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The votes are in. Incumbent Barack Obama will serve as the 44th president of the United States for four more years. The debate sea-son, however, brought out several questions about where Obama and opponent Mitt Romney stand on education.

ObamaObama laid out

his future plans and policies on educa-tion with s o m e detail via w h i t e -house.gov.

Un d e r O b a m a ’ s administra-tion, empha-sis is placed on helping the mid-dle class afford college and keeping the costs of edu-cation down as well as strengthening community colleges and improving transparency and accountability.

Following a fiscal cliff faceoff situ-ation, Obama called on Congress during his State of the Union speech in January “to keep interest rates low for the 7.4 million borrowers who take out subsidized Federal student loans for this school year,” according

to whitehouse.gov. “We cannot just cut our way to

prosperity,” he said in April. “Making it harder for our young people to afford higher education and earn their degrees is nothing more than cutting our own future off at the knees. Congress needs to keep inter-est rates on student loans from dou-bling, and they need to do it now.”

Rates on Federal subsidized

S t a f f o r d loans were set to go up July 1. More than 7 mil-lion students would have averaged $1,000 each in additional debt. But Congress took action and passed a bill to stop that from happen-ing. With Obama’s leadership, rates on new subsidized Stafford loans

remain at 3.4 percent instead of dou-bling this past summer.

These actions saved Tennessee students an average of $973, based on Department of Education statistics.

Student loan debt, however, topped $1 trillion earlier this year.

Obama has called on Congress to advance reforms that will promote shared respon-sibility to

a d d re s s the challenge of keeping the costs of higher education down.

“Of course, it’s not enough for us to increase student aid … States also need to do their part, by making higher education a higher priority

in their budgets,” Obama said. “And colleges and universities have to do their part by working to keep costs down.”

Obama has proposed reforms to federal campus-based air programs to shift aid away from colleges that fail to keep net tuition down, and toward those that do their fair share to keep tuition affordable, provide good value and serve needy students

well. Such change in federal aid to campuses will

leverage $10 billion annually to keep

tuition down. In an inter-

view this s u m m e r , Univers ity of Memphis P r e s i d e n t S h i r l e y

Raines said the University

of Memphis is nowhere near the

point of losing federal aid despite the fact that

tuition increased 18 percent this year from two years ago.

RomneyUnder a Romney administration,

things could have been different. A flood of federal dollars has been a frequent talking point for the former

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Every year during election time, certain states almost always vote Republican while others are consistently voting Democrat. Other states change direction each election year. The region’s value system and culture affects what direction it swings politically.

“They do not call the South the ‘Bible Belt’ for nothing,” Lisa Elizabeth Huffstetler, professor of political science at the University of Memphis, said.

The South’s political stances reflect its residents family val-ues mentalities. Southerners traditionally vote against issues like same-sex marriage and abortion and tend to be fiscally conservative.

The opposite is true in the Northeast — more people support same sex marriage and are in favor of social programs like Medicare. Many who live there believe the government should play a more active role.

“The distrust in government in the South may be a holdover from

the Civil War era,” Huffstetler said. “Even though the poverty rate is higher in the South, they still vote Republican because they believe that people should be responsible for themselves.”

The swing states are sometimes thought to be the most important states for the candidates to win because the majority of people are politically moderate.

“You won’t see Romney or Obama campaigning in California, because they know it always goes Democrat,” Huffstetler said. “They will usually concentrate on Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania.”

Every state has the same amount of electoral votes as they do representatives in Congress — this process helps the small- and medium-sized states have a “leg up,” Huffstetler said, and ensures an equal amount of representation when compared with the larger states.

“Although some pessimists may say your vote doesn’t really mat-ter, it is important you get out and vote,” Huffstetler said. “We should not take our right to vote for granted.” n

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The Six TestsSuperstitiously inclined political buffs are in for a treat. Cracked.com claims six factors can predict the outcome of any presidential election. Most of these predictions have rung true for quite a few years.

Redskins Rule

The final test of the winner of the presidential election is how Vigo County, Indiana votes. Vigo County is the mean center of the United States population and has correctly picked the winner since 1956. In 2008 Obamawon the county and later won the presidential nomination.He won the county again this year before being re-elected.

