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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

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The trial began today for Victor Trezevant, the second of four men accused of the 2007 on-campus shooting of University of Memphis foot-ball player Taylor Bradford.

Trezevant, 24, entered his long-awaited plea of “not guilty” amid a full courtroom at 201 Poplar.

Fellow student Devin Jefferson, who also pled not guilty last year, was convicted on Mother ’s Day of Bradford’s felony murder. He was auto-matically sentenced to 51 years in state prison.

Bradford was shot in his right side in front of Carpenter Complex at approximate-ly 9:30 p.m. Sept. 30, 2007, when Trezevant and co-con-spirators Daeshawn Tate and Courtney Washington, three of Jefferson’s high school friends, allegedly attempted to rob the 21-year-old lineman of the $7,400 he had won that weekend at Horseshoe Casino in Tunica, Miss.

Still in his Lincoln Town Coupe, Bradford, a business major, sped across Central Avenue before losing con-sciousness heading south on Zach Curlin Street and crash-ing into a tree.

Investigators never defin-

itively determined who wielded the weapon, a 9 mm Luger.

In his own trial, Jefferson implicated Trezevant as Bradford’s shooter, but pros-ecutors said Jefferson’s guilt was justified because he set the robbery plan in motion, thereby making him criminal-ly responsible for the actions of others.

Jefferson admitted at the time to coordinating the rob-bery that resulted in Bradford’s being shot to death.

The two had been involved in a heated rivalry over a shared girlfriend, but Jefferson maintained that he was not present during the robbery and never intended for Bradford to be killed.

Both Tate and Washington are listed as witnesses for what attorneys estimated should be a weeklong trial.

Outside the courtroom, Bradford’s parents, who attended Jefferson’s every trial date last May, said they planned to be in court throughout Trezevant’s case as well.

“It’s killing me,” said his father Jimmie, tugging at the bill of a blue Tigers cap. “Hopefully all of them will be off the street, and Memphis will be safer. But my son is still dead.”

On trial

BY MEGAN HARRISOnline Editor

Trezevant

Proposed dorm could replace problematic Towers within 3 years

After a year of planning, University of Memphis Director of Residence Life Peter Groenendyk has submitted a proposal to replace Richardson Towers with a new dormitory to be constructed by 2014.

Groenendyk sent his proposal to Tony Poteet, associate vice president of campus planning and design, with whom he has worked throughout the planning process.

Once approved by Poteet, the proposal will be submitted to President Shirley Raines and the execu-tive council, who will either approve or deny the proposal by March.

“We are investing a lot of resources to revital-izing housing continually,” Groenendyk said. “We want to make sure residents like the housing and are comfortable. We are trying to improve student concerns.”

The proposed dormitory is estimated to cost between $40 million and $45 million, almost double the $25 million cost to construct and prepare the Living Learning Residence Complex, which opened on Patterson just before the Fall 2010 semester.

Groenendyk said the estimated price is consistent with new housing costs at other universities.

In keeping with the proposal, money for the project would come from student housing fees, Groenendyk said.

Richardson Towers will still be used until a new building is constructed and ready for use and will then be torn down, he said.

Over the past year, focus groups comprised of U of M students were used to gauge opinions of cur-rent campus housing.

The groups considered dormitories at the University of Mississippi, Auburn University and the University of Alabama as models for the new building.

For many Richardson Towers residents, a new dormitory can’t come soon enough.

“(A new dorm) would be great. It should hap-pen,” said freshman biology major and Richardson Towers resident Charlesa Ambrose.

Freshman biology major and Richardson Towers resident Christina Brown called Richardson Towers “the projects” of The U of M.

She said the title comes from the chronic main-tenance issues, squalor and regular noise-related disturbances to which residents are accustomed.

Computer engineering freshman and Towers resi-dent James Coleman complained that his toilet has been broken for two weeks.

Another Richardson Towers resident, Jasmine Luster, freshman health and human performance major, said only one elevator was currently working, and her heater goes out regularly.

“I definitely understand the students’ frustra-tion,” Groenendyk said. “I get frustrated when things in my house mess up.”

Maintenance workers in Richardson Towers recently had to repair pipes, resulting in low water pressure until the issue was corrected.

