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The closing pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals wrapped up training with The University of Memphis baseball team Monday.
Jason Motte, who resides in Memphis with his wife Caitlin during his off-seasons, trained at Tiger facilities throughout his break.
“It was like I was part of the team. They just let me come and throw and do whatever I needed to do to get ready,” Motte said.
Motte, the 2011 World Series closing pitcher for the cham-pion Cardinals, left for Florida on Tuesday to begin spring training.
Motte’s ties with the U of M began via Saint Benedict at Auburndale, a Cordova high school where his wife teaches. In 2010 Motte met Sam Moll and Blake Myers at St. Benedict, now sophomore pitchers for the Tigers.
“Blake Myers and Sam Moll were out there playing baseball their senior year and I went out there and started throwing there the first year, and then when I
came back they were freshman in college,” Motte said.
Once Moll and Myers began to play for The U of M in 2011, Motte started to train at the Tigers’ facilities.
Moll describes Motte as hav-ing a constantly positive per-sonality and down to earth demeanor.
“Having Motte at our prac-tices was interesting to say the least,” Moll said. “He always had an upbeat attitude at every second of the day. He isn’t really around us at practice but in the locker room he jokes around with us. He talks to everyone and is fun to be around.”
Patrick Bailey, senior pitcher for The U of M baseball team, said that Motte’s World Series experience offered an interesting outlook for the players.
“I thought it was good to have his perspective, and he’s a really humble, approachable guy,” Bailey said.
The caliber of the talent on The U of M baseball team did not go unnoticed by Motte.
“Oh yeah, they have a real-ly good team, “ Motte said.
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Tony Zumbado, an independent videographer and photojournalist, talks to The University of Memphis Wednesday about his work during Hurricane Katrina. Zumbado is the journalist responsible for bringing attention to the 20,000 flood victims at the Convention Center in New Orleans and the 48 bodies abandoned in New Orleans Memorial Hospital. Over the past 30 years, his work has been featured on NBC and MSNBC. Those who missed Zumbado’s lecture Wednesday night, can hear him speak to students today in the Edward J. Meeman Journalism building, room 106, at 2:20 p.m.
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Back in focus U OF M Fellowship of Christian Students to celebrate centennial
An integrated celebration by Christian students on campus will commemorate the history of The University of Memphis on Sunday at 4 p.m.
This Sunday, Christian organizations at The U of M will come together to cel-ebrate the school’s centennial anniversary.
The Fellowship of Christian Student will spon-sor the event with Kingdom Alliance Entertainment and It’s J Media.
“We want this to be some-thing that the Christian com-munity could celebrate,” said Cortney Richardson, minister at St. Paul Baptist Church and a graduate assistant.
“The gathering will mark the first time all of the Christian organizations on campus fellowship together,” Richardson said.
Guest speakers include Christopher B. Davis, Sr.
of St. Paul Baptist Church, Zac Reno of Bellevue Baptist Church, Pastor Stacy Spencer of New Direction Christian Center, Reverend Robert “Ty” Jones of Keel Avenue Baptist Church.
“I thought that we needed some big celebration. I saw that everyone else was hav-ing an event, so I orchestrat-ed one for the Christian com-munity,” Richardson said.
Davis teaches in The U of M’s Project Transformation Bible Study and will speak Sunday.
“One hundred years shows The University of Memphis as a faithful institution and I am honored to be a part of it,” Davis said. “I look forward to seeing students that understand that you can worship God and enjoy your college years.”
Carla Tolbert-Taylor will perform at the celebration. She is the daughter of Odie H. Tolbert, the first African-
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St. Louis Cardinals closer Jason Motte works in the ninth inning against the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Mo., in 2011.
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A new generation of black women will have the opportuni-ty to learn from the experiences of others during the discussion of four novels.
Multicultural Affairs will pres-ent four authors today who will give advice to aspiring authors in honor of Black History month.
“We wanted to highlight black women that contributed to histo-ry and culture,” said Linda Hall, coordinator in Multicultural Affairs.
Jae Henderson, Megan Mottley, LaDawna Byers and Summer Owens will discuss their novels from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the University Center Bluff Room.
