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While most people rang in the New Year three weeks ago, for some it hasn’t even started yet.

The Lunar New Year, more commonly known as the Chinese New Year, begins on Jan. 31.

According to the lunar calendar, which is based off phases of the moon, Friday marks t h e begin-n i n g o f t h e y e a r of the Horse, a sym-bol of success in the Chinese zodiac.

Riki Jackson is the assistant director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Memphis, which pro-motes Chinese language and culture in Memphis.

She said the American New Year and the Chinese New Year bring about similar feelings of new beginnings.

“We all have the desire to start new — cleaning of the house, removal of the old worries, removal of the old debts,” Jackson said. “It is the biggest holiday, (and) it is very difficult to duplicate the events in the U.S. especially, because it’s

n o t a main-stream holiday (here.)”

Yiping Yang, associate direc-tor of the CIUM, openly cel-ebrates the holiday, which typically lasts for fifteen days.

“We call it the Spring Festival,” Yang said.

According to Yang, the Chinese New Year is similar to the “American Christmas.” He emphasized the importance of fam-ily during this time and even went as far as calling it a reunion.

“You try your best to see your par-ents (and) grandparents,” he said.

Yang has worked at the U of M since 2009 and has not been able to visit home.

“We are a family here,” Yang said. “My colleagues, friends, the

people I see everyday are close enough for me to consider them a family — we are a family.”

A vital part of many cel- e b r a -tions is the festive food, and

the Chinese New Year is no different. According to Yang, the Chinese New Year has Jiaozi, or dumplings.

U of M student Tammy Louie,

18,

looks for-ward to the cel-

ebratory food e v e r y year.

“On a t y p i c a l

Chinese New Year, we have dumplings in

the morning,” Louie, a finance major, said.

“At night time, we have a lot of food, (and) each food has a different mean-ing — health, prosperity, happiness, luck, long life.”

The finance major admitted that her favorite part of the holiday is the Red Pocket. She described it as an envelope filled with money.

According to Louie, the noodle symbolizes long life.

“The longer the noodle, the longer

the life,” she said. She stated that

some days they would not eat any meat

in order to cleanse their system.

Because Louie lives here in Tennessee, she admitted that

their celebration of the New Year is Americanized because they only

celebrate it for three days.“Traditionally, by the third or fourth

day, everybody goes back to work any-way,” Louie said.

Even though her family may not celebrate the New Year in its entirety, Louie said they make sure to do all of the “important things,” including pray-ing and celebrating with family.

Louie remembered her father giv-ing her a piece of candy each day they celebrated the festival as a symbol of good fortune and a sweeter

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The University of Memphis is sending seven honors students to Nashville on Feb. 12 to present their research in the annual Posters at the Capitol event.

This year’s participants are Joshua Canterbury, Damian Coomes, William King, Nicholas Mastron, Patrick McNicholas, Breya Walker and Grace Waters.

The participants’ research comes from a variety of undergraduate fields and majors, ranging from economics to biomedical engineering. Honors Program Director and Associate Professor Melinda Jones believes this is a great event that benefits the University.

“It demonstrates the University’s commitment to undergraduate research and benefits the University because most of these students are working with faculty members on research projects,” Jones said.

Each fall semester, U of M under-graduate students present their research at the Works in Progress Symposium, sponsored by the University’s Honors Program. After evaluations from the faculty, the Honors Program then selects seven undergraduate students to participate in the Posters at the Capitol.

“We try to select seven students that represent different disciplines at the University of Memphis,” Jones said.

Damian Coomes, a senior psy-chology major with a concentration in behavioral neuroscience and par-ticipant in this year’s Posters at the Capitol, is very excited to be a part of the event and feels it is a reward for all the work he has put into his research.

“This is definitely rewarding,” Coomes said. “Research is quite the process. Even with the best experi-mental designs, things will go wrong.”

Not only will the students get to present their research at the Capitol, but they will also get a chance to meet the Tennessee state legislators. While it hasn’t been confirmed, they may also get a chance to go to lunch

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For University of Memphis stu-dents who can’t get to the beach over spring break, the Student Leadership and Involvement Center is offering a chance to get out of the city in exchange for community service.

