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Victorian home in Fort Sanders to be demolished >>See page 3

Artist brings unique style to campus >>See page 5

Jones prepares for 2015 spring pratices >>See page 10 Head coach Holly Warlick, center, talks to the Lady Vols after their victory over Pittsburgh on Monday. • Photo courtesy of Donald Page/Tennessee Athletics

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DISPATCHES Ted Cruz announces presidential candidacy Ted Cruz, a first-term senator from Texas, announced his candidacy for the 2016 presidential election on Monday morning. By doing so, Cruz became the first major Republican candidate to throw his hat into the ring and officially declare his spot in the race. Cruz made the announcement at Liberty University to a crowd of students.

The conservative Tea Party member spoke at length about his background with an immigrant father and his belief in “the promise of America,” the New York Times reports. Cruz is seen as a radical political figure by Republicans and Democrats alike in Washington, but is often hailed as a conservative hero by evangelical Americans.

He is perhaps best known for orchestrating a plan that ultimately shut down the U.S. government for 16 days in 2013.

Ex-NFL player pleads guilty to sexual assault Former NFL star and NFL Network analyst Darren Sharper pleaded guilty Monday in Arizona to one count of sexual assault and one count of attempted sexual assault. The five-time ProBowl player was sentenced to nine years in prison with no eligibility for early release and will be placed on lifetime probation afterwards.

In November of 2013, Sharper faced five counts of drugging and raping three women in Arizona. After being indicted in Arizona, he was arrested in California for drugging and raping two women in that state. Sharper was also under investigation in other states, but Florida prosecutors announced last year they would not prosecute Sharper on similar allegations. However, he faces federal charges in Louisiana. Sharper has spent the past year in a Los Angeles jail, which will contribute a 300-day credit to his current sentence.

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It’s election season once more, and a new crop of student government hopefuls have put their names in the running.

The three major campaigns that have emerged — HawkinsKiefer, Connect and Seth, Leala, Willie — are ramping up their campaigns in anticipation of voting next week. The Connect campaign has the largest amount of registered senators on the ballot, with 34 listed in total. Check out the official ballot below: Running for Student Body President:

Running for Student Services Director:

Grayson Hawkins: Hawkins-Kiefer

Mariah Beane: Connect • Willie KempSeth, Leala

Seth T. Watkins: Seth, Leala, Willie Will Freeman: Connect

Running for Student Body Vice President: Leala Anne Marlin: Seth, Leala, Willie Madison Kahl: Connect

Willie Kemp: Seth, Leala, Willie

For the complete ballot, with candidates for SGA senators listed, visit sga.utk.edu

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Historic home to be demolished, making way for UT science building Chris Salvemini Staff Writer

A historic Fort Sanders house has been purchased by UT and plans for its destruction are in the works to make way for a new science building. The home, located at 1302 White Avenue, is one of the three Victorian houses dating back to 1896.

The university has been in negotiations with Danny and Martha Owen and the couple’s daughter and son-in-law, the current occupants, to purchase the home. The final price was set at $1.1 million.

In contrast, UT paid $1 million last April for 1308 White Avenue, and $515,000 for 1312 White Avenue. To replace the historic buildings, UT plans to build a new science and laboratory building.

“The new facility, estimated at 220,000 square feet, will consolidate AALAC accredited animal facilities ... and bring together disciplines such as microbiology, zoology, psychology and nutrition,” Chris Cimino, vice chancellor for finance and administration, said.

Walters Life Sciences Building will continue to be used for instructional and laboratory needs for at least the next two years, as the new building is expected to open in Fall 2017. The

university is currently awaiting approvals from the state, but the design for the new building is nearly complete and construction is expected to begin between late summer and early fall.

“The facility will be a laboratory building, with supporting space for faculty and personnel working in the labs, as well as having a stateof-the-art facility for joining in the international community of scientific presentations,” Cimino said.

Kim Trent, executive director of Knox Heritage, said she believes the university is targeting the historic district without considering other options.

“The purchase and planned demolition of these houses strikes another blow to the Fort Sanders Historic District and shows the university is putting its own priorities ahead of those of the community,” Trent said.

Trent said in this situation, the university used its power of eminent domain to take control of the home.

“UT has the full authority to use eminent domain in this situation since it is an agent of the state and is exempt from all local zoning laws,” she said.

The home was built for Cooper D. Schmitt, a revered UT math professor who lived out a third of his life in the house. He was chairman of athletics and advocated for the introduction

UT paid $1.1 million for the house on the left with plans to build a science building. The two houses on the right were purchased previously.

Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon of football in the university’s student life. He Fort Sanders has earned a spot on the list of dischampioned this cause after becoming dean of tricts that the federal government has deemed students in 1907. worthy of preservation.

One of his sons was Bernadotte Schmitt, a “This could be the tipping point for the UT student and the first Rhodes Scholar elected removal of that designation and that will strip from UT, who lived with him in the White the entire neighborhood of the protections and Avenue home. A brilliant child, Bernadotte incentives that come from being a National Schmitt enrolled at UT when he was 15 and Register District,” Trent said. majored in chemistry. At the age of 19, he left There are plans for the relocation of these his home to attend Merton College in England. homes, which includes a public solicitation for The purchase has angered some preservation- anyone willing to move the homes in a specified ists who seek to keep Fort Sander’s status as a amount of time, which is yet to be determined.

National Registry District intact. As it stands, Where they may be moved is also not yet determined.

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Event to highlight benefits of UT’s diversity Hannah Marley Staff Writer

This Wednesday, at nine locations across campus, the Office of Multicultural Student Life wants to remind every UT student that they are not only an individual, but a member of a campus community that is striving to be inclusive of students from all backgrounds.

The event, titled “Everyone Matters Day,” will be staffed by 20 student volunteers and supported by Dean of Students Melissa Shivers and Vice Chancellor of Diversity Rickey Hall. Prizes will include free T-shirts for the first 300 students, buttons and a photo booth, all designed to remind students they have a respected identity as an individual and a UT student.

Tanisha Jenkins, director of Multicultural Student Life at UT, said she hopes students who participate in the event come away with the feeling of originality and acceptance that the office is dedicated to promoting on campus.

“Our mission is to encourage acceptance of others and ourselves as we all are, celebrating individuality and uniqueness while

affirming that everyone has the right to be who they are,” Jenkins said.

A few of the locations the office will be tabling at include Pedestrian Walkway, the Black Cultural Center, Hodges Library, the Rock and the OUTreach Center.

Jenkins added that one of the aims of the event is not only to encourage students to be proud of their unique identities, but to inspire them to identify as a UT student and member of a larger campus identity.

“UT educates students and grows who they are,” Jenkins said. “We all make up a part of UT.” In addition to the on-campus events, the Office of Multicultural Student Life is encouraging students to use the hashtag #IAmUT on Twitter to share their reasons for believing they are a unique aspect of the campus community.

Alina Clay, student volunteer for the event and member of the Student Government Association Diversity Affairs Committee, said she thinks the event will continue to help make UT a more inclusive and welcoming space for all students while letting the campus community know that regardless of any real or perceived differences, everyone here is a Volunteer.

“Our mission is to encourage acceptance of others and ourselves as we all are, celebrating individuality and uniqueness while affirming that everyone has the right to be who they are.”

-Tanisha Jenkins “It’s a campus-wide step toward cultivating a renewed sense of civility and appreciation for differences among students at UT,” Clay said. “It fosters students’ own feelings of self-worth through celebrating everyone’s differences and underscoring the fact that they positively contribute to UT as Volunteers.”

Acclaimed NPR science correspondent to speak at Tuesday’s annual Hill Lecture Jennifer Webb Contributor

In less than 120 seconds, you could know the secrets of the universe.

This Tuesday, award-winning NPR correspondent Joe Palca will visit UT to deliver his“Explaining the Universe in Two Minutes or Less” talk as this year’s Alfred and Julia Hill Lecture speaker.

Palca has been a leading science correspondent for NPR since 1992, covering topics ranging from biomedical research to astronomy. Currently, Palca is working on his radio series “Joe’s Big Idea,” which focuses on the minds and motivations of historical scientists and inventors.

Mark Littmann, journalism professor and Hill Chair of Excellence in science, technology and medical writing, said Palca will explain the premise that even something as complex as the universe can be explained in as little as two minutes.

“The idea is how do you explain anything complex in a brief amount of time so everybody can understand it and better yet, so

everybody enjoys it,” Littmann said. “And by universe he doesn’t mean astronomy, he means everything, every scientific thing there is.”

“The idea is how do you explain anything complex in a brief amount of time so everybody can understand it and better yet, so everybody enjoys it.”

-Mark Littman

According to NPR’s website, Palca has been awarded many accolades over the years including the Science-in-Society Award of the National Association of Science Writers, the American Chemical Society James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting

Chemistry for the Public and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Prize.

Michael Wirth, dean of the College and Communication and Information, said he is excited to listen to Palca speak in person as opposed to on the radio.

“I’m looking forward to the opportunity to hear Joe Palca talk for longer than a minute and a half,” Wirth said. “He tells very interesting stories that are easy to understand for people like me, or the average person out there.”

