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NAIL-BITER Vols stun Vanderbilt to advance to SEC quarterfinals Troy Provost-Heron Training Editor

NASHVILLE — Devon Baulkman dropped to the floor in front of Tennessee’s bench and started crying.

Admiral Schofield bear-hugged him as the senior held his head in his hands and the rest of the Vols ran, jumped and shouted sporadically.

Before the calamity, UT huddled up and strategized about a supposed upcoming overtime period caused by a buzzer-beating layup from Vanderbilt guard Wade Baldwin at the end of regulation.

A lengthy review following the believed game-tying shot put to rest any overtime planning.

The basket was waved off after replay showed that Baldwin failed to get the shot off before the buzzer sounded, advancing the Vols to the quarterfinals of the SEC tournament with a 67-65 victory over the

Commodores on Thursday inside Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.

“It was a tough game and it came down to the end,” Baulkman said. “It came down to who wanted it most. At that time, it was a scary moment (waiting on the review).

I just thanked God for continuing to give us the opportunity to keep shocking the world.”

In the final moments, that opportunity teetered between continuing and ending.

Clinging to a two-point lead with nine seconds left after leading by as many as 14 in the second half, Detrick Mostella stepped to the free-throw line with a chance to ice the game.

The sophomore guard left the front end of the one-and-one short, but managed to corral his own miss, giving him a second chance.

He did not capitalize, missing the first of a one-and-one again, allowing Baldwin to race down court and bank his layup over senior forward Derek Reese off the backboard and into the basket to seemingly force overtime.

“There was a lot going through my mind,” Mostella said. “When See BASKETBALL on Page 10

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From diversity to parking to smoking on campus, this year’s SGA executive office candidates hit the sweet spots of over 100 students attending the first ever annual SGA “Meet the Challenge Alex Pennycuff: Running for Student Body President Fuller Edwards: Running for Student Body Vice President

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“Challenge” is running on the platform to be a voice for the students. Both Alex Pennycuff, junior in supply chain management running for Student Body President, and Fuller Edwards, junior in supply chain running for Student Body Vice President, said they never expected to run for SGA Senate positions, but were eager to see change on campus.

“If you would’ve asked myself 3 months ago if we ever saw ourselves running for these positions, we would have said, ‘No way,’” Pennycuff said. “But, over the course of the semester we saw a lot of things happen and a lot of things that we felt that we could help with.”

Pennycuff and Edwards plan to help bring change by “tackling big issues” such as tuition dollars, parking and reforming SGA. “The issues that SGA is tackling should make you stop and say, ‘That’s something we want to tackle,’” Pennycuff said. “We’re not going to make any promises we can’t keep, but we have to think about different and creative ways to get the student body involved.”

Candidates” event.

There are three campaigns running this year: “Challenge,” sponsored by Alex Pennycuff and Fuller Edwards, “Hardee, Morris, McCandless: Creating Common Ground,” with Jennings Hardee, Mathew Morris and Kaitlyn McCandless, and “Hollingsworth Patterson,” by Carson Hollingsworth and Hardee, Morris, McCandless Jennings Hardee: Running for Student Body President Matthew Morris: Running for Student Body Vice President

Caitlyn McCandless: Running for Student Services Director For “Hardee, Morris, McCandless,” there’s an issue on campus far more important than reforming the SGA Senate: hostility.

“We can all agree there’s been a lot of hostility on campus,” said Jennings Hardee, senior in chemistry running for Student Body President.

Hardee said her campaign is running to eliminate this hostility and support “equal opportunity” for all on campus.

“I have had a lot of great opportunities on campus... (but) I know not everyone feels that way... Some people don’t even feel comfortable on a day to day basis,” Hardee said. “Safety and having the opportunity to be the best person you can be is a right, it shouldn’t be a privilege.”

Caitlyn McCandless, senior in supply chain management running for Student Services Director, said the campaign’s involvement is what most qualifies them.

“I wanted to run with Jennings and Mathew because I feel they’re the most qualified, the most dedicated and the most passionate out of the campaigns that are running,” McCandless said.

McKinsey Patterson.

So whether you love SGA for all that it is or think the group could be reconstructed, take the time to meet the candidates below who may be representing you within the year.

Keep in mind the candidates’ specific policy positions will be available immediately following Spring Break.