“We wanted to get some peo-ple that have already been at The U of M that want to give to the students advice about life and
culture,” said Xavier Jones, co-chair of the black history month committee.
Henderson is the author of “Someday,” the first book in a three-part series. She has also
been a radio talk show host, freelance writer, marketing and media professional, and a voiceover artist.
“I love what I do. One will always find time for their pas-sion as a author,” Henderson said.
“Someday” is a Christian
romance series geared toward single Christian women that are trying to build romantic relationships.
Henderson’s books quote scriptures, meant to refer the
reader back to the Bible, she said. “I didn’t want to preach, but
I did want people to think about their decisions,” Henderson said.
Mottley, author of the self-help book, “Glamour Girl: How to get the Ultimate Makeover,” tells readers how to pull their inside self together in a beauti-
ful way first, then work on the outside.
“There are a lot that women do to beautify themselves on the outside and I want women to understand the inside is impor-
tant as well,” Mottley said.Owens, author of “Life After
Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother,” wrote her book about her own experiences.
Owens said her book details the struggles she had to deal with as a single mother and
student. “Most people think my book
is just for teen mothers, but it is really for anyone that has chal-lenges in their life,” she said.
Owens started working on her book while attending The U of M and self-published it in 2010. She graduated in 2001 and now works as a senior marketing specialist for FedEx.
“I feel like I have found my purpose in life. I encourage young authors to keep writing and don’t be discouraged,” she said.
Byers, author of the novel “The Perfect Front,” wrote her book about dilemmas like gen-der, race and spiritual lines.
“There are people walking around with a great idea, but it takes a special kind of initiative to nurture it as it grows and to see it all the way through,” Byers said.
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“We wanted to get some people that have already been at The U of M that want to give the
students advice about life and culture.”
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Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, that country’s likely next leader, urged the United States on Wednesday to reduce its “misunderstanding and suspicion” of China and said the two countries could expect to have different views on human rights.
Xi quoted George Washington as saying that “actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attach-ment of friends” and went on to mention some of the actions China would like to see.
He repeated China’s long-standing demand that the United States view Tibet and Taiwan as parts of China. He also said the United States should lift restrictions on high-tech exports to China.
On human rights, he said that because of the countries’
distinct histories, “it’s only natural we have differences.” He added, however, that the historic trend is one of “con-tinual improvement.”
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden raised U.S. concerns about deteriorating human rights conditions in China dur-ing their conversations with Xi, including “the plight of several very prominent indi-viduals,” Biden said Tuesday, speaking at a lunch with Xi at the State Department.
Biden noted U.S. concerns that China didn’t protect intel-lectual property rights and trade secrets, that its curren-cy was undervalued and that Chinese companies required U.S. companies to turn over technology as a condition for doing business in China.
Biden also noted that the United States opposed China’s recent veto in the U.N. Security
Council that blocked sanctions against Syria for government violence against protesters.
Xi, in a speech Wednesday to the U.S.-China Business Council, didn’t respond to those comments. But he didn’t shy away from a brief airing of China’s problems with the United States, though the tone of speech was friendly, stress-ing the importance of good relations between the world’s largest economies.
“Despite twists and turns, China-U.S. relations have on the whole kept moving for-ward, just like an unstoppa-ble river that keeps surging ahead,” he said.
There was nothing in the speech that departed from China’s longstanding posi-tions and little to indicate how Xi might lead. He’s expected to take over as the leader of the Chinese Communist Party later this year and become the
president next year.Xi said China “welcomes the
constructive role of the United States in promoting peace and prosperity” in the Asia-Pacific region, an acknowledgment of Obama’s efforts to boost U.S. influence there. But Xi also said he hoped the U.S. “will respect the concerns of China.”
Douglas Spelman, a former U.S. diplomat in China who was in the audience for the speech, said he liked Xi’s style.
“He was relaxed. It would seem he’d be someone you could have a genuine talk with, even if you differed,” said Spelman, the deputy direc-tor of the Kissinger Institute, a policy research group on U.S.-China relations. He was a consul general in Shanghai during the George W. Bush administration.
The history of U.S. relations with communist China dates
to President Richard Nixon’s visit to China in February 1972. Formal diplomatic rela-tions began in 1979.