The Hill Lecture series is named in memory of Alfred and Julia Hill by their son, Tom Hill. Tom Hill was a publisher of The Oak Ridger newspaper and named the lecture series after his parents who founded the publication.

Tom Hill and his sister Mary Frances Hill Holton were the primary benefactors of an endowment for UT’s School of Journalism, matching the state’s contributions to form the Julia G. and Alfred G. Hill Chair of Excellence Professorship in Science, Technology and Medical Writing and the Science Communication Program at the UT. This year’s Hill Lecture will be held at 8 p.m. in the College of Nursing, Room 201.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, officially announced his intention to run for president in 2016 in a speech delivered at Liberty University on Monday. Twitter was abuzz with speculation on how his campaign may fare.

Rob Graham

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Ted Cruz announcing at Liberty University in a mandatory assembly while the students trash talk him on yik-yak, you know... politics.

Daniel Lawhon @DTLawhon Ted Cruz is going to perform stronger in the primary than either side expects; he’s openly using the Obama/OFA campaign model.

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“Ted Cruz to announce White House bid on Monday.”

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Multicultural artist brings unique portrait project to UT community Megan Patterson Staff Writer

New York City.

“I was first volunteering in this space that was opened by an artist in Queens, which was giving a space for rights and for community,” Nisenbaum explained.

“I initially was volunteering in her space

What do you call a woman born in Mexico to a Russian immigrant and an American art student?

Aliza Nisenbaum calls herself an artist.

“I am very much a mutt of all these different cultures,” Nisenbaum said.

“I guess I have the sense of being from everywhere and yet from nowhere, so then I find my identity in being an artist more than a nationality in some ways.”

Nisenbaum came to the United States at age 21 after studying psychology in Mexico City for two years.

“I wanted to do something practical,” Nisenbaum rationalized. “But then art was what I had always wanted to do.”

As a child, she watched her mother create large flower paintings in the Mexican artistic tradition, which Aliza Nisenbaum's oil on linen painting “Eva, Juan Carlos, her family then cri- Yael, Christian and Samantha” from 2014 is 51 inches by tiqued over the din- 33 inches. • Photo courtesy of Nisenbaum ner table.

Like her mother, teaching a group of women English Nisenbaum draws inspiration from through art history.” styles unique to Mexican art.

After developing a close connection “I think of my work much more in with many of her students, Nisenbaum relation to the Mexican realists, but the conceived the idea for her next project.

French intimists with the textiles and “Through that class I got very interthe patterns that they use have always ested in their stories, so I asked them influenced me as well,” Nisenbaum said. if they would sit for me so that I could “I think of my work as a combination of paint them,” Nisenbaum recounted. these totally disparate influences.”

“That’s a way of really sitting for a very Although she now lives and works in long time with someone and getting the United States, Nisenbaum remains them to open up for you.” connected to her roots. Her most recent For Nisenbaum, having a connection project was a collection of portraits and personal experience with her subof undocumented immigrants living in ject is essential. She views a painting as

more than a depiction; it’s an encounter.

“There are very few opportunities that you have in life to spend six hours staring at something,” Nisenbaum said. “Painting really lets you do that.

Whether it’s a still life or letters or a person, it’s an intimate encounter with something.”

Nisenbaum’s portraits feature her models set in a nondescript, patterned background.

“I was thinking of placing them in some type of dream space where it’s not necessarily like a real room or real deep space,” Nisenbaum said.

For Nisenbaum, this reflects the actual experience for undocumented immigrants of “being in an in-between space.”

Showing the subject of the portrait as detached from his or her objective reality also draws the viewer’s focus directly to the model themselves. In doing this, Nisenbaum hopes to convey the deeper, subjective world of her models.

“It’s really difficult to depict an interior nowadays with a sense of how social media has infiltrated into both our pub-

lic and private space,” Nisenbaum said.

“I think that quite often the models are depicted in moments of intense interiority, where they are absorbed in their own activity.”

Nisenbaum proposes that each of us, undocumented immigrants especially, experience much of our time as being “instrumentalized.”

She tries to create “a time of asking somebody to just sit and be engaged in their own reading or watching a movie or something in a moment of noninstrumentalized time, where you’re not for anything else but for yourself and for me trying to document that in the painting.”

Here at the university Nisenbaum hopes to extend her project and produce more portraits on UT campus.

“I want to do portraits of the very unique social configuration that happens with professors at the university,” Nisenbaum said. “They are my surroundings now; it’s the same face to face encounter with this work force which is the University of Tennessee art faculty.”

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Nick & J’s Café brings family element to Knoxville cooking Madison Eubanks Contributor

Nick & J’s Café: warm, delicious and worth the drive.

