watched clips of a Middle Eastern singing competition show that played on the television overhead.

Unlike Chaiyo’s, the Thai restaurant next door, Pita Luna didn’t seem geared toward dining-in customers. Although they offer carry-out, delivery and dine-in orders, Pita Luna’s space didn’t create much of an overall ambiance, outside of the smell of

cooking spices, that would make customers want to linger for their meal.

However, it is by no means a fast-food establishment. All my food was prepared to order, and the 20-minute wait was well worth it since I knew everything had been cooked fresh.

Maybe it was the unusually warm February afternoon or maybe it was the slight food truck vibe of the food, but I decided to eat my meal sitting outside.

And once I took my first bite, I knew I made the right decision.

My pita wrap would be perfect for snagging lunch between classes; it was much more filling than munching on a granola bar but could still be eaten on the go (or while sitting on a curb in my case). It wasn’t overstuffed but maintained the perfect ratio between filling and bread, and the tahini sauce was the ideal complement for the kafta meat. It was a simple but satisfying combination.

The hummus was equally impressive,

Cuisine: Middle Eastern Price: $ $ $ $ $ Address: 609 James Agee Street, Knoxville, TN 37916 although, I wished I had opted for the “spicy” variety since it was a bit bland for my taste. However, both dishes were clearly homemade, and it showed in the flavor and quality.

Overall, Pita Luna is an ideal lunch stop if you have some time to kill, and unlike the lines at the Student Union, the wait is worth it.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2017 • The Daily Beacon

The road to hell paved with good intentions

Jarrod Nelson Socialized

I highly recommend everyone read John Stuart Mill.

Not before reading this column – just at some point in your life.

Intent is something I struggle with in terms of morality. A question like, “Do intentions matter?” elicits a “No!” from me reflexively but an ellipsis from me logically. It is a tough circle to square.

I remember one time I got into an argument with my parents. It was not glass shattering or earth smashing or sky sundering. It was not hyperbolic or metaphoric. It was just an argument about how much time I was spending with my girlfriend.

See, I would go to church with her on Sunday mornings. Cute, right? I didn’t believe them either, though. But I believed that I wanted to make her happy. So, I went to a nice nu-Jesus church most Sunday mornings and absorbed basic chord progressions, Powerpoint shows with GIF backgrounds and all the trappings of true religion. I’ll now write a sentence that I think has never been written before in the state of Tennessee: My parents were not happy that I was going to church.

Well, specifically, that I was not going with them.

Granted, they didn’t go to church. They did private

studies at home marked in my calendar as “Halo 3 with Luke.” I never once joined in. Not out of hate or scorn or even teenage angst, but because I did not believe. They didn’t know that though.

So it hurt them. It hurt them to think that I would rather to go to church with another family and experience deep spiritual exploration with them than with my own.

It hurt them to think I did not enjoy my time with them.

It hurt them to think I might find their religious practices weird or shameful. I do not – I just didn’t believe.

My intentions were…self-preservational. I wanted my girlfriend happy. I wanted to be true to my own, agnostic ways. I could smile and nod along in church, shake hands, drink orange juice and grab a free donut from dudes in sweater vests. But at home, I had to engage, and I simply couldn’t.

I think my intentions were justified. I looked for compromises, ways to please myself, my girlfriend and my parents. I stretched myself thin over a medieval rack of southern nicety and bargaining. But my parents were still hurt as they felt me pull myself thinner and thinner, and thus, further and further away from them.

My intentions did not matter, then. All that matters is

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what I did, and how I made my parents feel. I understand that now. I understand that the outcome of my behavior was damaging even though my intentions were designed to be restorative.

I think this applies to most things in life: In politics, war, relationships and jobs and all the little mundanities and doldrums under a gray Appalachian sky. The intentions of people are impossible and useless files cordoned inside the black box of the mind when it comes to decision making. All that matters are the outcomes of those decisions. It’s all we can see for sure. It’s all we can know about anything.

There is so much going on in the world right now. I personally find the breakneck pace and jittery posturing from the White House and other places to be unsustainable. I think that it has to break. And when that vase drops, just remember that it does not matter why they were carrying it.

It only matters that they let it go.

Jarrod Nelson is a senior in public relations and can be reached at jnelso47@vols.utk.edu.

Revisiting the greatest games of childhood in 2017 Jack Fowler Game On

All my hard work had led to this single moment.

Hours of training, travelling and fighting, all coming to a head in the most spectacular fashion that I had witnessed in those nine years.

The pinnacle of my efforts: my battle with the Pokémon League Champion.

I had everything I needed, all the potions, revives and battle items. I had my team of Pokémon gladiators, each tested in the fires of combat, ready to work with me to achieve greatness.