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, whose unan-nounced 1971 trip to China led to Nixon’s visit, introduced Xi on Wednesday.
Kissinger called Xi’s visit the beginning of a chance for the two countries to improve their relations in a way that avoids conflict.
The world faces many new challenges, including climate change and energy needs, Kissinger said, adding that the U.S.-China relationship is “a key element for dealing with the upheavals and opportuni-ties before us.”
Xi later left Washington to go to Iowa, which he had vis-ited as a low-ranking official in 1985. He was then expected to travel to the West Coast.
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A fire that broke out appar-ently when an inmate set a mattress ablaze in an over-crowded Honduran prison left as many as 350 inmates dead Wednesday as investigators pulled one body after another from the smoldering facility.
The fire, which start-ed at 10:50 p.m. Tuesday at the Comayagua National Penitentiary, took firefighters three hours to douse.
Guards fired their guns repeatedly to keep screaming trapped inmates from escaping.
“It is a day of deep pain for Honduras,” President Porfirio Lobo said in a brief televised address, acknowledging that a criminal hand may have been behind the disaster.
“We will conduct an inves-tigation to determine what provoked this lamentable and unacceptable tragedy and find those responsible,” Lobo said.
The death toll climbed throughout the day. At noon, Security Minister Pompeyo Bonilla said he thought that “more than 300” were dead. National Prison Director Danilo Orellana later told Honduran media that the toll had surpassed 350. At least one woman who was in the prison illegally was said to be among the fatalities.
Hundreds of other prison-ers were burned in the blaze or injured when they broke through a roof and jumped to safety, hospital officials said.
Bonilla said the fire under-scored “the dramatic situa-tion in terms of security” that afflicts the Central American nation, which is on a major narcotics corridor and has been overrun by organized crime.
“We have lost control to a certain point of actions that we must forcefully take ... in benefit of Honduran society,” Bonilla said outside the prison.
Anguished relatives banged on the gates and threw rocks at riot police and soldiers who were blocking access to the prison in Comayagua, a city about 55 miles north of Tegucigalpa, the country’s cap-ital. Police responded with tear gas. Gunfire also rang out.
Riot police also closed off all public access to the morgue in Tegucigalpa where bodies were
taken as relatives clamored for information about the identi-ties of the victims.
Bonilla said investigators were combing through the charred scene to determine what sparked the blaze, which swept through the prison’s cellblock six.
Orellana, the prisons direc-tor, said early indications were that “an inmate may have caused the fire by setting his mattress alight. Some of his cellmates said that he shouted, ‘We will all die here,’ and with-in five minutes everything was burning.”
Photos showed metal cell bars that had twisted and melt-ed from the heat.
Security agents outside the one-story prison wore surgical masks as the stench of burned flesh lingered. White body bags piled up outside the yel-low entrance to the building.
“When the fire started, we shouted at (the guards) with keys but they wouldn’t open for us. In fact, they fired at us,” inmate Ruben Garcia told Honduras’ El Heraldo newspaper.
As the raging fire consumed more of the prison, guards ush-ered survivors out of the jail. Many emerged shirtless, bear-ing burn marks on their tat-tooed torsos.
Injured prisoners were taken to hospitals in Comayagua and Tegucigalpa.
Chile sent a team of forensic specialists to help identify the victims, but authorities said the process could take days.
“The majority of the vic-tims are unrecognizable,” said Daniela Ferrera of the State Attorney General’s Office.
Lobo said he’d barred national prison authorities from taking part in the investi-gation of the fire to ensure that the probe was transparent and thorough.
At least two human rights organizations — the private Human Rights Watch and the official Inter-American Commission on Human Rights — called on Honduras to ensure that its prisoners are kept in safe conditions.
In a statement, the com-mission said it had made “an urgent call on the state to adopt necessary measures so that this tragedy can be duly investi-gated and avoid its repetition.”
Relatives of La Granja penitentiary inmates gathered yesterday outside the prison in Comayagua, Honduras, Fe to receive some information on their loved ones. Authorities said Wednesday a fire at the prison in central Honduras killed at least 350 trapped inmates, in scenes one official described as horrific.
