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Volume 137, Issue 14 Monday, February 25, 2019 utdailybeacon.com @utkdailybeacon

CITY Joan of Arc’s story came to life on Saturday, as the Bijou Theatre hosted the play “Jehanne,” based on the life of the Maid of Orléans.

PAGE 2 The Knoxville Museum of Art hosted a Vol Means All campaign event Thursday, helping raise money for UT’s Pride Center in support of LGBTQ+ students and their allies.

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OPINIONS How important is sex education for the school system? Columnist Kaylee Sheppard gives her take in the latest edition of Our Day.

269 pages: A battle for UT’s Sex Week

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SPORTS The Tennessee men’s basketball team fell to LSU in Baton Rouge on Saturday. What led to the Vols’ loss?

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The Bijou Theatre hosts ‘Jehanne’ ballet about the life of Joan of Arc BEN WINIGER Contributor

A rainy weekend brought grey skies and dull feelings to the Knoxville outdoors. Inside the walls of the Bijou Theatre, however, there was nothing but vibrancy and energy.

GO! Contemporary Danceworks, a local nonprofit dance company, performed the ballet “Jehanne” on Saturday at the Bijou Theatre.

“Jehanne” recounts the story of Jehanne D’Arc, known also as “Joan of Arc” in English.

The legendary maiden protected the kingdom of France during a phase of the Hundred Years’ War and was famously burned at the stake by English troops before being canonized as a saint.

Attendees found shelter from the downpour in the halls of the Bijou, which filled with warmth and sound as more and more people flowed in.

After all were settled, the audience was greeted by Lisa Hall McKee, the GO! dance group’s founder and principal choreographer, who served as the performance’s artistic director. McKee joked about the downpour, thanked everyone for making their way to the show through the weather, and gave special mention to the show’s sponsors.

Courtesy of the Bijou Theatre As the curtain rose to the beating sound of a Celtic choir, the wordless spectacle began.

The skill and artistry of the dancers was exhibited from the get-go. The first scene was performed behind a white canvas, with the dancers’ movements illuminated from behind like large scale shadow puppetry.

The performance showcased the skill level of the performers’ themselves. Every pose struck and movement made exhibited a conversation without words, and every dancer spoke a different language with their form.

Harper Addison, who stared in the show as

Jehanne D’Arc, emphasized the importance of movement and cooperation in ballet.

“Showing something in movement is very different than something that has lines and a script,” Addison said.“Everybody really has their own strengths that they’re bringing to the table. To tell a story, you have a lot of different points of view and people that contribute things to telling that story, which makes it really interesting.”

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‘Uncommon Grace: The Life of Flannery O’Connor’ brings the story of one author’s legacy to Knoxville ALEXANDRA DEMARCO Contributor

Saturday morning, Knoxville residents and book lovers alike gathered for a showing of “Uncommon Grace: The Life of Flannery O’Connor.”

At the event venue, the Square Room, the scent of freshly brewed coffee from the adjoining Café 4 permeated the air as viewers wafted in. Its entrance hidden in the petite alleyway between Tomato Head and Café 4, the Square Room is a rustic venue that is, in fact, shaped like a square (in addition to being located on Market Square).

Created by Knoxville resident Michael Jordan along with Bridget Kurt, director of the movie, the documentary “Uncommon Grace” was produced with the aim of exposing new generations to O’Connor, a 20th century author from Savannah. Her award-winning work is increasingly

slipping out of the limelight.

“We realized that her legacy is really at risk of being lost,” Kurt said. “She’s not being taught in high schools and colleges the way she used to be.”

After realizing the necessity of preserving O’Connor’s literacy, Kurt approached Jordan with the idea of creating the film. An awardwinning documentary maker, author and former news anchor, Jordan has created dozens of films, 31 of which have been about Savannah, O’Connor’s hometown. However, the creation of “Uncommon Grace” proved to be an entirely new venture for him.

“I didn’t know anything about Flannery O’Connor. I had never made a literary film,” Jordan said. “This was a radical departure from anything that I had ever done. And at first, I thought Bridget was crazy. But I decided that I would join the ride and see where it took us.”