Unlike the time traditionally spent soaking up the sun in Florida, Alternative Spring Break volunteers will assist the SLI Center in a seven-day destination tour from March 10 to March 14 that will delve into other cities through community

service. For $75, students can join the SLI in visiting Shreveport, La.; Greenville, Miss.; and Little Rock, Ark.

“This is a way for students to participate by helping local com-munities and learn about a commu-nity’s culture,” Charmaine Connor, a graduate assistant for the SLI Center, said. “It’s good being able to help people and give back to com-munities you wouldn’t normally see.”

According to Connor, students will be volunteering all the time, and there will be at least one project a day. From working with children

to helping animals, the SLI Center intends to offer a helping hand in each community wherever they can.

“The trips help students be able to foster a community in trouble or with issues,” Connor said. “It’s good for them to make connec-tions with students and community members.”

For students who can’t go out of town, the SLI Center has a tour focused solely on fostering the Memphis community. While people may not be able to leave for spring break, the organization’s “Staycation” spans over the same seven days and allows them to still

do volunteer work with no charge. “This is a good way for stu-

dents to give back locally and make relationships with students and fel-low community members,” Angie Norwood, senior coordinator for student activities at U of M, said. “Both separate tours give students a different outlook on volunteering, and hopefully students will take something from it.”

According to Norwood, the des-tination tour and the Staycation have different goals, but the same objective – assisting those in need.

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The University of Memphis Art Museum will be hosting its 31st Annual Juried Student Exhibition with guest curator, Miranda Lash on Feb. 7.

For Lawrence “Don Lifted” Matthews III, this is a big deal. The 22-year-old painting major has submitted work in the exhibition for the past two years and last year made his gallery debut.

“When I submitted my work last year I was first learning how to paint, I had two pieces in, but they were completely overshadowed by everyone else’s work,” Matthews, a senior at the U of M, said. “Even this time when I applied I didn’t know whether or not I’d get in. It’s a big deal for me, but some people may take it a little lighter.”

Miranda Lash, the contemporary and modern art curator at the New Orleans Museum of Art, was the curator and judge for this year’s exhibition. She chose which pieces made it to the show, as well as who won the awards.

“I’ve been to Memphis a few times

and on a visit I made last year I met the artist Cedar Nordbye, who is also a professor at the U of M,” Lash said. “We met because I wanted to do studio visits in Memphis and months later he asked if I wanted to participate in this project.”

Fifty-seven students submitted over 104 pieces of work for this year’s exhibi-tion, but less than half of the work made it to the museum’s gallery. Lawrence con-siders this a big deal and an honor, but he tributes a lot of his groomed talent to the Art Department’s faculty.

“I’ve been to other schools and I’ve seen their art departments, and ours is huge comparison. We have three huge buildings, and I’ve seen schools that only have one floor dedicated to art pro-grams,” Matthews said. “We have a lot of opportunities at the U of M that a lot of other schools don’t offer. We have suc-cessful artists here that are still working in the field — you’re getting information straight from the horse’s mouth.”

Lisa Abitz, assistant director to the Art Museum at the U of M, said that she is always excited to see the new work students have come up with — there is

always something she would have never expected. She also noted that getting critiqued from someone outside of the faculty is always a healthy learning expe-rience for the students.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity for the students, they can learn a lot through the process of submitting and display-

ing their work,” Abitz said. “They get additional information from an outside judge, input on their work, which gives them an opportunity in how to learn about being in a juried show.”

Lash has been the curator at a number of colleges across the country, including the University of New Mexico, Tulane University and the University of New Orleans.

“I think this exhibition is very help-ful for the students, because a big part of being an artist is to get in the practice of showing our art publically,” Lash said. “Art is always evolving, so when you get to see what a young 20-year-old artist is thinking, it’s a way of looking into the future.”

After debuting his art at last year’s exhibition, Matthews, who is also an

upcoming Memphis hip-hop artist, has been featured in six galleries and art shows, one of which he put together himself.

“This exhibition helps a lot of student because people will come in and see your work, which will give you a certain level of respect that will allow you to do other things,” Matthews said. “Even with social networking people can see your work, but when they see your work in a gallery and official environments it makes you look a lot more professional.”

Matthews said that having somebody like Lash approve your work means a lot, especially since expressing yourself is a major part of art.