Hollingsworth Patterson Carson Hollingsworth: Running for Student Body President McKinsey Patterson: Running for Student Body Vice President

“Hollingsworth Patterson” agreed with “Challenge” that reforming the SGA Senate must be a priority.

“SGA has been closed off to the student body.,” said Carson Hollingsworth, senior in public administration running for Student Body President. “We feel like we’re missing a large chunk of campus and legislation thats relevant to a lot of students on campus.”

“It’s all about pursuing the student body... (and) valuing every body,” continued McKinsey Patterson, senior in nursing running or Student Body Vice President. “If that doesn’t happen, then SGA doesn’t fulfill its role.”

While helping SGA reach its “full potential,” Hollingsworth and Patterson said they aim to empower students.

“We’re trying to take away the hostility from within (SGA) and make it a little more welcoming to all students across campus,” Hollingsworth said. “(We’re trying to) make it more of an organization that supports every student on campus (and) empowers students in what they’re really passionate about.”

CRIME LOG Date: 3/2/2016 Location: North Carrick Hall At approximately 9:37 p.m., a UTPD officer was dispatched to North Carrick Hall on a report of the odor of marijuana. Three citations were issued.

Date: 3/3/2016 Location: 11th Street Garage Victim reported theft of his skateboard from his vehicle. The vehicle was

left unsecured at the time of the incident, which occurred between the hours of 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Date: 3/3/2016 Location: Clement Hall At approximately 12:32 p.m., a UTPD officer responded to a complaint of marijuana coming from a dorm within Clement Hall. Two officers knocked several times on the door of the room, yet received no answer.

The Hall Director received an administrative search of the room.

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SGA sends out petition for diversity

Project manager gives construction updates

Tanner Hancock

Staff Writer

News Editor

UT’s Student Government leaders became the latest players in the ongoing controversy surrounding the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

Late Thursday evening, SGA sent out a student wide email explaining their decision to create a petition protesting Tennessee lawmakers’ decision to cut funding for UT’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

The petition, which had nearly 3,000 signatures at the time of this article’s publication, expressed support for all students “regardless of background.”

The petition also singles out the actions of the senate sub-commitee that proposed the amendment reallocating diversity funds, calling for an end to what they see as intrusive action on the part of the legislator. “(We) find no compelling governmental interest for state interference with the current distribution of state appropriations to diversity and inclusion initiatives,” reads the petition.

Earlier this month, the state Senate Education Committee voted to strip the university of its diversity funding. The move was largely a response to two controversial posts made to the Diversity website last semester, one suggesting the use of gender-neutral pronouns for non gender binary students and the other suggesting holiday inclusive practices for office parties.

Sen. Dolores Gresham, R-Somerville, told UT President Joe DiPietro during the meeting that “This committee is behind you and UT.” Gresham then proposed the amendment to Gov. Bill Haslam’s proposed budget, which states, “Only federal funds shall be expended to support the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.”

According to UT officials, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion does not receive any federal funding.

The amendment passed unanimously.

If the final budget is approved in April, the money that was previously allocated to the office will be rerouted to support the university’s agriculture extension services and rural outreach programs.

Heiler Meek

Dan Smith, a project manager with Facilities Services, said that while the current building phase of the new Student Union has not gone as planned, a lot of progress is to come.

“We’re still in a below-ground phase. We had some difficulties this year and the end of last year with rainy weather,” Smith said.

Smith explained that large amounts of rainfall can cause difficulties in that phase of construction, as it is difficult to drill in dirt that will not hold solid and still. Smith said he still remains confident in the project’s progress.

“We’re at a turning point. We’re looking to complete major foundations by mid-April and some lower-level slab (construction) by the end of April.”

Smith is the manager of several ongoing construction projects on campus, including HVAC renovations to the telephone services center in the HSS basement and improvements to cooling systems on the Hill and the Agriculture Campus.

Several buildings will have their cooling systems upgraded or replaced, including AMB, Ferris Hall, Hodges, the Claxton Education building and the Plant Biotechnology building.

Smith also said the SERF engineering building will have its exhaust systems and heating and cooling systems renovated to make them “more maintainable” by staff, more cost-effective and more environmentally friendly.

“We want to be environmentally conscious, and campus’ electric bill is (high) per month,” he said.

