Memphis police are inves-tigating a shooting where two people were injured, one extremely critically, just off The University of Memphis cam-pus on Tuesday night.

Police responded to the shooting at Spottswood Avenue and Minor Road at 9:46 p.m.

The condition of the other

victim was unknown, accord-ing to MPD spokeswoman Karen Rudolph.

As of late Tuesday night, no arrests had been made in the incident and further details on the shooting and identity of the victims were unavailable.

U of M Police Services issued a TigerText alert at 10:25 p.m. urging students to use caution in the area of the shooting.

An investigation is ongoing.

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‘Calling the shots’

The Daily Helmsman and its predecessor, The Tiger Rag, have had many editors over the years, but the most unexpected editor was the FBI.

Jim and Sherrye Willis, a married couple who were both editors at The Tiger Rag, remember vividly May 4, 1966, two days following an anti-Vietnam War demonstration on the campus of the University of Memphis, then Memphis State University.

A campus anti-war group, which for some time had been publishing a mimeographed underground newspaper called Logos, had staged a non-violent protest on May 2. The group, often referred to by its newspa-per’s name, did not have a lot

of support among University students, and, as they distrib-uted their newspaper, a scuffle broke out between the Logos group and students in support of the war.

Jim, Sherrye and the rest of the newspaper staff came into work on May 4, expecting to write about the Logos scuffle, which came to be called the Logos Riot. To their shock, however, they came to school and found a special edition of the school newspaper had already been published — an edition that they did not know was being worked on.

It was a four-page tabloid special edition. It looked like the weekly Tiger Rag always had, but the administrators had controlled the content. There was a fairly straightforward

lead story, but the rest of the newspaper clearly framed anti-war demonstrators as puppets of the Communist Party. An unsigned editorial described constitutional free speech as a prescription for chaos. “What sort of orderly society could be run in this manner?” the edito-rial asked.

Jim Willis said after it was published, The University’s administrators’ edict was, “Ok, we’ve handled the story, noth-ing more.” After asking his friend who was editor at the time, Jim learned that it was not just the administration tak-ing charge, “it was the FBI who was calling the shots on all the content,” Jim said.

Jim also saw some other interesting events unfold after the Logos riots. While

an undergraduate, he worked part time in the photo services department in the basement of the administration building,

and he happened to stop in one day when one of his friends was printing hundreds of pic-

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Two injured in shooting near campusBY SCoTT CArroLLEditor-in-Chief

Former Daily Helmsman editor now best-selling author

A six-figure book deal at age 25 is a dream that became reality short-ly after for-mer Daily H e l m s m a n arts and e n t e r t a i n -

ment editor Johanna Edwards graduated from The University of Memphis.

Edwards, now 33, has pub-lished five books in her young career: “How to Be Cool,” “Your Big Break,” “The Next Big Thing,” and the young adult books “Love Undercover” and “Go Figure,” which are written under the name Jo Edwards. She credits much of her success to the fact that she is an avid reader.

“(Reading) has been instru-mental — from the moment I could, I’ve been reading. I used to ask for books for Christmas,” Edwards said. “I’ve always known I wanted to be an author

since a very young age. I start-ed ‘writing’ before I could even write properly. Before I went to bed at night, I would tell my dad stories, and he would write them down. We actually still have them. They were really bad.”

Her struggles as a young author did not last long. Edwards, who still lives and writes in Memphis, commented on her success recently during a speech at a banquet, where she was receiving the Outstanding Young Alumni award.

“You have to follow your dream. I had a bunch of people tell me that I’d never get an agent and nobody would ever read my query letters. People would tell me, ‘You’ll never be a novelist,’ and show me all kinds of statis-tics for why it wouldn’t happen.”

Edwards graduated from The University of Memphis with a Bachelor’s degree in journalism in 2001. She started off as a busi-ness major, but quickly realized accounting wasn’t for her.