The University of Memphis Summer Program Study Abroad Fair will take place today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom.

The fair will focus on pro-viding information to students who wish to study internation-ally this summer. The U of M’s Study Abroad program consists of 250 programs in 50 countries.

Chrystal Goudsouzian, study abroad adviser and coordinator of the event, said the fair is “a great opportunity” to learn about the “plethora of summer study options.”

Attendees can meet faculty members traveling with partici-pating students on summer trips and speak with students who have studied abroad in the past.

“Study Abroad should be a part of every student’s college experience,” Goudsouzian said. “Visiting and studying in anoth-er country is an unparalleled experience that will benefit stu-dents personally, academically and professionally.”

University and federal aid is available to students wishing to pursue a study abroad oppor-tunity, and any student who attends today’s fair will have a chance to win a $500 study abroad scholarship.

BY CHELSEA BOOZERNews Reporter

Study Abroad Fair held today in UC Ballroom

BY HANNAH OWENGANews Reporter

The new dormitory proposal submitted by Peter Groenendyk, director of residence life, would result in brand-new student housing constructed on the current site of Richardson Towers, which many residents say is in bad disrepair.

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University of Memphis junior Jonathan Blake White said he has always found ref-uge in music, even in his mother’s womb.

“My father would hold the radio against my mom’s belly, and it would keep me from kicking,” said White, a business and theater major.

White’s passion for music has since landed him a ticket to Hollywood, Calif., in the next round of “American Idol.”

After winning local singing competi-tion “Memphis Idol” in July, White trav-eled to New Orleans later that month to

audition for “American Idol.”A self-described gospel singer, White flew

to Louisiana with his mom, sister and friends from his church and found a deep talent pool of

“Idol” hopefuls.“There were so many talented people there,” he

said. “They won’t have a problem at all finding an American Idol for season 10.”

White said it was “almost overwhelming” to partici-

pate in a competition of such magnitude.

“I was kind of ner-vous about the com-petition because I had never been (out) on that kind of limb before,” said White, who also auditioned for the Fox tele-

vision show “Glee” last year. “It was nerve-racking, but at the end of the day, God holds the future. And as long as you give it your best shot, you’re covered.”

One of the last few people to audition out of more than 18,000 con-testants, White said he sung “Higher Ground” by Stevie Wonder.

White said it was around 11 p.m. when he met the judges — Jennifer Lopez, Randy Jackson and Steven Tyler — and his audition last-ed about five minutes.

He said the judges were exactly how they appear on television.

“They’re really trying to shape us as artists,” he said. “They’re really building us up and teaching us something to take home.”

White said he hopes people tune in to the show at 7 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays to vote for him.

“People should vote for me because I’m Christ-centered and I’m well grounded. I have a lot of musical ideas that would change the future of music,” he said. “I think I’m very idealistic as to what the next American Idol can be. I love Christian contemporary music, and my goal is to be one of the first Christian contemporary American Idols and spread the power of love and forgiveness to my brothers and sisters in Christ.”

After winning “Memphis Idol,” U of M junior Jonathan Blake White traveled to New Orleans to compete in front of the judges of

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University of Memphis stu-dents looking for employment can fill their stomachs while they learn how to fatten their wallets at today’s “Lunch and Learn” workshop.

The workshop, titled “How to Get a Job,” will be held in the UC Bluff Room from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. The U of M Career Services is hosting the event.

Shea Houze, career adviser with The U of M, said “Lunch and Learn,” a semester-long series, provides opportunities for students to connect with employers and gain valuable information about a variety of industries and topics.

This semester ’s series focused on the ‘how-to’s of navigating the career process, Houze said. Today’s work-

shop will provide participants with information on writing resumes and cover letters, searching for jobs, dressing professionally, preparing for and giving interviews, and following up with potential employers.

“These are more strategic, more focused approaches to looking at the job search,” Houze said. “So if students want the edge of where to look and (how to) distinguish themselves on the job market, this would be a great work-shop for them to attend.”

The other “Lunch and Learn” workshops this semester will be “How to Break into Medical Sales” on Feb. 9, “How to Keep a Job: Expectations from the Experts” on Feb. 23, “How to Work a Career Fair” on March 23 and “How to Interview: The Art of Marketing Yourself” on April 6.