Keith Downing, project manager for the construction of Sophronia Strong Hall, said the building’s progress is in its “middle” phase and is set for completion in December 2016.

“The contractors are finishing out the skin of the building,” Downing said. “(The building) is going to be very efficient (because) it is designed to the UT Energy Code.”

Downing added that Sophronia Strong Hall will have a 150-seat and 250-seat lecture hall for departments including Earth and Planetary Sciences, Chemistry and Biology.

According to Smith, a pre-construction meeting occurred for construction on a new campus greenhouse that will stand at the southeast corner of Center Hall.

The greenhouse will hold plants for research projects of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department under new Department Head Susan Kalisz.

“We’re hoping to get (the greenhouse) up and running later this summer,” Smith said.

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Around Rocky Top

As part of UT’s annual Culture Week students are invited to participate in a food tasting contest of dishes from around the world. This year’s cuisine included such foods as Irish soda bread, Kabli rice, Chinese fried rice, chicken biryani, Vietnamese spring rolls, cheesecake truffles and Onigio sticky rice.

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Alternative break program adds volunteer spirit to vacation Travis Dorman Staff Writer When UT junior Hayley Pennesi traveled to Tampa, Florida to assist an elderly couple who use their disability checks to fund a horse rescue organization, they repeatedly told her, “You are restoring my faith in humanity.”

Pennesi and 15 other students visited Tampa last year to volunteer at animal rescues, sanctuaries and shelters in order to learn how to positively impact the issue of animal cruelty.

This trip was just one of 12 that the Center for Leadership and Service sponsors each year as part of the Alternative Breaks Program.

The Alternative Breaks Program, which was started in 1993, allows students to use their spring and fall breaks to make the world a better place by travelling to different communities and helping those in need.

Participants can choose between a variety of themes and locations for the journey, and no prior knowledge or experience is necessary.

Pennesi, who is now a student coordinator for the Breaks Program, first got involved during her freshman year, when she traveled to Charleston, South Carolina to learn about environmental conservation.

“It was a moment for me to realize that what I am doing affects more than just me,” Pennesi said. “It was no longer about me.”

While Pennesi enjoyed volunteering and learning about important issues, it was the people she met that kept her coming back to the program year after year.

She said that as a freshman, she was not sure if UT was where she belonged. She was homesick, and she had no idea what she wanted to do.

After participating in the Alternative Breaks Program, she found herself surrounded by students who had a passion for people, and she made a number of new friends.

Kate Kennedy, assistant director at the CLS, oversees the program and works closely with UT students to develop the themes, as well as the details, of the trips: where students are going, where they will stay, what they will eat, etc.

Kennedy has been involved since 2010, and she has been on five different trips. She said that working with urban youth in Chicago in 2011 was a powerful experience that changed her life.

“Those kids were able to really look at those students and see what could be for their lives,” Kennedy said. “No matter how you cut it, we have a lot of privilege in our lives, and it’s really amazing to see the power that service can bring.”

The five themes and locations for spring break this year are: animal outreach in Savannah, Georgia, urban youth development in St. Louis, Missouri, rural poverty in Greenville, Mississippi, marginalized populations in Jackson, Missouri and Hispanic communities and health in Columbia, South Carolina.

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The secret life of a rock history professor Elizabeth Geist Contributor

There is a local rock star in the music building.

Sean McCollough, lecturer of musicology and current instructor in rock history, has always been fascinated with the world of music, and like most musicians, all it took was one instrument before he was hooked.

“I would just plunk out on the piano for about as far back as I can remember,” McCollough recalled. “Started playing guitar one summer when I was twelve, and then I played in a high school band.”

An alumnus of UT, McCollough completed his undergraduate degree in philosophy and computer science while keeping a side focus on music.

During his time as a student on campus, McCollough freelanced through singer/songwriter gigs on weekends, but unfortunately, the band he started in collaboration with a few schoolmates never made it out of the basement.

After completing his undergrad, McCollough worked as a community organizer in rural Tennessee. Through this work, he encountered influences that led McCollough to fall more in love with the music of the region, which would influence his future artistic sound.

As a result, music took priority when McCollough returned to UT for graduate school and mastered in musicology with a focus on music of the Appalachians.

Soon after, he was recommended to teach an Appalachian studies class at the university and over the years built up the musicology program by adding a section on rock history and music appreciation.