“I read an article in Business Weekly that talked about journal-ism being a dying major. I was in business for about a semester

and a half before I realized it was one of the worst mistakes of my life,” Edwards said. “I always read The Helmsman while I was a business major and that kept my passion alive to follow my dream.”

Edwards worked for The Daily Helmsman for seven semesters before graduating. While work-ing for The Helmsman, she learned how to write with deadlines and distractions, criticism and praise.

“I’d probably still be work-ing at The Helmsman today if I didn’t graduate,” she said. “They literally had to kick me out of the door. (Helmsman General Manager) Candy Justice has been great on so many levels. She taught us the ins and outs. She told us things straight and gave us tough love.”

Johanna began writing chick-lit in 2003. At the time, she didn’t know that her genre of writing had such a specific title.

“I was really into shows like ‘Sex in the City’ and ‘Bridget Jones’ Diary,’ and when I submit-ted my writing to agents they were like ‘Oh, this is chick-lit,’” Edwards said.

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University of Memphis musicians and vocalists will showcase their original songs Friday night at Blue TOM Records’ Idol Search talent competition.

“Idol Search is a vocal tal-ent competition like American Idol,” said Bekah Wineman, Blue TOM representative and junior music industry major.

Idol Search is unique from the Fox television program in the sense that all the per-formers will be University of Memphis students.

“It’s in Memphis...we bring in people from around cam-pus, such as our music indus-try professor, Jeff Cline,” Wineman said. “They know what is expected in the indus-try, what producers and tal-ent agents are looking for.”

Performers must use origi-nal material. The judges want to hear what University of Memphis students can bring to the music industry.

“It has to be original to make sure they’re not imitat-ing an artist,” Wineman said. “We want to see the students perform, see students’ work.”

The grand prize is a spot on

a CD Blue TOM Records will release next semester. There will be a special performance by hip-hop singer Butta MD. She has been an Idol contes-tant twice and won the com-petition in 2010.

“Attendees can expect great performances and a lot of energy,” Wineman said.

The talent competition will be held in the University Center Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. There will be free food and free swag bags.

“Swag bags are cool things we have collected like Blue TOM CDs, stickers and pens,” Wineman said.

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Idol SearchUM students to compete for spot on Blue TOM CD

Every journey starts some-where, and for novelist Amulya Malladi, her journey has taken her from India to Denmark with a stopover in Memphis.

Malladi was born in 1974 and raised all across India because her father was in the Indian Army with a variety of postings. She started writing when she was 11 years old, although her writ-ing career officially began at The University of Memphis, where she earned a master’s degree in journalism.

Her writing skills were first honed in classrooms of the Meeman Journalism Building, and then more so when she wrote for The Daily Helmsman, where she was compensated with $10 per story.

“It was exhilarating,” she said. “I was welcomed, and I learned how to tell a story. I did a semester in biomedical engineer-

ing and then changed majors. I loved the people. These were the first American people I became friends with.”

Malladi, whose undergraduate degree was in electronics and electronic engi-neering, built her writing skills at The Helmsman, but gained invaluable lessons from her professors, who guided her in and out of the news-room, she said.

“I learned how to work in teams. I learned how to edit. I learned that, as a writer, you need to have a thick skin and that you cannot have any ego. The story is important, not the writer,” Malladi said.

Although she was excited to follow her dream, Malladi admits there were struggles brought on

by the culture gap.“(The most difficult thing was)

that my name was difficult to

pronounce and I was fresh off the boat. I had to ask people to repeat themselves all the time. The Southern accent was diffi-cult...in the beginning.”

The cultural differences were a small challenge compared to the battle she had to fight with her parents when they found out she

was pursuing writing instead of science.

“My parents were in India, and they were quite nervous about my career options. They would have liked me to be an engineer...but ultimately I was far away, and they had to accept that my heart just wasn’t into liv-ing my life as an engineer,” Malladi said.

She said that her parents are

proud of her success as a writer since the publication of her five novels, including the critically acclaimed “The Mango Season” and, her most recent novel, “The Sound of Language.”

