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Lambda Chi Alpha chapter charged with hazingBy Laura Clark
In June, the former Kentucky Alpha Chap-ter of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity wascharged with hazing. Now, just five monthslater, another fraternity faces the samecharges.
The UK chapter of the Lambda Chi Alphafraternity has been charged with hazing,which is a violation of the university’s Codeof Student Conduct, said Associate Dean ofStudents Tony Blanton.
The fraternity’s international headquarterscontacted the Office of Student Affairs on
Tuesday afternoon, saying they had receivedinformation about potential hazing “right thenand there,” Blanton said. Representatives weresent to Lexington and arrived at the chapter’shouse around 9 p.m., where they temporarilysuspended the chapter’s activities and “pro-cured all their ritual equipment,” Blanton said.
Blanton said a police officer went to thehouse with the headquarters representatives,but it was standard operating procedure.
An e-mail was sent from the fraternity’s in-ternational headquarters to the Kernel onWednesday, Nov. 18, notifying the Kernel thatchapter operations were temporarily suspendeduntil investigation of the events is completed.
Michael Haag, president of UK’s LambdaChi Alpha chapter, received the letter from theuniversity notifying the chapter of the viola-tion. Haag said he and the chapter are stilltrying to process the information.
“We still don’t have a lot of informationfrom nationals or the university,” Haag said.“Hopefully by Monday or Tuesday we’ll findout more.”
Blanton said since the chapter received theletter late Thursday, they are now responsiblefor responding and scheduling a meeting withthe Office of Student Affairs within the nextfew days.
Blanton, though notified of the headquar-
ters’ investigation Tuesday night, could notcomment on the situation until the chapter wasnotified of their violation Thursday.
Because the Code of Student Conductdoes not have specific penalties for each vio-lation, Blanton said he is not sure what stepsthe university will take next.
“I haven’t heard their side of the story, andI won’t guess or assume until I’ve heard fromthem and their response,” Blanton said.“We’re investigating and working with theLambda Chi Alpha headquarters and hopeful-ly we’ll put it together … in such a way thatwe’ll have a better Lambda Chi Alpha chapteron this campus in the future.”
UK 34, GEORGIA 27
PHOTOS BY ALLIE GARZA | STAFFFreshman cornerback Cartier Rice celebrates after UK beat Georgia 34-27 on Saturday night at Sanford Stadium. It was UK’s first win in Athens since 1977.
Turnovers upend DawgsBy Ben Jones
[email protected], Ga. — The noise was deafening.It came through concrete walls and steel doors, a
beat on a metal locker loud enough to march armiesand chants so earsplitting they could have woken thedead. Hearing the UK football team celebrate in thelocker room after its 34-27 upset win over the Geor-gia Bulldogs, a nervous police officer gripped thedoorknob, as though he had to physically keep thechaos inside from escaping into the outside world.
UK head coach Rich Brooks heard the noise andgrinned.
“I can’t tell you how happy Iam and how proud I am of theyoung men in that room,” he said,pointing toward the heard but un-seen pandemonium.
The Cats (7-4, 3-4 Southeast-ern Conference) played nearlyflawlessly in the second half of thewin, their first at Georgia (6-5, 4-4SEC) since 1977. The game alsomarked the first time UK wonthree consecutive SEC road gamessince 1977.
After a first half that saw UKmuster just 63 yards of offense andsurrender 20 consecutive points tothe Bulldogs, Brooks roused histeam with a fiery talk during thebreak. UK forced four second-halfturnovers and scored the final 21points of the game to complete thecomeback.
“I probably shouldn’t even re-peat it,” senior defensive tackleCorey Peters said of Brooks’ half-time speech. “He got into us pretty
good.”The first Bulldog turnover — a
fumble on the opening kickoff re-turn of the second half — set up aUK touchdown that brought theCats back into the game.
The Cats rolled up 197 yardsof offense in the second half, ledby freshman quarterback MorganNewton, who threw a career-highthree touchdown passes. He fin-ished with just 137 yards passingbut as in UK’s 21-14 win atAuburn on Oct. 17 — his firstgame as starting quarterback —Newton made sure the UK of-fense didn’t turn the ball over allnight.
“One thing I want to do when Igrow up is coach,” Peters said.“And I’ve never seen a player im-prove as much from game to gameas (Newton) has. Today I think hewas great.”