BY CHRIS DANIELSNews Reporter

Campus Events

Munch and learn to get yourself hired

The President Barack Obama who addressed the nation Tuesday night was foreshadow-ing his likely tack in his 2012 re-election campaign — a more centrist, pro-business and econo-my-focused Democrat.

He was careful to project more optimism and less defiance than he did in his State of the Union speech a year ago. Last year, Obama told Democrats that “we still have the largest majority in decades” and admonished them not to “run for the hills.”

This time, he said that “new laws will only pass with sup-port from Democrats and Republicans” and that the two parties will advance “together, or not at all.”

Last year, he rallied Democrats to pass his health care overhaul without Republicans. This year, he vowed to threaten any spend-ing bills with pork-filled “ear-marks” in them — something Republicans have already agreed to, but his fellow Democrats in the Senate haven’t.

Obama’s shift in tone is a recognition that he now needs Republican buy-in to get any-thing through Congress. But it’s also Obama’s way of urging vot-ers to hold Republicans equally accountable for what happens next — or what doesn’t.

He went beyond the vogu-ish post-Tucson spirit of biparti-san civility to frame his priorities with sunny optimism.

“The future is ours to win. But to get there, we can’t just stand still,” Obama said, setting his recurring theme.

He insisted that America could stay ahead of China and India — but said that requires govern-

ment investment to foster innova-tion, to improve education and to modernize the transportation and communications infrastructure.

Also noteworthy was what issues got little or no mention, and when he did mention one, he didn’t spell out any specifics on what he’d do about it: health care, immigra-tion, global warming, gun control

and overhauling the financing of Social Security and Medicare.

While he proposed to freeze spending on non-security discre-tionary programs for five years, the $400 billion that might save over a decade would amount to just one-tenth of the $4 tril-lion savings that his bipartisan debt commission called for. What

about all their recommendations? Obama didn’t say.

The State of the Union address may have been focused on the economy, but its message framed the politics of 2012.

He insisted that his primary concern is “not who wins the next election,” but Wednesday he’ll fly to the election-battleground state

of Wisconsin, which he won in 2008 but where Democrats suf-fered major losses last fall. Vice President Joe Biden, meanwhile, will travel to Indiana, a normally Republican state that Obama won in 2008 but that’s cooled to him since.

“The future is ours to win,” Obama said.

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President Barack Obama speaks with members of Congress as he arrives to deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday night on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

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For the past two days, a sign on the cafeteria door at Hammond School read, “Jews and dogs not allowed.”

The sign was part of the 6th grade’s simulation of 1930s Germany in which students were divided into two groups — Nazis and Jews.

The students portraying Nazis spent a day as a privileged class, sitting in front rows, serving as teachers’ pets and being told they were smart.

Meanwhile, the students who portrayed Jews ate in silence in the hallways, sat on the floor in the backs of classrooms and wore stars pinned to their shirts, said Karen Shull, the 6th-grade English teach-er who created the simulation.

Such simulations are per-formed in schools across the country as a way of teaching that prejudice can be casual and easy to adopt. While Hammond’s program is highly structured and appears to generate little criticism, education experts say similar simulations have gotten out of hand and been harmful to students. They urge schools to proceed with caution when planning them.

The simulation has brought some Hammond students to tears as they grow frustrated with their second-class status, Shull said. After spending Wednesday in their assigned roles, the stu-dents switched places Thursday, allowing everyone a chance to experience both sides of the his-tory lesson, Shull said.

“The students in the first group were pretty downtrod-den,” she said.

“Then their talk changed. It’s very interesting to see how quickly they switch roles. I’ve had several say, ‘I’m so glad I’m German today.’”

Students kept journals about their roles and how they felt. All 68 students were assigned an essay chronicling their reac-tions to the simulation. And, a Holocaust survivor and author

from New York was coming to speak to middle and upper school students.

The whole experience coincid-ed with Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27 and was designed around the book “Daniel’s Story” by Carol Matas, Shull said.

These forms of academic sim-ulations are fairly common, but education experts warn they must be designed and monitored with caution. The danger comes when students become too aggressive or students who already have emotional problems feel bullied, said Nathan Carnes, an associ-ate professor at the University of South Carolina’s College of Education.