“I’m very grateful for the to the U of M for the opportunity to curate the museum. I got talk to a number of the students participating in the exhibit and they seemed very engaged and very bright,” Lash said. “To the students I would like to say be very confident and persistent with their work, its not easy task to be an artist, but stay confident and you can succeed.”

This year Matthews painting stands in the front of the gallery and depicts World War II African-American soldiers playing guitar in their bunks, which he says is one of his few celebratory pieces and is a part of his collection that repre-sents black history in America.

“If I was to win this year that would be insane,” Matthews said. “I’ve never won anything with art and this would be a major accomplishment for me. I’ll be geeking about it for a while if I win.”

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It’s a scene from an 80’s romance – that special someone is quietly eating lunch in the University of Memphis Tiger Den as tuba players dressed in black pants, white button downs, red vests and bow ties gather around her and play Simple Mind’s “Don’t You Forget About Me.”

To some, it may sound like a ludi-crous display of affection, but from Feb. 3 to Feb. 16, Zachary Corpus, a gradu-ate teaching assistant at the U of M, along with many other tuba players, will woo students across campus with Tuba Valentines.

Corpus, along with 14 other musi-cians, will be making their rounds across campus playing nearly any request that someone orders.

While for some, the sound of a tuba playing love songs may sound odd, Corpus doesn’t see why it is so out of place.

“It is so common to see students going around singing or to see string quartets play for Valentines Day, so why not have tubas play?” Corpus said. “Tubas can be just as charming as any other instrument, but with a twist of a

comical side as well.”The event took form on

campus just two years ago when C o r p u s saw that some-thing

simi-l a r w a s happen-ing at the University of North Texas, which had been performing musi-cal valentines for seven years.

According to Corpus, the tuba players have been playing for 15 years. Along with each song, a personal-ized card and box of chocolates will be included.

Although the tuba players are U of M students, the Valentines aren’t restricted

to only fellow students. Faculty mem-bers, as well as people who don’t attend

the University, can

pay to be or have some-one be serenaded.

For an additional fee, the tuba play-ers will travel off campus.

The price varies depending

on how f a r

they

m u s t go to

serenade a loved one. Many of the

songs requested are romantic but those

who want to send a Tuba Valentine to a friend or fam-

ily member can choose any other significant song.

Daniel Thompson, a sophomore computer science major, feels that ser-enading his girlfriend Savannah Donley, a freshman international business major,

would be a great romantic gesture.“Although it would probably be a

little weird, I think it would be a funny experience to share with each other,” Thompson said.

However, Donley, who is self-admit-tedly shy, doesn’t know if she could handle the spotlight.

“I do not like much attention,” Donley said. “I would turn so red if everyone stopped and looked at me.”

For people who may be shy like Donley, there are other ways to send a Tuba Valentine, such as the $15 “Tubagram,” a recording of a special song sent via email.

“I believe any way that a person sends a Tuba Valentine will be special to the one that they send it to,” Corpus said. “My hope this year is that we receive more orders from students so that there will be more love shared.”

The cost to register is $25 from Feb. 3 to Feb. 12 and U of M students receive a $5 discount. Students can wait until Valentines Day to order one for $49, but the players may be overbooked.

For anyone interested in giving or receiving a Tuba Valentine, they can reg-ister at tubavalentine.com and choose the time and day that they want to be swooned.

life.She also mentioned the signifi-

cance of certain fashions and colors. For example, wearing red symbolizes good luck.

“I remember when I was little, my mother made us wear a new outfit dur-ing the New Year,” Louie said. “Sort of like a ‘new year, new me’ type of thing.”

According to Yang, the CIUM will host a party at the University Center on Saturday afternoon. Over 50 teachers, both University professors and K-12 Shelby County teachers, will attend.

As part of the celebration, CIUM is also sponsoring An Oriental Monsoon.

“We’ve sponsored hundreds of dif-ferent events, and this is one we’ve been honored to bring to Memphis,” Jackson said.

In addition to the Tibetan and Mongolian dances, Jackson emphasized the Martial Arts that will be performed.

“It is absolutely beautiful,” Jackson said. “There is a harmony of the mind, body and spirit. It (An Oriental Monsoon) exposes a piece of differ-ent culture, a different world. To truly embrace a language, you must embrace the culture.”