As depicted by the film, O’Connor was an extremely mature and creative child, who spent much of her childhood drawing, writing and devouring books, which she even voluntarily

annotated. As a young woman, she faced many challenges, one of which was the discrimination that was so often held against Irish Catholics such as her at the time.

Additionally, O’Connor lost her father, who was also her best friend and the biggest supporter of her creativity, when she was 15. And perhaps the most daunting of all, O’Connor was diagnosed with Lupus, a terminal and horrific disease, at the beginning of her budding career.

After this diagnosis, she eventually moved back to Georgia with her mother. They purchased a large farm named “Andalusia,” which would eventually become the backdrop for several of her short stories.

These stories developed out of necessity; due to the Lupus pain she often experienced in her arms and her short life expectancy, O’Connor was limited to writing shorter pieces and therefore developed her signature short story style.

Her stories have won numerous awards and are regarded as the pinnacle of her writing.

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Vol Means All event raises funds for UT Pride Center COLEMAN NUMBERS Staff Writer

Members and friends of the LGBTQ+ community at UT and from around Knoxville converged in the Museum of Art Thursday to acknowledge the past, celebrate present progress, and prepare for the future.

The Vol Means All Campaign Event raised funds for the university’s Pride Center, a resource center and safe space for LGBTQ+ students and their allies.

In 2016, Tennessee legislature cut funding for the Pride Center. The decision resulted in the loss of the Pride Center’s former director, Donna Braquet, as well as any financial support from the state.

Since then, the Pride Center has relied entirely on private support.

Bonnie Johnson, current coordinator of the Pride Center, acknowledged the robust group that helped make the event a reality: alumni and faculty members, representatives from UT’s fundraising division, faculty senate president Misty Anderson, Director of Development Mark Clark, and members of local non-profit organizations.

This fundraiser was the latest in a series of

events organized mainly by alumnus and businessman Chad Goldman, who stepped in after the cut in funding.

Other fundraisers took place in Nashville, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. over the past year.

Goldman graduated in 1993. He said that during his time at Rocky Top, there was no Pride Center.

“I didn’t have anybody to talk to, I didn’t know anyone; it was difficult. That’s one of the main reasons I got involved in this project.

I wanted to make sure that the students now have what I didn’t get,” Goldman said.

Goldman hopes that the UTK Pride Center will endure as a valuable campus institution.

“I want the LGBTQ students to know that they have a place and that they don’t have to be worried about it going away,” he said.

Goldman also said that the entire campus community needs the Pride Center.

“It’s a vital function of the university… it’s important that the University of Tennessee be perceived as and actually be an inclusive place for all students,” he said.

To make this aspiration a permanent reality, Goldman and the Pride Center have set the goal of a $3 million endowment, which coordinators and supporters hope will keep the Pride Center financially independent and available to

UT alumnus Chad Goldman addressed a crowd of supporters at Thursday night’s fundraiser for the university’s Pride Center. Coleman Numbers /Staff Writer students forever.

Ray Griffin, a sophomore majoring in anthropology, was a graduating high school senior considering UT when the state withdrew funding from the Pride Center.

While Griffin said that they were scared by the news, they said that they chose UT in hopes of a welcoming and inclusive community. They said that for them, the Pride Center is a vital space for trust, belonging, and friendship.

“I only really feel at home [...] when I’m at the Pride Center; when I’m anxious, when I’m nervous, when I don’t really have anywhere else to be, I can go there and know that all of my friends are going to be there and know that I’m not going to be judged for my name, my pronouns or who I happen to love,” Griffin said.

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269 pages: A breakdown of the report, effects on Sex Week KYLIE HUBBARD Editor-in-Chief

A 269-page report could decide the fate of UT’s historically controversial Sex Week.

Following a request by legislative leadership in April 2018 to review Sex Week funding, the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office began to research and review the event. Its findings were presented by Comptroller of the Treasury, Justin P. Wilson, and Lauren Spires, legislative research analyst for the comptroller of the Treasury, at Wednesday’s Senate Education Committee meeting in Nashville.