“Middle school can be an awkward period of time,” Carnes said. “One must be care-ful and very scrupulous about these learning experiences. On the other hand, what we know in education is the highest form of learning for students is through experience.”

The Holocaust simulation has been part of the 6th grade curricu-lum for four years at Hammond, a private school in Columbia, S.C., where the annual middle school tuition is $13,720. Parents receive an information paper about the program and sign a permission slip for their children to participate, Shull said.

So far, no one has opted out, although a few parents have expressed concerns about it.

Shull said one Jewish fam-ily reluctantly allowed their daughter to participate but were pleased enough that they didn’t hesitate to sign their son’s per-mission slip two years later, she said.

The school’s student body is 14 percent minority students, according to its website.

Teachers in all courses prepare lesson plans around the theme, and they spend a lot of time talk-ing to students about what really happened during Nazi Germany in the 1930s and the build-up to World War II. The students face questions such as how one per-son can change the world and

what it means to have empathy for someone else, Shull said.

“It really takes a lot of front-end work to prepare for the mindset of standing in other people’s shoes and seeing what it really feels like,” Shull said.

Laura Riley, a middle school geography teacher at Hammond, said the students always are in a controlled environment during the two days of simulation, so students don’t have down time to pick on each other. Students

are separated at lunch and in locker rooms, which serves two purposes, Riley said.

“Part of it is we want them to experience the inequality and part of it is we want to keep them safe,” she said.

Walk&Talk How do you think the Tigers’ basketball season will end?

“They will make it to the tour-nament, but they won’t win.

They should bench Joe Jackson for now — he has the talent but

not the experience.”

— Evan Simelton, Electrical engineering sophomore

“I think it will be a solid end to the season. I love the way they’re

playing right now.”

— Jon Campbell, Coordinator of leadership programs

“The season will end with the young Tigers gaining experi-ence, which will help them

from this point on.”

— Hashim Jones, Education sophomore

“I think we will make it to the Sweet Sixteen, but I doubt we have the skills right now to compete with teams like

Kentucky and Kansas.”

— John-Paul Gagliano, Business freshman

“I’m going to be optimistic and a true Tiger fan and say they’re going to make it all the way.”

— K’La Harrington, Political science senior

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Simulating prejudice in class can be effective toolEducation

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The race is on.In the weeks leading up to

Oscar nomination day, David Fincher’s Facebook movie “The Social Network” had all but been anointed the winner of this year’s best picture Academy Award, racking up nearly every critic’s prize across the country, in addi-tion to taking the top Golden Globe. But Tuesday morning the race heated up significantly with the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences handing the British drama “The King’s Speech” 12 nominations — the most of any film this year.

Joel and Ethan Coen’s PG-13 Western “True Grit” landed 10 nominations while “Social Network” and “Inception” each walked away with eight.

“It seems like an extremely

even playing field,” said Scott Rudin, who with “The Social Network” and “True Grit” became the first producer since 1974 to have two films in the best picture race. “I don’t think it’s a two-horse race, I don’t think it’s even a three-horse race. I think it’s going to be a very fun and interesting month.”

The rest of the films in the best picture category include director David O. Russell’s “The Fighter,” which earned seven nods; the James Franco-starring “127 Hours,” which landed six; and “Black Swan” with five; plus “Toy Story 3,” “The Kids Are All Right” and “Winter’s Bone.”

Leaving aside “Toy Story 3,” all of the nine other best-picture nominees are adult-ori-ented dramas, most of which have done exceedingly well

at the box office. “Inception,” “True Grit” and “The Social Network” all passed the $100 million mark, and “Black Swan” is on track to do so. “These are all grown-up, sophisticated movies that are mostly big hits in a genre that people thought was finished,” added Rudin.

This crop of films also serves as a reinforcement for the acad-emy’s decision to expand the best-picture category from five films to 10 last year as a way to better reflect the most popular movies.

“I do not believe that of the 6,000-plus Oscar members, that everybody saw the movie,” said Harvey Weinstein, whose Weinstein Co. distributed “The King’s Speech,” echoing the sentiments of most Oscar cam-paigners. “We have to get them all to see the movie.”

In the top acting categories,

the boxing drama “The Fighter” rivaled “The King’s Speech” for the most nominations, with three each.