But McCollough is not finished when the school closes at the end of the day.

When McCollough met his fiancé Steph Gunnoe, the two began casually playing a specialized mix of both folky and acoustic tunes until they added a bass player to the duo. From there, the group continued to grow and eventually became composed of five skilled musicians.

With the addition of new members came new responsibilities and a newfounded representation of ideas. Some sort of organization was essential to the continuation of the group.

And so The Lonetones was born.

The Lonetones is fundamentally made up of bass, cello, drums and guitar. However, depending on the song,

McCollough sings or plays guitar, banjo, mandolin, keyboard and practically any other instrument he can get his hands on.

The band specializes in a mixture of folk and folk rock, but McCollough said the members try to “experiment with the sound a little bit, try to (make the songs) sound different from one another.”

“We do everything from folk rock tunes, to full on rock songs, to old timey sounding tunes on banjo and acoustic guitar,” McCollough said. “Some even have a Latin feel.”

The Lonetones are currently working on their fifth and newest album, which McCollough said contrasts distinctly from the previous four.

“So far we’re only five tracks down,” McCollough said. “The first two are really folky, third extremely experimental, (and) the next one the most rock oriented but still a mix.”

He mentioned that even a few piano ballads might make an addition to the album.

“Yeah, I’m not sure how I started writing those,” McCollough said.

Reviews for the band are nothing but positive. As Lee Zimmerman describes in “No Depression Magazine,” The Lonetones are, “Sweet and joyful at every turn, it casts melodies as sweet as honey and tunes every bit as beguiling.”

Jack Neely from “Metro Pulse” characterizes the music as “a collaboration like no other, and each cut is a bracing surprise.”

On top of his involvement with The Lonetones, McCollough is also recognized as one of the most active children’s musicians in the Knoxville area.

“It’s a very unusual path,” McCollough said.

McCollough recalls he became involved in the children’s music scene through several recommendations from the parents of his children’s friends. He performs at schools and other venues with the occasional assistance from The Lonetones, and is currently working on a banjo seminar with one of the schools from the area.

When asked about his favorite aspect of music, McCollough answered with “the creative process, both my own and playing music with other people.”

McCollough and his work can be found at thelonetones.com, and for more information about his music for children, visit seanmccollough.com. The Lonetones’ next performance is at Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria on March 20 at 8 p.m.

Sean McCollough, UT’s musicology and rock history professor, also has his own folk/folk rock band including his wife and three others called The Lonetones.

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FRONT ROW REVIEW

The Mothership brings back oldschool tunes Jarrod Hall Contributor

On Wednesay night the Blue Man Group visited a sold out Tennessee Theatre. Will Clifft • The Daily Beacon

Blue Man Group provides sensory show Elyse Kolbaba Contributor

If you like sporadic loud noises, paint, strobe lights and shows for all ages, you would have loved the Blue Man Group show Wednesday night.

Performing at the Tennessee Theater, the group was both aesthetically and acoustically appealing. The show enticed nearly all the senses and may have even frightened you if you are afraid of going out of your comfort zone with audience interaction.

The main backdrop throughout the night was black, as was as all of the members’ clothing, allowing for three things to lead you through the darkness: paint, light and sound.

With vivacious colors, paint was the most commonly used of the three. It was used in ways I had never seen before — on their bodies, with their drums, in the air and everywhere. Everyone in the first few rows was given a poncho to protect themselves from it.

I love that the band used paint in a playful way rather than strictly as I remember from grade school art classes. It showed people a great way to express themselves. Everyone wishes they could throw paint around and not have to clean it up, right?

Lights were everywhere, and they kept you on your toes. At times, there were constant strobe lights, then everything would stop, and a spotlight would shine on a single member of the audience.

You never knew where a blue man was going to come out from, what sound you would hear and where lights would shine.

If the lights showed you where to look, then the music kept you intrigued. Drums were played the entire night at a steady pace by a man dressed in lights at the top left corner of the stage. Rare resonances and tunes tied in every movement as well.

The night was put together with many small acts rather than a long story. Maybe that was their tactic for keeping children in the audience intrigued. At one point the group incorporated large “GiPad’s” for the younger

audience before later playing a hilarious rendition of Freebird for older audience members.