The report, which suggests 14 policy suggestions for UT to help distance itself from the annual event, has demanded the attention of nearly every UT affiliate as allegiances and stances are taken.

Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee’s Sex Week 2019, scheduled for Sunday, March 31 through Friday, April 5, will not be affected by the policy suggestions, but the fate of its future events rests in the hands of UT administrators, the Board of Trustees and legislators as they decide which policy considerations will be most beneficial.

Policy Considerations Fourteen policy considerations are outlined in the 269-page document presented by Wilson on Wednesday. The considerations range from “minor changes to campus policy” to “an outright ban of the event.” The following are the policy considerations: 1. The Tennessee General Assembly could pass a law stating that Sex Week shall not occur at the University of Tennessee- Knoxville.

2. The Tennessee General Assembly could direct the University of Tennessee- Knoxville to declare itself the sole provider of sex-related programming on campus.

3. The Tennessee General Assembly may wish to require that University of TennesseeKnoxville provide more detailed and transparent information to students, legislators, and Tennesseans about funding for registered student organizations including the amounts requested and allocated, and the reasons that some requests are denied or reduced.

4. The Tennessee General Assembly may wish to require that the University of Tennessee review the Comptroller’s report, carefully consider all policy options, state its current position given the university’s new leadership, and report any actions taken or future actions planned to the legislature by a specific date.

5. The Tennessee General Assembly may choose to ignore Sex Week at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville as it has in some years and as it has with similar events at other Tennessee universities.

6. The University of Tennessee-Knoxville should adopt a more consistent and proactive communication strategy for students, parents, and Tennessee citizens regarding controver-

sial events.

7. The University of Tennessee-Knoxville should take additional actions to reduce the perception of bias in the student activity fee funding allocation process.

8. The University of Tennessee-Knoxville could stop allocating funds directly to registered student organizations.

9. The University of Tennessee-Knoxville could limit the amount of funding registered student organizations can request annually.

10. UTK could charge registered student organizations for the use of all facilities.

11. The SPAC could be required to consider the benefit of the student body and the entire university when making funding decisions.

12. The SPAC could be formally prohibited from allocating funds for income-producing events.

13. The SPAC could be formally required to consider event attendance when making funding decisions.

14. SEAT should reflect on how student organizations at other universities have offered week-long sex-related programs.

At Wednesday’s meeting, Interim UT President Randy Boyd announced the university would adopt Policy Considerations #3, #6, #7 and #8, while researching Policy Consideration #10.

Timeline leading into Wednesday’s Senate Education Committee meeting Legislation, university policy changes and legislative hearings have surrounded Sex Week since its inception in 2013. The following is a brief timeline of events surrounding Sex Week: 2012: SEAT becomes a registered student organization.

August 2012: Former UT Chancellor Jimmy Cheek becomes aware of SEAT’s Sex Week. It is determined by the Chancellor and his cabinet that students “had the absolute right to organize the event.”

March 20, 2013: Cheek announced SEAT would not receive funding from university departments or academic programs for Sex Week after reviewing a Sex Week program agenda released in January. SEAT had been allocated $18,000 in total- $11,145 from UT academic programs and $6,700 in student activity fees.

Cheek said in a press release, “We support the process and the students involved, but we should not use state funds in this manner.”

SEAT started a crowdsource fund to raise the necessary funding to continue the event, saying, “UT Administration refused to stand up for sexual education for students, and Sex Week’s budget was cut due to political intimidation. Help us fund it anyway.”

March 25, 2013: The UT Board of Trustees received the Report of Findings on “Sex Week.” Cheek prepared the report in response to questions raised by former UT President Joe DiPietro. It was found that SEAT did not violate any rules by organizing Sex Week, but DiPietro condemned the university’s proactive mea-

The Sex Week drag show is a favorite event each year. File / The Daily Beacon sures for the event: “UT Knoxville administrators could have done a better job of proactively questioning, understanding and preparing for a campus-wide student organization event billed as ‘Sex Week.’”