If the winner of best motion picture of the year prior to an election involves a protagonist who succeeds in bringing jus-tice to all, i.e. “good guy wins,” then the opposing party wins. This year’s winner, “The Artist”, ends on an upbeat note, where an actor from silent films suc-ceeds in making it to talking films. So by this test Romneyis the winner. This has been a pattern in the film world since the 1970s.

The Scholastic News Election polls elementary school stu-dents every election year and 15 out of 17 election years they have been right on the money. A big factor in the accuracy of this prediction is the fact that most children vote for the candidate their parents support, and the results are published a week before the election. The win-ner of this year’s Scholastic poll was Obama with 51 percent.

When the Summer Olympics is hosted by a country for a second time, the incumbent stays in office. If the games are held in a new country, the opposing party wins. This test has been accurate 12 of 13 times, with 1988 being the exception. If you apply this test to this election year, Obama wins.

If the Washington Redskins win their last home game of the season, the incumbent party will remain in office. If they lose, the opposite party wins. The Redskin’s lost their last home game this year, so on this test Romney wins. This has been an accurate test of the winner since 1940.

According to this test, whichever candidate sells the most Halloween masks wins the election. Locally, Obama sold more masks than Romney this year at Party City, 66 to Romney’s 54. Nationally, Obama sold 56% of masks nationwide to Romney’s 44%. So this win goes to Obama.

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which granted women the right to vote, was passed when Tennessee was the deciding state to ratify it by a single man’s vote.

Harry Burn, a state representative at the time, was originally opposed to women’s suf-frage but decided to break the 48-48 tie after his mother pleaded for him to vote “yes” on behalf of every American woman.

However, despite the historical significance Tennessee has concerning women’s suffrage, only 58.5 percent of registered women voters cast a ballot in the 2008 presidential election, which is lower than the national average of 65.7 percent.

Four years later, the pressure was on for women voters as their demographic was pro-jected to be a main deciding factor in who won the 2012 presidential election.

Julie Byrd, the Tipton County chair of the Democratic party, said women have difficulty getting to the polls because of voter ID issues when they marry and change names and hav-

ing to balance household duties with their civic duties.

“Being torn between two candidates on issues important to women like contracep-tion, equal pay for equal work and control over medical decisions is another problem,” Byrd said. “But also wanting to vote for a can-didate that has positions on other substantive issues like taxes, reducing the federal deficit and health care reform.”

Prior to the 1980 presidential election, women were less likely to vote than men. Now, the percentage of woman voters sur-passes that of men by more than four percent.

Hayley Logan, a sophomore English major, said it is “a shame” that young women choose not to vote when people struggled for years for them to do so.

“I voted because my family has always talked about how important it is to vote, especially since historically speaking no one in my family was allowed to vote,” Logan said. “Plus, if you want to see something happen within the country or your local area, voting is one of the most effective ways of making that happen.” n

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Breaking down the electoral college

The 2012 elections broke early voting records around the coun-try with millions of Americans standing in line to cast a ballot, some for hours.

Even though the president for the next four years has been decided, some people still don’t know how their ballots are counted in the election process.

The Electoral College is a pro-cess used to choose the president and vice president of the United States and consists of 538 electors who cast votes. The number of electors per state is determined by the number of members in the House of Representatives for each state plus the two senators per state. Three electors are given to the District of Columbia.

How electors are chosen varies from state to state.

In order to win the electoral votes for a state, candidates have to win a majority of the Electoral College, said Lisa Huffstetler, instructor in the political science department in the University of Memphis. Presidential candi-dates need 270 electoral votes to become the next leader of the country.

“The original intention of the founding fathers was the Electoral College was supposed to be a safeguard on democracy, but what if the ignorant masses voted on somebody unquali-fied?” she asked. “They didn’t have any example to follow.”

The electoral votes are sup-posed to be determined by the number of votes each candidate receives in each state by U.S. citi-zens who voted.

“So if Romney gets 51 percent of votes in Tennessee, and Obama gets 49 percent, Romney gets all 11 electoral votes,” Huffstetler said.