Her first novel, published by Random House when Malladi was 27 years old, “A Breath of

Fresh Air,” was partially inspired by her experiences as a nine-year-old girl when her family lived in Bhopal, India, the site of the Union Carbide plant explosion that killed several thousand people.

She lived and worked in America for several years after graduating from The University of Memphis, but today she lives in Copenhagen, Denmark with her husband and two sons. She continues to write.

Although Malladi knows that making her parents proud was a major achievement in itself. She really finds pride in her own accomplishments, she said.

“(I’m most proud of) the fact that I showed up (in Memphis) to write when I was just 20 years old and from India. My English language skills were decent, but they weren’t great, I know that now. But I wasn’t scared of inter-viewing people or learning. That was a very brave young girl, and I’m proud of her. I don’t think I’d have that courage today.”

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“My English language skills were decent, but they weren’t great, I know that now. But I wasn’t scared of interviewing people or learning. That was a very brave young girl, and I’m

proud of her. I don’t think I’d have that courage today.”

— Amulya MalladiNovelist

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Immigration from mexico in fast retreat, data shows

North of the U.S.-Mexico border, Republican presiden-tial candidates are talking tough on illegal immigration, with one proposing — per-haps in jest — an electrified fence to deter migrants.

But data from both sides of the border suggest that illegal immigration from Mexico is already in fast retreat, as U.S. jobs shortages, tighter border enforcement and the frighten-ing presence of criminal gangs on the Mexican side dissuade many from making the trip.

Mexican census figures show that fewer Mexicans are setting out and many are returning -- leaving net migra-tion at close to zero, Mexican officials say. Arrests by the U.S. Border Patrol along the southwestern frontier, a com-mon gauge of how many people try to cross without papers, tumbled to 304,755 during the 11 months ending in August, extending a nearly steady drop since a peak of 1.6 million in 2000.

The scale of the fall has prompted some to suggest that we may be seeing the end of a decades-long migration boom, even as others argue that it’s just a momentary drop.

“Our country is not experi-encing the population loss due to migration that was seen for nearly 50 years,” Rene Zenteno, a deputy interior secretary for migration mat-ters, has said.

Douglas Massey, an immi-gration scholar at Princeton

University, said surveys of residents in Mexican migrant towns he has studied for many years found that the number of people making their first trip north had dwindled to near zero.

“We are at a new point in the history of migration between Mexico and the United States,” Massey said in a Mexico City news con-ference in August hosted by Zenteno.

Experts in Mexico say the trend is primarily economic. Long-standing back-and-forth migration has been thrown off as the U.S. downturn dried up jobs — in construction and restaurants, for example — that once drew legions of Mexican workers.

About 12.5 million Mexican immigrants live in the United States, slightly more than half without papers, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.

These days, Mexicans in the United States have discour-aging words for loved ones about prospects for work up north. U.S. contractors who used to recruit in Mexico like-wise have little to offer.

“What stimulates migration is the need for workers,” said Genoveva Roldan, a scholar at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. “Right now, the migrant networks are functioning to say, ‘Don’t come — there’s no work.’ “

Juan Carlos Calleros, a researcher in Mexico’s National Migration Institute, said the agency’s surveys find that a large share of Mexican migrants coming home on

their own or sent back by the Border Patrol had spent just a month or two on U.S. soil and returned because they lacked work.

Alongside the bleak jobs picture is a trek that has grown riskier and expensive because of stepped-up enforcement on the U.S. side, a crackdown that at the same time has prompted many migrants to stay in the United States rather than try to cross back and forth. Migrants also cite an increasingly hos-tile political climate north of the border, as expressed in state laws targeting undocu-mented immigrants.

“It keeps getting harder and harder,” said 35-year-old Joel Buzo, who returned to the cen-tral state of Guanajuato after a three-month search turned up only irregular, poorly paid work tearing up old railroad tracks in Utah. He lasted six more months before giving up.