April 2013: Public Chapter 429 requiring the Tennessee Higher Education Commission to compile annual reports of student activity fee collection and use at each public university, community college and technical college in the state was passed. Although compiled annually since 2014, the Comptroller’s report says it is not detailed and that the office found misreported information by at least one unnamed university.

May 16, 2013: The Senate Higher Education Oversight Subcommittee discussed Sex Week and policies at UT. Much of the discussion centered on how student organizations requested and promoted events and the ideologies of speakers invited to campus. According to the report, university administrators stood strong in “the position that while they may not agree with Sex Week on a personal level, the university has an obligation to uphold free speech provisions of the First Amendment.

February 2014: House Joint Resolution 661 formally condemned the organizers of Sex Week. The resolution said “the funding of ‘Sex Week’ at UT-Knoxville is an outrageous misuse of student fees and grant monies” and that “‘Sex Week’ fits nowhere within the mission of the University of Tennessee, nor ever.”

February 12, 2014: DiPietro said in a press release that the Board of Trustees, not the legislature, should make changes to student fees. “Going forward, I hope those responsible for planning speakers and events are sensitive as well as mindful of the diverse opinions of others as to what is or may not be offensive regarding presentations on our campuses,” DiPietro said. “I have confidence that our campus leadership and our students, faculty, and staff will take this to heart and suggest to our

elected officials that this is the role of our Board of Trustees to address and monitor these issues with us on behalf of the University.”

Cheek asks SEAT to “tone it down.” SEAT leases an I-40 billboard to advertise Sex Week.

March 2014: Senate adopted Senate Joint Resolution 626 to direct UT administrators and the Board of Trustees to “implement changes to the assessment and allocation of student activity fees within” the UT system. On June 18 of the same year, the Board of Trustees adopted Board Policy BT0011 in response to SJR 626.

This created the opt-in and -out system. One trustee is recorded commenting that UT was “dealt a bad hand” and rejected the policy by adding that “when funding is conditioned on a behavior, it is the beginning of censorship.”

Students who choose to opt in (option 1) allow the university to use the fee for student programming on campus, and, in turn, those students receive free access or discounted admission to all student programming such as Vol Night Long and guest speakers. Students who choose to opt out (option 2) tell the university to use the fee for initiatives and events that are not student-led.

April 2016: The Tennessee General Assembly passed Public Chapter 1066 which explicitly states that “state funds shall not be expended by the University of Tennessee to promote the use of gender neutral pronouns, to promote or inhibit the celebration of religious holidays, or to fund or support sex week.” This legislation is responsible for the defunding of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, whose funding was reallocated to a minority engineering scholarship program.

On Thursday, SEAT released a statement regarding the report, stating that their “treatment as a group and as individuals dispels any notion of a Tennessee or Volunteer family.”

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CAMPUS NEWS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 May 2017: Public Chapter 336 was passed by the Tennessee General Assembly to enact the Campus Free Speech Protection Act. The legislation “provides explicit free speech protections to individuals at Tennessee’s public colleges and universities, regardless of belief or ideology.”

April 2018: DiPietro responded to a state legislator in an email saying, “The bottom line is (1) while I believe sex education for students is needed, I am sorely disappointed in the judgement of the students and faculty, who came up with these titles/talks, (2) we have implemented all the things the General Assembly has requested in dealing with sex week over the years- opt-in payment, reports of what student activity fees are spent on to students and their families, etc., and (3) dealing with the issue is complicated by First Amendment rights. The only other thing that could be done is that the legislature enacts a law that says we cannot have it? In turn it will be ruled unconstitutional, and likely lead to a law suit that we will lose.”

April 17, 2018: Senator Richard Briggs asks for opinion from Attorney General Herbert Slatery with questions about PC 1066. Solicitor General Andrée Blumstein responds a week later, stating that the Attorney General could not complete the opinion request because the “legal advice would be more effective if it were provided directly to UTK.”

Monday, February 25, 2019 • The Daily Beacon September 2018: The Comptroller’s Office interviewed five top UT officials. Each was asked it the university was “tone deaf” to legislator concerns about Sex Week in regards to the university’s response. All five rejected the idea that the university had been tone deaf to the situation.