The only two states where this rule does not apply are Maine and Nebraska where electoral votes are split by popular vote.

“Romney would get six elec-toral votes and Obama would get five,” if the above example were true and Tennessee split its vote, Huffstetler said. “In most states it’s winner takes all.” n

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From the Pews to the PollsThroughout the election, many

voters keep their religious back-grounds in mind when making decisions.

“My religion plays a big role in my voting stance. It is important to me to follow the guidelines set in scripture,” said Jeff Jones, director of campus ministry at the Baptist Student Union.

Although many voters say that religion is a big factor in the choice they make, some do not hold the religion of the presidential candidate as a key aspect of their decision.

“Someone can say that they are a certain religion but they do not live based off of those principles. I base my choice on how they treat

By Shelby [email protected]

see RELIGION on page 9Baptist campus minister Jeff Jones has a laughter-filled converstaion with students Rebecca Gardner, left, and Ashley Hobar in the Baptist Student Union on Tuesday.

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday won a second term in the White House, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney in a hard-fought election that served as a referen-dum on who could better ease Americans’ economic pain and uncertainty.

Obama marched across the nation, scoring victory after vic-tory in battleground states where the economy had mounted just enough of a comeback to convince voters to give him four more years.

He held onto the coalition that led him to victory in 2008: women, Latinos, African-Americans and young people. Romney, seeking to become the first Mormon to win the presidency, was able to win only two states Obama had won last time, Indiana and North Carolina.

The second Democrat to win a second term since World War II, Obama swept the Northeast and West Coast states and won most of the Rust Belt battlegrounds, includ-ing Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Romney won

dependably Republican states across the South and into Texas and the Great Plains.

Obama took office in January 2009 with a mandate to revive an economy still struggling to recover from the Great Recession of 2007-2009, the worst downturn since the Great Depression. Six of 10 voters Tuesday said the economy was the most important issue, well ahead of health care or foreign policy. Three of four voters said the economy remained poor or not so good.

Obama touted the economy’s steady progress on his watch; Romney cited stubbornly high unemployment and mounting fed-eral debt as he argued the recov-ery’s pace was too slow. In the exit polls, slightly more than half said Obama was more in touch with people like them, compared with 44 percent for Romney.

The president will face the sta-tus quo in Congress. Republicans held their majority in the House of Representatives, according to pro-jections. All 435 voting seats were up Tuesday. Democrats retained control of the Senate. Republicans had needed a net gain of four seats.

Turnout was reported heavy, particularly in swing states as well as storm-battered New York and New Jersey. Experts still expected it to remain below 2008 levels, finding voters less engaged. About 32 million people had voted early, either in person or by mail.

The president spent Election Day in Chicago. He stopped by his campaign’s Hyde Park field office in south Chicago to greet work-ers and call voters. He called six Wisconsin voters, then talked to supporters at the office.

He congratulated Romney for

a “spirited campaign” and said he felt good about the results. “We feel confident we’ve got the votes to win, that it’s going to depend ultimately on whether those votes turn out,” Obama said.

Later Tuesday, Obama was play-er-coach for a quick basketball game. Among his team members was former Chicago Bulls great Scottie Pippen. Obama’s team won by about 20 points.

Romney voted in Belmont, Mass., and then made hast-ily scheduled campaign swings to Ohio and Pennsylvania. Ohio was considered crucial for Romney; no Republican has been elected presi-dent without winning the Buckeye State.

The last day’s scramble was viv-idly on display at the Cleveland airport. As Romney was waiting for running mate Paul Ryan to arrive, Vice President Joe Biden’s plane took off. Biden made his own last-minute trek to Ohio.

Romney visited a Cleveland-area campaign office, where he proclaimed, “This is a big day for change.”

Obama was dogged through-out the year by voters expressing qualms about his stewardship of the economy. He was unlikely to match the 52.8 percent share of the popular vote he got in 2008, or match the 365 electoral votes he won that year, when he pledged to start a new era of “hope and change” politics.

The campaign will be remem-bered as a marathon that started and stayed close. Neither Romney nor Obama could open up much of a lead, and both parties spent unprecedented billions of dollars for ads and efforts to turn out their voters. n

people and their political stances, not on what their religion is,” said Savannah Miller, biomedical engi-neering major.