When eating at Nick & J’s Café, there are a few certainties: expect to be the only UT student in a buzzing crowd of construction workers and business casual lunch-breakers; enjoy being called “hon” and “sweetie” multiple times by a coffee pot-wielding waitress who’s friendly enough to seem like a close relative and anticipate leaving the café almost painfully full from tasty, homestyle food that cost no more than you would have spent at McDonald’s.

This cozy, mom-and-pop restaurant has an authentic, old school diner atmosphere without the cheesiness of some retro-themed restaurants and serves great food at budget-friendly prices.

Located in Farragut, Tennessee, Nick and J’s is about a 20-minute drive from campus and is clearly not directed at or dependent upon the patronage of college students. The café is open only for breakfast and lunch, 7 a.m.-4 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturdays. This is not your best bet for hangover recovery eggs and bacon either, as breakfast stops being served at 10:30 a.m; however, urbanspoon. com has deemed the diner worth an early wake-up call, naming Nick & J’s one of the top five breakfast spots in the Knoxville area.

On the outside, Nick & J’s Café is pretty nondescript, but inside, the standard diner layout of booths and bar stools is made unique by a homey collection of photos, signs and local memorabilia. Established by Najwan Natour, Nick & J’s Café remains family owned and operated. Natour owns two other successful restaurants in Knoxville, as well as another in Florida. He named the café for his children, Nicholas and Jordan. To continue with the family element, even Natour’s father comes in to prepare the daily specials each morning.

The menu has all the staples of a traditional diner and café: sandwiches, soups, salads and of course, famous burgers. Nick & J’s selection of burgers are served with a mound of French fries and all the fixings, and for those of average appetite, a to-go box.

This scrumptious burger, named one

of Knoxville’s top five by urban spoon. com, is approximately as wide as it is tall and grilled to perfection right behind the counter.

In addition to the regular menu, Nick & J’s offers a daily selection of homemade “Southern Comfort” food including entrees like roast beef, meatloaf and chicken and dumplings, as well as sides such as fried okra, mashed potatoes and mac ‘n’ cheese.

Next time you find yourself missing your mom’s cooking, Nick & J’s has the homemade remedy.

If by some miracle you still have room after your meal, the café offers a large selection of homemade pies, cakes and other desserts to finish you off. After such an inexpensive meal, you won’t even feel guilty about indulging in the 99 cent brownies, cookies and pastries that are made in-house and sit temptingly upon the check-out counter.

Next time you and your friends find yourselves craving vastly different meals, Nick and J’s extensive menu will undoubtedly offer something for everyone. And while it is a bit farther from campus than students typically go for a meal, the money spent on gas will easily be made up for by the money saved on the inexpensive yet hearty cuisine.

Nick & J’s Cafe in Turkey Creek serves many breakfast and lunch options, like this veggie pita and burger and fries combination.

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Riding the road back to reality

Kaila Curry

School of Sarcasm

We were driving down a long, dark stretch of I-40, on the way back from a spring break expedition to the Grand Canyon, when my friend let out a loud gasp.

“The stars—the stars!” she said, pointing out the window. I opened the sunroof, and both my friend and I stood on the center console of the SUV as we gazed in awe up into the sky; the warm desert air blowing through our hair, with nothing but the soothing sound of the wind filling our ears and my friend’s sister yelling, “Sit the hell down.”

As Arizona faded further and further into the distance, I couldn’t help but reflect on the experience. The 24-hour road trip was more than worth the indescribable splendor of the Grand Canyon. The 12-mile hike to the bottom of the Canyon’s narrow path and back was much more memorable than a hazy week spent on the natty-light soaked sands of Panama City Beach.

The entire trip was phenomenal, and the only thing my group of friends could find to complain about was the return to reality. During the daylong drive back to

Knoxville, a thought occurred to us: “Why can’t we just drop out of school and become vagabonds?”

I believe this is a fantasy every student toys with at some point in his or her college career. The immense pressure of school becomes so burdensome; you can’t help but ask yourself if it really is worth it in the end. “Can I not just travel the world, picking up odd jobs and living a simpler life, away from the stress and duties of the real world?”

This fantasy, however, was quickly shattered when our road trip jams were cut off and an “Insufficient Spotify Premium funds” message appeared on my phone. When your bank account contains less than the measly five or so dollars to pay your Spotify bill, you may need to rethink your budgeting abilities.

Romantic as it may seem, the reality of dropping out of college isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. While you may take a gap year or ten with the intention

“When your bank account contains less than the measly five or so dollars to pay your Spotify bill, you may need to rethink your budgeting abilities.”

of backpacking across the country, you could just as easily turn into a sad, Cheeto dust-coated man yelling “Myaaaaaam! Where’s mah meatloaf!” from your parent’s basement.