February 20, 2019: The Senate Education Committee meets in Nashville. Wilson and Spires share the report.

Following the money Motivations behind the investigation of Sex Week funding stem from a concern that state resources, direct and indirect, were used in the production of the event. If so, it is likely the university is in violation of Public Chapter 1066. The university said the law is “vaguely worded” and therefore hard to take action upon without a resulting lawsuit.

According to the report, funding for Sex Week is pulled from four different sources: student activity fees, private donations, indirect benefits and gift funds. As a registered student organization, SEAT can apply for Student Programming and Service Fee funds from the Student Programming Allocation Committee; reserve most campus facilities at no cost; obtain an organization webpage on Vol Link; use the university’s name following the organization name; request an official student organization logo from the Office of Communications and Marketing; and request a student organization email account.

Each semester, students pay a $506 Student Programs and Services Fee. A portion of each fee is sent to recreational sports, International House, athletics, student organization travel, student life departmental support, Student Health Center, Student Counseling Center, Center for Health Education and Wellness, miscellaneous program/service support, debt services and reserves and student organized programming.

The student organized programming portion is opted-in or -out as to whether students would like the $15.46 portion of SPSF to support SPAC funding.

Opt-in fees benefit three groups of organizations: the Black Cultural Programming Committee, Campus Events Board, and Registered Student Organizations. BCPC receives a set $137,000 annually; CEB receives $570,000 annually; and RSOs receive an average of $166,000, depending on the number of students opted-in.

According to the report, SEAT has requested and received the highest allocation of student activity fee funding in four of the last five years. SEAT was allocated $28,390 during the 2017-18 school year, which sat them atop the list of allocations.

UT’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People received $25,000; Boss Dance Company received $18,800; the Minority Association of PreHealth Students was allocated $18,250; and the Psychology Graduate Student Associa-

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tion received $17,000.

SEAT’s allocation has been framed by potential bias, which is outlined by Policy Consideration #7.

Representative Micah Van Huss sent a letter, with signatures from 32 other legislators, on April 24, 2018 to former UT President Joe DiPietro saying that “in spite of (PC 1066)m the University of Tennessee allowed SEAT to use campus facilities for ‘Sex Week’ again this year. This is a clear violation of this law, as well as its intent.”

RSOs are allowed use of most campus facilities at no cost. Rental fees are required for certain spaces such as McClung Museum and the Howard Baker Center. Fees for other spaces may be enforced if an event takes place outside regular operating hours. SEAT hosted events in the Baker Center during 2017 at no charge because, according to an administrator, Haslam Scholars students have access to the center with waived fees and several members of SEAT are Haslam Scholars.

Calculations made during the Comptroller’s research suggest that based on the number of Sex Week events in 2017 and 2018, the size of the rooms used and rental rates, SEAT would would be charged $4,336 in 2017 and $4,752 in 2018 for the use of campus facilities if not an RSO.

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OPINIONS

The Daily Beacon • Monday, February 25, 2019

Our Day: Sex Education is essential to the education system

KAYLEE SHEPPARD Columnist

“Don’t have sex, because you will get pregnant and die! Don’t have sex in the missionary position, don’t have sex standing up, just don’t do it! Okay, promise? Okay, now everybody take some rubbers.”

Everyone remembers this iconic quote from “Mean Girls,” right? As funny and cra-

zy as it sounds, this kind of language around sex education is a reality in the United States and is actually doing little towards preventing pregnancy.

Still in 2019, our government spends millions of dollars on federally funded abstinence-only programs that promote no sex until marriage. But recent studies reveal that these sex education plans are making no dents in teen pregnancy rates, are not reducing STDs within teens, or delaying the age in which people are losing their virginity.

It all started with Bill Clinton’s Welfare Reform Act in 1996, which allocated millions to sex education classes that focused on abstinence-only education. But this plan ignored the obvious fact that some teenagers will likely experiment with sex. It also emphasizes shame surrounding women who are sexually active, heteronormativity and fails to provide crucial information about sexual health, positive and healthy relationships, consent and contraception.