“We are here because of all these actors and their performances,” said Russell, who also walked away with a best director nomina-tion along with Darren Aronofsky (“Black Swan”), Tom Hooper (“The King’s Speech”), Fincher (“The Social Network”) and the Coen brothers (“True Grit”). “It’s been very emotional for me and my family. I’m so frickin’ grateful.”

The one striking omission in the directing category was Christopher Nolan, whose mind-bending thrill-er “Inception” landed eight other nominations.

As for “The King’s Speech,” Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter were recognized for their portrayal of British royalty, while Geoffrey Rush was rewarded for his role as speech therapist Lionel Logue in the period drama about friendship and loyalty. “It’s a sim-ple thing,” said Weinstein. “The reason the movie got that many nominations is a tribute to this cast. Our actors are our special effects on this movie.”

In contrast, “The Social Network” only received one acting nomination — for Jesse Eisenberg’s portrayal of Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg. Andrew Garfield’s role as Zuckerberg’s friend-turned-courtroom rival Edward Saverin was bypassed in the supporting actor category in favor of turns by Bale, Rush, John Hawkes for “Winter’s Bone,” Jeremy Renner in “The Town” and Mark Ruffalo for “The Kids Are All Right.”

“It’s pretty crazy,” said Ruffalo of his first-time recognition for his role as a sperm donor. “I think this is as close as you can be to becom-ing royalty in this country. It’s like being a duke. I was pretty much blown away.”

One of the other actors land-ing a nomination for the first time was “127 Hours” star Franco, who will also be hosting the show with Anne Hathaway on Feb. 27. Franco said he’s relieved to have double duty on Oscar night.

“It’s great,” he said. “The host-ing duties will have me thinking about the show and not thinking about my category.” He will com-pete in the lead category against rookie Eisenberg, veterans Javier Bardem in “Biutiful,” Jeff Bridges in “True Grit” and Firth in “The King’s Speech.”

The lead actress category pits Annette Bening (“The Kids Are All Right”) versus Nicole Kidman (“Rabbit Hole”), Natalie Portman (“Black Swan”), Michelle Williams (“Blue Valentine”) and Jennifer Lawrence (“Winter’s Bone). At 20, Lawrence is the youngest nominee in the category.

There was a chance that Lawrence would be competing against the plucky 14-year-old Hailee Steinfeld for her starring role in “True Grit,” but Paramount Pictures pushed her in the sup-porting category — as is somewhat traditional for someone of her age and inexperience. The academy responded, nominating Steinfeld opposite four more seasoned actresses: Adams, Leo, Bonham Carter and Australian Jacki Weaver for her role in the crime drama “Animal Kingdom.”

12 nods for ‘King’s Speech’ stir up Oscar raceEntertainment

© 2011 MCTSource: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Graphic: Pat Carr

2011 nominationsThe 83rd annual Academy Awards will be presented Feb. 27. Nominees in major categories:

Best actor

Best picture

Best animated film

Best supporting actor

Best supporting actress

Best foreign language film

Best actress Best directorJavier Bardem“Biutiful”

David O. Russell “The Fighter”

“Biutiful” Mexico

Best documentary“Exit Through the Gift Shop” “Gasland” “Inside Job” “Restrepo” “Wasteland”

“Dogtooth” Greece“In a Better World”Denmark“Incendies” Canada“Outside the Law”Algeria

Darren Aronofsky“Black Swan”

David Fincher“The Social Network”Tom Hooper“The King’s Speech”

Joel and Ethan Coen“True Grit”

Jeff Bridges“True Grit”Jesse Eisenberg“The Social Network”Colin Firth“The King’s Speech”James Franco“127 Hours”

Annette Benning“... Kids Are All Right”Nicole Kidman“Rabbit Hole”Jennifer Lawrence“Winter’s Bone”Natalie Portman“Black Swan”Michelle Williams“Blue Valentine”

“The Social Network”

“Black Swan”

“How to Train Your Dragon”“The Illusionist”“Toy Story 3”

“The Fighter”

“127 Hours”

“... Kids Are All Right”

“Toy Story 3”“True Grit”

“Inception”

“The King’s Speech”

“Winter’s Bone”

Christian Bale“The Fighter”John Hawkes“Winter’s Bone”

Jeremy Renner“The Town”Mark Ruffalo“The Kids Are All Right”Geoffrey Rush“The King’s Speech”

Amy Adams“The Fighter”Helena B. Carter“The King’s

Melissa Leo“The Fighter”Hailee Steinfeld“True Grit”Jacki Weaver“Animal Kingdom”

BY NICOLE SpERLINGLos Angeles Times

Over 88% of U of M students have NEVER performed poorly on a test or important project as a result of drinking during the academic year.