As excited as the players were,the UK coaching staff found its
own special meaning in the win.UK head coach of the offense Jok-er Phillips had 81 text messageswaiting for him after the win,which came in some of his favoriterecruiting grounds with severalprospects watching from the
stands.Brooks was able to extract
some revenge from a loss long ago— his first as a head coach. In hisfirst season as head coach at Ore-
Freshman defensive end Taylor Wyndham and his teammates tackle Georgiatailback Caleb King. King was one of three Georgia players to rush for at least50 yards in the game.
See Football on page A4
Empty‘Tank:
Ownersmove bar
By Tilly [email protected]
The former Fishtank, which wassupposed to be transformed into the“Cathouse Music Club & SportsBar,” will stay the Fishtank for now.
The Cathouse was set to open inOctober, but bar owner Rich DePasodecided against the location and hastaken his plans elsewhere.
DePaso decided against purchas-ing the Euclid Avenue property be-cause “it was just too beat up.”
“The building has had the sameowner for the past 10 years who pur-chased it in an auction, and it hasnever been renovated,” DePaso said.“He was asking $22 per square feetfor the space, when the going rate iscloser to $17 per square feet, not to
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See Fishtank on page A2
Former Kernelstaffers win
Hearst awardsBy Laura Clark
Two former Kernel staff mem-bers used a mineral and a historic
city neighborhood tocreate award-winningstories.
Out of 142 en-trants in the HearstJournalism AwardsFeature Writing Com-petition, 2008-09 edi-tor-in-chief Brad Lut-trell won first place,and former news edi-tor Jill Laster placedseventh.
Luttrell’s entry,“Future of Coal,”was published April30 and also won theFeature Story of theYear award from the
Associated Collegiate Press at the
Luttrell
Laster
See Hearst on page A2
Location switchedto Main Street
Broncs buckedWall,Patterson stepup in win overRider
ASee Basketball on page A4See Volleyball on page A4
Check out the Kernel’s new sports blog
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Never fear. Oprah Winfrey, who announced Friday that she
will end her daytime talk show when her contractexpires in the fall of 2011, isn't likely to be absentfrom the air for long.
She's starting a cable network in partnershipwith Discovery, and the Oprah Winfrey Network(OWN) will make its debut in January 2011. So itwill already be up and running when Winfrey is freeto devote full time to it, and she's widely expectedto have a daily show there. In addition, OWN is ex-pected to air 25 years of Oprah shows in repeats.
Winfrey has been a daytime talk fixture since1986, meaning that she'll exit on her 25th anniversary.
She became a phenomenon when she es-chewed sleaze when everybody else was doingsleaze and instead devoted her show to informa-tive, upbeat and/or uplifting topics.
Stations will have more than a year to decidewhat will replace Oprah. In many TV markets, EllenDeGeneres may move into the late-afternoon slotleading into local newscasts.
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end of October. Luttrell said winning bothof those categories was a surprise.
“This past month has been unreal,” Lut-trell said. “ … I thought I might have achance to get in the top ten this year (forHearst), but then getting the phone call say-ing I won was unbelievable.”
In addition to writing on the currentstate of coal in Kentucky, Luttrell, a May2009 graduate, took part in “A Forum onCoal in Kentucky” on Nov. 5. Luttrell isnow working in Memphis as an editorialfreelancer and plans to move back to Ken-tucky in mid-December.
Laster, a journalism and Spanish senior,is currently working as an intern in PuertoRico for the Associated Press. She wrote
“From the Bottom, up,” a story publishedon April 1 about a 140-year-old neighbor-hood scheduled to be demolished to makeway for an extension of Newtown Pike thatwill cut through the Davis Bottom area andstretch to the university.
Laster, who plans on returning to theU.S. and working as an intern at the Chron-icle of Higher Education in Washington,D.C., said being recognized in a competi-tion as well-respected as the Hearst was ex-citing.
“You don't hear much good news as ajournalism student nowadays, with the fu-ture of journalism and news organizationsso uncertain, so it's a real morale boost evenplacing in a national competition,” Lastersaid.
Luttrell said the awards were a big hon-or.
“It’s the best way I could have possiblyended my time at UK,” Luttrell said.
HEARSTContinued from page A1
mention the repairs thatwere needed.”
DePaso has teamed upwith Tony Morris of Lex-ington and Anthony Blakeyfrom Atlanta and the threeare set to open a new bar inthe Main Street area.