As it turns out, paying for food and basic necessities requires a steady income, and finding a job that meets your skill set, and isn’t bagging groceries at your local supermarket, without that little $50,000 slip of paper is actually pretty difficult.

Jaunting about on your parents’ dime would be the biggest slap in the face to the many individuals who would dream of the opportunity to gain a college degree, but lack the financial aid to do so.

Eventually, your parents will discontinue paying for the things you take for granted, such as your phone bill and health insurance, crushing the perceived “adult” world many of us live in.

As daunting as college seems at times, it is much better to bite the bullet and finish your degree. While dropping out and doing whatever you want may seem romantic at first, living paycheck to paycheck is not.

My journey to the Grand Canyon was a life-changing trip, and one that was necessary for my sanity.

While it is fun to fantasize about living the vagabond lifestyle, the road back to reality has no detours.

Kaila Curry is a sophomore in journalism. She can be emailed at kcurry6@vols.utk.edu or tweeted @KailaCurry.

My week on a cruise ship

RJ VOGT

Open Letters

After driving for six hours; accidentally almostspraying a parking lot attendant with my windshield wipers; nearly running over one of the five passengers in our mini-van; forking over $85 to park in an empty parking lot; and wandering through baggage check in a stream of 2,000+ vacationers, I stepped onboard the Carnival Fantasy.

I had never been on a true, collegiate-stereotype “spring break” before – I had never been on a cruise ship either. My only frame of reference was David Foster Wallace’s literary essay, sardonically titled “On a supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again.” As you might gather, he doesn’t think too highly of cruises, and the essay details his many reasons why. He goes on for 50 pages, bemoaning the crush of middle-aged flesh and manufactured pleasure. “There’s something about a mass market Luxury Cruise that’s unbearably sad,” he writes. “It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die.”

Doesn’t exactly sound like a great way to vacation, but there I was, floating into the Caribbean with my closest friends. Determined to relax, I got to work: I ordered appetizers of crab cakes and chilled cucumber soup as if they were glasses of water. I saw a bad comedian mime masturbation and make drunk people laugh. An achingly beautiful Macedonian crew member named Spasia smiled at me every morning

and night, and a truly genuine man, a Philippine server named Fernando, served me cake and ice cream whenever I wanted it. For midnight snacks, we got peanut butter and jelly sandwiches room serviced to our door.

On the top deck of a 70,367 ton boat, I lay in the sun, sipped rum and read a book; on the white sands of Nassau in the Bahamas, I lay in the sun and listened to the locals hawking cigars, weed, rum-filled coconuts and scarves. In Freeport, I lay in the sun – and realized I was sunburnt.

On my last night, I gambled $20 and got down to my last four bucks, only to hit on roulette twice and walk away with $40 in my pocket. This was after I puked tequila and half a portobella mushroom into a tiny toilet in our even tinier cabin, making it the greatest puke and rally of my life.

In all these things, I searched for the unbearable sadness that Wallace noted. I found it in the Bahamian locals who hustled a living from the horde of Americans that invaded their beaches. I found it, too, in the crew who worked 10-12 hour shifts seven days a week – for $50 a month. This sadness was heavy, and I will not soon forget the true cost of my vacation at sea.

But for the most part, I found that my cruise was the best week of my life because of the people, the close friends I spent it with; perhaps Wallace’s experience was so singularly miserable because he spent his

cruise alone, mired in himself.

One thing he had right, though, was the sense of confronting one’s own death. It came swift and unexpected in the moments spent gazing at vast open water. The swaying of the ship and the sounds of naughty grandma competitions and the beaches full of spring breakers from around the country … these memories will fade and die, inevitable as the sun and its sinking. The individual ego I live in is small and weak and selfish, and it, too, will disappear with the tide.

But the feeling is not unbearable, not for me. How liberating, to recognize that there is no such thing as “I” or “one” (for to have “one” is to have something “other”); to look upon the ocean at dusk, when the horizon is no more, and wonder at the incredible dependency between sea and sky; to contemplate the togetherness of a boat and the water it floats on.

Even the best experiences of pleasure – in this case, the best week of my life – are merely momentary vibrations that begin and end, crests and troughs of an endless wave that rolls us onward. But if there’s one thing I learned at sea, it’s to embrace the inevitability of endings. Just as certain are the beginnings that follow.

R.J. Vogt is a senior in College Scholars and can be reached at rvogt@utk.edu.

Columns of The Daily Beacon are the views of the individual and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Beacon or the Beacon’s editorial staff.