Data from CORE Survey, February 2010, University of MemphisAn anonymous, on-line survey administered to randomly

chosen U of M students.

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An apparent terrorist bomb-ing Monday at a crowded arrivals terminal at an airport near Moscow left at least 31 people dead and more than 130 injured, Russian officials said.

The bomb at Domodedovo International Airport was packed “full of metal piec-es” and was the equivalent of between 15 and 22 pounds of TNT, a source in the Russian Investigation Committee told the state RIA Novosti news agency.

Investigation Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told Russia 24 television that the blast was a terrorist act and that an investigation had been launched. Interfax news agen-cy reported that law enforce-ment agencies were looking for three suspects.

President Dmitry Medvedev expressed condolences to the families of the dead and injured, ordered special secu-rity measures at Russian air-ports and other transportation centers, and sent Moscow’s mayor and regional governor to the site. He canceled his own planned trip to the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland.

“From preliminary infor-mation we have, it was a ter-ror attack,” Medvedev said in televised remarks. “We need to get to the bottom of it. The main thing is to render assistance and support to the victims.”

One witness described the sound of fireworks followed by chaos.

“I was sitting near a cafe reading a newspaper when I heard a sound of an explosion as if a fireworks was going off, which seemed very strange to me given that it is an airport,” Sergei Glokhov said in a tele-phone interview.

“Then people began screaming and running and I saw a man who was wip-ing blood pouring from his head over his eyes with one hand and trying to make a telephone call with the other,” said Glokhov, who was wait-ing for his brother to arrive from Munich. “A lot of smoke was coming from the arrival section and I saw somebody moving a luggage cart with a body of a man on it as everybody was running for an exit,” he added.

Television network Russia 24 showed footage from the arrivals terminal of several bodies lying unattended on the floor in an area covered with gray smoke.

Domodedovo is located about 25 miles southeast of the heart of Moscow and is the largest of three airports that serve the Russian capi-tal.

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There’s no rest for The University of Memphis men’s basketball team.

The Tigers (15-4, 4-1 Conference USA) take on the University of Central Florida Knights tonight at FedExForum in The U of M’s first home game since Jan. 15.

The Knights (14-4, 1-4) are currently on a four-game losing streak after start-ing the season with 14 straight wins. The Knights were ranked as high as No. 18 earlier in the season.

The Knights are led by sopho-more guard Marcus Jordan — the son of NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan, who is averaging 15.8 points and 3.2 assists per game, and sophomore forward Keith Clanton, who is averaging 15.6 points, 8.7 rebounds and 2.4 blocks.

Seven players on the Knights’ roster are 6-foot-8 or taller. Senior center Tom Herzog is seven feet tall.

“They’re big. They’re a big team,” U of M coach Josh Pastner said. “And they’re a good team. You don’t win 14 straight games and beat Florida and Miami with-out being good. We know we’re going to have to play a great game (tonight).”

In the Tigers’ 76-73 over-time victory at UAB on Sat., Jan. 22, junior Blazers forward Cameron Moore lit up the Tigers for 24 points and 11 rebounds. For the Tigers to win tonight, they’ll need to contain Clanton and Herzog in the paint. “We’ve just got to do a better job because UCF has players similar

to (Moore),” Pastner said. “We’ll have to make sure that we guard and make sure we don’t let that happen again. But that’s easier said than done.”

The U of M will be with-out junior forward Wesley Witherspoon for the fourth straight game tonight, as Witherspoon is still dealing with the knee soreness that kept

him out of Jan. 22’s game in Birmingham.

“He’s been getting treat-ment and still has soreness, so I do not think there’ll be any change,” Pastner said.