The three want the loca-tion to remain unknown fornow, because they have notmade their final offer on theproperty.
Morris and Blakey cur-rently own multiple barsand clubs in Atlanta and de-cided to bring businessplans to Lexington wherethe club scene “isn’t sooversaturated,” Blakey said.
“I wanted to make thisclub happen in Lexingtonbecause it will offer some-thing new here,” Blakeysaid. “Unlike Atlanta wherethere are clubs everywhereyou look, this is going to bea unique location for thepeople in Lexington. It’sgoing to offer them optionsunder one roof for the firsttime.”
The new bar will becalled “Eighth Eclipse” andis going to be a three-storylounge equipped with an el-evator.
“We are going to do acomplete overhaul of thebuilding, including puttingin elevators and building atop floor event center withDJ's and a dance floor andall kinds of events everynight,” DePaso said. “An-
other floor will be set up forlive music and the bottomfloor will be a pub stylebar.”
DePaso is the formerowner of the Triple CrownLounge, which closed be-cause of the Main Streetdemolition last year.
DePaso said he is excit-ed to offer his clientelesomething new.
“It will be like nothingLexington has ever seen be-fore. Imagine Bakers onsteroids. We want to cater toeveryone,” DePaso said.“One night we may havecountry music on the livefloor, one night we mayhave reggae. Every night isgoing to be different.”
“Eighth Eclipse” is setto open in late March orearly April.
FISHTANKContinued from page A1
Speaker tells society to changefor disabled, not vice versa
By Andrew [email protected]
Tom Cruise, Albert Einstein and MagicJohnson are all people with disabilities, butall still contribute to society. This was oneof the many points made Friday afternoonat a disability rights forum.
The forum featured ashowing of a documentarytitled “If I Can’t Do It,”which chronicled the life andstruggles of keynote speakerand activist Arthur Camp-bell.
Campbell, who suffersfrom a severe speech imped-iment as a result of his spas-tic cerebral palsy, feels peo-ple with disabilities are notproperly catered to in theworld today.
“I began to realize I did-n’t need to be changed orhealed, society did,” Camp-bell said in his film. “If a child is born witha disability, they automatically become amember of a group forgotten and neglectedby society.”
The film gave a glimpse into the per-sonal struggles of Campbell, especiallythose created by his speech. Campbell, whohas to speak through an interpreter for mostpeople to understand him, said communica-tion has always been one of his biggest ob-
stacles.“Most people just aren’t patient enough
to understand someone with a severespeech impediment,” Campbell said. “Oneof my greatest frustrations is when peoplewould come up to me and try and have aconversation. The very minute I opened my
mouth to say something, Icould see the fear and ten-sion come in their eyes.”
Campbell said thebiggest problem facing thedisabled community todayis transportation.
“Without public trans-portation, you are denyingpeople their constitutionalright to assemble,” Camp-bell said.
The second presenter,Norb Ryan, the Kentuckycoordinator for the Ameri-cans with Disabilities Act,gave a presentation on thehistory and laws dealingwith disabilities.
Many disabled people, if they are giventhe opportunity and are challenged, can livevery fruitful lives, Ryan said.
Vince Bingham, a masters student ineducational policy studies and evaluation,said he thought the disabled rights move-ment resembles that of other movements.
“You can say the same for any groupthat’s been oppressed,” Bingham said.“They’ve been silenced.”
“One of my greatestfrustrations is when
people would come upto me and try and have
a conversation ... Icould see the fear andtension come in their
eyes.”ARTHUR CAMPBELL
Disability rights activist
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KERNEL EDITORIAL BOARD
Smoke and mirrors:Policy not effective
The Board of Trustees is ona roll.
First, they disallow any out-side voices to be heard on theWildcat Lodge issue, and nowthe board decides the currentpolicy for getting on their agen-da works just fine.
According to a Nov. 18 Ker-nel article, UK President LeeTodd, a committee and the fullBoard of Trustees must approvea request in a 30 hour timeframe prior to the meeting, allwhile the meeting agenda be-comes open to the public at 9a.m. the day before the meeting.
About the policy, UKspokesman Jimmy Stanton said,"It's been in place for 39 years,so obviously it's working,"
There are plenty of thingsthat were in place for 39 yearsor longer that didn’t “work.”
Does a policy that gives con-cerned parties mere hours oftime to get on the agenda reallywork — or does it work to theadvantage of UK?