As someone who is afraid of getting called on in class, watching the group search through the audience for a member to help them onstage made me uneasy. However, I noticed I was in the minority, as everyone else seemed to be waving to be chosen.

As for appearances, the men creeped me out a little with their blue face paint and beady eyes. Not a single word was spoken, which frightened me even more along with their mystery. But these traits are what make the group so popular and unique.

Overall, the group put on a great performance. I give props to the set designer and everyone behind the scenes. The show clearly required plenty of work and preparation.

The Blue Man Group kept me on the edge of my seat the entire night through the use of sounds, lights and interaction. Next time you are feeling brave and bold and have the opportunity, check out Blue Man Group for a one-ofa-kind performance that you will never forget.

True old-school sound can be hard to come by, but every Thursday night from 8 - 10 p.m., anyone can tune into 90.3 The Rock to hear all of the best in old-school funk and hip-hop.

The Mothership is one of WUTK’s flagship shows that has been on the air for well over a decade now, featuring the genres of funk and old school hip-hop. The captain of The Mothership is Johnathan King, AKA DJ King.

When King, a work studies student majoring in graphic design, saw the radio station on the work studies list, he was immediately drawn to the idea. In 2014 he started at the station working on the Hubert Smith Radio Show.

King said he was more or less thrown into the job, but he proved to be a quick learner.

After only having been at the station for a week, he came on a Sunday morning to sit in on the Hubert Smith Radio Show.

While sitting in the studio, Hubert Smith motioned King to the microphone to speak.

He had never actually been on the radio until this point, but King said that even through the nerves, he was able to express his opinion smoothly.

After King had worked at the station for a year, the previous host of The Mothership had to leave, so there was a vacancy in the DJ chair. King expressed interest and was given a trial run at hosting the show. After it went well, he was given permanent command of the program.

King grew up in Memphis, where he acquired an affinity for old school funk and hip- hop. There is not really a cut off date for what constitutes “old school,” but King says that there is a specific kind of sound that he looks for when he puts together the two-hour playlist each week.

“Usually anything made before 2000 is safe,” King said, “but sometimes there’s new music that has that old school sound, so I’ll play that too.”

When it comes to making the playlists, King said it only takes him an hour or two each week to put the whole thing together. He has the easiest time finding funk songs to bring on the air but has a slightly harder time with hip-hop, because it’s harder to find music that’s clean enough to put on the radio.

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Change starts in the individual

Peter Cates For Pete’s Sake

Let me set the scene for you: it’s one in the morning, and I’m sitting in a Travelodge next to my brother under a “painting” of a beach view in Carlisle, Pennsylvania after nine hours in the car. This is the height of class, folks. In fairness, the hotel room was $20 each, and I’ll be in New York City tomorrow.

After nine hours in a hybrid Honda Civic, one gets a bit stir crazy. I couldn’t stop laughing on the phone while making this reservation, and I’m pretty sure the lady thought I was making fun of her. I’m not proud of that.

(The things I write are less funny when I read them out loud. Or so my brother says.)

In a broader sense, it’s easy to get stir crazy in this stage of life. It’s natural to feel stuck in university while the “real world” keeps going on outside of us. There are jobs and families, friendships and opportunities that lie outside of our campus that I’m so ready to explore, but I’m here and trying to figure out which parts of this experience I want to hold on to.

The controversy that inundates campus is a driving factor away from the university, and in some ways, that responsibility is in the hands of the administration — in other ways the legislators and in others the students. To what degree do we sacrifice peace at our school to keep fighting for what we think is right, even when the results of our protests probably will only affect those who come after us, good or bad?

In a lot of ways, my response is “who cares?”

Even if we somehow make our campus diverse and accepting, we still have to go into a world that is not at the end of it.

So this is my conflict: I want to be a part of the important work being done right now at UT, but I don’t want to do it only to have to start back over when I leave. In ways, that makes me more ready to go, to get started on the work in the “real world.” But I’m realizing that our campus is the real world and change starts in the individual. How can we ever expect things to change in the world if we aren’t willing to stand up for

change in our smaller communities?

I’m here to work on making myself and those around me into more loving, more gracious, more passionate people so that when we go out into the world we can make the world those things too. There is hard work to be done now and hard work will come later.