So why are we not reanalyzing this policy?

Why does the government continue to pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into programs that are negatively affecting U.S. children? One of the main reasons in my opinion is that America has quite strong puritanical roots despite being a country of “freedom of religion.”

And as the national regulations exist today, it allows states to determine what they believe is important and truthful about sex.

To put a number to it, as of 2017, only 37 states regulations surrounding sex education mandated it must be abstinence based. Also, only 13 states require sex education classes to consist of information that is medically, factually and technically accurate.

This is what has always baffled me about this approach: the religious roots within the education. The “sin” of having sex before marriage is very much rooted in faith identities, specifically faiths that not every American identifies with. This is also why many sex education programs leave out aspects of science in their education.

In my own experience in the public-school system, I never received any sex education. The one day in 7th grade they breezed through a generalized curriculum in my P.E./ Health class I happened to have the flu. Never again in any mandatory health class in the rest of middle school or high school did they even mention it.

Sex education is essential to not only women, but everyone regardless of sexual identity. Especially as we begin to have more exposure to sexuality as a spectrum, there is more of a dire need to educate young people so that unwanted pregnancy and STIs can be

prevented. Women often feel the pressures of being responsible for birth control and preventing pregnancy, something that should be everyone’s responsibility regardless of gender.

Also, unregulated sex education is harmful to the view of women. Often women are shamed and painted as “used” if they have had sex before marriage while there are no stigmas surrounding men who do the same.

Maybe if we had more detailed sex education to explain pregnancy prevention methods for men and women, we would have significantly less unwanted pregnancies, then leading to less abortions: something everyone can support.

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Kaylee Sheppard is a junior majoring in American Studies and Political Science. She can be reached at ksheppa7@vols.utk.edu.

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SPORTS

The Daily Beacon • Monday, February 25, 2019

BASEBALL

Tennessee sweeps Indiana with comeback win RYAN SCHUMPERT Staff Writer

Tennessee third basemen Andre Lipcius had been struggling on the season, but his one-out, three-run double in the fifth inning propelled Tennessee to a 5-3 win over Indiana on Sunday.

The win gave Tennessee the sweep over the Hoosiers as the Vols improved to 7-0 on the year.

After being held to only one run in the first 18 innings of the series, Indiana came out firing on Sunday. Indiana second basemen Cade Bunnell got the day started with a solo homer on the second at-bat of the game.

Tennessee starting pitcher Will Neely didn’t allow any more damage in the first, but surrendered his second homer of the day when Ryan Fineman took him deep to left field to open the second.

The Vols found themselves in the danger zone in the third, as the Hoosiers got runners on second and third with one out. Neely got a big out, striking out the next batter. Tennessee head coach Tony Vitello then made a move, going to the pen and bringing in Garrett Crochet.

“It just kinda seemed to be a day where Will (Neely) was sliding a little bit,” Vitello said.

“If anyone’s earned it on this entire campus, I don’t care what sport it is, it’s Will Neely to have a quote-on-quote bad day… Garrett is one of the best pitchers in the SEC and he was unused so it made it easy to switch.”

Crochet proceeded to get the next batter out and the Vols were able to get out of the third unscathed. He gave up his lone run of the day in the fourth inning when Indiana third basemen Cole Barr took him deep to left field.

Besides the lone home run, Crochet was fantastic. He pitched 5.1 innings, giving up two hits, one run and one walk while striking out nine.

“He was throwing that breaking ball, the

slider, back foot to some righties very aggressively,” Vitello said. “To complement the really good fastball with the occasional changeup, and you could see it from where you were sitting, but he was really getting through that slider pretty good and making a couple guys look bad.”

Tennessee struggled to get the bats going early, failing to get a hit in the first three innings before Evan Russell recorded a single in the fourth. Landon Gray followed up Russell’s single with a double down the left field line, giving the Vols runners on second and third with one out.

Freshman Max Ferguson picked up his first RBI of his career with a groundout to second that scored Russell.

After a Luc Lipcius groundout to open the fifth, Jake Rucker got things started for the Vols with an infield single. Tennessee caught a break when Matt Lloyd failed to field a Justin Ammons grounder, giving the Vols runners on first and second with one out.