Buzo, a musician, said it’s easier to get by in Mexico,

even though jobs are also scarce. He has no plans to travel north again.

“What’s happening up there is happening here,” he said by telephone from the migrant-heavy town of Romita. “But it’s worse there.”

In Guanajuato, long one of the country’s biggest migrant-sending states, thousands of Mexicans have come back, but “it hasn’t been a mas-sive return,” said Susana Guerra, who heads the state’s migrant-affairs office. She calls the decline in northward migration a “spasm” — not a lasting reality.

Safety in northern Mexico has also become a growing worry for would-be migrants.

Nearly 200 people, many of them U.S.-bound Mexican migrants, were killed in the northern state of Tamaulipas last spring after being seized from buses by gunmen believed tied to the Zetas drug gang. A year earlier, 72 migrants from Central and

South America were massa-cred in the same area.

“It’s not worth it — for now,” Calleros said.

President Felipe Calderon’s administration has sought a measure of credit for the migration decline by promot-ing the idea that improved social conditions and services in Mexico, such as broadened health insurance, are easing “push” factors that encour-age would-be migrants to go. Mexican officials say falling birthrates have helped by relieving population pressures on communities.

But skeptics point to a stubborn shortage of jobs in Mexico, lingering huge gaps in pay between the two coun-tries and figures that show a growing number of Mexicans in poverty. A drop in the flow of Central American migrants is a further sign that the U.S. labor market — not conditions at home — determines wheth-er migration is up or down, some experts argue.

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After being completely cleared in a surprise police sweep early Tuesday morning, Occupy Wall Street protesters were permitted to re-enter Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park around 5:30 p.m.

As helicopters flew overhead, police officers guarded two make-shift security checkpoints, allow-ing protesters to enter the park in single file. Once inside, the protest-ers joined dozens of police officers who had been stationed in the park since the early morning raid that cleared tents and other personal and communal property that had accumulated since protesters began sleeping in the park on Sept. 17.

“All day, all week, Occupy Wall Street!” protesters chanted as they walked around the former tent village.

Although protesters were allowed back into the park, they entered under a new set of rules: no tents, tarps or sleeping bags are now permitted in the park. Protesters also are not allowed to store personal property in the park, or even to lie down.

Justice Michael D. Stallman of the State Supreme Court earlier had rejected a temporary restrain-

ing order sought by lawyers for the protesters. Stallman wrote that the protesters “have not demonstrated that they have a First Amendment right to remain in Zuccotti Park, along with their tents, structures, generators, and other installations,” to the exclusion of the landlord or others who wish to use the park safely.

Protesters, Stallman ruled, would now be subject to the rules outlined by Brookfield Properties after the protests began but not enforced until now.

After the early morning raid, Zuccotti Park was completely cor-doned off. Dozens of police offi-cers and security officers from Brookfield Properties gathered inside the otherwise empty plaza. The surrounding sidewalks were tightly packed with protesters, jour-nalists, onlookers and other police officers.

The police raid began about 1 a.m., when hundreds of officers descended on the park to clear out the protesters and their belongings.

Channing Creager, 22, who had slept on and off in Zuccotti Park since the protests began, said that she had just put her sleeping bag over her when she learned of the sweep. She said she heard yelling from outside her tent, which she

ignored at first.“But then I heard, ‘Everybody

out of the tents, everybody out of the tents, they’re coming in, the police are going to raid.”

She said she got up, grabbed what belongings she could, and saw police lined all around the park, many wearing helmets and holding batons.

“It was just crazy, I couldn’t believe how many of them there were,” Creager said.

Protesters said they were given only a few minutes to gather their belongings.

“It was grab what you can and go, that was pretty much it,” said Shawn Rapp, 45, another protester who was forced to leave during the raid. “They could’ve at least given

everybody a couple hours’ notice.”At an 8 a.m. news conference,

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the raid came at such an early hour to reduce the risk of confrontation in the park and to minimize dis-ruption to the surrounding neigh-borhood. Bloomberg said he and Brookfield Properties came to the decision to sweep the park because of concerns the occupation posed a health and fire safety hazard.