As much as I’m ready to work a job where I make actual money so that when I travel I don’t have to stay in Travelodges that smell funny (one day when I’m rich I can stay in a Hampton Inn, instead), I’m sitting here next to my favorite person in the world realizing how lucky I am to have just spent several hours laughing amidst rich conversation. For all the hardness, there is a lot of goodness. This time in life is a good time, and I’m really glad I’m in it.

Peter Cates is a junior in English. He can be reached at pcates4@vols.utk.edu

Sleep is more important than you think

Sarah Hagaman Turn of Phrase

My phone rang, and I opened my bleary eyes with a jolt of surprise.

Sleepiness made my voice groggy as I clumsily picked up my phone and answered the call. My mom identified the fogginess of my tone right away; I hastily pushed away my covers while she asked me why I was still in bed.

I looked at the clock. At nearly 5 p.m., I had slept for almost the entire day. My inner morning person stared at the numbers, with sudden shock and confusion. After a week of late nights writing papers, going to meetings and (finally) spending time with friends, my body was obviously making up for lost time.

Sleep, like money and home-cooked meals, does not come easily in college. No one gets enough; scraping in a few quality hours of sleep is almost impossible, as long lines at Starbucks and empty stares in class often attest.

In America, sleep is the silent affliction of the masses, and as many as 70 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep loss or sleep disorders.

As inconvenient — and random — as the act of sleeping may seem, its effects possess increasing relevance to nearly every area of our daily lives.

Scientists remain undecided on exactly why we sleep, but the studies show that lack of sleep can have disastrous results.

Poor sleeping habits can affect a person’s physical and mental health on all fronts.

Physically, sleep loss over time has been linked to heart disease, heart attacks, heart failure, irregular heartbeat, high blood pressure, diabe-

tes, decreased testosterone levels and premature aging. Students attempting to maintain a healthy lifestyle through diet and exercise may find their efforts sabotaged by a lack of sleep since the body increases levels of grehlin, a peptide that stimulates hunger, when a person forgoes too much sleep.

Spending the deep hours of the night in the library may, at first glance, appear like a good choice. Sleeping seems excessive when grades are on the line. Unfortunately, according to recent studies, grades decrease when students do not sleep. Cognitive processes like problem solving, memory consolidation, attention span, alertness, concentration and reasoning skills are jeopardized with lack of sleep. To make matters worse, snoozing for less than six hours a night contributes to moodiness and increased levels of depression.

Sleep on college campus is a rare commodity to come by. In fact, the college population is considered the most sleep-deprived population.

One study by Brown University revealed that only 11 percent of college students received quality sleep each night, and 73 percent report having sleeping problems.

son), eight hours of sleep a night rests, prepares and fortifies the body to perform at the highest level.

2. Consistency is key: Life is unpredictable, but keeping a schedule reduces insomnia and creates a rhythm, which maximizes the body’s ability to go through all stages of sleep.

3. Run it: A multitude of benefits come with exercising — although it increases alertness, it also enhances deep sleep when bedtime arrives.

4. Don’t check Instagram right before bed: Using screens that emit light, like cell phones, TVs and laptops, can trick the mind into thinking its daytime; the production of melatonin (a hormone that helps induce sleep) is blocked by exposure to light.

As exams begin to approach, here are four steps to maximize the sleep that you get in your own life:

Sleeping can be deceptively simple; you get in bed, fall out of consciousness and then wake up. However, sleep’s effect on the body lasts far beyond the few hours spent tucked under the covers — and college students don’t get enough of it.

As the mid-semester slump approaches, consider putting sleep a notch higher on the priority list. Sleep can do it all. It offers endless health and mental benefits; put in the wise words of Ernest Hemingway: “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”

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Sarah Hagaman is a senior in English. She can be reached at shagama1@vols.utk.edu

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If it would’ve counted it would have been heartbreaking.”

At first, there were not many Vols who thought it did not count, including UT coach Rick Barnes.

“I didn’t know if it was or wasn’t good,” Barnes said. “Actually, as soon as I turned around, (assistant coach Rob) Lanier said to me, ‘Coach, that shot wasn’t good.’ I said ‘Really?’

“I was trying to get our guys heads back into the game and trying to tell our bench, hey, you guys have to be ready, we’ve got five minutes to go here.”

Those five minutes never came.