After my first championship battle, I continued to play Pokémon games. I continued to explore and battle and strive to be the very best, like no one ever was. But then I got to middle school and playing Pokémon was pretty lame, so I put my Game Boys and all my colorful game cartridges in a shoebox underneath my bed. There they lay, for years, my powerful Pokémon waiting for me to resume my journey.

Fast forward to 2016 and suddenly a new Pokémon game appeared: Pokémon Go. And that recreated some of the nostalgic magic from my childhood, and it even added to the experience. I chased countless creatures around the Fort, trying (ultimately, in vain) to evolve my Charmander. I can’t even describe how many times I drove circles around World’s Fair Park, hitting that trio of poke-stops under the bridge.

And the best part?

Over the summer, I was averaging over 9,000 steps a day. I finally got to play out my childhood dream of travelling by foot across an entire country – err, city. I felt more like Ash Ketchum than I ever had before.

But now it’s 2017, and according to Twitter, Pokémon Go isn’t cool anymore. Apparently, the battery drain issues, the memory requirements, the data usage and the absolute abysmal grind of higher levels have turned the

masses against the app.

How fickle.

However, with the recent advent of some second generation Pokémon to the app, I had the urge to bear down and truly reinvest in the app. And you know what I discovered? I missed the social aspect of the app more than the actual game.

I missed going on long Pokémon hunts. I missed the adventures, like when a Gengar popped up outside my apartment and all but one of my roommates managed to capture it. I played the app more, hatched a few eggs and it was better than before. But then, something changed.

After getting destroyed at a nearby gym by some punk with a Dragonite, I thought about the original Pokémon games. And I realized something: they were far better.

So, I went to GameStop and bought one of the newest iterations, Pokémon Moon. And it was the best $40 I had spent in years. Soon I was back to my old ways; I travelled around this new region, battling, trading and catching so many new types of Pokémon. They literally popped off of my 3DS screen (3D, Mr. Squidward)! And then I decided to try out some of the new Wi-Fi features that these new games have. And boy, was I thrilled.

I mean, I tried really hard to argue that Pokémon Ruby was a better game, I tried to believe in the nostalgia, but to no avail. I was connected to thousands of other Pokémon players, many of whom were from other states and countries. I traded a Machoke and Kadabra simply and quickly, getting those evolutions that I used to have to bike across my neighborhood to my friend’s houses to get. I battled some people from California, and got humbled by their superior tactics and EV-trained Pokémon.

And I had never experienced these things growing up.

Pokémon had evolved, for the better, in every single way.

Someone told me that they were excited to get back

into Pokémon when Pokémon Go came out. They said that they had grown tired of the old games and that the app seemed to offer them a social experience and level of interaction that they could really get behind. This same person told me, months later, that they couldn’t handle the app anymore, for all those reasons I mentioned earlier. So, armed with my amazing new experience on the 3DS, I told them that they really should reinvest in vanilla Pokémon games.

Because now, those games are better than Pokémon Go in every single way.

They have far more variety (nearly 600 more Pokémon to collect), are more challenging, are far more replayable and, now, they have an even better social aspect. Not to mention, the games run better on their dedicated hardware, they don’t eat up your data or phone battery and they basically never crash or glitch out on you. Also, skill is much more a factor in defining talent in the original games, compared to Pokémon CP. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Pokémon Sun and Moon prove that the classic formula still works, and they also add on so many more features and improvements that make the experience far more versatile. Nintendo and Game Freak really upped every ante that they have, providing a wonderful social component to an already superb game series. So instead of walking all over Knoxville, trying to catch a Snorlax, sit down with a group of friends and play Pokémon, just like in the good ol’ days. So go, trade with each other, battle each other and enjoy each other’s company, more than you ever could at elementary school sleepovers.

It’s worth it.

Jack Fowler is a senior in Industrial Engineering and can be reached at dfowler7@vols.utk.edu.

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Lady Vols not the same without Diamond DeShields Tyler Wombles Copy Editor

As the Lady Vols fought to overcome the Arkansas Razorbacks on Sunday, struggling mightily from an offensive perspective, Diamond DeShields watched from the bench.

The star junior guard left the team’s contest against Alabama after colliding with an opposing player and did not play on Sunday against Arkansas.

Although Tennessee was able to pull out the 59-46 victory over the Razorbacks, giving the team a 17-10 overall record with just two games remaining in the regular season, the question will always linger: Would Holly Warlick’s squad have fared better with DeShields on the court? “It does give me an appreciation for Diamond, but it also gives me a great appreciation for our team,â€? Warlick said. “We played different combinations and had kids step up ‌ I would like

to have her in the lineup, but it didn’t work out that way, so we had to just figure out how to get it done.�

Warlick said that DeShields provided aid to her team despite being unable to participate in the in-game action. “Diamond was very positive on the bench,�

Warlick said. “I think that helped. I think that helped our players.�

But it was obvious to everyone in ThompsonBoling Arena on Sunday that DeShields is much more help when she is actually playing.