“But make no mistake — the final decision to act was mine,” Bloomberg said.

Bloomberg said he had two goals since the beginning of the pro-test: to guarantee public health and safety as well as the protesters’ First Amendment rights. He defended his decision to clear the park.

“There is no ambiguity in the law here — the First Amendment protects speech, it does not protect the use of tents and sleeping bags to take over a public place,” he said.

Ray Kelly, the New York police commissioner, confirmed that about 200 protesters were arrested Tuesday, 142 of them in Zuccotti Park and the rest in the surround-ing area.

Not all city officials agreed with Bloomberg’s decision.

Ydanis Rodriguez, a city council member in upper Manhattan, was among those arrested at the park. Several outlets reported that he was bleeding from his head at the time of the arrest. A message post-ed to Rodgriguez’s twitter account shortly after 2 p.m. said that that Rodriguez and other Occupy Wall Street protesters continued to be held without access to their lawyers.

In a statement posted to his website, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer said that he was “greatly troubled by reports of unnecessary force against pro-testers and members of the media, including the use of ‘chokeholds’ and pepper spray.” He was also troubled, the statement said, by reports of media being forcibly kept away at a distance from the events.

BY GIAnnA PALmErMcClatchy Newspapers

New York Police Department four-star chief Joseph Esposito orders his officers to stand down as a tense stand-off took place at 46th and Broadway in Times Square in New York with demonstrators with the “Occupy Wall Street” movement on Sat. Oct. 15, 2011. The order seemed to change the course of the action at the scene immediately.

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tures from the Logos Riot. According to his friend, he was ordered to make an 8x10 print of every negative taken during the campus riot to turn over to the FBI.

Jim Willis, who has enjoyed a long and illustrious career in journalism since that time, found his career almost by accident. He had a friend on staff at the student newspaper who was crunched for time, so Jim agreed to lend him a hand.

It was there at the office of The Tiger Rag, where he would develop a fervor for asking questions and develop-ing a sense of responsibility in his work. It was also where he would meet his future wife, Sherrye Johnson, who later was also his editor.

“I couldn’t believe that newspaper journalism was so much fun, so I switched my major, worked for the newspa-per and met Sherrye,” he said.

Willis went on to find numerous, fulfilling career opportunities in journalism. However, it was his decision to help a friend out that led him down a path that would change his life.

Willis had a nontraditional college experience. He was on the self-proclaimed, “10-year plan” as an undergraduate. He said he was easily distracted by extracurricular activities. He was also drafted for four years during the Vietnam War.

When it came to the class-

room, one professor came to mind immediately for both Willises — journalism profes-sor L. Dupre Long. He was “unnecessarily difficult,” according to Sherrye. Professor Long was particular about the details, including when it came down to the type of copy-edit-ing pencils his students would use. In retrospect, Jim and Sherrye agree that Long taught them the importance of detail and also how to be tenacious in finding out information.

“He helped a lot of us understand that you have to go after these things,” Sherrye said.

After graduation, Sherrye worked for The Memphis Press-Scimitar, Commercial Appeal and Valdosta Daily Times in Georgia before working as public rela-tions director for Goodwill Industries and other public relations jobs.

After his college days, Jim said he could hardly believe his luck in finding a profes-sion that was so much fun. He went to work for the Memphis Press-Scimitar and became editor and president of the Birmingham Post-Herald, before finishing his career at the Commercial Appeal, where he was associate publisher.

“I was so naïve when I fin-ished school that I couldn’t believe they’d pay you to do something that was so much fun” he said. “I figured that if I got to the point where it was no fun, then I’d find a real job, and, fortunately, I never had to find a real job.”