The Vols won their second game in as many days, the first time they have won multiple games in the tournament since 2010, to advance to the quarterfinals. UT also avoided losing to Vanderbilt three times in a season for the first time in program history.

“I’m just happy for our guys,” Barnes said. “They’ve worked hard. They’ve done everything we asked and they get the chance to play again.”

Mostella scored a game-high 18 points for the Vols. Senior forward Armani Moore (14), Schofield (12) and junior guard Robert Hubbs III also tallied double figures in scoring.

Baldwin led the way for Vanderbilt with 13 points and Damian Jones and Matthew Fisher-Davis added 12 points.

The overtime scare was fueled by a series of runs midway through the second half that ate away at a double-digit lead.

After an and-one by Moore gave the 12thseeded Vols (15-18) a 12-point lead with 13 minutes, 11 seconds to play, fifth-seeded Vanderbilt (19-13) rattled off a 6-0 run over the next 1:35 to make it 47-41.

Hubbs answered with a three from the corner to extend the Vols’ lead to nine, but the Commodores responded with another run, this one an 8-0 spurt, to trim the lead to

one with 8:40 remaining.

Four minutes and 31 seconds later, Joe Toye hit a three to give Vanderbilt its first lead since they held a 4-2 advantage early in the first half, but Mostella put UT back on top with a baseline floater to beat the shot clock.

On the ensuing possession, Jones threw down a dunk give Vanderbilt a 59-58 lead, but another shot-clock beating floater, this one by Hubbs, put UT up again, and this time for good.

“I just had to be aggressive and take my shots when I had them,” Hubbs said. “I was just playing my role and not do anything special.”

After Hubbs’ floater, Jones missed the front end of a one-and-one that would have tied the game or given Vanderbilt the lead.

Twenty-three seconds later, Moore drilled a three to put the Vols up 63-59.

“It came down to being a senior and being a leader on this team,” Moore said. “I was just pretty much saying, why not? I had a pretty good look at it. My teammates and my coaches have had confidence in me throughout the whole year. I took the shot and thank God it went in.”

Even after that, work still had to be done.

Vanderbilt hit two 3-pointers in the final 49 seconds to make it a one-possession game.

“I thought we started celebrating too soon and gave a great shooter a wide open look because they got back and weren’t on the edge,” Moore said.

From there, Mostella strode to the line and insanity took over.

After laying on the floor with tears in his eyes, Baulkman stood and celebrated with the rest of teammates as they walked off the court.

His career is extended for at least one more game when UT plays fourth-seeded LSU, a team it beat 81-65 inside ThompsonBoling Arena on Feb. 20 (TV: SEC Network, 3:30 p.m. EST).

“Our confidence is out the roof because we have beat all the top teams in the SEC,” Baulkman said. “All we have to do is execute, compete and bring energy.”

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Forward Armani Moore goes for a layup during the SEC Basketball Tournament game against the Vanderbilt Commodores at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. Photo By Craig Bisacre • Tennessee Athletics

Vols bully Dores in SEC Tournament upset Taylor White Asst. Sports Editor

NASHVILLE— When Tennessee and Vanderbilt met at Memorial Gymnasium on March 1, The Commodores outscored the Vols 44-28 in the paint. Damian Jones, Vanderbilt’s 7-foot center, scored 14 points and grabbed seven rebounds.

With the decided height differential between the two teams, not much was expected to change when the two met in the second round of the SEC Tournament.

Instead Tennessee, who played just one player taller than 6-foot-5 during the game, matched the Commodores point-for-point during the game, as the two schools finished with 30 points apiece in the paint. The Vols used that advantage to stun Vanderbilt 67-65 and reach the SEC Tournament quarterfinals.

“We knew they were going to throw it over the top,” Tennessee coach Rick Barnes said. “We said, ‘if it’s up in the air, it’s a loose ball, let’s go get it.’…

Our guards really fought hard down in the low post trying to do some things.”

Tennessee switched every screen, meaning that a medley of defenders were tasked with guarding Jones in the post. The Vols were physical with him, before and after he touched the ball, and Jones finished the game with 12 points, but pulled down just two boards.

Jones got the majority of his points on layups, when quicker guards were able to get to the basket and leave him the ball for an open shot. Other times he fought for position, but the guards simply just did not look his way. He took just eight shots in the game, hitting five of them.