An Oriental Monsoon will take place on Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. in the University Theatre at Christian Brothers University. The program will feature classic Chinese dance, instrumental solos and opera pieces. It is free and open to the public.

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During the various stops on the destination tour, volunteers will take on many tasks such as helping kids with field day activities at a commu-nity center, moving senior citizens into a new living facility and build-ing a playground.

Throughout the Staycation, SLI Center volunteers will clean up local parks and gardens while also work-ing with Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit organization that helps build and repair houses all around the world, to build and shape up homes.

The non-profit organization will

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According to Norwood, not only does volunteering look good on a résumé, but also helps students build character and experience things out-side of their comfort zone.

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Coomes feels it is an honor to be a part of the event and encourages other student researchers to continue to work hard in their fields.

“Anything you can do to expose people to the awesome things you are researching is a good thing,” Coomes said. “Any sort of research is beneficial.”

Jones encourages undergradu-ate students to get involved with research, as well.

“Students interested in under-graduate research at the University of Memphis should contact the honors program, we will be happy to assist them,” she said.

Students wanting to see research done by peers on campus can visit the 26th annual Student Research Forum March 31 in the University Center Ballroom. Students inter-ested in participating in the forum must turn in applications by March 18.

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BOSTON (AP) — Federal pros-ecutors Thursday announced they will seek the death penalty against 20-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bomb-ing, accusing him of betraying his adopted country by ruthlessly car-rying out a terrorist attack calcu-lated to cause maximum carnage.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to press for Tsarnaev’s execution was widely expected. The twin blasts last April killed three people and wounded more than 260, and over half the 30 federal charges against Tsarnaev — including using a weapon of mass destruction to kill — carry a possible death sentence.

“The nature of the conduct at issue and the resultant harm com-pel this decision,” Holder said in a statement of just two terse and dis-passionate sentences that instantly raised the stakes in one of the most wrenching criminal cases Boston has ever seen.

Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty. No trial date has been set.

In a notice of intent filed in court, federal prosecutors in Boston listed factors they contend justify a sentence of death against Tsarnaev, who moved to the U.S. from Russia about a decade ago.

“Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received asylum from the United States; obtained citizenship and enjoyed the freedoms of a United States citizen; and then betrayed his alle-giance to the United States by kill-ing and maiming people in the United States,” read the notice filed by U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz.

Prosecutors also cited Tsarnaev’s “lack of remorse” and allegations that he killed an MIT police offi-cer as well as an 8-year-old boy, a “particularly vulnerable” victim because of his age. They also said Tsarnaev committed the killings after “substantial planning and premeditation.”

In addition, they cited his alleged decision to target the Boston Marathon, “an iconic event that draws large crowds of men, women and children to its final stretch, making it especially sus-ceptible to the act and effects of terrorism.”

Tsarnaev’s lawyers had no

immediate comment.In an interview with ABC,

Tsarnaev’s mother, Zubeidat, who lives in Russia, said: “How can I feel about this? I feel nothing. I can tell you one thing, that I love my son. I will always feel proud of him. And I keep loving him.”

Prosecutors allege Tsarnaev, then 19, and his 26-year-old broth-er, ethnic Chechens from Russia, built and planted two pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line of the race to retaliate against the U.S. for its military actions in

Muslim countries.The older brother, Tamerlan

Tsarnaev, died in a shootout with police during a getaway attempt days after the bombing. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was wounded but escaped and was later captured hiding in a boat parked in a yard in a Boston suburb.

Authorities said he scrawled inside the boat such things as “The US Government is killing our innocent civilians” and “We Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all.”

Killed in the bombings were: Martin Richard, 8, of Boston; Krystle Campbell, 29, of Medford;

and Lu Lingzi, 23, a Boston University graduate student from China. At least 16 others lost limbs. Tsarnaev is also charged in the slaying of the MIT officer and the carjacking of a motorist during the brothers’ getaway attempt.

Campbell’s grandmother, Lillian Campbell, said she isn’t sure she supports the death penalty but fears Tsarnaev will “end up living like a king” in prison.

“I think it’s the right decision to go after the death penalty,” said Marc Fucarile, who lost his right

leg above the knee and suffered other severe injuries in the bomb-ing. “It shows people that if you are going to terrorize our country, you are going to pay with your life.”