Jay Charleston then walked, loading the bases for the slumping Andre Lipcius. Lipcius answered the call, sending the pitch into right center for a three run double and giving the Vols a 4-3 lead.

“It was great to finally see one drop,” Lipcius said. “I’d been hitting the ball hard but it just hadn’t dropped. That’s how baseball works, some days they drop, some days they don’t.”

Tennessee added its last run of the day in the sixth when a single by Justin Ammons scored Ricky Martinez.

Crochet’s efforts got Tennessee into the ninth before hard-throwing right hander Andrew Schultz came into the game for a save opportunity.

Schultz struck out the side in the ninth, picking up his second save of the year.

Tennessee returns to action on Tuesday, as it hosts a Liberty squad who already has wins over South Carolina and Wake Forest. First pitch is at 4:30 p.m. at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.

BASKETBALL

No. 5 Vols fall to Waters-less Tigers in Baton Rouge BLAKE VON HAGEN Sports Editor

While Knoxville dealt with severe flooding on Saturday, the No. 5 Tennessee basketball team squared off against an LSU team without Waters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Minutes before the Vols’ showdown at No. 13 LSU, news broke that the Tigers would be without point guard Tremont Waters due to illness.

Tennessee could not take advantage, however, as LSU notched an 82-80 overtime win at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

Senior guard Admiral Schofield led Tennessee with 27 points on 11 of 22 shooting.

“I’ve seen situations where teams can even play better when you lose a guy,” Tennessee head coach Rick Barnes said. “It happened to us one year at Providence when we lost a guy who was averaging 24 points per game and we ended up beating a ranked team when we shouldn’t have.”

With 33 seconds left in regulation, Grant Williams tied the game at 71-71 with a layup.

After a defensive stop, Jordan Bone slipped at the buzzer without being able to attempt a shot, which sent the game to overtime.

Much like how regulation ended, Williams scored a bucket to tie the game with 44 seconds left. However, Naz Reid, who averages 13.8

points per game for LSU, scored his only point of the game when he hit a free throw to put the Tigers up one with 34 seconds left in overtime.

Williams responded with a basket of his own—plus a foul and free throw—to put the Vols up by two. LSU answered with a layup to tie the game with six seconds remaining.

Barnes opted not to call a timeout, which led to a missed 3-pointer in transition from Lamonte Turner.

“He got a good look at it, but with the time running down we probably could have had a timeout,” Schofield said. “It just didn’t fall. If he hits it, we are talking about something different. We are talking about what a big time shot he hit.”

It was what happened after the ball clanked off the rim that will be remembered.

Javonte Smart, who led LSU with 29 points, was fouled by Williams with six-tenths of a second on the clock. He sunk both free throws, and Williams’ last-gasp shot glanced off the rim.

“I’d have to see it (the foul) on film,” Williams said. “I think I was pursuing the rebound.

I don’t even think LSU knew it was a foul, because they kept playing. I don’t know. I can’t tell you, because I was focusing on rebounding and I felt a shoulder go into my chin.

“I was on the ground and the next thing I know I heard a whistle and they were already down the court, so I thought they were just

Forward Admiral Schofield #5 of the Tennessee Volunteers during the game between the LSU Tigers and the Tennessee Volunteers at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, LA. Photo Courtesy of Andrew Ferguson/Tennessee Athletics playing and there was another foul.”

Williams scored 18 points and grabbed nine rebounds.

“I think we have a really bad rule in college basketball where coaches can’t call timeouts in that situation,” Barnes said. “The players are so locked in, they shouldn’t have to come down the floor looking at me to see if I want a timeout.”

Kyle Alexander scored seven points on 3-of-

3 shooting and John Fulkerson added two points and four rebounds.

Tennessee heads to Oxford, Mississippi, for a meeting with the Rebels on Wednesday night.

Tipoff is set for 7:00 p.m. ET on the SEC Network.

“We are still playing for a championship,” Schofield said. “We gotta lock in and really hone in on these last couple games.”