In the end, some believe that all religions are going toward the same goal.

“I think with all the major reli-gions in mind, we are all in the same boat with political matters. Yes, I have my own beliefs that I acknowledge when making my choice, but I am also focused on voting for someone who will benefit others as well,” said Hassan Najdawi, a frequent attendee of the Muslim Student Union.

Although people of the same reli-gion have similar beliefs, it is con-sidered a stereotype that they vote the same.

“I have friends voting differently than I do. Our religious background does not mean our votes are set in stone,” Jones said. n

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Students and ministers discuss politics at the Baptist Student Union on Tuesday.

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Obama wins re-election after bruising campaignBy David LightmanMcClatchy Newspapers

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What issues were most important to you when you voted?

By Chris WielandTigers’ Ta es

“Really for me it’s foreign policy. It’s the biggest factor for me and why I’m voting for Romney.”

Trevor Cooke, Biology freshman

“Financial aid, taxes and helping those with low income.”

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“Romney, well, I don’t trust him. He’s not competent enough and interested in disproving rather than helping people.”

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“Women’s health and gay marriage — social things.”

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“Probably same sex marriage and the economy in general.”

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According to the Center for Responsive Politics, candidates were projected to spend about $3 billion for the 2012 Presidential Election. Instead, they spent nearly double that.

From January 2011 to October 2012 President Barack Obama raised $934 million for his cam-paign and spent $852.9 million as opposed to Mitt Romney, who raised $881.8 million and spent $752.3 million.

However, Obama had $134.7 million cash on hand while Romney had $193.3 million left over.

The majority of Obama’s donors, 56 percent, donated less than $200 with 33 percent donating between $200 and $2,499 and 11 percent donating $2,500 for his campaign.

Forty-nine percent of Obama’s political action committee donors gave more than $1 million toward his campaign, 40 percent gave between $100,000 and $1 million and 10 percent gave less than $10,000.

The majority of Romney’s donors, 42 percent, donated $2,500 with 35 percent donating between $200 and $2,499 and 23 percent donating less than $200 for his campaign. n

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The lines of Shelby County voters waiting to cast their ballot early con-sisted of more blacks and women than whites and men during early voting, according to statistics from the Shelby County Election Commission.

A total of 36.3 percent of early voters were black, 28.3 percent were white and 35.4 percent were classified as other.

Early voting from registered black voters is down by 18.4 percent from the 2008 presidential election when 103,420 ballots were cast during early voting by black voters.

Women outvoted men with 61.1

percent of early voters being female and 38.8 percent male.

A total of 232,691 Shelby County voters out of Shelby County’s 598,983 total registered voters participated in early voting.

In a precinct-by-precinct analysis, The Commercial Appeal reported early voting turnout patterns show 57.3 percent of voters are Democratic-leaning compared to 41 percent who are Republican. n

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Every vote counts on Election Day, but how are they counted?

Initially, popular votes were con-ducted with state-printed ballots starting in 1889. Citizens marked in pencil the candidates whom they wanted to elect.

By 1920, mechanical voting booths became the official voting method in 18 states, and in 1960 half of the bal-lots were cast on lever voting machines. When a voter pulled the lever, a curtain would wrap around them to conceal their selection.

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American voters readily adopted the machines, designed in 2002. In 2004, 30 percent of registered voters used an electronic voting machine to cast a bal-lot. The voter selects who they want on a screen, and the machine records it to a memory cartridge.

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Romney’s plan for higher edu-cation, while it calls for the same reforms, would have taken a differ-ent approach.

“More spending will not solve the problem of tuition increases — to the contrary, it has helped fuel the problem,” Romney has said. “When Washington puts more money into student aid programs to help fami-lies and individuals pay for higher education, colleges and universities raise tuition rates.”

As governor, Romney made cuts to higher education. By the end of his term, fees at state colleges and universities had increased 63 per-cent. He has said students should shop around and borrow money from their parents to pay for college or get ahead. He also said during the Republican primaries that he would let the American Opportunity Tax Credit — which helped 9.4 mil-lion students in 2011 afford to pay for college — expire and slash Pell grants.