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‘Truly special’ album from Kendrick Lamar is breaking rap rules Will Warren

Staff Writer (@wwarren9) It was Selection Sunday — one of my favorite days of the year.

Despite how college basketball has devalued itself as a product over the last decade, I still watch each March with the childlike joy of an infant and his first birthday cake.

My Twitter feed on auto-refresh, a tweet from Stereogum, a music news site, popped up: “Kendrick Lamar just released his new album, ‘To Pimp a Butterfly,’ on iTunes.�

Two answers to your already-formed ques-

tions: yes, I bought a physical copy at the Disc Exchange and yes, staying up way too late has its perks.

Just from the first track, titled “Wesley’s Theory� (a reference to Wesley Snipes’ “tax protester theory�), anyone can tell that Kendrick has evolved into something new.

It’s a surprise to anyone who only listened to “good kid, m.A.A.d. city,� but his earlier album “Section.80� showed a few hints of this.

Even so, my God – who in their right mind starts a hip-hop record in 2015 with a funkbased beat and George Clinton of ParliamentFunkadelic?

Then, who follows that up with an interlude

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SPORTS

The Daily Beacon • Tuesday, March 24, 2015

FOOTBALL

Lack of depth biggest hurdle for spring practice Jonathan Toye

Sports Editor As soon as the clock expired at EverBank Field on Jan. 2, Tennessee fans immediately began asking questions about the Vols’ 2015 football season.

“Could the Vols win 10 games next year?

Would UT finally win the SEC East this year?”

Some of the more optimistic Vols fans began to wonder whether Tennessee could be a dark horse playoff contender.

Yet if they listened to Tennessee head coach Butch Jones’ press conference on Monday, they might have considered pumping the breaks on their lofty expectations for the upcoming Tennessee football season.

“This spring will present, as we all know, many challenges,” Jones said. “I think it’s a snapshot still of where we’re at in our football program in terms of depth. We’re not there yet. We’re still a couple recruiting classes away but we’re going to be forced to be creative in the way we practice.”

The principal reason for the lack of depth, Jones said, is that nine players will not participate in practice this spring.

Derek Barnett, Jason Croom, Alex Ellis, Marcus Jackson, Jakob Johnson, Darrin Kirkland Jr., Curt Maggitt, Danny O’Brien and Kyle Phillips will not practice in the spring due to injuries. This leaves Tennessee with only five defensive linemen available for the spring practices.

“The biggest setback (of spring practice) are the injuries,” Jones said. “Having nine individuals out and having a number of individuals that are day to day, that really hurts the progress of your football team.”

While the injuries on the defensive line clearly affect how the defense practices in the spring, Jones was quick to observe the injuries’ impact on the development of the offensive line.

It will be difficult for the offensive line to improve during the spring without trying to stop two of the SEC’s most vaunted pass rushers, Barnett and Maggitt. Jones also noted the injuries prevent the offensive linemen from participating in situational football.

Jones admitted the injuries forced him to be creative with practices. The product of his creativity: two practice formats for the spring.

On practice days — Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays — the injured players will mainly lift. On days when the team doesn’t practice, the injured players will go through walk-throughs and participate in activities Jones said “simulate the mental repetitions.”

Jones said this practice format will ensure

Head coach Butch Jones speaks at a press conference on Monday where he touched on the fact that nine defensive linemen are out with injuries during spring training. • Photo courtesy of Donald Page/Tennessee Athletics no injured players get left behind in spring practice.

“We have to make sure that Darrin Kirkland continues to progress,” Jones said.

“We have to make sure Jakob Johnson continues to progress and all the individuals that are injured.”

Aside from mentioning the different practice format, Jones listed his expectations for spring practice on both sides of the ball. On defense, he wants to create more turnovers.

Offensively, he wants to create more explosive plays.

The host of injuries and the overall lack of depth haven’t prevented Jones from being optimistic about the upcoming spring practice, however.

“If you look on the positive side, it also allows for many opportunities,” Jones said.

“We are night and day from where we were spring one. Just our work capacity, our mentality, our players doing the extra. They understand the culture, they understand the standard. They understand the expectations.”

Two of the reasons for Jones’ optimism lie in the backfield.

Running back Alvin Kamara, the top junior

college prospect and former Alabama player, will be one of the newcomers in spring, but Jones said he is already developing a leadership role. In addition, starting quarterback Josh Dobbs already has an established leadership role.

“Josh has been driven,” Jones said. “He’s just got that different look in his eye. And the other thing is, in terms of confidence, he’s leading others. He’s not setting the example, he’s leading them vocally. He’s been very demanding. He set up all the offseason throwing on his own. So he’s really taken ownership in that position.”