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Students buckle down for last weeks of school

Six students sat in Mitchell Hall room 403 Tuesday after-noon taking notes and listening to Barbara Bekis’ advice.

“Within in the next three weeks, you don’t want to miss class at all because professors will start giving hints and tips about what’s going to be on the final,” she said.

Administrators are warning University of Memphis students to stay focused as the last few days and hours of the semester tick away.

As Bekis, coordi-nator of the Educational Support Program, lead a seminar about preparing for exams in Mitchell, participating students wrote down tips about color coding notes, figuring out what kind of learner they are and scheduling.

“The fact of the matter is this, there are numerous times when students believe that the final exam is going to raise their grade a whole letter, sometimes two,” she said. “But usually the final exam is a compilation of the whole semester, so the test usu-ally doesn’t do that.”

For the next three weeks of the semester, Bekis said students might want to tell their friends goodbye until after exams.

Scheduling, she said, is also very important.

“We have 10 learning centers on The U of M campus from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. There is also online tutoring,” she said. “Some students even use their job as an

avoidance behavior. They’ll say ‘I can’t stay because I have to go to work. I can’t study because I have to go to work,’ when really people probably have more time than they realize.”

Junior English major Iesha Williams said that, as a fresh-man, she would cram for exams and procrastinate on her home-

work. A mistake, she said, many freshmen probably make.

“It wasn’t that I didn’t care, but I didn’t know I could be doing better,” she said. “I would go to class, read over the mate-rial and cram it all in at the last minute. It worked, but once I realized I could do better by tak-ing my time, I did and I’ve done better since.”

Reza Zarshenas, junior his-tory major, said one of the best ways he gets prepared for finals is with study groups and by “brown nosing” and talking to professors.

“Especially if you haven’t studied at all and try not to pro-crastinate too much,” he said. “Everyone does it. You can’t say ‘I don’t procrastinate,’ because that’s a lie.” Everyone finds a moment to get on Facebook and update their status or ‘like’ someone else’s.”

At this point in the semester,

simply going to class can help a student with finals or help a professor make a decision if they’re straddling a grade, Laura Snyder, academic advisor, said.

“When you get your tests and papers back, go over them with your professor,” she said. “If you sit down with your instructor and they know you really do

care, it’s going to be tough for them to dismiss you.”

S o m e t i m e s students get homesick, pick up hours at work or think it’s too late to raise their grade in a class, Snyder said.

“You always have your final

and a final paper. I think the minute you sit down at the final exam and you realize you haven’t cracked a text book all semester, that’s when it’s too late,” she said. “(College) is the only time in your life where you can do exactly what it is you want to do. Make the most of it and make it count.”

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“College is the only time in your life where you can do exactly what it is you want to do. Make the most of it, and

make it count. — Laura Snyder

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Tigers shut down Belmont, 79-40Defense was the name of

the game for The University of Memphis women’s bas-ketball team when they took down the Belmont Bruins on Sunday, 79-40.

The Tigers forced 19 Belmont turnovers and col-lected 13 steals while com-mitting only eight turnovers themselves. Memphis held the Bruins to 30.8 percent shoot-ing (16-52) and shot 40.8 per-cent (29-71) for the game.

Senior post Jasmine Lee led the team with 19 points and 12 rebounds. Lee was one of two Tigers with a double -double; junior forward Nicole Dickson provided the other one, post-ing 10 points and 10 rebounds. Senior guard Ramses Lonlack added ten points and six rebounds. Sophomore guard Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir and senior guard Brittney Carter both tallied four rebounds each.

The Tigers dominated in most statistical categories: rebounds (60-32), points in the paint (48-22), points off turn-

overs (18-6), second chance points (21-2), fast break points (12-2) and bench points (25-2).

“Our kids played hard,” said associate head coach Danielle O’Banion. “They

just played so hard. Brittney couldn’t make a shot, Dickson couldn’t make a shot, but they played so hard. That probably is the best feeling coming away from the game was the effort that the kids

played with. And then to hold Belmont to 40 points is a big accomplishment for us as well.”