Romney called for reform of the higher education system, but in dif-ferent areas than Obama supports. Romney said he wanted to strength-en and simplify the financial aid system.

“Focus the Department on giving students and families with financial need the appropriate information about completion and persistence, loan repayment rates, future earn-ings and other indicators to intel-ligently weigh the risks and benefits of the many options available to them, rather than limiting the choic-es through punitive regulations,” according to Romney’s plan.

Romney would also open the stu-dent loan market to private sector participation “in providing informa-tion, financing and the education itself.” Obama’s plan has been to

control the business of student loans with the federal government.

Romney’s plan called for new education models and lifted regula-tions “that primarily serve to drive costs higher, and replace them with common-sense reforms that ensure appropriate student outcomes,” according to mittromney.com.

Romney claimed Obama will doubled down on the problem. He claimed the president made the wrong decision to nationalize the student loan program. This, Romney said, made students more likely to borrow unnecessarily and acquire unneeded debt without any chance to pay it off in a broken economy and a weak job market.

Obama has set a goal to cut tuition growth in half over the next decade with a plan to expand student aid and work with states and colleges to keep tuition growth down.

While Raines did not single out her preferred choice for President of the United States, she did say that furthering education should be on both men’s agendas.

“Education is not a partisan issue,” she said Tuesday before the close of the polls in Tennessee. “It is a vital facet of American soci-ety that is equally important to all Americans. No matter who is elect-ed president, I hope they will be a champion of higher education and that they continue to make it acces-sible to all of our citizens.”

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matter, students must first complete their general education.

Jerry Winters, director of gov-ernment relations for the Tennessee Education Association, said that if voters put the two candidates side by side, there would be no question that Obama is a better choice for president.

“A Romney win would be a huge challenge for public schools,” Winters said.

Romney voiced a plan that would allow parents the ability to choose which school their child attends, bringing their federal funds with

them.“That whole concept, couched

in terms of parental choice, could rob public schools and send money to private schools and parochial schools,” Winters said. “There are several implications that states would move toward privatization of public schools and further charter schools and virtual schools, even.”

While Obama’s Race to the Top program is questioned in some cir-cles, Winters said, the president has a record of increasing financial sup-port for public schools.

Obama has said a good teacher can change a student’s life. His R2T program spurred 46 states to raise their standards for college and career readiness while relieving the pres-sures of former President George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” pro-gram. Obama’s plan calls for 100,000 new math and science teachers over the next decade.

“Regardless of who the president is,” Winters said, “the implications are great for education.” n

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Four soccer players net conference honors

As the University of Memphis men’s soccer team readied for tonight’s opening round match in the Conference USA Tournament against Kentucky, the league office announced four Tigers who received all-conference accolades.

Topping the list is junior forward Mark Sherrod, who was honored with his second straight C-USA Offensive Player of the Year award. For the regular season, Sherrod fin-ished with a team-high 12 goals, second in the conference, and 28 points, along with four assists.

Sherrod became the first Tiger in program history to win the honor in back-to-back seasons, and the second player in the conference’s history. His 12 goals and 1.65 points per game both rank 17th in the NCAA. Sherrod was also named to the All-C-USA first team.

Also receiving first team honors was junior midfielder Liam Collins. Collins led the Tigers in assists with seven on the season and 0.41 assists per game, good enough to tie for third in the conference. His 24 career assists are the second highest in program history. The honor was his second consecutive.

Senior defender Jordan Johnson garnered All-C-USA third team honors for his defensive efforts. Johnson helped anchor a Tiger defense that held opponents to 9.2 shots per game and recorded three shutouts.

The last Tiger to net honors was freshman midfielder Quincy Thomas, who was named to the All-Freshman team.

The Tigers take on Kentucky tonight in the first round of the C-USA Tournament. Game time is slated for 5 p.m. n

By Bryan [email protected]


Last week’s win for the University of Memphis men’s soccer team over No. 14 Southern Methodist proved to be more than just a momen-tum builder heading into tonight’s Conference USA Tournament opener. The win gave the Tigers the No. 4 seed in the tournament as they face off against the Kentucky Wildcats.