As it stands now, studentshave one representative on theboard, Student GovernmentPresident Ryan Smith. In order
to speak up, students have to gothrough Smith or comply withthis vacuous policy, in hopes ofbeing put on the agenda of ameeting where they may beheard. Faculty and staff withbusy work schedules and jobs topreserve also deal with the sameludicrous policy that reeks of se-crecy.
Anyone wishing to speak outat a meeting would essentiallyhave to know what is coming upon the agenda before it happens.It is one thing to try to keep per-sonal agendas and other non-sense off the board's agenda, butto enact a policy that effectivelybans all dissenting thought isridiculous.
The board must rethink itsstance on this issue. Transparen-cy only benefits the board. Sowhen controversial decisionssuch as Wildcat Coal Lodge aredelivered, at the very least, theUK community feels like it hasbeen heard and a high andmighty group of figureheadshasn't played dictators. As it cur-rently stands, the communitydoesn’t feel like it’s being heard.
Changing that would work.
You cannot get there from here:Speaking rules must change now
The inability of students and oth-ers to be heard at the most recent UKBoard of Trustees meeting highlights
a serious problemat UK. Thetrustees haveerected a wallaround themselvesto prevent accessby students, facul-ty and staff whodesire to voicetheir views andconcerns about de-cisions beingmade that are im-portant for the fu-
ture of this university, as well as forthe citizens of Kentucky.
Our students were not allowed tospeak because they had not followedthe procedures for being approved tospeak. However, as noted in a Nov.18 Kernel article, the governing Ad-ministrative Regulation (AR 1:2) issuch that interested parties are essen-tially prevented from addressing theboard in a timely fashion. Clearly, weneed an expedited process wherebyinterested parties can be heard by thetrustees on matters that are importantfor the UK community.
AR 1:2 became effective in1970, presumably to ensure that
anti-war activists would not be ableto express their views to the trustees.However, the result is essentiallyeveryone, other than perhaps a fatcat donor, is denied access. In fact, Iwas somewhat confused about thespecific reference in this instance ofthe Kernel banner that appeared justabove the article stating: “CELE-BRATING 38 YEARS OF INDE-PENDENCE.” Could it be referringto the independence of the UKBoard of Trustees from the views ofthe UK community since AR 1:2went into effect?
Of course, the highlight of theKernel article for me was the state-ment by UK spokesman Jimmy Stan-ton, “It’s been in place for 39 years,so obviously it’s working.”
The UK football team has lost tothe Florida Gators for 23 consecutiveyears. I guess Stanton would similar-ly conclude things are working wellin this case, too, and thus should notbe changed. As for me, I tend to fo-cus on just exactly for whom it isworking. In the case of football, it isworking for Florida but not so wellfor UK fans. In the case of AR 1:2,it is working well for the trustees, butnot so well for the faculty, staff andstudents at UK. I believe that both ofthese patterns should be changed as
soon as possible.Is this the end of the story? It
should not be. Recall the UK mantra:Dream, Challenge, Succeed. Well, Ihave a dream that the UK communitywill challenge the UK Board ofTrustees and succeed in being heard.We must call for an expeditedprocess to address the Board ofTrustees in a timely manner on topicsthat are important for the UK com-munity. As it stands, the presidentand trustees have walled themselvesoff from all of us. If we acquiesce tothe situation we find ourselves in to-day with a dearth of student, facultyand staff governance in the opera-tions of this university, those stu-dents, faculty and staff who follow usalso will never know the freedom toexpress themselves in matters of sub-stance to this university and to thecitizens of Kentucky.
Having just celebrated the 20thanniversary of the fall of the BerlinWall, I see an analogous situation. Ilook forward to the day when we canall take pride in the words: Ich binein Wildcat.
Please join me in saying “Presi-dent Todd, tear down this wall!“
Joe Peek is a UK finance profes-sor. E-mail [email protected].
JOEPEEK
Contributingcolumnist
‘Blanket ban’ not answer,need to find middle ground
In response to Amanda Fallin's letter on Nov. 20, I would liketo agree that preserving the safety and health of those who live andwork on campus is important, but to use it as justification for a cam-pus-wide tobacco ban is ridiculous.
As a public institution, UK must act to preserve all the rights ofcitizens, no matter how unpopular those rights may be. The right ofnon-smokers to breathe clean air must be balanced with the right ofsmokers to indulge where and when they choose.