Amato DeLuca, a lawyer for Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s widow, said: “Whatever he’s alleged to have done, presumably he can pay for it with his life. Putting this boy to death doesn’t make any sense to me.”

Well before the attorney gener-al’s decision came down, Tsarnaev’s defense team added Judy Clarke, one of the nation’s foremost death penalty specialists. The San Diego lawyer has negotiated plea agree-

ments that saved the lives of such clients as the Unabomber and Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph.

Legal experts have said that court filings suggest the defense may try to save Tsarnaev’s life by arguing that he fell under the evil influence of his older brother.

“I think their focus ... will prob-ably be to characterize it as coer-cion, intimidation and just his will being overborne by the older brother,” said Gerry Leone, a for-mer state and federal prosecutor in

Boston who secured a conviction against shoe bomber Richard Reid.

“They’ll, say, talk about how he was a teenager, never been in trou-ble before, and in many respects, looks like the average United States college student.”

In addition to the use of a weapon of mass destruction, the crimes that carry the death pen-alty include: bombing of a place of public use resulting in death; pos-session and use of a firearm during a crime of violence resulting in death; and malicious destruction of property resulting in personal injury and death.

If a jury convicts Tsarnaev, it will then hold a second phase of the trial to determine his punishment.

Juries are asked to weigh aggra-vating factors cited by the gov-ernment against mitigating factors raised by the defense in decid-ing whether a defendant should be executed. In Tsarnaev’s case, mitigating factors could include his young age and claims that he played a secondary role in the crime.

Massachusetts abolished its own death penalty in 1984, and repeat-ed attempts to reinstate it have failed in the Legislature. A Boston Globe poll conducted in September found that 57 percent of those questioned favored a life sentence for Tsarnaev, while 33 percent sup-ported the death penalty for him.

Jurors for federal cases tried in Boston are drawn from the Boston metropolitan area and eastern Massachusetts — a politically lib-eral region, but also the part of the state most directly affected by the

Tsarnaev’s lawyers had no Krystle Campbell, 29, of Medford; lawyer has negotiated plea agree-Tsarnaev’s lawyers had no Krystle Campbell, 29, of Medford; lawyer has negotiated plea agree-

“Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received asylum from the United States; obtained citizenship and enjoyed the freedoms of a United States citizen; and then betrayed his allegiance to the United

States by killing and maiming people in the United States.

CARMEN ORTIZU.S. Attorney

Federal prosecutors seek death penalty for marathon suspect By Denise LavoieAP Legal Affairs Writer

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Memphis Tigers’ commercial nets an EmmySports

Two campaign advertisements featuring Memphis Tigers’ head football coach Justin Fuente recent-ly received a regional Emmy award.

Running Pony, a Memphis video production company for the U of M Athletic Department, created the advertisements, which featured Fuente playing an insurance sales-man along with two co-workers known as the “water cooler guys.”

“We wanted to promote foot-ball in a different way and show Memphis really does have fans,” Javier Leiva, creative director at Running Pony, said.

One advertisement, a commer-cial, took place in what looked like a typical office setting where employ-ees in shirts and ties stood around and discussed football, convinced that their office mate was indeed coach Fuente.

In the commercial, the catch phrase “Mind your business, Dennis” was born. In that adver-tisement, the two water cooler guys were discussing their season tick-ets and one had them tattooed on his arms and back. Another worker asks where he will put his basketball tickets, and then shouts “Mind your business, Dennis!”

Competing with big budget companies, the ads were judged under the Commercial Campaign category.

“We were up against creative groups with huge budgets, so it was already quite an accomplishment little old Memphis got to compete with the big guys,” Leiva said.

Leiva has had his work nominat-ed for the Emmy contest for several years in a row, but this is the first year his team has placed.

Running Pony took home the second award for their video in the Sports Promo category, “A Storm is

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Tigers ran out on the field before

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tragedy.Two other federal death pen-

alty cases have been brought in Massachusetts. A former veterans hospital nurse who killed four patients by overdosing them was spared the death penalty by a jury. A man accused in the carjack kill-ings of two Massachusetts men was sentenced to death in 2003, but the punishment was overturned and he is awaiting a new penalty trial.

Since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988, 70 death sentences have been imposed, but only three have been carried out, including the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in 2001.