“It’s hard,” freshman forward Admiral Schofield

said of guarding Jones. “He’s an NBA caliber player. He’s a 7-footer. I think the biggest thing is just having in your mind that it’s all about heart.

One of the things I like to do, is I love to compete.

I don’t like for guys to push me around and outtough me.”

It wasn’t just Schofield, who is listed at 6-foot-5, 240 pounds that was battling. Many times guards, such as Devon Baulkman and Detrick Mostella, would be forced to try and guard the projected NBA draft pick in the post. With both players under 200 pounds, that’s a tall order.

“I think it shows the amount of toughness that we have on this team,” Schofield said. “No one is selfish, and everyone wants to go out and compete. I think that’s the biggest thing. It just shows our competitive nature.”

Fatigue factor: Tennessee shortened its bench against the Commodores, playing just seven players, compared to the 10 that Vanderbilt put on the floor.

Shembari Phillips started the game, but played just nine minutes, as six other Vols were put in at least 29 minutes of game time. Armani Moore and Derek Reese both played more than 35 minutes, while Baulkman and Mostella played more than 30.

“Shembari had a tough game again today,” Barnes said. “And with the matchups, we just did what we felt like we needed to do. We felt like those guys were just really zeroed in tonight.”

When asked about the fatigue possibility for Friday’s matchup with LSU, Barnes message was simple, “they’re playing basketball.”

Reese echoed that statement.

“It’s not tough,” he said. “I don’t want to end my career ... It’s my last time here and I want to enjoy it as much as I can and just keep winning. I just want to go as far as I can go.”

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Safety Todd Kelly Jr., #6, stretches and preps for practice.

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New defensive coordinator adjusts to new defense Trenton Duffer Copy Editor

Defensive coordinator Bob Shoop is not surprised by what he has seen in the Vols’ first two spring practices of the season. “(Has it) surprised me? No, but I’d say through the first couple of days, it’s exactly what I thought,” Shoop said before Thursday’s practice at the Ray and Lucy Hand Digital Studio. “Up front, we have really good leadership.”

Shoop complimented Danny O’Brien and the “big, giant person” Kahlil McKenzie for their leadership on the defensive line. In the secondary, Shoop credited Micah Abernathy for being “the most consistent performer maybe on the entire unit.”

“He’s been protective. He’s very attentive and pays tremendous attention to detail,” Shoop said. “He’s been very precise in his techniques and fundamentals. It’s been really impressive.”

The defense has to replace senior safeties Brian Randolph and LaDarrell McNeil.

Shoop said that Micah Abernathy, Rashaan Gaulden, Todd Kelly Jr. and Stephen Griffin are all viable options at safety.

“I think a position that may have been a perceived weakness after losing Randolph and McNeil could well be a position of strength,” Shoop said. “All those guys are highly recruited players, and they’re competing very well.

“Come camp, when you get a Tyler Byrd or a Nigel Warrior, it’s going to be even more competitive.”

Thursday was the team’s first day of fullpadded practice, and Shoop said he hopes to learn more about his defense as they begin

hitting harder in practice.

Scott’s Transition: When Larry Scott was brought in to be the new tight ends coach, many wondered how the former Miami interim head coach would fare going from a head coach to a tight ends coach.

Scott admitted on Thursday that the transition has been easy and that his head coaching experience taught him a lot.

“A lot of times, as a position coach, you kind of lose focus on the big picture,” Scott said. “It gave me an overall, broader view of the big picture and actually what’s on a head coach’s mind … Where you can contribute, you need to contribute. You need to bring some more to the table and take care of your guys.”

Offensive coordinator Mike DeBord said he is was excited to have Scott’s “fresh set of eyes” on the field.

“When we went through our cut-ups and went through our system, he’s the first guy I would ask a question because of his fresh set of eyes that he had upon our system,” DeBord admitted. “He’s got experience with other parts of offense, maybe some new pass plays, new runs, whatever. We’re always continuing to look to get better, and we’ve added some things that’ll work.”

Scott is working with a new tight end Jason Croom, who decided to switch from wide receiver to tight end this spring.

Scott said that Thursday’s full-pad practice will show him who may be ready to take the next step.

“At the end of the day, when you put on pads now, this is how you play football,” Scott said. “Who can really take their last two progression-teaching days and bring it all together on day three when you’re asked to put on the equipment and play the game.”

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