Banning smoking indoors, near building entrances and perhapseven on campus sidewalks is justified to reduce exposure to second-hand smoke. On the other hand, the concept that smokers on the cam-pus lawns present an unacceptable health hazard strains credulity.And the belief that smokers in parking areas or near roads produceeven a fraction of the air pollution of passing vehicles is comical. Yetthat is the position the university has chosen to take by imposing ablanket ban.
Designated smoking areas could have been provided, but theuniversity chose instead to present the policy in a manner that,frankly, I find to be very insulting. Judging by the number of smokerswho openly violate the ban, it seems that many of my fellow studentsagree. All those on campus — smokers and non-smokers alike —would have been better served had the administration effectively en-forced existing policy rather than imposing, and not enforcing, an un-reasonably strict ban.
Tom Dodsoncomputer science, electrical engineering and physics senior
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gon, in 1977, Brooks trav-eled to Athens in his firstgame and was dealt a loss bylegendary Georgia coachVince Dooley. Brooks hasnow beaten the Bulldogstwice in the last four years.
The final score was setup when junior defensivetackle Shane McCord madean interception — the secondturnover — and returned itdeep into the red zone.
“The ball just camestraight to me,” McCordsaid. “I was just surprised Icaught it.”
Sophomore RandallCobb fought his way overthe final yard of the field andinto the endzone, writing an-other chapter in a career al-ready filled with fourth quar-ter heroics.
“Any true competitor, asthe game goes they get morehungry and want the ballmore and want to makeplays,” Cobb said.
Georgia drove down thefield in the closing minutesand was poised to tie thegame, but fumbled the ballon the one yard line to givethe Cats the ball back. Seniorquarterback Joe Cox had an-other chance in the finalminutes of the game, butthrew an interception to sen-ior linebacker Sam Maxwellto seal the Dawgs’ fate.
As the locker room cele-
bration appeared to reachdecibel levels rivaling thecrowd of 92,746 that hadpacked Sanford Stadium,Brooks tried to keep his eyesfrom wandering to the doorthat held his team from un-leashing itself on the outsideworld.
It wasn’t hard for Brooksto avoid fixing his gazethere. He was already look-ing ahead.
“Hey, South Carolina andMississippi State, couldawoulda shoulda,” Brookssaid. “All I know is that rightnow, we’re 7-4 and we’replaying Tennessee, and we’llsee what happens and if wecan shake something out andget to 8-4.”GAME NOTES
Junior tailback DerrickLocke finished with 252 all-purpose yards and had tworeceiving touchdowns ontwo catches. He did tweak anMCL in his non-surgicallyrepaired knee, but was ableto finish the game …Maxwell’s game-clinchinginterception was his fifth ofthe season and his sixth ca-reer. “He’s always in theright place at the right time,”Peters said of the fellow sen-ior … LaRod King’s 21-yardtouchdown reception fromNewton was the first touch-down reception of the fresh-man’s career … Senior cor-nerback Trevard Lindley hadthree pass breakups. Thatmoved him into fourth placeall-time on the SEC careerlist.
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PHOTO BY ALLIE GARZA | STAFFJunior tailback Derrick Locke evades a Georgia defender during UK’swin over Georgia. Locke had 252 all-purpose yards in the game.
UK defense halts BroncsBy Metz Camfield
UK head coach John Calipari de-manded improvement on the defensiveend of the floor. On Saturday, the Catsdelivered.
After allowing a barrage of 3-point-ers at the hands of Miami of Ohio andSam Houston State in their previoustwo games, the Cats (4-0) held Rider to23.5 percent shooting from 3-pointrange in a 92-63 victory at Rupp Are-na.
“The thing I told them at somepoint there has to be a sense of urgencydefensively,” Calipari said. “Well, wehad it today, we really did.”
The Cats were led by junior for-ward Patrick Patterson and freshmanguard John Wall. Patterson finishedwith 19 points and a career high-tying18 rebounds. Wall scored 21 pointswhile dishing out 11 assists, the secondhighest total for a UK freshman.
Calipari said he saw the differencein the Cats early, literally. The Catswere woken up at 8 a.m. and had theirshootaround at 8:15 a.m. It was the firstshootaround where the team displayeda sense of urgency and attentiveness,Calipari said.
“The other shootarounds I’myelling and screaming and grabbing.This one flowed easy,” Calipari said.“Everybody listened, everybody didwhat they were supposed to and it wasearly in the morning and they did it.”