The last federal execution was in 2003, when Gulf War veteran Louis Jones Jr. was put to death for kidnapping 19-year-old Army Pvt. Tracie McBride from a Texas mili-tary base, raping her and beating her to death with a tire iron.

Running Pony, a Memphis video production company for the U of M Athletic Department, won two Emmys for their campaign advertisements.

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The University of Memphis men’s basketball team has stormed out to a four-game winning streak since their 83-73 loss to Connecticut at FedExForum on Jan. 16, but those four wins came against teams who com-bined for a 37-39 record since the start of the season.

The Tigers (16-4, 6-2 AAC) can turn some heads with a win over Southern Methodist University on Saturday in Dallas.

Memphis head coach Josh Pastner said the Mustangs are especially dan-gerous since they’re coming off a disap-pointing loss.

“When you lose you go into des-peration,” Pastner said. “You play a little bit on edge. Whether they lost or won, we knew we’re going to get their best shot. It’s a sold out crowd, and they’re a very good team.”

The Mustangs (16-5, 5-3 AAC) dropped their last game to an under-whelming Central Florida team, who Memphis beat 69-59 on Wednesday. However, SMU boasts wins over Texas A&M and UConn, and they took Cincinnati down to wire in Cincinnati, losing 65-57 due to free throws at the end of regulation.

SMU tries to slow the game down. They rank seventh in the American Athletic Conference in scoring, but they rank first in both field goal percent-age and field goal percentage defense, meaning they make the highest per-centage of shots while allowing the low-est percentage of made baskets.

Sophomore guard Nic Moore helms the SMU attack. He leads the team in points and assists, averaging 13.9 points and 4.4 assists. At only 5-feet-9 inches tall, Moore shoots the most on his team, but he scores efficiently at a 49.5 percent clip from the field and 46.3 percent from behind the arc.

However, SMU’s biggest advantage may be their head coach. Larry Brown, the only coach to win titles at both the college and NBA level, took over the Mustangs’ program last season, leading SMU to a 15-17 season.

“I think everybody knows how great Larry Brown is – one of the greatest

of all time,” Pastner said. “He’s a true gentleman and always willing to help young coaches out. He works and gets after it. He’s a grinder. When he decides to retire, he’ll go down as one of three or four greatest coaches in the history of our sport.”

The Tigers come off a win over UCF

in Orlando, Fla., on Wednesday night. Sophomore forward Shaq Goodwin got into foul trouble early, so double-digit scoring efforts from all four senior guards carried the Tigers to victory. Joe Jackson led with 17 points, Michael Dixon Jr. and Chris Crawford each scored 12 and Geron Johnson added

10.Pastner has said over and over he

will stick with his four senior guards, and they have to play well.

“I’ve been saying this for a while,” the fifth-year coach said. “We’re going to ride our senior guards. They’re going to have to get the job done. It’s the Jimmies and the Joes. The cream rises to the top.”

The Blue and Gray have loved the road so far this season, boasting a 7-2 record away from FedExForum. Jackson and Dixon both said they embrace the “us against them” mentality.

“We love the road games because they bring us closer together,” Jackson, a 6-foot-1 guard, said. “We’re out of our element – away from playing in Memphis. We’re playing somewhere where nobody wants to see us win. We come together and we play better.”

Jackson, a Memphis native, moved into the top 10 in all-time scoring at the U of M during the Tigers’ win at UCF. The senior said it’s an honor to be mentioned alongside some of the great players that played at Memphis, but he doesn’t pay much attention to it because he only wants to win a championship.

The Tigers’ shooting has finally begun trending upward after an alarm-ing start. Crawford and Dixon, espe-cially, have found their groove. The pair has shot 14 of 26 from three-point range over the last three games for a mark of 53.8 percent.

Dixon credited the improvement to better ball movement.

“For the better part of the season, we haven’t been shooting like we’re capable of,” Dixon said. “We’ve got a lot of good shooters on this team. I think that, as well as we’re just moving the ball so well. Coach Pastner preaches a lot of one more pass – a good shot for a great shot.”

Tipoff against SMU is slated for 1 p.m., and the game will be broadcast on CBS Sports Network.

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Senior guard Joe Jackson moved into the top 10 on the U of M’s all-time scoring list on Wednesday against UCF. He’ll look to continue his climb Saturday in Dallas at SMU.

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