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Walk&Talk What does Black History Month mean to you?
“I think black history month is a really good idea and how we’re respecting people who were discriminated against.”
— Addison Piggott, Criminal justice sophomore
“Black history means a lot to me because I’m black and I’m
honored that my heritage is celebrated for an entire month.”
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“It means that I was blessed with opportunities not to
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“Watching some of those guys go out and hit and pitch, they have a really good ball club.”
While Motte won’t be back in Memphis for a few months, Moll pointed out that Motte did leave the team with some advice.
Motte will be unable to attend any of the Tigers games this season due to his own prac-tice schedule, but he will check up on how their season is going he said.
“I’ll be watching, probably get online and watch and see how those boys are doing,” Motte said.
Motte joked that as long as the team will still have him, he plans on continuing to utilize The U of M facilities during the next off-season.
“I’d be a fool not to come up there and throw and get all of my stuff done,” he said.
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“My father made histo-ry here at The University of Memphis and it is an honor for me to sing at the same place that he worked for many years,” Taylor said. “I’m look-ing forward to being able to share my gift and celebrate this centennial.”
The event will be held in the Michael D. Rose Theatre. It is free and open to the campus community.
“To see such a dynamic group of pastors and preach-ers come on college campus to assist in the celebration of The University’s 100th year brings joy to my soul,” said Kenya Gray, freshman member of the Fellowship of Christian Students. “Seeing integration occur in a Christian setting where all races and denomi-nations can join together and worship one God that we all serve is a beautiful thing.”
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One of California’s showcase solar energy projects, under con-struction in the desert east of Los Angeles, is being threatened by a deadly outbreak of distemper among kit foxes and the discov-ery of a prehistoric human settle-ment on the work site.
The $1 billion Genesis Solar Energy Project has been expe-dited by state and federal regula-tory agencies that are eager to demonstrate that the nation can build solar plants quickly to ease dependence on fossil fuels and curb global warming.
Instead, the project is provid-ing a cautionary example of how the rush to harness solar power in the desert can go wrong _ possibly costing taxpayers hun-dreds of millions of dollars and dealing an embarrassing blow to the Obama administration’s solar initiative.
Genesis had hoped to be among the first of 12 approved solar farms to start operating in Southern California deserts. To do so, it had to meet certain deadlines to receive federal assis-tance. The 250-megawatt plant, being built on federal Bureau of Land Management land 25 miles west of Blythe, is backed by an $825 million Department of Energy loan guarantee.
Native Americans, including the leaders of a nearby reserva-tion, are trying to have Genesis delayed or even scuttled because they say the distemper out-break and discovery of a pos-sible Native American crema-tion site show that accelerated procedures approved by state and federal regulators failed to protect wildlife and irreplaceable cultural resources.
The problems threaten the entire project, said Michael O’Sullivan, senior vice president of development for Florida-based
NextEra Energy Resources, one of the largest renewable energy suppliers in North America and the builder of Genesis. The proj-ect is to start producing power by 2014. If too many acres are deemed off-limits to construc-tion, “the project could become uneconomical,” O’Sullivan said.
Plans for Genesis call for par-abolic-trough solar thermal tech-nology to create enough energy to power 187,500 homes. But last fall, as crews began install-ing pylons and support arms for parabolic mirrors across 1,950 acres of land leveled by earth-movers, the company ran into unexpected environmental and cultural obstacles _ the kind that critics say could probably have been avoided by more rigorous research and planning.
“The issues facing Genesis underline the notion that if you do something quick and dirty, you are going to wind up with big mistakes and unintend-ed consequences,” said Lisa
Belenky, senior attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity.
Kit foxes became an issue at the site in late August, when two animals died. At the time, biologists assumed the foxes suc-cumbed to dehydration in an area where summer tempera-tures soar to 118 degrees. On Oct. 5, Genesis crews discovered another fox carcass and sent it to state Fish and Game veterinar-ians for a necropsy.
At the time, the company was using “passive hazing” strategies approved by state and federal biologists to force kit foxes off the land before grading operations began in November. To scatter the kit foxes, workers removed sources of food and cover, sprin-kled urine from coyotes _ a pri-mary fox predator _ around den entrances, and used shovels and axes to excavate about 20 dens that had been unoccupied for at least three consecutive days.