Leading up to the game the Catssaid they were ready for Rider, andRider’s early season victory over Mis-sissippi State had grabbed their full at-tention. Rider beat Mississippi State onNov. 13, shooting 62.5 percent from 3-point range in the process.
“I was really fearful of (Rider) untilI saw how we defended early in thegame, then I felt fine,” Calipari said.“The reason is I’ve seen us defend thelast three games and I know (Rider)could come out and get 95, and ifwe’re not making shots we’re not get-ting 95.”
Following two free throws by Riderguard Ryan Thompson at the 11:45mark in the first half to make it 18 to12, the Cats went on a 33 to 14 run totake a 25-point lead at the half that theBroncs would never truly challenge therest of the way.
Absent for that stretch was fresh-man forward DeMarcus Cousins whopicked up his second foul at the 17:10mark. Cousins sat for the remainder ofthe half as fellow freshman forwardDaniel Orton rose to the occasion.
With Cousins sitting, Orton scored10 points and grabbed three reboundsin the half. He played so well that when
assistant coach John Robic went up toCousins at halftime to ask if he wantedto start the second half, Cousins saidOrton should start the half because ofhow well he played in his absence.
“(That was a) big step for our pro-gram, big step,” Calipari said. “Thatmeans they’re starting to care aboutone another. That means they’re start-ing to recognize when another guyplays well, leave him alone.”
Another big step could be the lackof turnovers from Wall, who turned theball over only twice. Wall said the keyto cutting down on those turnovers wastrying not to make lazy passes.
“I smiled more than I usually do be-cause I think we were having a great timeand we were playing defense, so we have
to do this every game,” Wall said.Following the game, Calipari again
stressed that the Cats have a long wayto go until they’re playing to their po-tential, but that he likes his group.
Patterson said the win was muchneeded. He also said the fast pace inwhich they played was what they werelooking for and their defense againstthe 3-point shot was improved.
“Overall I think the defense is defi-nitely a step forward from what weneed to carry over to Cancun with theteams that we’re about to play,” Patter-son said. “I think this is a steppingstone and we’re still learning. We’rehaving fun out there and hopefully thiswill carry over to the next two gamesout there.”
Volleyball falters with chance to win SEC crownBy T.J. Walker
Memorial Coliseum was all setfor a historic day on Sunday, but thehistory the No. 10 UK volleyballteam (27-3, 17-2 Southeastern Con-ference) expected will have to wait.
The No. 13 Florida Gators (21-5,15-4 SEC) have won the SEC titlefor 18 straight seasons. This year theGators played another huge role inthe SEC title, albeit not one they arefamiliar with.
The Gators, who are eliminatedfrom clinching the SEC title, beat theCats 3-1 (31-29, 25-23, 24-26, 25-21)and force UK to wait until Nov. 25 fora chance to win a share of the SEC.
“I don’t know, I guess they justplayed harder than us today,” junioroutside hitter Sarah Mendoza said.
UK started hot in the first set butthe Gators fought back. The set wentback and forth before the Gators
pulled it out in the end. The situationin the second set was very similar tothe first; UK had a 23-22 lead butcouldn’t hold on as Florida stormedback to win the set.
“We need to focus on being con-sistent and not getting up and downand if we do lose a couple pointsdon’t let it affect us,” senior liberoBriAnne Sauer said.
UK defeated the Gators inGainesville, Fla., earlier this seasonbut the Gators flipped the script onthe Cats. Florida used 10 blocks andforced UK to a low hitting percent-age to even the season series.
“I don’t think they did anythingdifferently, we just didn’t take careof easy points and couldn’t score,”Sauer said.
The Cats seemed deflated afterlosing two close sets, and on top ofthat, they came out without seniorsetter Sarah Rumely, who was sick.The Cats fell behind early but were
still able to force a fourth set.“We know what we have to do,
its about stepping up and making ithappen and unfortunately we didn’tget it done today,” UK head coachCraig Skinner said.
UK still has a chance to win ashare of the SEC. The Cats will geta chance to avenge their loss toTennessee when they head down toKnoxville, Tenn., on Wednesdaynight.
Although the mood at MemorialColiseum was far different than itwas at the beginning of the match,Skinner still believes in his team.
“I have complete faith in thisteam,” Skinner said. “I know theywill come in and practice hard onMonday and Tuesday, they alwayspractice hard and there’s an oppor-tunity Wednesday and I know theywill come hard and there is no oth-er team I would rather be coach-ing.”