A l t h o u g h senior forward Will Coleman and freshman

forward Tarik Black played well offensively against UAB, the Blazers’ Moore had his way inside. But Coleman said he thinks he and Black can handle UCF’s big men.

“Me and (Tarik) Black like (chal-lenges). We talked about it and we laughed about it. We’re ready. We’re excited,” Coleman said.

This season, the Tigers have mostly relied on their offense — which is the highest-scoring offense in C-USA at 78.1 points per game — to win games. UCF, however, boasts the conference’s best scoring defense, allowing only 60.4 points per contest.

“At this point in the year, Coach (Donnie) Jones and UCF know what we’re going to do, and we’re going to know what they do,” Pastner said. “It comes down to just playing hard and giving it a tremendous amount of effort.”

The game starts at 7 p.m. and will be broadcast on CBS College Sports.

BY JOHN MARTINSports Editor

Tigers take on flailing Knights at FedExForum

“You don’t win 14 straight games and beat

Florida and Miami without being good.”

— Josh PastnerCoach

Men’s Basketball

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The 2010-’11 version of Conference USA isn’t the league of years past, and the 2010-’11 University of Memphis men’s basketball team isn’t the team that tied the all-time record of most consecutive conference victories.

Much has changed since that streak ended.

No, UAB hasn’t beaten The U of M since March 2006, and the University of Southern Mississippi hasn’t won against the Tigers since conference realignment in 2005, but every team in C-USA — except Rice — has a winning percentage better than .500. The league, top to bot-tom, is better.

“The success that Memphis had when it won 64 straight Conference USA games forced everybody at the bottom of the league to really catch up to Memphis,” U of M coach Josh Pastner said. “And the par-ity among the league is like it’s never been. There’s not that one dominant team — everybody’s good.”

The Tigers’ opponent tonight, the University of Central Florida has wins against then-No. 16 Florida and Miami (Fla.) and was ranked as high as No. 18 but lost to ECU and Rice at home.

The Knights (14-4, 1-4 C-USA) simply haven’t handled success well.

But Pastner knows better than to take opposing teams

for granted just because they’re going through a rough stretch, especially during conference play. Tennessee had lost four of its last six games before its 104-84 rout of the Tigers on Jan. 5.

“Throw out their last cou-ple of games — because they are a good team,” Pastner said. “They’ve got everybody back from last year’s team that we were fortunate to get the victory (against), so we’re going to have to play a tremendous game.”

Last season, the Tigers need-ed a four-point play from then-senior Doneal Mack in the final seven minutes to pull away from the Knights, 76-70.

When The U of M was on its run of 64 straight C-USA wins from 2006-’09, no C-USA team came close to matching the Tigers’ level of talent. The senti-ment of parity simply didn’t exist.

It does now.The Knights started the sea-

son on a 14-game winning streak that included wins against teams from the Big East, ACC, and SEC. Since they’ve entered conference play, however, the Knights are on a four-game los-ing streak.

Chalk it up to the improve-ment of C-USA.

“As (Southern Miss) coach (Larry) Eustachy and I were talking about before the Southern Miss game, there are no gimmes,” Pastner said. “Everybody’s good. The league has been the best it’s been since the realignment. And you’ve got to bring it every night.”

Bringing it every night is something Pastner ’s young Tigers are still learning to do. They’ve yet to beat an oppo-nent with an RPI over 50. They didn’t win on the road until last week. The loss to SMU could prove to be their undoing in March if they don’t win the C-USA tournament.

Freshman forward Tarik Black, however, isn’t worried. The two road wins the Tigers had last week, he said, set the tone for the team as they move forward in a much-improved C-USA.

“(Those wins) lay the ground-work for the rest of the confer-ence play. We feel like if we can come into someone else’s house and beat them, if they come to our house, we should definitely be able to beat them.”

But Pastner and The U of M can’t worry about the future. There are still twelve regular season games to be played.

And the team’s main obstacle, Pastner said, is forgetting about last week’s potentially season-defining C-USA road victories. “One of the challenges for us now, I would say, is how do we handle success? The pre-vious challenge,” Pastner said, “was could we put back-to-back games together, multiple games together? Well, okay, we’ve put a couple games together. Now you’ve won a couple of those games and now, are you able to handle the success and are you able to stay hungry and do what we need to do? That’s the challenge.”

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