Dobbs’ leadership role is probably why Jones wants him to work on better protecting himself when running the football. He doesn’t want the team leader to suffer a debilitating injury.

“Coach (Mike) DeBord came in and right away, three things when he runs the football: touchdown, first down, get down,” Jones said.

In the midst of all injuries and the optimism for the upcoming spring practice, Jones and his football team still have set a goal for themselves. The goal, though, might not be as specific as the goals set by the fans.

This goal doesn’t include winning the East or dictating the number of games the team must win. It’s much simpler.

“We have basically one goal and that is to be a better football team every time we step into the Anderson Training Center,” Jones said. “Everything else will take care of itself.

We have to work on being a much better football team. I spoke about it earlier, everyone is responsible for their own self-determination.

If every individual in our football program improves individually then we improve collectively as a football team.”

Extra Point: Another cause of optimism for Jones resides in the weight room in Anderson Training Center.

Jones said the Tennessee football team experienced significant gains in strength and conditioning.

Seventy-five percent of the team set personal records in the weight room in the offseason. The players raised their squat PR by an average of 50 pounds and their PR bench press by an average of 25 pounds.

Considering Jones said the goal for the season was self-improvement, he was happy with the offseason results in the weight room.

SPORTS

Tuesday, March 24, 2015 • The Daily Beacon

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Massengale and squad thwart Panther comeback Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer

As the game turned: Senior Ariel Massengale had the moment flash before her eyes.

In her last appearance playing on her home court, the Lady Vols’ guard helped stave off a late comeback attempt by Brianna Kiesel and Pittsburgh.

Massengale connected on all six of her free throw attempts in the final 37 seconds and gathered a steal to seal Tennessee’s Sweet Sixteen berth with 22 seconds remaining as Kiesel lost the dribble.

“It’s a great feeling to keep advancing,” Massengale said. “I really don’t think its hit me yet that it was my last time playing on this court, just because we are happy to still be playing in the tournament. It’s been a great four years here and I’m going to miss it. I just want to keep winning and take this team as far as it will go.”

The senior sharpshooter, who hit two threes, giving her 69 treys on the season, and teammates Cierra Burdick and Isabelle Harrison left their home court with a perfect 18-0 mark in their final seasons and with a memory they will always remember.

Massengale finished with 16 points and Burdick landed her eighth double-double of the season with 14 points and 10 rebounds after being held scoreless in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

“I’m confident in my seniors,” sophomore guard Jordan Reynolds said, who finished with nine points, six rebounds and four assists. “Both of them stepped up and hit some really big shots that we needed. Ariel hit some big free throws down the stretch. I’m confident in them just as much as they are in me. They come out to play and they stepped up big.”

Hot topic: No team in the NCAA tournament has had an answer for the fiery play down low of Bashaara Graves.

Through her first two games in March Madness the 6-foot-2 center for the Lady Vols has used her strong and athletic frame to power her way in the post to 44 points (17-for-28 FG) and 19 rebounds.

Determined to get her team second-chance points throughout the contest, Graves finished with 10 of her team’s 21 offensive rebounds, setting a career-high.

“That’s just Bashaara,” Reynolds said. “She has stepped up big for us and she doesn’t want this season to end. She has been a beast on the boards and a beast inside. All the critics have said no one has been stepping up since Isabelle (Harrison) went down, but she’s been proving them wrong.”

The toughness displayed by the relentless

junior was put on full display when she battled her way through two defenders and, while having her contact jarred out on the contact down low, hit her layup and single free-throw attempt to give the Lady Vols a 47-36 lead with 13:50 left to play.

“She is one of the toughest players in the country,” Reynolds said.

“She goes to the boards so hard and it just showed today. A contact is not going to stop her.”

Tennessee, which has 39 offensive rebounds in wins against Boise Sophomore guard Andraya Carter dribbles towards the State and Pittsburgh, basket during the NCAA tournament game between the has advanced to the Pittsburgh Panthers and the Tennessee Lady Volunteers program’s 37th Sweet on Monday.

Sixteen appearance. • Photo courtesy of Donald Page/Tennessee Athletics With a mindset to crash four players to 4: Defensive rebounds for Graves out of her the offensive boards, Reynolds came up with six 14 rebounds rebounds and was one of four Lady Vols to finish with at least two offensive rebounds.

“Our coaches have been trying to get us to get four to the boards for offense all season long,” Reynolds said. “Now we are finally doing it. It helped tonight. We got a lot of offensive boards from people, including the guards. It provides part of the difference.”