PHOTO BY ADAM WOLFFBRANDT | STAFFFlorida players celebrate after a point during their 3-1 win over UK on Sundayafternoon at Memorial Coliseum.
Cats’ best perimeter defense found underneath the basketMight UK’s best perimeter de-
fense be its interior intimidation?All year long, it’ll be tough to
find a team thatcan match UK’ssize, especiallyinside. Saturday,the Cats took ad-vantage and con-trolled the paintwithout question.And magically,Rider’s 48.5 per-cent-from-deepbefore Saturdaymaterialized into4 of 17.
What happened to the defensebetween Thursday night and Satur-day afternoon that made it so muchbetter, so much more fluid and in-touch? Thursday, the Cats gave up11 3-pointers to a single player,Corey Allmond.
Seems like a long time ago.From the outset Saturday, Ridercouldn’t hit anything. It got someopen shots, but many of its looks
were contested. And most of themweren’t even close.
That’s a big jump for UK, ateam that had about 38 or 39 hoursbetween the end of one game andthe tip-off of the next.
“I know they have taken a badrap for some of the 3-pointers thathave gone in against them, but Iwatched every game and a couple ofkids went nuts against them,” Ridercoach Tommy Dempsey said. “Theygave up open shots, but you can’texpect them to not give up openshots in the course of the game, es-pecially when they are pressing,jumping in passing lanes and tryingto create offense with their defense.”
Rider didn’t hit a lot of openshots Saturday, but chalk a lot ofthat up to the pressure Rider felton its bombs. They had to makethe deep shots, because they cer-tainly weren’t going to get any-thing inside. The Cats outscoredRider 56-20 in the paint, and Ridermade just 14 field goals from in-side the 3-point line the entire
game.Those big uglies down low put
some fright in Rider. DeMarcusCousins played just 15 minutes, buthe blocked five shots. Even JohnWall, who probably makes brushinghis teeth in the morning fun towatch, blocked two shots.
All of a sudden, Rider had to hit3-pointers to keep up. With that kindof pressure, few teams would re-spond. Rider did not.
“If we have to hit shots like thatall night to stay in the game, it’s go-
ing to be a long night,” Dempseysaid, referring to UK’s two previousopponents. “They were active andtheir big kids were aggressiveguarding the perimeter.”
Of the bigs, Patrick Patterson’sday was best. He went for 19 pointsand 18 rebounds, but he was disap-pointed he didn’t grab 20. Maybe hecould’ve hauled down two more ifnot for how the rest of the brusiersplayed.
Daniel Orton played his bestgame so far at UK, posting 14points and six rebounds. Althoughcredited with no blocks officially,his presence defensively just made itthat much more difficult for Rider toget anything underneath.
“I am going to play those boystogether, because Daniel and De-Marcus deserve minutes, andPatrick has to play,” UK head coachJohn Calipari said. “There is onlyone way to make that happen andthat is to play them together and Iam fine with that.”
If you’re into the brevity thing,
these big men came to play Satur-day. And if they each come to playlike this every game, nobody thisside of Dwight Howard will be ableto challenge them.
Talk about a perimeter defense.Don’t be fooled into thinking a
30-point win over Rider means theCats have arrived and are now inmid-March form. They aren’t.Ground still has to be made up —and quickly, too, unless the Cats wantto risk losing to North Carolina onDec. 5.
But don’t dismiss Saturday’sgame, either. Perhaps the mosttelling sign that UK’s win may go along way was John Wall’s reaction.
“I smiled more than I usually dobecause we were having a greattime and we were playing defense,”Wall said. “We have to do this everygame.”
I don’t think that will be a toughsell.
James Pennington is a journal-ism senior. E-mail [email protected].
JAMESPENNINGTON
Kernelcolumnist
If you’re into the brevitything, these big men came
to play Saturday. And if theyeach come to play like thisevery game, nobody this
side of Dwight Howard willbe able to challenge them.
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If they decide to make a change, I’d have a toughtime arguing that because 6-5 is not good enough.“ Charlie Weis, Notre Dame football coach
PHOTO BY ZACH BRAKE | STAFFJunior forward Patrick Patterson dunks during UK’s 92-63 win over Rider on Saturday.Patterson finished with 19 points and tied a career high with 18 rebounds.