DeShields is averaging a team-best 17.3 points per game and with 0.406 field goal percentage.

She has scored 929 total points this season.

Tennessee has other players at its disposal that can score points and lead the team when necessary. Junior center Mercedes Russell has 15 double-doubles on the year, recording one against the Razorbacks with 13 points and 10 rebounds.

Junior forward Jaime Nared poses a threat as well. The Portland, Oregon, native led Tennessee

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Nared, along with junior guard Alexa Middleton, provided a spark to Tennessee against Arkansas, in a game that featured very little offensive sparks. “I think that Jaime focused on the team today,�

Warlick said about the Arkansas game. “I thought that she was solid on the defensive end, which got her going and rebounding. She started to take makeable shots.�

The impact of DeShields is always evident, though. Tennessee missed shot after shot against Arkansas, scoring just 59 points on 21-for-57 shooting for a 0.36 percentage. The Razorbacks, who sit at last place in the SEC standings with a 2-12 conference record, played step for step with the Lady Vols throughout the first three quarters.

Tennessee turned on their offense for the fourth period and took a double-digit advantage, but a paltry 59 points against the lowest-ranked

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team in the SEC cannot be described as a good showing by any means.

Arkansas head coach Jimmy Dykes did not understate the value of DeShields to Tennessee and the difference her injury made to his team when preparing for their matchup with the Lady Vols. “I think the main thing (DeShields) can do for them is push the ball in transition,� Dykes said. “Diamond can really bring the ball hard in transition and put pressure on your defense. We didn’t have to worry about that quite as much today. “Then, she can score. She’s another scorer you can put on the floor.�

Warlick stated that DeShields is day-to-day and shouldn’t be out for too long.

That would be the ideal scenario for the Lady Vols, as the team currently sits at sixth place in the SEC standings with two conference games remaining and postseason tournaments loom over the horizon. And Tennessee needs Diamond DeShields.

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SPORTS

The Daily Beacon • Tuesday, February 21, 2017

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Vols impressed by freshman Williams’ growth, progress Rob Harvey

Asst. Sports Editor When freshman Grant Williams stepped onto UT’s campus in the fall of 2016, he was basically an unknown basketball player who needed to lose weight.

Fast forward six months later, and now Williams is one of the most reliable players on the basketball team.

Williams, despite standing at just 6-foot-5, is known out on the court for his toughness that makes him difficult to guard despite most of his opponents having at least three inches on him.

Williams is also known for his toughness while shooting as he has great success at making shots despite getting fouled.

For head coach Rick Barnes, though, he still wants to see Williams get tougher but believes that he can be an even bigger threat in the years to come.

“I think you’re going to see a big change in his body physically from now to next year,” Barnes said. “Grant understands what we’re trying to get done. I think he’s going to still have to learn to play harder. He needs to rebound better. But, I think he is just getting started.

He’s going to put time in the gym.”

Coming into the season, Williams, just like any other freshmen, was trying to discover himself and struggled to see the things that he could get away with in high school but not in college.

However, with the help of some older play-

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ers, Williams learned and has turned into a huge weapon.

“When he first got here he did a lot of moves that you could get away with in high school, but at the college level, you can’t. I had to be able to help him understand the type of speed you have to play with on the offensive end and the type of intensity he has to play with on the defensive end,” sophomore Admiral Schofield said.

“He’s still learning on the defensive end, but he’s done a very good job, offensively, taking shots that he’s good at. He’s not shy. He’s good with both hands. I think Grant’s really grown in the aspect of maturity, just being able to listen, because he’s a very smart basketball player. He knows the game very well.”

Through his development, Williams has put himself in the running for SEC freshman of the year and a spot on the SEC all-freshman team. Williams has started 24 of 27 games this season and averages 12.8 points and over five rebounds per game. Williams has also eclipsed the 30-point mark twice this season.

As the season winds down and the Vols look to find a spot in the NCAA tournament, the Vols will need Williams to step up and be a young leader to this team through his increasing development.

“Grant still needs to elevate his intensity on both ends to get where we think he can go,” Barnes said. “He is really just scratching the surface. I really think he will be a versatile player who plays multiple positions. I want him to be able to guard multiple positions.”

I think Grant’s really grown in the aspect of maturity, just being able to listen, because he’s a very smart basketball player. He knows the game very well.”

Admiral Schofield, sophomore

Grant Williams, #2, shoots the ball against a defender from Missouri at Thompson-Boling Arena on Feb. 18, 2017.

Madison Nickell • The Daily Beacon