By early November, only three active dens remained, but
the foxes using them wouldn’t budge, raising the risk of con-struction delays. The California Energy Commission, which has jurisdiction over the project, scrapped the three-day timeta-ble and said the company could destroy dens that had been vacant for 24 hours.
Five days after making that change, the results of the nec-ropsy came back. The fox found Oct. 5 had died of the first case of distemper ever recorded among desert kit foxes. Ultimately, at least seven kit foxes died.
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Up ‘til Dawn is gathering last-minute contributions by selling T-shirts and sunglasses in the University Center until Feb. 23.
The student organization is dedicated to raising funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Up ‘til Dawn T-shirts are $12 and sunglasses are $3.
“It takes $1.7 million a day to run St. Jude. I am happy to say that we contribute to that every year,” said Anna McNeil, sophomore marketing major.
As of Tuesday, Up ‘til Dawn has raised $687 by selling shirts and sunglasses.
The group’s efforts to raise funds the past year included bake sales, silent auctions and a letter-writing party. Their fundraising term starts on Sept. 11 and runs to Feb. 24 each year.
On Feb. 24, they will announce their progress over the year at the Up ‘til Dawn Finale. From 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. in the University Center, there will be a cartoon artist, a bouncer, and dances free to the public.
Last year, Up ‘til Dawn raised over $152,000 for St. Jude.
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Workers are seen through the parts of pylon that are being installed to hold huge mirrors at Genesis Solar Energy Project located approximately 25 miles west of the city of Blythe, California on Jan. 31. The project is an undeveloped area of the Sonoran Desert on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
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Twitter Inc. said that to help users find friends also using the service, it retrieves entire address book from users’ smartphones, including names, email addresses and phone numbers, and keeps the data on its servers for 18 months.
After questions about the prac-tice, the company said it plans to update its apps to clarify that user contacts are being stored.
Twitter’s privacy policy does not explicitly disclose that the company downloads and stores user address books. The policy does say that Twitter users “may customize your account with information such as your address book so that we can help you find Twitter users you know.”
The disclosure from Twitter comes after another online social service, Path, came under fire last week for downloading iPhone users’ address books without permission. Path’s chief execu-tive, Dave Morin, apologized for the automatic download and said Path would correct it, but also mentioned that such processes
were “industry best practice.”As with many online social
services, Twitter allows users to look for friends who are also registered users. In the case of Twitter’s iPhone app, users see a screen noting that when users tap the “find friends” option, the service will “scan your contacts for people you already know on Twitter.” The short description of the feature does not mention that it also downloads every entry in the address book and stores it.
Twitter’s privacy policy notes that some categories of “log data” are stored for up to 18 months. The policy says log data can include information like a user’s IP address, mobile carrier and type of phone, but it does not address contacts.
Twitter spokeswoman Carolyn Penner said in an email that the company is planning an update to the language they use in the mobile app.
“In our next app updates, which are coming soon, we are updating the language associated with Find Friends to be more explicit. In place of ‘Scan your contacts,’ we will use “Upload your contacts,” she wrote.
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Opening weekend has arrived for the Memphis Tigers as the baseball team wel-comes in the Southern Illinois U n i v e r s i t y - E d w a r d s v i l l e Cougars for a three-game series.
The Cougars begin play in the Ohio Valley Conference this year and were picked to finish fifth out of the league’s 10 teams. Last year, the Cougars finished with a respectable 28-24 record. This season they return their top power hitter Devin Caldwell (6 HR, 53 RBI) and pitcher Travis Felax (5-2, 2.62 ERA).
Although the Cougars hail from a smaller conference, Memphis head coach Daron Schoenrock and his Tiger squad have no plans to start the season off on a sour note.
“We have three things we want to do in this opening series,” Schoenrock said.
“First, we want to play with passion, which is never nor-mally a problem here. We also want to make the routine plays and be economical on the mound.”
After a 30-27 finish last sea-son, Conference USA coaches picked the Tigers to finish sev-enth in the league. Entering this weekend, the Tigers focus is not on the preseason rankings.