Tonight’s meeting will be the 12th all-time between the two con-ference foes, with the Tigers tying the Wildcats 2-2 in Lexington, Ky. earlier in the season. The all-time series is notched 4-4-3.

The Wildcats (9-8-1, 4-3-1 C-USA) are led by Tyler Riggs and Matt Lodge, with each owning seven goals on the season. Riggs also leads

the Wildcats in points with 18. The Kentucky offensive attack comes in averaging 1.72 goals per game on 13.5 shots per game. For the season, the Wildcats have outscored oppo-nents 31-23, including a 20-12 edge in the second half. Kentucky also has five players who have netted four or more goals on the year.

Defensively, the Wildcats play Jack Van Arsdale in the net. Arsdale has logged 1,420:43 in the goal, appearing in 16 games with 15 starts. He owns a 1.14 goals-against average, making 45 saves. The goalkeeper has amounted an 8-6-1 record on the season with four shutouts.

The Tigers will look to two-time defending C-USA Offensive Player of the Year Mark Sherrod to break down the Wildcat defense. Memphis’ offense is eerily similar

to the Wildcats, averaging 1.76 gpg on 13.6 spg. Memphis holds a 30-24 advantage against opponents in goals on the season.

The Tigers appearance in this year’s C-USA tournament marks the 11th time the team has made the tournament since the league’s creation in 1996. Memphis is 9-9 all-time in the tournament and 4-6 under current head coach Richie Grant. The Tigers won the tourna-ment in 2004.

UAB hosts this year’s tourney in Birmingham, Ala. Tonight’s match is set to kickoff at 5 p.m. n

The men’s soccer team looks to make a run at a Conference USA title, starting tonight against the Kentucky Wildcats.

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Tigers to play CBU in exhibition tonightWith the season opener against

North Florida just days away, the University of Memphis men’s bas-ketball team looks to smooth out the remaining kinks tonight in an exhi-bition against the Christian Brothers University Buccaneers.

Last season’s opening round loss came to a slow, methodical Saint Louis Billikens team. Head coach Josh Pastner said tonight’s exhibition against CBU, a team that plays a similar style to the Billikens, will help his Tigers adjust to a slower tempo of play during the season.

“Tomorrow will be good for us because of the way they play,” Pastner said. “They’re going to be methodical and it is something we haven’t seen this year, and we can’t simulate it in prac-tice. We know that it’s something we’ll see this year, the style that Christian Brothers plays.”

CBU is ranked No. 16 in the Division II preseason poll and is a familiar foe for the Tigers, who have played exhibi-tions against the Buccaneers numerous times in the past, including every year since Pastner took over the reigns of the program.

Rebounding has been a problem for Memphis since the days of John Calipari. Many people have pointed toward the big man on the Tigers’ ros-

ter for a lack of initiative to clean the glass. However, Pastner said the key is not in the frontcourt, but with the guards.

“We have to be better at guard rebounding,” Pastner said. “It’s not the bigs now, it’s guard rebounding. That’s a big thing for us. It’s not on the offensive end, it’s on the defensive end. I call them defensive killers when you have a stand and a great stop and they get a second shot. It just kills you defensively.”

As the Tigers polish their skills in tonight’s match, the women’s basketball team is coming off an 88-30 exhibition win over Rhodes College Saturday. At the half, Memphis already held a 47-10 lead, shooting 51.4 percent from the floor.

True-freshman Mooriah Rowser led the Tigers with 17 points and fel-low freshman Ariel Hearn was a close second with 16 points. Senior leader Nicole Dickson filled up the stat sheet with 15 points, nine rebounds, three assists and three steals. The 58-point thrashing was an all-around effort, as 11 different Tigers netted points on the night.

Tonight’s exhibition for the men is set to tip-off at 7 p.m. at FedEx Forum. The Tigers will open the season Nov. 12 against North Florida, with the women opening their campaign this Friday as part of the Preseason WNIT against Grambling State at 7 p.m. at the Elma Roane Fieldhouse. n


Head coach Josh Pastner and the men’s basketball team will take on CBU tonight at the FedEx Forum.

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