During halftime, head coach Melissa McFerrin urged

the Lady Tigers to rebound the ball better. And play-ers like senior guard Danay Collier responded.

“She just wanted us to push the ball and be aggressive and rebound,” Collier said. “It

was really important. If we rebound, then we can get the ball in transition and get the ball in the middle.”

The Bruins kept the game relatively close throughout most of the first half. A three-pointer by Tristan Daniel cut the Tigers’ lead to 3 with 3:17 left in the half. Then the Tigers took over, using a 40-4 run over the next 17:39 to put the Bruins away for good. Haley Nelson’s jumper late in the second half finally ended the Tiger run with just 5:38 remaining in the game. Of the 11 Memphis players used in the game, ten scored at least two points.

“I think this group under-stands the importance of tak-ing advantage of opportuni-ties,” O’Banion said. “That was one of the last things that (Coach) Melissa (McFerrin) mentioned to the team com-ing out of halftime.”

After a brief one game road trip, the Lady Tigers return to the friendly confines of the Elma Roane Fieldhouse on Nov. 19 as they take on Arkansas Pine-Bluff. Tipoff is scheduled for 2 p.m.

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of taking advantage of opportunities. That was

one of the last things that (Coach) Melissa (McFerrin)

mentioned to the team coming out of halftime.”

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Tigers bruise Bruins 97-81In a game where many experts

either thought the final score was going to be close or thought the away team would somehow win, the No. 10 University of Memphis Tigers basketball team (1-0) made quick work of the Belmont Bruins on Tuesday after-noon, winning 97-81 in front of 16,294 fans at the FedEx Forum.

The Bruins did at one point lead the game 2-1 very early after tipoff, but the Tigers quick-

ly regained the lead and never relinquished it from that point on. The Tigers’ biggest lead at one point was 18, and the clos-est Belmont ever got was within seven points of Memphis mid-way through the second half.

“That was a great win for us; that’s a good basketball team,” said head coach Josh Pastner. “They’re extremely well coached. They’ll probably win 30 games again this year.”

Though the final score indi-cates The U of M seemed in control for much of the game,

it doesn’t quite tell the battle that went on between the two teams. There were technical fouls, elbows being thrown and scrappy play on both sides. Some positives for the Tigers included 20 assists on 34 made field goals, and fewer turnovers than the opponent, 18-9.

“The number one thing on offense for me is that the open man is the go-to man,” Pastner said. “And single-digit turn-overs, we had seven in the first half and two in the second, so I’m very proud of our guys for that.”

The game wasn’t easy for the Tigers. They missed 12 free throws, shooting 64.7 per-cent from the line, hitting 22 of 34 attempts. They were out-rebounded 42-29, and couldn’t stay out of foul trouble early. But with senior forward Wesley Witherspoon going 8-for-8 from the field and scoring 22 points to go along with 5 rebounds – argu-ably his best overall performance as a Tiger – the Bruins would not leave Memphis victorious.

“Wesley was elite today,” Pastner said. “There was no

doubt about that.”Sophomores Joe Jackson and

Will Barton also helped the Tigers, each scoring more than 20 points. Jackson again looked like a true point guard, with seven assists and just two turnovers. Barton grabbed five boards and dished out three assists.

“We’ve got a lot of weap-ons,” Barton said. “I expect guys to score and put up a lot of points. On any given night, Chris (Crawford), my brother (Charles) Carmouche or even (Tarik) Black can go for 20 points or more. It’s scary.”

The Tigers wore throwback uniforms from the 1972-73 team that went to the Final Four, and also honored former player and head coach Larry Finch by wear-ing a No. 21 patch on the right shoulder of the uniform. Pastner said the team will wear throw-backs throughout the season in commemoration of The U of M’s 100th anniversary.

The Tigers return to action on Monday when they play No. 20 Michigan in the Maui Invitational. Tipoff is set for 2 p.m.

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