“We never look much into
what other people think,” senior third baseman Jacob Wilson said. “Rankings like that are based off us losing key players. We are just look-ing to see who is going to fill the spots.”
The Cougars batted for a team average of .284 in the 2011 campaign. After losing much of the main rotation, the Tigers plan to use the series to evaluate where they are on the mound.
“I feel we are game ready,”
Schoenrock said. “Pitching will be a key ingredient to our success in the series and this season.”
Reminiscing on last season’s sweep in the opening series over Evansville, the Tigers look to start the 2012 cam-paign off on a similar note. The Cougars appear overmatched on paper, but could stay in the series if Memphis’ pitching is suspect. Much of the Tigers’ success in the series and over the season hangs on the return
of junior starting pitchers Dan Langfield and Clayton Gant, who combined for 26 starts last season.
“This weekend is going to show if we are where we need to be as a team and what we need to work on as the season progresses,” Wilson said. “All the hard work we put in this spring and fall is going to show.”
Game one of the series is set for 5 p.m. Friday at FedEx Park.
Senior third baseman Jacob Wilson and the Memphis Tigers baseball team hope to start the 2012 season off on the right foot.
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It wasn’t easy, but the Tigers shut down a scrappy Tulane team in the second half to run away with a 82-64 victory in New Orleans.
“Always good to get a win,” head coach Josh Pastner said. “That was a grind-out victory. That was not pretty.”
Memphis struggled defen-sively in the first half, allow-ing the Green Wave to shoot 52 percent from the floor, and went into the half trailing 33-32.
“They had more energy than us to start the game,” Pastner said. “Disappointed in how we played those first 30 minutes. We’ve got to be better than that.”
The game remained close to start the second half as well, with both teams trading buck-ets for the first seven minutes. After trailing for much of the game and struggling to con-tain Tulane’s leading scorers, Ricky Tarrant and Josh Davis, Pastner made a key defensive switch that changed the course of the game.
After Tulane’s Tre Drye hit a free throw to tie the game at 46-all with 13:35 remaining, Pastner told his players to play a 1-3-1 zone defense. Following that change, Memphis went on an 11-0 run, breaking the game open and taking control.
“I’m a real aggressive player,” Barton said. “And I think the 1-3-1 allows me to be aggressive. In man-to-man, if your man doesn’t have the ball, you’re really just standing around. The 1-3-1 just lets me run wild and run free, which is the best part of my game.”
Tulane cut the lead down to
as little as five, but Memphis kept its composure and clamped down defensively, refusing to allow the Green Wave back into the game. Tulane was hampered by 20 turnovers, which led to 28 Memphis points, including a stretch of three-straight give-aways immediately after the Tigers went to the zone.
The Tigers shot 34-of-55 (61.8 percent) for the game, including a stellar 20-of-27 (74.1 percent) in the sec-ond half. Will Barton led the team with 20 points and nine rebounds. Tarik Black added 18 points, Chris Crawford had 13 points and Joe Jackson and Wesley Witherspoon each fin-ished with 10. Crawford also had six assists and five steals.
Free throw shooting was a problem for the Tigers through-out the game. Memphis shot 10-of-20 from the charity stripe, including a couple of
misses on the front end of one-and-ones. Memphis came into the game shooting a healthy 71.9 percent from the line, and hit 24-of-28 free throws against Xavier on Feb. 4, but that hot shooting didn’t carry over into this game.
Pastner credited the Tigers’ second-half turnaround to improved energy.
“If you don’t have energy, you can get beat,” he said. “I don’t care what level it is, or what you’re doing in life, if you don’t have enthusiastic energy, passionate energy, you put yourself in a position to take a loss, in any area of life.”
The Tigers move to 19-7 (9-2 C-USA), and remain tied for first place in the confer-ence after Southern Miss beat third-place Tulsa last night. Memphis next takes on UTEP in a rematch of last year ’s C-USA tournament champion-ship game.
Tiger defense fuels Memphis victory over TulaneBY SCOTT HALLSports Editor
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Chris Crawford scored 13 points, including a trio of three-pointers, against the Green Wave.