Spotlight: This Wednesday the Lady Vols will travel to Spokane, Washington, where they will take on No. 11 seed Gonzaga. For Reynolds, Jaime Nared and Mercedes Russell it will be basically a homecoming trip since all three are from Oregon.

“I’m so excited,” Reynolds said. “We are looking forward to playing in our backyard almost.

No matter what, we are going to go out and play hard and try and continue the road to Tampa.”

The other guys: Brianna Kiesel scored 24 of her career-high 32 points in the second half of Pittsburgh’s defeat Monday night.

The ACC’s fourth leading scorer shot 11-of24 from the field and poured in 9-of-13 from the free throw line, as she played all 40 minutes.

Say something: Holly Warlick on tying her career high as a head coach at Tennessee with her 29th win: “I didn’t even know that. That’s awesome. I’m probably worried about the five losses more than the wins. The wins are a reflection of your staff and great players. We are going to continue to get great players and aim for championships.”

By the numbers: 92: The Lady Vols have totaled 46 rebounds in their first two wins of the NCAA Tournament 8: Tennessee hit eight of its first 10 shots

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SPORTS

The Daily Beacon • Tuesday, March 24, 2015

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Lady Vols advance to Sweet Sixteen behind performance from Graves Taylor White

Assistant Sports Editor

After a career high 24 points in the Lady Vols’ first round win over Boise State, Bashaara Graves expressed the confidence boost she received.

That confidence was evident Monday night.

The junior forward scored 21 points and pulled down a season-high 14 rebounds as she led No. 2 seeded Tennessee past the upsetminded No. 10 seed Pittsburgh Panthers 77-67, and helped advance the Lady Vols to their 33rd appearance in the Sweet Sixteen.

“We’re getting (Graves) the basketball,” third year coach Holly Warlick said. “But she’s really doing a lot of work before she gets the ball… I think when Izzy went out, she understands that she has to step up and do things for this basketball team.”

What really stood out about her performance, however, was her defense. After scoring 16 points and grabbing 13 rebounds in the Panther’s first round win over UTC, forward Stasha Carey was held scoreless and only managed three rebounds.

Of Graves’ 14 total rebounds, 10 of them came on the offensive end of the floor as she was responsible for eight of Tennessee’s 19 second chance points on the game, as Tennessee (29-5) out-rebounded Pitt 46-29.

She also shot 8-of-17 from the field, and constant battle for position made for easy passes from the Lady Vol guards.

“I know I need to show up in each game,” Graves said. “Just since Izzy has been out, I have to do my part.”

While Tennessee led by as much as 14 in the second half, the Panthers refused to go away thanks to the play of Brianna Kiesel.

The senior guard led the way for Pitt, scoring 32 points, including nine of her team’s last 11.

Kiesel managed to bring the Panthers (2012) back within four with just 30 seconds to

Junior forward Bashaara Graves goes for a lay-up during the Lady Vols game against the Pittsburgh Panthers on Monday.

• Photo courtesy of Donald Page/Tennessee Athletics

go, but the Lady Vols hit free throws down the stretch, shooting 9-of-10 from the charity stripe in the last minute of the game, including knocking down their last eight.

“We had to battle,” Warlick said. “It was a great team effort, and Pittsburgh was just so solid … That’s what you do when you get to this point, you battle and play hard.”

Tennessee took control of the game in the first half, using an 11-0 run to establish a 15-4 lead just six minutes into the game, thanks in part to the reemergence of Cierra Burdick.

After failing to score in Tennessee’s win over Boise State, Burdick did what seniors are supposed to do and bounced back strong. The forward recorded a double-double of her own, scoring 14 points to go with 10 rebounds.

Burdick knocked down four of her first five shots in the first half, helping Tennessee jump out to a 35-23 lead at the break, proving to be a hole too deep for the Panthers.

“It’s always nice to see the ball go through the bucket,” Burdick said. “I was just trying to stay positive. I knew today I had to bounce back. My teammates and coaches did a great job of just continuing to encourage me, telling me to shoot the ball.”

Ariel Massengale added 16 points of her own and shot 6-of-8 from the free throw line, with her only two misses coming before the game even tipped off as Pittsburgh was assessed a technical foul for an error with the score book.

Along with Burdick, this was Massengale’s last game at Thompson-Boling Arena, and Warlick was pleased with the way the duo ended their UT careers.

“I’m so happy that these seniors could go out the way they did,” Warlick said. “They’ve had a lot of pressure put on them since their freshman year. I’m just excited that they keep playing, and I’m so glad that they got to have two great performances here.”

Tennessee will face the No. 11 seeded Gonzaga on Saturday in Spokane, Washington, in the Sweet Sixteen.